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- Forty Years in Russia. The Rev. N. F. Hoijer
- Overcoming Obstacles
- Prayer for Unity
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Overcoming Obstacles
On the second floor of that block there was a club, on the third floor,
a flat for rent. I began to watch the police force, who were in charge
of that street, and who kept a watchful eye over the club. I thought,
immediately, that the apartment on the third floor would be a good
place to rent, if we had our meetings at hours, when the people went
to their club. The police in the street thought that all the people
which went up that stairway went to the club. However, our friends
went one story higher and could hold their meetings undisturbed.
Several of the educated brethren were already trained in preaching
the Gospel and were now to lead the meetings. From this hour the
congregation of believers held their meetings in my home. All the
believers were one in Christ. Many of them could not understand
that it could ever be otherwise. Many times during the meetings I
watched the police to warn my friends. The policeman did not suspect
that there were meetings going on in my home, while I was walking
before his eyes in the street. The place was the best we could find
for our purpose, as there were entrances from three different streets
and by several ways that gave access to our flat.
Prayer for Unity
The heavy cloud of persecutions accumulated more and more. The
believers among the noblemen saw that it was necessary to prepare
the people for what was coming. They arranged a conference for
that purpose. In the call that was issued to this conference it was
said: “Remember, brethren, that Christ died that ‘He should gather
together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad’ and
present them as one flock with one Shepherd (John 11:52). Yea, may
the Lord gather us around Him to teach us to keep the bond of unity
and peace.”
I would especially ask you to mark the desire and prayers for unity
expressed by these pioneers of Christian work in Russia. They all gave
up their freedom, their homes for Christ and His work.
This conference ended in the arrest of some of the deputies, the
deportation of others and the flight of still others. In a few years
the leaders of the movement were all exiled.
The greatest difficulty was that for several years then we had no
place where we could gather for worship and instruction. My home
was strictly watched, my nerves were overworked. I could not sleep.
One night I sat and wrote with my pencil a petition to the Minister
of the Interior for the right to establish a temperance society. The
statutes were so written that they gave room for an evangelical
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