R.C. Sproul

And I had lectured for a week, first of all, in Czechoslovakia, which is now the Czech Republic, and then a week at the seminary in Budapest in Hungary.

And from there, we were traveling to Romania to do another week of lectures there.

This is shortly after Ceausescu had been overthrown.

But we were warned in our journey

that things at the border between Hungary and Romania were difficult and that we might encounter trouble by the authorities at the border.

And so when our train, which was an antiquated train, I believe World War II vintage,

crossed the border from Hungary into Romania and came into the first stop, we were met by the border patrol and two somewhat rough and crude soldiers got on the train and demanded that we open up our luggage, which we did.

And they were being very aggressive and unfriendly towards us.

And then a moment later,

the head officer got on, a great big burly guy, and he walked over to see what was going on here and looked down and one of our persons that were with us had a Bible in a brown paper bag.

And this chief of the border patrol saw this Bible and said, what's that?

And she pulled it out and she said, it's a Bible.

And he looked at the Bible

And he said, you Christians?

We said, yes.

And then he said, looking at our passports, you know Americans.

We said, oh, we're in trouble now.

He says, you're not American.

I'm not Romanian.

Then he opened the text of scripture and said, what does this say?