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The Greatest Sacrifice

In The Hiding Place Corrie ten Boom tells of the time she and her father needed to find a safer place for a Jewish mother and child they had been concealing from the Nazis. A local clergyman came into their watch shop, and they asked him if he would take the Jews into his home. 

The pastor refused. On an impulse, Corrie ran to fetch the Jewish baby and brought it to him. But the pastor was not moved. “No. Definitely not,” he said. “We could lose our lives for that Jewish child.” At that point, Father ten Boom stepped forward and took the baby into his own arms. 

He peered into the child’s face for a moment, his white beard grazing against the tiny cheek. Then he looked up and spoke to the pastor: “You say we could lose our lives for this child. I would consider that the greatest honor that could come to my family.”