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106 What Has Been Done to Evangelize Russia?
million people, with one of the most fruitful lands in the world under
our feet, and one of the most genial skies in the world over our heads,
with absolute religious liberty for every man to speak and sing and
pray and come and go as he pleases. What do we owe to two hun-
dred million people who have been under the wheel, in terror of their
lives,—what do we owe to these people at the present time? Now you
all know that there is in progress a movement to send the printed
Word to Russia much more largely than ever before; and to secure
from the groups of young Russians who are in this country, men who
will willingly go there to carry the Gospel to their people. I do not
have to tell any of you that the native speaker is the man who has
to do the most of the missionary work. But I put the question to you,
What does a nation like ours, in circumstances such as ours, owe to
a nation like Russia, a nation where the Gospel has never been free
until within the last two years, a nation which has been very largely,
in fact almost absolutely penalized in property and liberty and person
and life if it should undertake to confess the faith of Jesus Christ
that you and I are free here to confess? What do we owe to a people
of that kind?
Paul said, "I am a debtor," "I am ready," "I am not ashamed."
Certainly we are debtors, but are we ready to pay our debt? If we
are, and pay it, we need not be ashamed. But if we are not ready to
pay, we should be ashamed. I trust that the result of our assembling
will be that in some measure at least the blessings we so freely enjoy
may be the happy lot of the great people in whose name we meet.
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