I’m not sure that I can add anything to the value of a Nobel Prize Winning book, but I am writing today to strongly recommend Night by Elie Wiesel. It is sometimes easy for us as Christians to forget the horrible atrocity that is sin. We, in our modern mindset, seem to believe at times that really bad things do not actually happen.
Night, is a wake up call. It is a reminder of the evil atrocities that can be committed by men, and it was a needed heart-break for me as I read it (really, devoured it, I read it in two sittings). The foreward of the book says it this way:
The dream conceived by Western man in the Eighteenth Century, whose dawn he thought he had glimpsed in 1789, and which until August 2, 1914, had become stronger with the advent of the Enlightenment and scientific discoveries–that dream finally vanished for me before those trainloads of small children.
Night, is also a wonderful reminder of the absolute need for the gospel to be spread around the world. The power of the gospel will overcome the powers of darkness in our world.
