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civil enactment, no member of the Greek Church was permitted to
change his allegiance from that body. The church thus becomes, not
the nourisher, but the stifler of religious thought and liberty. With
the monarchy overthrown, and the power of the Greek Church, as a
political system, broken, there is the widest opportunity for leading
Russia’s vast population to Jesus Christ. America’s effort for Russia
should not be to take our various churches or denominations into
Russia, but to take the truth as it is in Jesus, and to make them ac-
quainted with a personal Saviour. Russia must be taught to think
and to act. The carrying of the Bible to Russia, and its interpreta-
tion to Russia’s masses, through the living evangelists and printed
page is the need of the hour. Of the Bible, Garibaldi said, "This is
the cannon that will make Italy free." Horace Greeley wrote, "It is
impossible to mentally or socially enslave a Bible-reading people. The
principles of the Bible are the groundwork of human freedom." Wil-
liam H. Seward, Secretary of State under President Lincoln, wrote,
"The whole hope of human progress is suspended on the ever grow-
ing influence of the Bible." In his centennial letter to the American
Sabbath-schools, President Grant wrote, "To the influence of the Bible
we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization," while
Froude, in his essay on Calvinism says, "All that we call modern
civilization, in the sense that deserves the name, is the visible expres-
sion of the transforming power of the gospel."
America’s Mission
America’s highest mission to Russia is to carry to her that which
has been the source of her own best life. Germany has lost her soul,
and has sunk into an unspeakable degradation because, in the name
of a godless scholarship, she repudiated the Bible as the Word of
God, the rule of faith and practice. Russia will find her soul, and be
redeemed in the light of that blessed Book through whose truth
American liberties have had their origin and support.
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