CHAPTER I A RELUCTANT AGENT Never will 1 fi~rget rh~tt muggy day m 1948 gcltil~ o|J lhc tr;un lil Barcelona. I was NOT interested in Spain. 1 w c>uld nmc], r;id~er have gone almost any other place in the w~rld th:m Spuin. 1 did not know Spanish. I had 1~o pitrticular c~l~ccrn till the 7,palish pe~>plc. Spain w, ls the tin+st unlikclv counttv h>r inc attcr an exciting childhood spent in Arab lands. And I had n,, idc;/whar i was doin~ in Barcelona. Outside the Moorish train slaiion, 1 wa~, ushered il~Io ~,~;nc kind of contrapnon c:dlcd a vaxi. It was tmlikc amy vehicle in which 1 had ever traveled, rtll i t~V a charc,l lhc Nick <,f it. The odor from the fim~c~ w:t< .~> bad I did ,it)l l..i:l;,w whcihcr l siic>uld hang mv head ~tlt or .,ul~cr ii>idc . It w;l , I)ol ;i ~:~l~) The sight c>f the red cti ~c{ clN,w f]:lV ,,t Spai,~, wcivin}2 t> cr l[ ,c station, caught me wondcrin~ why G<>d h ,ld led mc tiai~ dircctl<~n. Back in Winon ccinccJ lo~ic;ll elu~ll~]~ ltl~/! I should heed Ik>rrey Johnson ;is he i<>ld lilt , \"Paul Freed, I t~clic~c God would have you gt) tc~ Europe.\" Nothing was anticipated [~cyond the [i~lcri~itri~/i~:il Y<~uth [q~r Christ Conference in Beatcnbcrg, Switzcrl ,md. 1 h:,d Been abr<~ald earlier in my life, traveling beiwecn lhc ~taics lll)d lily pmission field in Palestine ;libel Svri;i. 1 was n{~w ti)irtv vc |
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