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Rev, A. B. Winchester 75
their spiritual sight dimmed, they did not see the great truth of sancti-
fication. They did not see the great truth of the Lord’s coming, which
we have been privileged to see, which would have made them invinci-
ble in all the world ; but now we are the inheritors of some of the blun-
ders of unbelief and of worldly complicity and alliance which they left
us. Are we to preach something of that kind in a land that has not
known a Reformation, in a land that is free from certain kinds of
evils, in a land where the form of ecclesiasticism under which it has
been standing is today now condemned? Are we to inoculate them with
the divisions and dissensions which we have? Are we to do that? I
trust in this great hour that God will give us men to see this thing
clearly.
Russians Hour of Deliverance
I believe that this is the hour when for Russia there is deliverance.
Do you remember in that thirteenth chapter of the Gospel according to
Luke; do you remember there where one woman that had been bound
for eighteen long years was released? And no doubt, like another
woman in the Gospels, she spent all her living on making efforts to get
well ; but she was bound for eighteen years. Then she heard of One who
was a Deliverer. You have not heard aright of Christ, if you have not
heard of Him as being a Deliverer. He comes to break the shackles, to
break the fetters, to open the eyes and to give release to the captives.
He has been doing it all along. And so when this woman came to the
town where Jesus was she heard that the Lord Jesus was there and she
heard that He was a wonderful Deliverer, and her friends said to her:
"Now, Mary, He is here. Come along and see Him." And I can see her
coming, but there are two voices in her after all. Dr. Jekyl and Mr.
Hyde, and one is saying: "What is the use? Haven’t you gone to all
sorts of physicians of reputation? Haven’t you gone to this sanitarium
and that sanitarium? Haven’t you gone to this spring and that spring?
And nothing has ever helped you. What is the use? There isn’t any
hope for you." But another voice said: "He may be able to help you;
He has helped others, you know." And so she came up slowly, very
slowly; and when the Lord called her He said, "Come to me," and she
went painfully up to Him. He put His hand upon her and she stood
up as erect as any of those children who played on the hills, as erect as
any girl ever stood. What does the record say? It says: "They all
glorified God." If that is true of one soul’s deliverance, how much more
so of the deliverance of many?
I see a great nation—great in every respect. I see that nation of
hundreds of millions who have been bowed down and bent in the fetters
of a condemned ecclesiasticism. I see them persecuted, yet many of
them earnestly seeking after God and truth, seeking as earnestly as
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