Siegfried H. Horn

Siegfried H. Horn was a busy missionary on the tropical island of Java in the Dutch East Indies. Then his native Germany invaded the Netherlands and distant Europe. Caught up in a global conflict, he found himself the interned citizen of an enemy country. In a primitive and hastily thrown together internment camp on a waterless island he began a 6 1/2 year imprisonment. His only crime – – having been born in the wrong country. For most of those years his wife thought she was a widow, that her husband had died when the ship transporting him to a new camp in India had sunk during an enemy attack.Why would God let this happen to a dedicated Christian serving him and his church? Why did not God intervened to free him? Were these wasted years? Had Horn lost some of the most productive years of his life – – thrown away in the meaningless existence of an internment camp? How did the suffering and brutal life of such a camp affect his faith?Dr. Horn wrote this book "to show that even behind the most discouraging events there may be discernible––often only much later on––the guiding hand of God. My own war experiences have demonstrated that it is not certainly been true in my life. It is my hope and prayer that my story will persuade many readers to accept God's will for their life even if it is not always easy to see His leading hand during painful times."… (mehr)