Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-06-04
UNITY, MINNESOTA, THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1874.
A RELIGIOUS REvIVAL1N RUSSIA.
A BrIIirI, Lord Prcachim9 tn Russian I.n.lic

A RELIGIOUS REVIVAL RUSSIA
A MriljrI, Lord Prcnchimg tn Russian I.ndic.
The novel religious excitement amone
tho ladies OF st. Petersburg, reused b1
tho preaching Of the English Lord Rad
stock, has elected tho following remark,
from tho Grashdaninc, a f,.slionabl.
Russian journal
It is we'll known that in Southorr
Russia whole villages have been latel,
embracing professionalism, and that q
seminary is forming at Berlin for the
purpose of teaching German clergymen
the Russian language, and educating
them to net ~ missionaries among us.
Worse than this, there is Countess NJ,
a Russian Orthodox lady, and the
motlor of four children, WHO the other
day told Lord Radstock that she had
only learned to love Christ from his OK
position of Anglican 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 chill
dren, after attending Rord Radstock' 3
Bible class, has been heard to exclaim,
~ 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 necessary distinction between the
love I feel for my husband and tho love
L owe Christ" These words have re-
Gently fallen from the Inns of Princess
D., likewise al orthodox lady, and
mother of four children. The above
few authentic utterances will give the
reader an idea of the religious condition
OF st. Petersburg society early in the
year 1874. Balls are forgotten, and
fine dresses discarded, the fair owners
having taken to loving Christ and re-
ceiving religious instruction from O
modern English apostle. Even the
male portion of our fashionable society
is beginning to be affected with predi-
lection for Professionalism.
Lord Radstock is man of forty, who,
in tit of religious enthusiasm, bestow-
ed his whole fortune on the poor, and
devoted himself to the spread Of Christi
anity among the upper classes. He has
lived much on the Continent, and made
converts chiefly among Russians stay
ing abroad. Encouraged by his success
among our travelling countrymen, he
has now come 10 this capital, and is de-
eirous of converting it's inhabitants to
Christianity. Since he has been at st.
Petersburg he has daily received ten or
twelve invitations to come and hold
forth in aristocratlc saloons on the
doctrines Of Christ. He has also been
preaching in the American church, de-
lighting numerous female audience
by sermons on protestant truth, deliv-
cred in 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 eye witness of one of these
assemblies opens tho mind to a good
deal. At al early hour the room is fill
ed to overlooking with princesses and
countcsses. They are MI clad in black
or gray, and 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, on
treating Christ to inspire him with fit-
ting words. Then rising aud turning
around, ho says, 8. Let us pray" an
injunction which is Immediately obeyed
by all present. After this he opens the
Bible, reading the first text upon
which his eyes happen to fall, and COM
nenting upon it in eloquent and impress
slve language.
The ladies are gradually excited to
the highest pitch of religious enthusi-
asm. AS they sit weeping before him,
they resemble SO many heather women
admitted to the first knowledge Of Christ
by tho powerful teaching of St. Paul.
Tho close of the discourse is marked
by loud sobbings. The fair devotces
rise from their seats, and croud around
tho evangelist lord, thank him in pas.
sionate terms for showing them the
way Of salvation and directing them
and their children in the path Of peace.
Despite NIL this, we cannot help
thinking that if some poor, unpretend-
ing Russian priest, arrayed in the
scanty garments of his class, were to
arrive to-day at st. Petersburg in
railway carriage of the third class, and
try to quicken the religious suscepti-
bilities of our beau nsodne, he would
not fluid it quite as easy to move count
esses to tears, although his words might
be inspired with the same sincerity as
Radstock's. Nay, We would 20 so far
as to say that the poor priest in shabby
clothes would not be permitted even to
enter the ante-rooms of our palaces
that he would be offered an eleemosy-
nary rouble and bid to turn to the right
in Gods name.
How a Virginia Preacher Put It.
A correspondent of the Richmond
Inquirer tells the following story re-
speeding a Baptist preacher of strong
common sense, but very rough-hewn
theology, who was widely known and
much liked and respected in Southside
Virginia many years ago. The old par
son was preaching very earnestly about
the certainty and the terrible nature
and degree of the miseries of the
damned, and when he had succeeded