Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-04
The Russian RevoIutien.

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 | sMr. Editor: It can be plainly seen
 how some people reading the Bible
 would become Protestants in Rushia Thousands who have dared to re- thaye been haled before the Synod and sent to Siberia to rot in the prisons IAt the World Baptist Congress held in
 Philadelphia in 1911, the most interest ing sight was Is Russian Baptist preachers, whom the Tsar released l from their Siberian prisons, at the re- tqueSt of the American and English Baptists, on a furlough to attend the congress, on condition that they would return to Siberia. The Martyrs had been sentenced to Siberia by the Tsar'. $ Holy CD Synod" for preaching the Gospel. They went back to the "Dens and caves of the earth (Heb. II. 38. ) Of course now that the New Repub- they and thousands more will be free. The education has been antithetical. The nobleS and their children, which includes all the Russian military buro- cratS were highly educated. The uni versailles had only 20,60o students in all Russia, while not half the children of lower classes event went to any school. Broad culture at one end and
 birth to two evils. caste of selfish, egotistic, domineering people, who looked upon all their fellows as merely pedestal of the statue, and the other IZ5 nlitlOnS. lOOkeQ upon the =s- rum S orders as the Israelites looked upon their Egyptian taskmasters. The lat ter tried again and again to eXtricate themselves from their awful condition
 by Nihilist conspiracy, by revolution, and by assassination, but every effort
 failed until the British Bible society obtained permission to circulate the
 Word Of God throughout the land.
 This Divine Book went into the homes
 and lives of the humble serfs. It | nj 0f 1o-
 mon people, so that the next rebel
 lion against the Russian brutes sym
 boHzed by the bear, would not be a
 duplicate of the French revolution, but
 rather a bfoodless victory like Luther's
 in Germany.
 Perhaps it is near a quarter of cen
 tury that a young man was converted in Lithuania. He learned well. Com
 municated with Spurgeon's College.
 Was received and graduated a preach
 CT trained to preach a whole Gospel.
 While in College he visited the London
 docks and did a little mission work
 among the sailors of the Russian ships that came to London. The blessing on
 this work brought into his soul a deep
 love for his native land, so returned and wherever a door opened he entered
 the Holy Ghost was he, that some
 thirty thousand were brought to
 Christ. The next step was to secure
 promises in Petrograd The way was OpSHeu. HIS W0rk was greatly DleSS- ed and the. result was the erection of a great tabernacle, to the dedication of
 which Rev. Robert S. McArthur, D. D.,
 president of the World Baptist Con =
 gross, went and preached. But a Tsar's detective was always in the church to report any disrespectful reference to
 the. state church. At the beginning of
 the war the Evangelist Fetler was deemed to have too much influence
 with the people, so he was banished to
 Siberia for preaching the Gospel By the intercession of American and Eng
 fish friends the Tsar gave MT. Fetler the option of exile or Siberia, so he came to America, and is here today.
 such great work among the Russians Russian Bible Institute was opened in New York City for the training of Christian young men, who shall go back to their native land, now the land of the free. and preach the Gospel. Saturday, Jan 6, was matriculation day, by which Mir. Fetler had received 7S applications from young men Rus sians, who had been converted in this country. Forty-five were received and entered at once upon their studies The budget calls for $6,0o0 a year. From Canada, came 12, four of whom came from Saskatchewan province. Minnesota one; Connecticut one; IlN- nois three; Michigan three; Pennsyl- vania five; New Jersey eight and New York state twelve.
 At the opening pr. R. $. McArthur said: Five years ago tonight, I was with William Fetler in his great church in Petrograd, and we prayed