This book was a book someone suggest I read so I read it over break. This book was a book about people who were harmed for their faith but did not change their ways and beliefs for others or to save their own life. It has a bunch of short stories that go through all of time and up to the present. It is a really good book that can strengthens someones faith and makes you think about yours more personally. It is also kinda hard to read because of the disturbing things people go through.
One story that I really like was about a man named Thomas Hawker. He knew he was going to be burned at the stake because he refused to stray. The day before this was going to happen a man came up to him and told him to raise his hands tomorrow if he was still at peace after going through all that pain. When he was burned the next day he was all black and piratically a crisp. Everyone thought he was surely dead but all of a sudden he raised his hands. He clapped his hands together three times and then died. All of the people were very surprised and started shouting praises.
Another story that I thought was cool is set in the more recent 1970 in the USSR. In this story there was a girl who was arrested and imprisoned for her faith. She was arrested by communist and was starved and beat daily a couple times a day. They were doing this because they wanted the names of the others believers. When the man came in she was able to tell that he was as tired of beating her as she was of being beat. When he was about to whip her she smiled at him. He stopped and asked her why she smiles. He told her about the man that she truly saw in him. He walked out of that prison that day a changed man.
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