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From: "Bob Hoffman" <bhoffman@fmlynet.org>

Never Alone
Faith's Checkbook

October 8

Never Alone

"Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken" (Isaiah 62:4).

"Forsaken" is a dreary word. It sounds like a knell. It is the record of
sharpest sorrows and the prophecy of direst ills. An abyss of misery yawns in
that word forsaken. Forsaken by one who pledges his honor! Forsaken by a friend
so long tried and trusted! Forsaken by a dear relative! Forsaken by father and
mother! Forsaken by all! This is woe indeed, and yet it may be patiently born
if the LORD will take us up.

But what must it be to feel forsaken of God? Think of that bitterest of cries,
"My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" Have we ever in any degree tasted
the wormwood and the gall of "forsaken" in that sense? If so, let us beseech
our LORD to save us from any repetition of so unspeakable a sorrow. Oh, that
such darkness may never return! Men in malice said of a saint, "God hath
forsaken him; persecute and take him." But it was always false. The LORD's
loving favor shall compel our cruel foes to eat their own words or, at least,
to hold their tongues.

The reverse of all this is that superlative word Hephzibah "the LORD delighteth
in thee." This turns weeping into dancing. Let those who dreamed that they were
forsaken hear the LORD say, "I will never leave thee nor forsake thee."

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From The Voice of the Martyrs
INDIA (ASSIST News Service)

Hindu fundamentalists returned to the Gospel Echoing Missionary Society (GEMS)
compound in Rohtas district, Bihar state, India, Sunday, September 25th.
Several Christians were severely injured as in a previous attack August 31st.
"About 16 people came from two nearby villages and broke open the gate of the
compound," a representative of GEMS told Compass. "They pulled out some of the
GEMS staff (from the compound) and brutally beat them. They also robbed them of
their belongings before throwing them into the fields.... The most serious
injuries, however, were sustained by newlywed Kirupakaran Shankar. The
attackers injured his spinal cord, resulting in the loss of movement in one
leg. GEMS is the largest indigenous Christian missionary agency in Bihar and
has around 100 families, including a total of 900 children, living in the
compound. The mission contains a school, student hostel, orphanage, hospital
and other social service facilities. As part of a new campaign to stem the
increasing number of conversions around the country, Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP
or World Hindu Council) has called for a comprehensive law to ban religious
conversions in India. Addressing media on August 25th, Mohan Joshi, national
secretary of the VHP, said anti-conversion laws in some states were not
stringent enough to curb religious conversions. India has 25 million
Christians, who represent 2.4 percent of the population. India is 83 percent
Hindu and 11 percent Muslim.

(Compass Direct)
Radical Hindu villagers of Jamanya village in Maharashtra state's Jalgaon
district, remain hostile to Christian families they attacked on May 16th. They
threatened to beat them if they refuse to renounce their faith, detained and
beat a Christian visitor, and attacked the house of another believer. On
September 25th, the Jamanya village court pressured the 11 Christian families,
who were attacked, to renounce their faith. September 23rd the villagers
detained and beat Neta Gyansingh, one of the victims of the earlier attack.
Three men allegedly sent by one of the Hindu extremists, earlier broke into the
house of local Christian, Saimal Mohan Singh Barela. "Barela has not yet
returned to his house and is living in his relative's house with his wife and
children for fear of his life," a local pastor said.

Pray the One who makes wars to cease will calm the violence of Hindus in India.
Pray the believers in the GEMS compound will continue bold, loving and wise in
their faith. Pray the Lord will quickly and completely heal Kirupakaran
Shankar.
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