The Way For Students - 182 Chapter 5. Man Of Faith Section 1. Life Of Faith 5. Suggestions For Your Life Of Faith
2) When You Are in Difficulty
③ Father's Attitude toward Difficulty - 1
When Father was in prison for two years and eight months, I did heavy labor in a concentration camp. I worked in a fertilizer factory, shoveling piles of ammonium sulfate and putting it into sacks. Each sack had to be the same weight. Then I had to put it on a conveyor belt.
When the salt was first made it was hot, but after it cooled it hardened like rock. Since it had been there for several years, it was hard as rock. It was very hard to shovel it.
Everyone had a quota to fulfill in eight hours. Ten people made up one team, and each team had to fill 1,300 sacks per day. If we couldn't finish this quota in eight hours, our food was cut in half.
One day's food ration was 1.7 bowls of grain. There were no side dishes, only watery soybean soup or plain salt water. That was all we ate while laboring eight hours a day.
The Communist purpose was to kill us through this heavy labor. Everyone who came into this prison camp would go out dead within three years. This was for certain.
Those who came to this prison were already doomed to death. Normally, average people with good food could fill at most 700 sacks per day. But our work quota was almost double.
If we took big bites, we could finish our food in three bites. So after breakfast, on the way to the work site our legs were already wobbly. In this condition we had to work from morning till evening. The misery was beyond description. In prison I determined to live on just half the daily ration. |