GOD'S SMUGGLER
Brother Andrew
Reviewed by: Leonard Voo

While waiting for the train, I was glancing at the books on the book exchange rack at Convent Station when the title of this book jumped out at me. ( I wonder if some Nun planted it there with a quick prayer.) I picked it up and quickly became captivated by Brother Andrew's story. Published in 1967, it is the story of a man of faith reaching out to persecuted believers behind the Iron Curtain.

The book starts off simply enough - a rambunctious and mischievous childhood leading up to an aimless adolescence resulting in a young man joining the army. But then God starts doing obvious miracles in and around him. As his faith grew, so did the miracles, though everything didn't always go as planned. The miracles were simple ones, but given the circumstances, they were incredible. In one example he approached the border of Yugoslavia and prayed "Lord...When You were on earth you made blind eyes see. Now, I pray, make seeing eyes blind. Do not let the guards see those things You do not want them to see." Even with that prayer he was stopped, the guards looked in his car and even opened up one of the suitcases, and yet the guards didn't catch anything. And so he crossed the border with car and luggage stuffed full of bibles and other illegal materials.