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CHAPTER XI.
IN THE CITY OF SARATOV.
The City—General Ustimovitch—A Stundist Meeting—A
Prison-Evangelist—Detectives—A Notable Picnic—Consecration of the Volga—Calumny
against Stundists—An Orthodox Missionary—Holy Water.
From the German Colonies I went to the city of Saratov,
beautifully situated on the Volga, with a population of about
125,000. Looked at from the river it would easily be taken for
a modern Western town, were it not for the large number of
churches, whose Byzantine cupolas, so different from our
Gothic spires, gave their unmistakably Eastern aspect to the
place.
In the government of Saratov the famine had not reached
such a fearful intensity as in Samara, yet the suffering had
been very great, and the city itself was swarming with the
starving peasants. Among those who devoted themselves to
relieving the destitute General Ustimovitch held a prominent
place. This noble man also gave much time and labour to
editing a monthly periodical, called Brotherly Help, devoted
exclusively to philanthropic topics.
I give the following entry from my diary, as illustrating my
experiences and observations in Saratov.
On Sunday I was asked to address a meeting of Stundists, and
accepted the invitation. The morning meeting was held in a
private house consisting of three rooms and a kitchen. After singing
and prayer by several of the brothers and sisters, a tall,
fine-looking man stood up and read Hebrews xi., adding some practical
and sensible comments. He spoke with deep feeling and
conviction, which both attested his own earnestness and enlisted
the sympathetic attention of his hearers. His dialect and dress
told me that he was a simple peasant. While he was speaking
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