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- Forty Years in Russia. The Rev. N. F. Hoijer
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- Reinforcements from Sweden
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Now we had wind in our sails and friends in multitudes, because
it went well with us. But, you know, when things are not running
smoothly then your many friends desert you and they are gone. The
British and American Church, in which the American Ambassador
worshiped, was opened to us. The Russian noblemen opened their
houses for us. We rented also another hall and we could preach the
Gospel unmolested both by day and night. The Swedish ambassador
was a diplomat and feared that a movement that had grown to such
proportions would bring upon him trouble. He feared also for my
liberty. I was asked by my government to return to Sweden. I went
and told my friends there of the work of God in Russia and the
friends were greatly cheered.
Reinforcements from Sweden
Very soon I returned to Russia and I had seven other missionaries
with me, and a short time after that there were altogether seventeen
Swedish missionaries in Russia. Some of them went to Archangel,
some went to the Ural Mountains, and some continued the work in
Petrograd. Rev. Adolph Lydell and myself went to the Caucasus. It
was impossible at that time that such a revival as was witnessed at
Petrograd could continue without being met by persecution. Our
right to preach the Gospel was soon taken away from us. The houses
of the nobility were closely watched, and even the American Church
was closed to us. The Swedish missionaries had to flee. Some of
them were arrested and taken to prison.
There was much faith in the hearts of our Swedish friends at that
time. When the frontier of Russia from the Swedish side was closed
to missionaries, yet they could go over the ocean, through the United
States, and penetrate through Alaska to eastern Siberia through the
snow-bound Arctic region to preach the Gospel among the heathen
there.
I got orders from my society to return from the Caucasus to the
capital of Russia; there was there a large congregation of believers,
which had no legal right to exist. I had no legal right to exist. We
had no place for meetings. Some of my old friends were now fearful
for my safety and asked me not to visit them, because I was already
watched by the police. It was then I most needed friends, but they
were nearly all gone. I walked around the capital, looked at the great
cathedrals, palaces and structures. Could not there be a place for
God’s people and for His Gospel. I thought how wonderfully God
had helped in the beginning of the work. There was a large
apartment block covering a space between three streets and facing a church.
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