A COLLECTOR'S ITEM

Bible Believers' Bulletin, December 1991, Page 4

I don't know how many cassette tapes the average Christian

has but I imagine if he is a real student of the Bible and loves

good preaching he couldn't possibly have less than one hundred.

Today you can get sermons by Maze Jackson, Bob Jones Sr., Oliver

Greene, Lester Roloff, Jim White, John Rawlings, Billy Kelly,

Beauchamp Vick, Greg Estep, Erick Brazelton, Harley Keck, and

scores of others, and there are even rough copies of J. Frank

Norris and Harry Ironsides. Personally, I have the whole Bible

on cassette (where I do the reading); the Ad Lib Commentary,

which has forty cassettes to it; 144 hours of Bible studies; 216

cassettes of classical music, and eighty cassettes of German

music. In addition to this I have a library of sermons by

Brazelton, Estep, Jones Sr., Roloff, Pennel, Bonam, Lackey, Tim

and Don Green, Curtis Hutson, Jim Modlish, Don Mangus, and

others, that comes to another sixty cassettes. (I did not

include two hundred of my own sermons which are also on

cassette.)

Every now and then you get a "gem," a sort of "collector's

item." I have seven of these, which are testimonies of: A female

nurse who was captured by the Japanese in World War II. A

Romanian woman who allowed herself to be arrested as a Jew and

sent to a concentration camp, and later got saved. A rich

society woman who got converted through the death of two of her

sons. Evangelist Billy Kelly's conversion. The trials of Tom

and Pam Williams. A six cassette recording of All Quiet on the

Western Front, with music and sound effects. Roloff and Bob Gray

speaking to the faculty at Tennessee Temple Schools.

I believe the most shocking and horrifying experience I have

ever heard recorded on cassette was that of a World War II

veteran who was a prisoner in the infamous Bataan Death March

(April, 1942) and survived "The Tennis Courts," the Penal Colony

at Davao, Camp O'Donnell, etc., and was still alive in Manchuria

in 1945 when the war ended. His name was Andy Arends, and he

went through the narrated ghastly events as an UNSAVED man. He

is now a Christian.

If you want to see what a human being can endure without

"hope or without God," that is the tape to get. It is called

"Once Upon a Time," and we handle it at the Bookstore. The

testimony is about six hours long (six cassettes) and is narrated

by Andy after his conversion to Christ. "Once Upon a Time" is a

"collector's item." You would never hear on this earth, in one

hundred years, from the mouth of any man living, a more

terrifying and REAL story. On the Bataan Death March, Americans

were shot, bayoneted, buried alive, and forced to beat each other

to death with shovels.

The action that Andy was in began near Corregidor on Luzon,

where a garrison of 14,700 men were stationed. Attacking Bataan

(March, 1942), the Japanese pierced the American-Filipino line,

and two thousand men of a force of seventy-eight thousand escaped

to Corregidor. Thirty-five thousand American and Filipinos fell

into Japanese hands and went under a forced march to San Fernando

and Cabantuan. Corregidor surrendered May 6 and another sixteen

thousand Americans and Filipinos were captured. Of twenty-five

thousand Americans captured in the two actions, not more than

one-third ever lived to see the end of the war, and of the twenty

thousand Americans who went on the Death March, only one thousand

survived: one out of twenty. Andy Arends was one of these. He

tapes his testimony in "Once Upon a Time." It is a "collector's

item" in the cassette age.

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