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Appendix 251
tionists and are obliged to emigrate for personal safety. Confusion of
tongues, as at the Tower of Babel, now prevails.
"I beseech the American Christians: ’Earnestly endeavor to meet
the Russians in America and teach them the Gospel, that they may
return and bring to the needy ones here the truth as it is in Christ
Jesus, for only the light of the Gospel can dispel the darkness that
still prevails.’
"But, although the darkness is deep and hate and indifference most
appalling, there are some encouraging signs of awakening of believers
in different parts of Russia. In Samara we had a special evangelistic
campaign for two weeks. Every evening mass meetings were held in
large halls, and during the day the work was carried on in the shops,
in the markets, in the stations, on the streets, and wherever people
could be reached. .
"The Greek Orthodox Church is losing ground; the people are doing
some religious work, but mixing it with politics. In our city we had
three days’ fasting and repentance. We marched through the streets
carrying banners with inscriptions such as these: ’Pear God and Give
Glory to Him’; ’Repent, and Believe the Gospel’; ’Lord, Forgive the
People and Save Russia.’ The Greek Orthodox people did the same,
but instead of banners they carried their holy images. About forty
were converted during our campaign. Greek Orthodoxy is giving place .
to evangelical Christian faith."
CHINA AND RUSSIA
Dr. Charles Ernest Scott of Tsingtao, North China, whose recent
book, "China from Within," is dedicated by permission to "my honored
teacher, Woodrow Wilson," in a personal letter to the editor under date
of August 31st, 1918, writes:
"I am very much interested in the ’First General Conference for
the Evangelization of Russia,’ and would be grateful for any detailed
information you may give me, or any source of such information with
which you can put me in touch. The German menace in Russia has
now reached us here at the gates of the far East. Their craft and
turpitude and pitilessness are no longer things to be vaguely feared
as in the past, but they are at our very door in terrible realism.
"We pray for your work and solicit your prayers for ours,"
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