Page 57 - Unseen Hands by Nona Freeman

God's Choice
He refused to yield to merciless darkness, and two more sons died. In quick succession a series of calamities came to his house—even a plague of poisonous snakes. In desperation Segaro looked up to heaven and prayed, "0 God, Creator of heaven and earth, where are You? Can You not deliver me from the power of evil?"
That week he heard for the first time of a book that teaches men about the Creator. He made a two-day journey and found the Book and someone to explain it to him. Though he could not read, he brought a copy of the Book home with him.
Obtaining that Bible cost Segaro dearly. With hands tied behind their backs, those found with the Scriptures in their possession were cruelly herded to prison by the police, who frequently beat them on the tortuous two-day walk. The police confiscated Segaro's money, food, and cattle, leaving himpenniless. But nothing dimmed hisjoy in God's Word or shook him from his determination to follow the Lord.
Chagrined by continually begging someone to read for him, he went to school at forty years of age and learned to read and write.
A great change came into his life from the time he fotmd God's Word. He found courage to make a complete break with the servitude of wickedness. His new faith founded on the Bible made him believe that his four re maining children, two sons and two daughters, would ^ow up protected by God's power. From that time he lived only to pray and to testify of Jesus, His supremacy over Satan, and the liberating authority of the Bible.
During this tranquil time, Segaro joyfullywelcomed a new daughter on April 23,1947. He called her Chako,
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