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184 Americans Opportunity in Russia
Work Council donations have taught us this. When men and women
are giving is the time to ask them to give more.
An English correspondent wrote me the other day that his nation
had been giving £2,000,000 annually to send the Gospel to mission
lands and thought it was doing great things; but now it is giving
£7,000,000 daily to carry on this war, or 1260 times as much. Had
it been more generous toward God how much it might have saved for
itself. The same correspondent reminded me that it was considered
a mad thing for a Christian to give up a lucrative business position
and go out into the Lord’s work. Now Christians have to give up all
and go into the bloody trenches of France to slaughter and be
slaughtered. Christian parents demurred in giving their sons and
daughters to the mission field, holding them back from the Lord and
devoting them to worldly prospects, luxuries and attainments. Now
they have them torn from them to be slaughtered. Shall we not
learn the lesson of these things and be prompt to act upon it?
VII
I have but one more word to say, and that is that our opportunity in
Russia may soon be lost. I doubt if democracy in that land is long-
lived. I am not speaking of what may happen in a decade or even in
a generation, but I believe the inspired prophets speak of a future of
power and leadership for Russia not incidental to a democracy, but
belonging only to an autocracy of the strongest kind. However she
may hate Germany and evfdence suspicion of Japan today, the time
is coming, I cannot but believe, when she, and Germany and Japan
will be in close alliance, and when she will head a military combina-
tion for the control of the great east such as the world shall have
never known before. That is the day of which Ezekiel speaks when
Jehovah shall be sanctified by His judgments in the sight of all the
nations. But I draw the veil upon it. Our duty and our privilege are
clear, and if it were ever true in the history of any people, it is in
that of Russia at the present moment, that "now is the accepted time,
behold, now is the day of salvation."
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