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- Forty Years in Russia. The Rev. N. F. Hoijer
- From Odessa to Tiflis
- Denominational Differences
- Crosses the Caspian
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they asked them to have a public discussion of their views on the
question of baptism based on the teachings of the Bible.
Denominational Differences
I have heard many expositions on baptism but I have never heard
a more thorough one. Nevertheless when they separated they felt
that each person was more estranged from the other than they were
before the discussion began. These discussions ended often after
midnight. Both of them, without being aware of it, were reported in
Petrograd as those dangerous Stundists. One night they came home,
were arrested and brought to prison, Pavlof first and Amirkhaniantz
next. When the latter came to prison he saw a man praying with
his face turned to the wall. He turned round to see who that man
was. Lo, it was Pavlof. And Pavlof looked up and saw the face of
Amirkhaniantz. They fell into each other’s arms, they both wept and
then they knelt and prayed to God and now not a word on baptism was
spoken. They combined their efforts in preaching to the
fellow-prisoners and a revival resulted. Both were exiled and all those who
had been the Stundist leaders in the Caucasus, up to this time, were
compelled to go into exile.
I began to gather together scattered congregations. God had His
hand upon the work and soon we had not only congregations in
different parts of the Caucasus, but there arose a society called the
Evangelical Oriental Covenant. The persecution was very bitter. I
was hunted like a deer. Now God gave me a new plan that was
somewhat strategic, viz., that of planting mission stations across the
boundary outside of Russia, beginning from the Balkan States, Turkey,
Persia, Afghanistan, Bohemia, East Turkomania, Mongolia,
Manchuria and ending with Korea. This with the aim of giving the
persecuted missionaries places like the “cities of refuge” across the
boundary line in those countries in case they should have to flee for their
safety. God blessed us in such way that we had such cities of refuge
all the way to Kashgar in Central Asia.
Crosses the Caspian
When first I went to Kashgar I had my mission board against my
project. All scientific authorities consulted maintained that it was
impossible to reach my aim with the resources I had at my disposal.
In company with several Asiatic converts I traveled over the
Caspian Sea by the borders of Afghanistan through Transcaspian lands,
Merv, Bokhara, West Turkomania through Fergana, the Kirgheez
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