The sun., 1908-05-03

preachers comes from many places and the
few missionaries we have are like drop oci
water in the sea. Every denomination could
make room for hundreds Of missionaries
needs hundreds and unless students are
educated on the spot TO engag IN thus WORK
how are these teachers ana preachers 10
be gotP .--,.-,
a couple OF years ago an evangelical
seminary, nop-sectarian, open To every de-
nomination, Vas started In a very small
way in the rooms Of a Baptist church in
LODI, Poland, a large manufacturing
centre, with sixteen pupils and two pro-
fessors. The next year II took care oil
twenty new students That Is the nucleus
from which we hope to evolve seminary
with a suitable building, classrooms ana
professors " is impossible 20 say where
this seminary shall be situated The next
Baptist convention meets in 1903 and at that
time this important question and others
will be decided. 1t il possible that Moscow!
because Of its more central situation viii
be selected as the site Of the new seminary.
The great national vice in Russia IL strong
drink and | believe that the only remedy
for this evil is the advancement OF the
Kingdom Of God
1T was the discove ery that the peasants
on my own estates when converted,
as they called it. stopped stealing and
getting drunk and that they could be
trusted which led indirectly 10 my own
conversion and which now makes me willing
TO give up for the time being every other
interest in order 10 hasten this work
"In 1905 | was a delegate TO the great
Baptist world congress- in London and
when the Russian Baptist Union asked me
TO undertake this mission 20 America felt
that | could not refuse. am glad that
came
The larger part Of the t3i 200, II was
learned was collected in New York and
large slice Of this percentage was the out
come OF meetings in fashionable drawing
rooms inauglrated by iss Helen Gould,
who soon after the Baron 3 arrival in, tied
two hundred or more Of her friends TO listen
10 him. This meeting was followed by
others. and CUES who knew little and cared
less about Russia evangelical needs we're
often the very ones who aftarward made
out the most generous checks to aid the
seminary.
has been a keen observer Of customs which
die er from those Of Russia.
For example, when some one asked him
the other day il divorce was on the in
crease In Russia the Baron answered az
once. Not TO the extent Il is in america.
Only one cause for div orce is recognized
In all of Pussia. And as the Greek Catholic
Church does not sanction divorce and pro-
hbits divorced persons, whether innocent
or guilty, from marrying again. the temp
tation 10 break the marital bonds IL not 80
great as Il is in America and some other
countries
sEed what, in your opinion, is the
cause for the rarid growth in America OF
the divorce habit" he answered:
aperhaps 10 is because the American
child Ia not brought Up to obev implicitly
the laws Of It's parents and because in civic
efIairs the laws are not enforced as strictly
a. they are in most Furopean countries:
In New York homes where have visited
the mother would say 10 child Come and
speak TO the Baron, dear. go,
a'No, | don't want to- the child would
souetines answer decidedly and in an inn
pertinent tone and with a jerk in the other
direction Then the parent would wheedle:
Now, darling, be good little giH won
YOU come and shake hands, Do pet, and
so on. No, would snap the child, still
more decidedly perhaps and with the most
disrespectful look at the parent. In all
classes / have noticed the same lack OF
obedience on the part OF children to those
in authority, their teaChers,as well 9s their
parents, and this means that they will grow
ilD with little or no respect for any law.
A man told me one day: oh, yes, we have
A law 70 cover thai, but then il ia never en-
forced. No one pays anv attention TO it.
II was in Chicago, walking alonRa prinoi-
pal thoroughfare, when | slipped on the
low coating and fell TO the sidewalk. Now
FOR a man Of my weight to come down In
heap might have meant q very serious
accident which would lay me up for weeks.
As Il was I was deyoutly thankful to get
on with a slight sprain.
aTben Il was that asked a storekeeper,
Ia II lawful here 10 have ice on the side
| walks? Is there not an ordinance which
compels ehouseholders 20 keep the walk
In front OF their house oleanP and got the
answer ! have quoted.
sIn Russia when law is made II il en-
forced. The person who breaks law Is
punished