My wartime duty in France and Germany was laying telephone wire on the ground from the frontline observation dugout to the company switchboard then to the regimental switchboard. Because of the German artillery fire we were constantly at the front repairing the cut telephone wire.
A common practice in France and Alsase is the placing of carved stone crucifixes along side of two lane country roads. One particular crucifix I had passed several times on my way to a severed line repair, the Lord used to make a lasting impact on my heart and mind. It was pitch black night, and as we passed again this crucifix an artillery shell exploded at a distance, spraying its contents of white deadly phosphorus in a semicircular pattern and at the very instant that I glanced to my right to view the explosion, it appeared directly behind the crucifix. There was death but superimposed in front of it was life of the cross. This made a profound and lasting impression on me and was added to the Lord's call to and protection of me when awhile later I was subject to a small bore artillery shell explosion that would have blinded my left eye had my head been in a different position one second before the explosion.
After returning to the States I happened to be home and alone and the Lord made the final call to my heart and to which I responded with many tears accepting Christ as my Lord and Savior. I was forgiven. I was a changed individual - I was free.
Charles W. Jennings
3310 Fairmont #12-B
Dallas, TX 75201-1239
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