THE IMAGE OF CHRIST
It is recorded that Studdert-Kennedy told of a single experience in the first World War when he stumbled over the dead body of a German, a mere boy, and as he looked and thought, the boy seemed to disappear, and in his place lay Christ upon the Cross. Years later, near the end of his courageous life, Studdert-Kennedy is reported to have said that from that moment on he never saw a battlefield as anything but a crucifix and that in every slum, in every filthy, overcrowded quarter, he saw the Cross established. From that day to the day he died, it was Christ on His cross that stared at him from every newspaper telling of a tortured, lost, bewildered world, calling all brave men and women to share his sorrow and help save the world. A man’s life sent in a powerful new direction when, staring out from a small fragment of the tragedy of mankind, that man saw…
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