Bursting into the church, Abernathy obliterated this contrived decorum. He announced President Kennedy’s support for the settlement. But, he shouted above prolonged cheers, he was resting his hopes on even greater powers than the U.S. Army or the White House. He was looking to the Almighty God who had listened to Paul and Silas in the Philippi jail, to Daniel in the lions’ den, to the three devout Jews in Nebuchadnezzar’s fiery furnace.
