How can one live peaceably with such people?

Soldiers with rifles, demanding money.

Officials punishing you for not joining the army.

Young men ripping the roof off your cottage.

A mob trying to hang you for teaching peace.

A gang killing your family and burning your cabin.

Here are seventeen true stories about returning love for hate, good for evil. They come from various times and countries, to show the universal power of Christian love.

High courage is needed to live out a response to God's love, to be kind to evildoers rather than to hurt them. Sometimes doing good makes friends out of enemies. Other times, peacemakers suffer and die. Yet they are blessed in knowing that they truly are children of God.

Contents

• An Ill Wind
• At the Wrong End of the Rifle
• The Man in the Saffron Robe
• The Price of Loyalty
• Pastor John
• Jacob Decides
• On Corridor Two
• The Mystery of the Thatch
• The Pick and Shovel Army
• Peter's Plea
• The Peacemaker
• A Man Who Could Not Yield
• The Wells of Trouble
• He Followed His Footsteps
• Marie's Flight
• He Went to Russia
• The Christ of the Andes
• Acknowledgments
• The Author