Spirit of Leadership

WHAT IS A TRUE LEADER? With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds...to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations. 11 Corrie ten Boom Corrie ten Boom was fifty years old when the Nazis invaded her native Holland. Up to that time, she had lived an obscure life with her sister as they helped their father run his watch shop and quietly but devotedly practiced their Christian faith. After Holland fell, she and her family were confronted with the reality of the Nazis’ persecution and murder of the Jews. Through this crisis, they discovered their purpose: preserving the lives of Jews and others perse cuted by the Nazis by hiding them in a secret room in their home. Their passion was so strong that they risked their own lives for its fulfillment. Corrie and several of her family members were even tually turned in. The Gestapo never found the Jews and members of the Dutch underground who were hiding in their house at the time of their arrest, and the refugees were taken to new “safe houses.” However, Corrie’s father died in prison and her sister died in a concentration camp. After suffering in prison, a work camp, and a concentration camp, Corrie was about to be executed when she was released on a clerical error. P ASSION CAN BE SO STRONG THAT IT LEADS MEN AND WOMEN TO RISK THEIR LIVES FOR ITS FULFILLMENT .

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