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soLsHEvtkI HEADQUARTERS In the SMoLNT
INSTITUTE at PETROGRAD WITH DETAIL
Of RED GUARD.
Reds Disagree on Torture When Quick
Killing Will Do-Lists of Ex-
ecutions Cited in Their
Official Bulletin

Fenerovsky, officer. sentenced -
death.
zacharofr. officer. sentenced to
death.
Pent landlord OF Smolensk, to DO
executed.
Engelgard, land owner, to be exc
ctited.
Sdanovitch, attorney, sentenced 10
DEATH
Troitzki. for taking part in armed
resistance, sentenced to death.
Tshulkoff. priest, sentenced to death.
The committee in Poshehonsk sem
fenced to death a number of people,
including a member of the Social Rev
dictionary party. Tajer, for propa-.
ganda against the Bolsheviki, also an
army officer. Roshnoff.
The committee in Novgorod' exc
cuted another member Of the Social
Revolutionary party, Terpenko. also
a school teacher and an officer named
Martinoff.
I could go on quoting name after
name and place after place. Only in
the city of Petrograd not less than
500 persons were killed by the orders
Of this committee. 1t is the most
hated and the most condemned of all
the Bolsheviki committees" and is
called in short all over Russia Chrez-
vitshaika. which means most ex-
traordinary."
Even the left wing OF the Social
Revolutionary party. which in many
instances in their programme agree
with the Bolsheviki programme as t.,
confiscauon OF property and lana,
could not stand it any longer and have
issued a public protest against the
Bolsheviki. declaring them hangmen
and assassins that rule over Russia
by terror and starvation.
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\ A. sT Of the new" flags Of the
wi new European nations really
are centuries old. In the case
" Jugo-Slavia, whose dispute with
i'aIy for possession or naturalization
OF FIume has found her an obdurate
champion in President Wilson. the flag
" combination of three emblematic
designs. The blue green of the field
symoolizes the Adriatic. but in the
centring oval the eagles represent
The Sovenians, the four C-like charac-
tsrs the Serbs. and the checkered
shield the Croatians. these being the
three components OF the new southern
Slavic State.
The flag Of the Ukraine, or at least
the colors, have come down from the
eleventh century. They are blue and
yellow, displayed in two horizontal
bars Of equal width, with the blue
above.
The Esthonian national flag Is said
'" De still older, dating from about the
century Of the birth of Christ. 1t has
hree horizontal bars of equal width,
SKY blue above black above white.
Armenians. to whose independence
"e United States is asked to assume
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BoLSHeVlkl ARMORED MOTOR CAR
READY for BUSINESS in PETRoGRAD
Starvation and Murder the Weapons
of Committee Created to Terrorize
Peasants and Exterminate Upper
Glasses of Bourgeois

Bolshevik masters in order to be fed.
Should the courage Of despair lead one
to revolt against the tyranny of the
Soviet regime. he Is at once declared
an enemy Of the revolution and his
food supply Is cut off. Should one try
to secure food by illegal means from
a country peasant he Is liable to be
called before the revolutionary trib-
unal. and the penalty may be death. II
indeed the Red Guard has not killed
him at the time he was caught.
Russia is now ruled by pauper COM
mittees, a new creation Of the Boil
shevih since June of last year. The
Soviet commissaries were too busy
with their controversies, meetings and
debates to attend to Government func-
lions. Some OF the commissaries
were found criminally dishonest and
had to be removed from their posi-
tons; others after they had gained
power became the worst type of
usurpers, 80 It was thought by
Lenine that committees Of the poor
should be created in every city. town
and village and should act as the local
government and have full control over
the distribution Of food, checking the
bourgoisie in collecting local taxes.
But the pauper committees are just
as bad. Many of these "paupers" are
rich men and look upon their Offices as
a new source Of profit. One "pauper'
in the Government of Tver Is the
owner of two houses in Moscow and
he is also the proprietor of a large
restaurant. His name was published
in the official Bolshevik paper after
he was found guilty and removed
from the paupers committee.
In the large cities where the Soviet
rule is strongly supported by the Red
Guards there Is some semblance Of
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ties. This publication is probably in
tended for members Of the committees
only.
1t is my good luck to be in posses
sion Of two such bulletins, Nos. 3 and
s, and this Is what read:
I'VE have decided to make vur
terror not on paper but in fact. Why
did you not torture L. Gan English
many so as to get out Of him more
Information and at the same time
brighten all the counter revolution
aries? Don't be SOFT
1t seems to be a difference OF
opinion among the committees on the
question Of torture: in the same bull
letn another member Of this COM
mittee writes to the effect that tor
ture is a useless brutality. When you
get a counter revolutionary don't
question him. Kill him on the spot
But there could be no mistake as to
the activities Of these committees. II
takes a full page in each bulletin to
enumerate the names of the victims
executed during one week by order OF
these extraordinary committees.
In Yarinsk nine persons were
executed, including a member Of the
late Russian Duma, N. I. Shachotin
landowner SapunoI. and a member Of
the Constitutional Democrats. Prince
Kutajeff. a liberal. who resisted with
arms the Soviet forces in Ukraine II
Penza Count Mussin Pushkin was
'Yocuted.
An extract from the minutes Of the
IL, h. ia
| reads as follows:
S. B. Antonovitch, officer. sentenced
| to death. &.
Derman, accused OF organizing an
armed revolt, sentenced to death.
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B, LIEUT.. BORIS sHUMANsKY.

By LIEUT.. BORIS SHUMANSkY.
TARVATION and death are the
weapons Of the Bolsheviki in
~ their fight against Russia to-day.
To live in comparative security and to
be comparatively well fed now in Rus
sia, one has to be either a Bolshevik
or else go to the remotest part Of the
north where Soviet rule Is still dis
puted.
The Bolsheviki control every bit Of
food in the larger cities Of Central
Russia and the population is entirely
at the mercy of the Bolshevik COM
missaries, which are in many in
stances of the most degraded and un-
scrupulous elements of the country.
The city population Is classified into
four categories. and to the first belong
the officers and soldiers of the Red
Guards their women and children anu
the children of all other classes. The
workingmen and the poor come next
as part Of the first category: and peo-
do not employ other peoples labor for
profit make up the second category.
The third category consists of manu-
facturers and traders and the fourth
and last category consists Of all the
idle rich. including princes. noblemen
and state officers OF the old regime.
The allotment of food for each per-
son varies from three-quarters of a
pound to one-eighth Of a pound a day,
according to the age and category Of
the person. AS there Is never enough
food to go around. the third and
fourth categories are constantly starv-
ing
Owing to this system of food distri-
button one is compelled to serve the
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exchanges a sack Of flour for a noble
mans fur coat and so in a way helps
to solve the food problem Of the third
and fourth category and also to their
determination II they are detected and
brought to Bolshevik Justice" In
every case the bourgoise is punished,
but very seldom the peasant.
To terrorize the peasants and to
exterminate the upper classes OF the
bourgeois a new committee was
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Syria, With Her Emblem Yet to Be
Chosen, Likely to Bar Anything
Suggestive of the Turk

with a central gold cross and gold
fringe. Those who favor the three bar
designs have discussed placing three
large stars. to denote United Armenia,
In a row across the middle bar.
Syria, by the way. has no traditional
flag. Put white field with a central
question mark to represent us for the
time being" representative Syrian
said, laughing. But whatever you
do, don't let there be a star and cres-
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created by the Bolsheviki bearing the
name of THE Extraordinary Com
mittee for the Suppression OF the
Counter Revolution and Speculation"
The committee is indeed an extraor-
binary one. 1t is the Red Terror OF
Russia. OF the work OF this committee
with its branches tall over Russia
little is known in the outside world;
although 1t has its official publication
giving a weekly report of its ecuvi-
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lectors return from the villages with
empty bags because the mu1iks refuse
to part with their grain on Bolshevik
orders. The peasant Is now in pos
session Of all the land he wanted and
he Is the owner OF much food and
other property, which he does not feel
like sharing with anybody else unless
he can get in return something better
than Bolshevik money fresh from the
printing press He very often secretly
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W Flags in Europe Bear Symbols That Are Centuries Old
Red, White and Blue Bars With Gold
Stars Accepted for Armenia and
Other Designs Being Consi dered

the mandatory relation. are discussing
two designs and even three. The ono
generally accepted at present has
three equal horizontal bars. red above
white above blue, the three symbolic
ing the three regions Of the former
partition OF Armenia Another fac
ton would prefer crimson above gold
above horizon blue. and the Mekhita-
rist Fathers want an all crimson flag.
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authority; but tho Bolsheviki have
the hardest time in exercising any
authority in the thousands of small
Russian villages. In fact, the bulk
Of the Russian peasantry do not trust
the Bolshevik Government and refuse
to accept its money. They know moth
ing of the Bolshevik state theories
and care very little for their realiza-
ton.
Many a time Bolshevik food COL
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the Lords approaching kingdom.
Seine Of the nations will gladly re-
ceive the message and most kindly re-
ceive the Kings messengers, giving
them clothing. food shelter, etc. 9th
ers will prosecute them. thrustlng
them into prison. etc. Here the for
mer will visit these messengers Of the
king and provide for their wants. At
this time the Judge will separate the
nations. placing the sheep on the right
and the goats on the left. The sheep"
are those who have given proper treat
ment To Christ's brethren. The goats
are those who rejected and ill-treated
his brethren. If these three classes,
the sheep" goats" "brethren," be
kept separate all confusion will be
avoided.
v. The Issue Of the Judgment. ". 40,
CT. 34-4D.
l. The sheep enter upon the inheri-
lance of a prepared kingdom ". 34).
2. The goats go into an everlasting
fire prepared for the devil and his
angels ". 46). This judgment shall
determine their destiny.
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Horrible Can Lose Its Horrors.

And II my compositions are to be
like river that never knows drought
l must cultivate freshness Of sight.
The horrible can lose its horrors. The
daily tragedy can become the daily
commonplace. Therefore must ask
the Lord for the daily gift OF discern
ing eyes. Lord, that may receive
my sight" and receive II new every
morning. Give me the power to see
the common as well as the uncom-
moni May that which is familiar
startle me every day. With an al
ways newly-awakened interest may I
reveal "the eompassl0ns Of the Lord"
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LESSON FOR SEPTEMBER 7
PARALLELS OF THE KINGDOM OF
HEAVEN.

LESSON TEXTs-Matt I3.sl-33 a-to.
GOLDEN TEAT-Seek ye FIRST the
Kingdom Of God and his righteouspess.-
Matt 633
PRIMARY ToPIC-obeying our king
JUNIOR ToPIc-A message OF the
king
INTERMEDIATE ToPIc-The growth
Of the Kingdom
SENIOR AND ADULT ToPIc-Th.
extent OF the kingdom.
!. The Parable OF the Mustard Seed
". 81. 32).
Three things mainly occupy our at
tention In this parable:
l. Its unimportant beginning. II
begins as the least Of all seeds and
grows 10 be the greatest among herbs.
The king was of ordinary parentnge
and humble circumstances. He select
Ell unlettered fishermen rs his royal
advisers. The prophet had said con
corning him that he would be "de-
spised" rejected" "forsnken," 'cut
or and as having nothing"
.. Its vigorous growth. From these
small beginnings Chrlst's influence has
k'h' l'ith ~ lhhA UNIV - Nv f'N'i
or influence equal In greatness TO that
OF Chrlstendom.
3. Its lodging capacity.
The birds which find Judgment In
the tree do not represent the children
of men who find safety and salvation
In the church. The birds constitute
no part Of the tree. while the believer
becomes a part OF the tree, adding to
its strength and frultfulness. The birds
are something foreign to the tree, and
are burdensome and injurious 10 II.
They come TO find shelter and wait 10
pluck on the tender buds. or TO prey
upon the ripened fruit. The effect of
their lodging I'm the tree Is evil and
blighting. In Chrlst's Interpretation
". 100 he said that the fowls repre-
sent the wicked ones. lie who would
make the dodgers here anything else
makes Christ's Interpretation n farce.
The same Greek word Is used In both
cases, and the circumstances are the
same.
n. The Parable Of the Leavened
Meal ". 33).
Three things mainly occupy our at
tention here: the meal the woman.
and the leayen.
I. The meal. Meal has a whole
some and nutritious effect. II was
used IN one of the sweet-sayour offer
ings which was hDical az Christ dev.
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Il The judgment ~ The living nations
which lies Still In the future ". 32).
The idea Of general judgment
which Is Of such frequent occurrence
In religious literature and teaching is
a fundamental error II is not once
found In the Bible. neither the idea
which IL Is intended 20 convey. Doc
tor Pentecost most dlStinctively says.
ut is miSchlevOus habit that has led
the Christian world TO speak OF the
Judgment as being one great event
taking place nj the end Of the world.
when all human beings. saints, sin
ners. Jews and 0entiles. the living
and the dead. shall stand up before
the great white throne and there be
judged. Nothing can ne more wide OF
the Scriptures" The Bible speaks Of
different Judgments differing in re-
spect to the subjects TO be judged, the
place of judgment. the time of judg-
ment and the result Of the Judgment.
This is not the judgment set forth
In Revelation .2O:l1-l4. hut precedes
that one at least one thousand years.
l. The Judge ". 81.
II is the Son Of Man. the one who
came and died 10 redeem the human
race, and who now being clothed with
majesty and power will act as Judge.
Those who accept him now shall not
come into the judgment Gohn :24).
u. The Time ". 81.
This will be when the Lord comes
I'm his glory, accompanied by a retinue
of glorious angels. This will take
place after he has gathered the elect
remnant Of Israel, There will be no
resurrection I'm connection with this
judgment.
~. The Place ". 3D.
II viii be on his glorious throne.
This throne will be most surely in the
land of Israel. The Prophecy of Joel.
third chapter, and Zechariah 14:1-5,
make IL to be in or near Jerusalem
The angel said to Mary, Thou shalt
call his name Jesus; he shall be great
and shall be called the son of the high
est; and the Lord God shall give unto
him the throne of his father David;
and he shall reign over the house OF
Jacob forever, and OF his kingdom
there shall be no emo" Guke :3l-33).
Just as there was literal place and
literal king there shall be literal
throne.
~. The People Judged wv. 32-45).
These will be the living nations up
on the earth after the church has been
translated q Thess. 4;1G. 10. These
are the nations To whom the gospel Of
the kingdom shall he preached, Just
prior 10 the coming Of the end. "And
this gospel Of the kingdom shall be
preached i'm all the world for wit
ness unto all nations and then shall
the end come" Matt, 2i:14). This
gospel is distinguished from the COS
pei Of the grace Of God which is now
being preached. The preachers of this
gospel will be Jews Qlev. and Rom.
III. These are the brethren in the
flesh, Of the Lord, they that move
among the nations of the world with
the startling message of the news of
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man that he is sinner simply be
cause he has not accepted Christ as
his Savior Sin is SO subtle, and the
human heart so stubborn. that only
the Holy Spirit can make one see
that unbelief is the browning sin of
all.
The common idea is that work is
the main business OF the Christian,
and little prayer is necessary to
help the work along. Christ's idea is
entirely different. In his thought
prayer is our chief business, with just
enough work to make channel
through which the spiritual forces
generated by prayer may find an out
let.
Prayer is the bow that supplies the
force and work is the feather that
guides the arrow 10 its destination.
IF ye shall ask-I will do" he says.
In other words, Christ is still doing
the work that he "began TO do" (Acts
I'D, and he invites us 10 help him
by prayer whereas too many Chris
tians think that they are carrying on
the work, but need little help from
him. What your idea is may best be
determined by estimating the amount
Of time you spend In working for the
Lord and the amount spent In prayer
Yes, we are ignorant. but thank
God we can all learn. Jesus has
opened a school Of prayer in which,
If we will, We may learn the divine
art. And what teacheri How pa
tlent, how long-suffering with dull
scholars And how much he knows
about the subject For eighteen hun.
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dred years this mas been mis- constant
occupation, and now he invites us to
become his pupils, and offers to teach
us all he knows. "All things that l
have heard from my Father l have
made known unto you" John 5:15).
The personal worker should culti-
waite the habit Of praying daily for all
men. This is not only positive COM
mand q Tim. 2:D, but the habit has
many obvious advantages. For in
stance. you never meet a person for
whom you have not prayed, and this
fact gives you a deeper interest and
a stronger faith than would otherwise
be possible. Sometimes II is well TO
tell the person you are dealing with
that you have prayed for him scores
of times. Possibly he may ask, "Have
you ever seen me beforeT
mot to my knowledge"
"And yet you say that you have
prayed for me many times?" .--t
"Yes, sir"
81 cannot understand that" .-
"Very likely. That is one of the
mysteries Of the Kingdom, and there
are many other strange things that
you cannot understand until you are
Christian yourself"
II is well also to have a prayer list,
and daily remember by name those
whom God has especially laid on our
hearts. AS @ rule il is easy to speak
TO those for whom we have often
prayed. Gypsy Smith tells us that
when he was converted he Immediate
ly became anxious for the conversion
Of his uncle. Among Gypsies it was
not considered proper for children to
address their elders on the subject of
duty; and so the boy just prayed, and
waited for God to open the way. One
day his uncle noticed a hole In his
trousers, and said. Rodney. how is II
that you have worn the knees Of your
pants so much faster than the rest
of themY
Uncle, / have worn them out pray
ing for you. that God would make you
a Christian" and then the tears
came, of course.
Nothing more was said, but the
uncle put his arm around the boy and
drew him close TO his breast. and I'm
a little while was bending his knees
to the same Saviour. When we wear
our clothes thin in praying for 9TH
ers, we shall not find it hard to speak
to them II the opportunity occurs
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2:1-3 n. W; II was food for the
priests Lev. 6:15-17 r. W: Abraham
had Sarah TO knead cake out OF
three measures of meal for the angelic
messengers Of the Lord (Gen. Is 81 (;
Solomon's royal table was provided
with meal Il Kings 4:2) Elijah was
fed upon cake made OF meal III
Kings 40; Elisha used meal as an
antidote for the poison Of death from
the pot eli Kings 4:3s-41.
q The woman. In scripture we
find false doctrine being taught by
woman (Rev. 300. Dealing with
doctrine Is forbidden To women q
Tim. 2:l2). In Tim. Alb; II Tim.
217. 1s; II Peter 2:l-3. we find that
the apostasy will be brought In
through false teaching within the
ranks Of Gods people. The meaning,
then. Of the parable is that the true
doctrine. the meal given for the nour-
ishment of the children Of the king
dom QI Peter .. Tim. 4 :G). will be
officially corrupted by false doctrine.
Woman Is type Of the church In
some sense. The church Is hiding
away false doctrine. and its corrupt
ing effects are seen on every hand.
g. The leaven. In scripture lesven
Is invariably n type of evil. D All
through the Old Testament leaven Is
continual and unvarylng type OF
evil lex. 12;l5; Lev. 2;lD. II is In
conceivable that Jesus should arbi-
trarily change. without due notice
and explanation. word from an
evil 10 good sense, which the Spirit
Of God had 80 unchangingly used for
two thousand years. (2) Jesus him
self makes leaven TO denote sin Matt.
1876. II; Mark S:15). (3) Paul uses
leaven I'm It's usual biblical sense q
Cor. :6-S; Gal. IS, ~. Further, this
is the only Interpretation that will
harmonic with Chrlst's interpreta-
tlon of the first two PARALLELS. Facts
patent 10 all prove that the professed
church today is feeding upon the
leaven of Journalism and legalism in
stead Of the unleavened bread of sin
certify and truth-the Word OF God.
~. The Parable Of the Hid Treas
ure ". Az.
~. The Parable OF the Merchant
man Seeking Pearls ". As. 46).
v. The Parable Of the Drag Net
". 1850.
(For detailed study of the last
three parallels see the Review for Sep
tauhar %
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Consideration Of the Morrow.

Calm and prudent consideration OF
the morrow. so far from being a sin,
is one of the very first Christian du-
ties. and is so taught by the Holy Ghost
in the New Testament; where people
are especially enjoined to labor, work
ing with their hands the thing which
Is good, that they may have to give TO
him that needeth.-Keble.
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the nature of the
work. The task
before us is to
convince men that
they are lost,
and to persuade
them to confess
their sin and sur
render their lives
To the Lord Jesus
Christ. Ii is easy
TO show a thief
or a drunkard
that he is a sin
ner, and needs
salvation; but it
is not easy To
persuade a re-
spectacle, moral
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LESSON FOR SEPTEMBER IA
THE JUDGMENT OF THE NATIONS.

LESSON TEXT-Matt. 25:Si-46
GOLDEN TENT-For We must all APP
pear before the judgment scat OF Christ
IL Cor $40.
The subject selected by the lesson
committee is THE Future Life" but
al best such statement would be
the use of the term in an accommo-
dated sense. According 10 legitimate
teXtual and cOnteXtual Specification II
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Intervention Is Opposed.

rls.--lnteryention by the United
States In Mexico rather would tend to
the situation than to amel.
iorate II, according to statement
made by Francisco Leon de Ia Barra,
former provisional President of Mex
leo, in referring 10 dispatches received
In Paris TO the effect that American
In the Southern republic
MAS nas-flla
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The Secret Of Comfort.

The chief secret Of comfort lies I'm
not suffering trifies to vex us, and in
prudently cultlvatlng our underground
Of small pleasures, since very few
great ones, alas are let on long leases.
Sharp.
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Live by the Day,

The secret Of a sweet and Christian
life is learning TO live by the day. II
is the long stretches that tire us.