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THE MANIFESTO CALLING THE
CONFERENCE
World Crisis for Missions in Russia
A Call for Prayer and Conference on Behalf of Russia’s Millions
AT THE
Moody Tabernacle, Chicago, June 24th to June 28th, 1918
To the Lord’s People Everywhere:
"The Revolution in Russia has resulted in throwing open to the
Gospel the largest country, with its largest population of white people
in the world. There are 182,000,000 people in Russia, and yet there are
not as many evangelical workers there as in the city of Chicago alone.
Many are eagerly waiting for the Gospel. When recently one of the
leaders of the "Dom Evangelia" mission in Petrograd, immediately
after returning from Siberia, went with his choir and workers to the
large square directly in front of the Winter Palace, and conducted for
the first time in the existence of that city an open-air Gospel service,
large numbers of men and women assembled. After the message was
delivered the people turned to the preacher and said: "Where have
you been so long? Why did you not tell us this before?" "I was in T Q^^
Siberia," was the reply.
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Unparalleled Opportunity
Never since the beginning of Christianity has such an immense
population of our own white people become accessible to missionary
enterprise. Our evangelization plan must embrace not only the hun-
dred million native Russians, but also the six million Jews, the
twenty million Poles, the thirty million Ukrainians, millions of Mo- Afif-t^/o
hammedans (Tartars, Kurds, Kirghiz, etc.), Armenians, Roumanians ^ "
and Greeks, and besides these the Bulgarians, Servians, Croatlans,
Montenegrins and other related Slavonic peoples.
The propaganda of atheism and materialism is already assuming Al/) <4’f£*/?
awful proportions. There is no time to lose. The Greek Orthodox /TTT
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Church is rapidly losing its grip upon the hearts of the people, and ’^^—Tluil^
before long large masses of simple, religiously-inclined Russians may X
be led astray into complete infidelity. Millions of the people are look-
ing for something, different. What is it to be? atheism, or the gospel?
If the latter, then, because of existing conditions in Europe, A^mericg^ /
must assume chief responsibility for meeting the need, else this great-
est missionary opportunity of the centuries may be turned into the
most abysmal failure.
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