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Rev. A. B. Winchester 73
only and will yet prove their loyalty to the allied cause when they are
free to act.
Appreciation of America’s President
I am not here speaking of the duty of any nation, but incidentally
I want to say that I wish I had the ear of that great man whom God
has given you in this hour of defending the nation, I would that I had
the ear of President Wilson, and I would say to him, "I thank you,
Sir, for the noble manly words full of sympathy and of hope which
you have spoken about Russia." I would also say "Do what you can to
send some forces in there as soon as possible, to assist the men who
are there now and under reliable leadership are ready to fight." Rus-
sia has, as Dr. Mott has said, great leaders at the top, and she has also
a weak middle. They haven’t confidence in one another. They need
to have some one to come in from without, but my prayer is that we
shall be able to send a band of gospellers, whatever the nations may
do, that we shall send a band of gospellers who shall go in and speak
the word they most need there. Supposing that Russia were the most
wicked nation in the world. I am saying supposing that, for it is very
far from that, but supposing that she were; or, if you will, supposing
that she has come right now to the darkest point in her history, to the
lowest ebb spiritually, then I say, is when she needs it most of all.
What do I mean? You must have a positive and a negative electric
current in order to have great brilliancy. It is true equally in the
moral realm. When God’s loving-kindness and righteousness. His
positive love and goodness meet man’s unrighteousness and sin.—and
they meet in the Cross of Calvary,—you have a brilliancy that will
illuminate earth and heaven and that shall shine as the stars forever
and ever. And therefore the very fact that the hour of this darkness
and sorrow and reproach has come to Russia, is significant to us. God’s
salvation is ready.
Now, I want to say that the vision of Russia that I hope to see some
day soon is the vision not of a regenerated land, in the sense of which
people speak of political regeneration, not that; there is no such thing
as a regenerated nation, in the scriptural sense of the term. Not until
every subject of a nation is regenerated by the power of the Holy Ghost,
will there be a regenerated nation; and that will never be until the
Lord comes. But then you have the fact that you can have a great
number of people that are regenerated in a nation.
God’s Last Experiment
What is the vision of Russia today? As I see it, it is a marvelous
l9,nd, not only as touching the map; but Russia in this hour is standing
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