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182 A Great Missionary Program for Russia
selves, the Christians ought to get in and run away and do the
Gospel work while it can be done. The Russian people are waiting
for something. Imagine the most religious nation, so to speak,
upon the face of this earth, the most religious nation at this time.
The Czar has been deposed, for all I know he may be dead. The
papers this evening tell us he has been killed. He was the head
of the Greek Church, of the holy synod consisting of bishops and
archbishops. The whole of that body was put out of action when
the Czar was deposed.
Call for Help
Rasputin, the evil genius of the Russians, was one of the chief
advisers of the Czar. The Czarina is said to have worshipped before
him and called him her Christ, her meeeiah—Gregory Rasputin.
The Greek Church became the place for all kinds of political in-
trigue, until the Russian people have lost, most of them, to a large
extent, all their faith in that church. The educated people have no
regard for that church whatever. When the revolution broke out
a year ago, from that time up to this night, the Russian people are
turning, with their earnest, half European, half Asiatic faces, and
looking to us. There they are in that land where hunger prevails, where
even a bottle of milk costs as much as thirty cents at present, and
a pair of shoes thirty-five to forty dollars, where mothers cannot get
milk for their babies, and where the sufferings of the Russian people
are surpassing anything that we know. And they look now towards
us. There is no country in this world at the present time that could
stand that long; there is no country that has the liberty, that has
the resources, that has the power, as the great liberty-loving land of
the United States of America. Oh, my beloved friends, they look
toward us for help; they look to you through the eyes and strange
faces of these young men and those other Russians you meet, and
they say, "Come over, and help us." Go to your bank account and
look into it and then help with this work. Here are these one hun-
dred and eighty-two million of white people, men of the same race
as you, women of the same race as you, children like your children;
and they do not know what to do. How will they believe unless
they are preached to? How will they preach unless through a society
or an alliance for the evangelization of Russia, men and women
who know God’s wonderful salvation, go to them?
Religious Liberty Fund
The plan and program of our committee and of our missionary
alliance here is to launch this evening, through this conference and
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