Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-05-19
A RUSSIAN REVIVAL.
what an English lord n Doing
Among the Musc0vffe Ladies.

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what an English Lord n Doing
Among the Musc6vite Ladies'.
The noeel religious excitement
among. the ladies of st. Petersburg,
/ aroused by the preaching OF the En-
glish Lord Radstock, has elected the
following remarks from the Grasbda-
sire, fashionable Russian journal;
| 1t is well known that in Southern
Russia whole villages have been lately
embracing Protestantism, and that a
seminary is forming at Berlin for the
purpose of teaching German Protest.
ant clergymen the Russian language,
and educating them to act as mission
aries among us. Worse than this,
there is Countess NJ, Russian Ortho-
dox lady, and the mother of four chill
dren, who the other day told Lord Rad
stock that she had only learnt to love
bChrist from his exposition of the An
glican doctrine, that the Greek Church
was cold and stiff, and that she only
now knew what it was to be really
Christian
Princess G., another Russian Ortho-
dox lady, and the mother of two child
rem, after attending Lord Radstock's
Bible class, has been heard to exclaim,
81 only now know what the
religion of Christ really is"
My dear Lord, o pray teach
me to love Christ. Tell me, my dear
Lord Radstock, how to make the nee
essary and proper distinction between
the love feel for my husband and the
love owe to Christ" These words
have recently fallen from the lips of
Princess D., likewise an Orthodox lady,
and the mother of four children. The
above few authentic utterances will
give the reader an idea of the religious
condition of st. Petersburg society ear
" in the year 1874. Balls are forgot
ton, and fine dresses discarded, the
fair owners having taken to loving
Christ and receiving religious instruc-
ton from a modern English apostle. |
Even the male portion of our fashion
able society is beginning to be
affected with prediction for Protes-
tantism.
Lord Radstock is a man of forty, |
who, in a fit of religious enthusiasm,
bestowed his whole fortune upon the |
poor. devoting himself to the spread of
Christianity among the upper classes.
He has lived much on the Continent,
and made converts chiefly among Rus
slams staying abroad. Encouraged by
his success among our travelling coun-
trymen, he has now come to this cap
ital, and is desirous of converting its
inhabitants TO Christianity Since he
has been at st. Petersburg he has daily
received ten or twelve invitations to
come and hold forth in aristocratic
saloons On the doctrines of Christ. He
has also been preaching in the Amer
lean Church, delighting a numerous
female audience by sermons on
Protestant truth, delivered In the
French and English languages.
Wherever he shows himself at public
or private meetings, our ladies entreat
him to teach them how to love Jesus.
To be an eyewitness of one of these
opens the mind to a good
deal At an early hour the room is
filed to overfowing with princesses
and countesses. They are all clad IN
black or gray, are accompanied by their
little children, and hunger and thirst
after the spiritual food they have come
TO receive. Lord Radstock first kneels
down with his back to the assembly,
Christ to inspire him with
fitting words. Then, rising and turn
ing round, he says, Let us pray" an
Injunction which is immediately obeyed
by all present. After this he opens the
Bible, reading the frsttext upon which ,
his eye happens to fall, and comment
ing upon it in eloquent and impressive
language.
The ladies are gradually excited to
the highest pitch of religious enthusi-
lsm.. As they sit weeping before him,
hey resemble SO many heather women
to the first knowledge of
Christ by the powerful teachings of st.
Paul. The close of the discourse is
marked by loud sobbings. The fair
1evotees rise from their seats, and I
round the evangelist lord
hank him in passionate terms for
showing them the way of salvation and
directing them and their children into
The paths of peace.