CONVERSION STORIES FOR TWO
Leja Messenger was once a Russian baroness with a 300-room castle, who in recent years lived in Michigan. The ex-baroness met God in a remarkable way just before the Russian revolution. One day during World War I, the baroness admitted stretcher bearers carrying a young boy, about 15, covered with bloody rags. A shell explosion had exposed both his skull and lungs and it seemed a miracle that he was alive. The bearers placed him in the great ballroom and the baroness knelt beside him. Realizing that he was dying, she asked if he had a last message. “No last message, lady,” he said, “but would you help me pray?” The baroness panicked. Not knowing how to pray herself, she looked around frantically for a priest but saw none. She thought of the Lord’s Prayer but could not remember the words. “Too late,” he moaned. “I’m lost. I’m lost.” He kept repeating the words. As the baroness now remembers, “I…
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