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turies in Egypt, under the Pharohs),
the Russian people for four long cen-
turies were enslaved. For four cen-
turies they had no civic government of
their own. The Russian princes had to
go to the capital and the dwelling places
of the ruling Tartar "Khans" and bring
in their gifts; they had to bend down
and render obesiance to the Tartar
princes.

In those dark hours, to whom should
the Russian people turn but to that God
whom they knew so dimly? Although
in their hearts they were heathen, and
very little troubled by the experience of
trouble, and somehow in those four dark
centuries, those light streaks were
warm within the tissues of the "religious
feeling," the feeling after God. The
people turned towards God and prayed
as they understood.

I have visited some of the large mon-
esteries in Russia, and there have been
shown, with lighted candle in my hand,
the subterranean passages where the
monks used to worship, and strive,
through a great deal of self-sacrifice
and all kinds of ascetic experiences for
holiness. Some of the monks made lit-
tle holes in the rocks down below the
earth, and there they would lie and
spend many years of their lives. Others
sometimes would ask to be buried in the
earth, half of their bodies covered, until
they died of thirst, and hunger, and ex-
posure to all kinds of deprivations.
There has been one great, long, awful
striving on the part of the people of
Russia for something better. Why was
this so? I guess you who have truly come
to the Lord understand this. It was the
great burden of sin upon ther con-
science.

The Russian people know what sin is.
I have never seen such repentance as
among the Russian people. In our
school, the Russian Bible Institute, in
the city of Philadelphia, where the
Lord has given me about one hundred
bright Russian men and women stu-
dents, preparing the Lord's work in
Russia, when they gathered together,
and we were lying upon our faces be-
fore the Lord, I wish you had heard
their repentance for their past life. The
Russian man sins deeply, but he also
repents deeply, and he understands what
"repentance" means.

Do you know, one of the greatest dan-
gers in your Protestant churches in this
country is that many of them have for-
gotten what it is to have conviction for
sin. In many places I have found they
wanted to receive members into their
churches as easily as possible, with lit-
tle conviction of sin, and they imagine
that there should be some kind of a
made-up joy in the mind of the Chris-
tian, without first of all experiencing the
bitterness of Calvary. Among the Rus-
sian people, this very feeling of sin, this
very degradation, made them dwarfted
and undeveloped in those things which
had been putting more than the yoke of
the Tartar upon the heads of the nation.
It was their awful abysmal sin, and that
very sin made them turn to God. They
wanted, they waited, they longed for
something better.

Now this is practically the first time
a man has stood in your presence after
the Russian revolution, with a definite
call for missionary effort among that
people. The Russian people are not bet-
ter than they used to be before they
were made free. They were under the
burden of sin before, but we were not
allowed to bring them relief. If we did
we were imprisoned and sent to Siberia,
flogged, or beaten almost to death.

One of our dear brothers was stand-
ing up before his congregation in the
southern part of Russia about four years
ago. His wife and several children
were nearby in the congregation. A lot
of Greek church people were there. An
assassin, incited by the Greek Church
priest, with a big dagger, rushed to-
ward the preacher and plunged the dag-
ger deep into his breast, and he fell
dead in the sight of his wife and chil-
dren. It cost something to be a Chris-
tian.

"The Morning Cometh"

For the first time in ten centuries we
can go to Russia, open the Bible, sing
or preach the Gospel message, or pray
it out, in any way we like, with no one
watching us. For the first time, one
hundred and eighty-two millions of
human beings, burdened with the burden
of sin, can be reached by the Gospel;

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Church in Chicago, and that is why I
have come here with great anticipation
and great hope; and because the Spirit
of God constrains me to do so, my de-
sire is to present to you the great need
of my people.

In regard to this revolution, some peo-
ple might say, "What about this revolu-
tion? What about the deposition of the
Czar? What part did you Christian peo-
ple in Russia have in the matter of
starting this revolution?"

I would answer in a two-fold manner:
first, nothing; secondly, everything. We,
as Christians in Russia, always have be-
lieved in honoring and respecting our
government, whatsoever it be. The only
weapon we had against a bad ruler was
to pray for him, to bring him before
God; so that when the revolution broke
out, so far as I know, our Christian
people were just as quiet as they could
be. Many times, when visiting a ruler,
the Russian Prime Minister, or other
officials, I told them, "We evangelical
people in Russia are the most loyal sub-
jects of his Majesty, the Czar." I spoke
the truth.

I remember before the war broke out
I was in the office of the Minister of
War. I had a petition to offer. They
were trying to forbid us to go from
place to place. I was ordered not to
preach in any place but my own pulpit,
and no one else was to come to preach
in my pulpit. They were very much up-
set because many people were getting
saved wherever the evangalist traveled
throughout the Russian Empire. I went to
plead on this and other matters. I ar-
rived early in the morning. The audi-
ence room of the Minister of War was
crowded full of generals and all kinds
of high personages and petitioners, many
of them in uniform, with swords by
their side.

One after another was called in. I
awaited my turn. Finally the room was
almost empty. I had been five hours
waiting for the gracious reception, and
could not understand it. Many times
before that it had been enough for me
to call up the office on the telephone, or
even sometimes the home of the Prime
Minister, for his wife attended my
meetings, and I was able to get the audi-
ence in a short time, while other people
had to wait for two months; and now I
could not understand what was the
trouble.

By and by the War Minister came out.
Few petitioners were left, and they
were all lined up, I among them. He
went to the third, the fourth, and I was
waiting for my turn. At last I stood be-
fore him, not trembling, because I have
never been accustomed to tremble since
I trembled before the Lord. If you
tremble before the Lord you will not
tremble before men or devils, but if you
do not tremble before the Lord, you will
tremble when a cat or a rabbit runs
across your path. I stood there, very
humbly, and said, "Your High Excel-
lency, I have a petition to make," and
presented my paper. "Nothing doing!
Nothing doing!" he said, "I will not do
it."

He became very angry with me, as if
he had seen some terrible enemy of his.
I understood then that he had been in-
cited, of course, by the priests or some
other reactionary agency. I had waited
five or six hours, was exhausted, and
had been praying the whole time, and
expected some leniency on the part of
his Excellency. He practically took me
by the collar and said, "You go through
that door and don't come back," and I
went.

Some of you may have had some un-
pleasant experiences and know how I
felt. I went out stirred up, out into the
street, and kind of a human resentment
came into my heart for a moment and
I thought, "That is unjust, that is
wrong," and I was almost tempted to
say, "Oh, God, punish him," before I
went into the street. I said instead,
"Lord, what wouldest Thou have done?"
and I remembered my Savior upon the
cross, and how He hung on the cross
before a railing crowd, and when he
looked down upon those who had just
put the terrible nails through His hands
and feet, and upon those who were rail-
ing and calling Him all kinds of names,
and the priests and politicians who had
cried, "Crucify him, Crucify him," look-
ing at Him under their brows with
an awful feeling of satisfaction that
their "arch-enemy" was now brought to
naught, I remembered that instead of
cursing or asking for their punishment,

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I did not know at that time that this
prayer would be answered so quickly. I
did not know that after the darkest of
nights the morning would come, such a
bright one, but, praise God, it has come.
I was sent out of my country, and
instead of going to Siberia was allowed
to come to this land, and said goodbye
to my church, a party of my friends, my
family and others, my secretaries and
associate pastors standing at the station
as my train was about to pull out one
midnight, with gendarmes walking on
each side, suspecting something danger-
ous was out there. When the last bell (a bell
on the station rings three times before
the train pulls out), rang, they stood
waving their white handkerchiefs. I
heard the goodbye once more from the
lips of my dear wife and friends and I
was left practically to myself, leaning
against a window in the darkness of
the night, hastening toward the borders
of Sweden—to what I did not know.

Then I felt the presence of one that
sticketh closer than a brother, a sister,
wife or children, there by my side, and
knew that He was carrying the heavier
end of the cross. He seemed to put His
hand on my shoulder and to say,
"Be of good cheer, I am with thee, and
when thou passeth through the waters
they shall not overflow thee, and through
the fires they will not consume thee; but
go ahead, I will hold thy hand," and I
went.

Never once could I suspecct that things
would be changed so remarkably. Never
once could I expect that in three years
such a change would come for my be-
loved country. Never once could I
guess that the very priests who incited
my banishment were committing one of
the greatest boons and blessings for Rus-
sia that even angels could not devise, for
I could never, in Russia in perfrect free-
dom, all these three years since the war
has been going on, have accomplished
by God's grace and under the guidance
of the Spirit of God one thousanth
part of the blessing I have seen through
this banishment.

Let me give you a piece of advice. Don't
be troubled about circumstances. Be
troubled about yourself. You get right
with God, and by the Spirit of God, and
by the Blood of the Lamb right with
God, and never mind if you have to
make your bed in hell, you will awake in
Paradise. You cannot keep in hell when
you are right with God. You cannot
keep in Siberia if you are right with
God, and so the Lord is working won-
derfully.

Sometimes people come to me and say,
"Pastor Fetler, what should we do?
This is such a bad experience, and there
is this trouble and that."

I just put a finger over their heart
and say, "Isn't there some trouble there
in your heart? If there is no trouble
in your heart, go ahead. The lions may
roar around you, and bears, and wolves,
and gendarmes and secret police, but
never mind if you are right with God.
Go ahead. Go ahead."

I stand before you tonight as a wit-
ness of the wonderful grace of God.
Through all these years of my humble
ministry in Russia, and these three years
of my alienation from my native land, I
have learned simply that there is one
head of the Church of Jesus Christ, He
Himself, and that we simply have to be
in His way, to be following Him, and
caring for nothing. Let me just show
you in one or two ways what the Lord
has done.

Some of you know the story already.
One of the blessings that I got was be-
fore I came to this country. I had the
privilege of reaching a great number of
Russian war prisoners in the German
and Austrian camps. The German and
Austrian armies have captured by them-
selves more than two millions of Rus-
sians. When the Russian government
said to me, "Fetler, you cannot preach
to the Russian people," I said "I am
going to preach." They said, "We will
send you out of the country and prevent
you from preaching."

When they did not allow me to go to
my congregation, God brought me con-
gregations out in Germany and Austria,
two millions of them. I was preaching
to two thousand in my church. Now I
have been preaching through printed
pages to two millions during those two
years.

After coming to this country the Lord
put it on my heart that tracts, Bibles

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First of all, we translated some tracts
and put them in type. We made brass
plates so that they could be printed over
there. One of the first sermons pub-
lished was "Fact, Faith, Feeling," by F.
B. Meyer, the second, "Safety, Satisfac-
tion and Enjoyment," by Geo. Cutting,
and the third, "Hell," by Dr. Torrey.
Some of my friends in New York of the
New Theology type said, " 'Hell?' Don't
send that tract!" They thought there
was no such thing in existence. I said,
That is the very thing I want to send.
We Russians believe in heaven and hell;
we want to know how to get out of hell
and get to heaven."

To our disappointment, I received let-
ters that these brass plates never
reached our friends on the other side.
Some of the authorities evidently
thought we were trying to camouflage
way to smuggle bass into their coun-
try, and the plates were confiscated.
"Necessity is the mother of invention,"
and instead of making copper plates, we
made paper plates, which of course can-
not be made into cannon balls, and sent
these paper mache plates by first class
mail to Sweden, and our Swedish com-
mittee got them safely into the hands of
our printers. As a result, millions of
copies of tracts have been printed, and
spread among the Russian war prison-
ers, and great have been the results.

A Harvest Coming

I am glad that the Moody Church was
back of this work almost from the be-
ginning, not without a good deal of
merit to my "little friend with the big
heart," Woolley. When I was here
about eighteen months ago, friends gave
money to publish a sermon by D. L.
Moody, and one by your present pastor.
I published a sermon by Moody, on "Re-
pentance and Restitution," and a tract
by Paul Rader on "Naaman, the Great
Syrian General." My wife translated
them both into the Russian language,
and many thousands of copies have been
printed on those two subjects with the
money which the Moody Church friends
gave.

You might ask, "Well, what is the re-
sult?" Sometimes we are not allowed to
see results immediately, and sometimes
we see them fairly soon. The latter has
been the case with this work. I do not
believe D. L. Moody ever preached a
sermon before any American or English
congregation which has given more
blessings than those two sermons which
we sent to the two million war prison-
ers.

In one of the larger camps, where I
think there are perhaps ten to fifteen
thousand Russians together in Germany,
fourteen Russian Christians got together.
Some of the Russian Christians had
been called to war. Sometimes I
wondered why they were called, and
then I found that the Lord wanted to
have some evangelists among the troops.
These fourteen were from many differ-
ent places, but they got together and
started a prayer meeting, and Bible read-
ing. Then they got our tracts. Not
many months went by, when, instead of
fourteen believers, there were in that
camp, as my reports tell me, 618 con-
verted men. They organized a "Moody
Church" in Germany, found there minia-
ture "Paul Rader" and elected him pas-
tor, and probably they also found a Rus-
sian "Woolley." Now they are going
ahead, and I do not know how many
more believers there are, for my report
is five or six months old. I would not
be surprised, however, if there were a
thousand Russian converts already.

Now this is not the end of the story,
because when the war is over, and the
Russian soldiers return to their native
land, other results will come. You see
one of the treat blessings of the revolu-
tion has been the abolishing of censor-
ship. If the Czar were upon the throne
those Russian captives on their way back
from Germany and Austria would be
eliminated, and they would make a bon-
fire on the border between Germany and
Russia of those tracts; but now the cen-
sorship has been abolished, and the Rus-
sian soldiers, very much democratized,
will be able to take their bags containing
any kind of contraband, and among
those things will be the sermons and
tracts and Gospel portions. Then what
will happen? I calculate, being rather
conservative, as I prophesied eighteen
months ago in this place, that at least
20,000 Russians have been led to

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MES H ESME MIOET UE TMMMS) Chirth H CMESS, W ar o y

the Russian people for four long cen- have come here with great anticipation

I did not know at that time that this

Fit of at, We Wna Wnd Wey

and put them in type. We made brass
turies were enslaved. For four cen and great hope; and because the Spirt Drayer would be answered so quickly. plates so they could be printed ove
turies they had no civic government o of God constrains me to do so, my de- did not know that after the darkest of

their own. The Russian princes had t

go to the capital and the dwelling place
of the ruling Tartar Khans and bring

in their gifts; they had to bend dow

and render obeisance to the Tarta
princes

In those dark hours, to whom shoul

the Russian people turn but to that God

whom they knew so dimly? Although

in their hearts they were heathen, an
very little touched by the experience o

sire is to present to you the great need
of my people

in regard to this revolation, some peo-

ple might say, What about this revolu
tion? What about the deposition of the

instead of going to Siberia was allowed

Crar? What part did you Christian peo-

to my church, a party of my friends, in

ple in Russia have in the matter of
starting this revolution!

first, nothing; secondly, everything. We
as Christians in Russia, always have be

feeling." the feeling after God. The out, so far as I Know, our Christiar
people turned towards God and prayed
eople were just as quiet as they could

be., Many times, when visiting a ruler,

I have visited some of the large mon. the Russian Prime Minister, or othe

asteries in Russia, and there I have bee

shown, with a lighted candle in my hand
the subterrancan passages where the

monks used to worship, and strive

through a great deal of self-sacrifice

and all kinds of ascetic experiences, for

holiness. Some of the monks made lif
tle holes in the rocks down below the

officials, I told them, We evangelice
people in Russia are the most loyal sub
jects of his Majesty, the Crar. I spok

the trutl

I remember before the war broke on

was in the office of the Minister of

War. I had a petition to offer. The

were trying to forbid us to go from

spend many years of their lives. Other,

place to place. I was ordered not to
preach in any place but my own pulpit

earth, half of their bodies covered, unti

in my pulpit. They were very much up

earth, and there they would he an

sometimes would ask to be buried in the and no one else was to come to preach
they died of thirst, and hunger, and ex

posure to all Kinds of deprivations
There has been one great, long, awfu

striving on the part of the people of

Russia for something better. Why was
it so? I guess you who have truly come
to the Lord understand this. It was the

great burden of sin upon their con
science

The Russian people know what sin is

have never seen such repentance as
among the Russian people. In our

set because many people were getting

saved wherever the evangelist traveled

through the Russian Empire. I went t

plead on this and other matters. I ar

rived early in the morning. The audi-

ence room of the Minister of War was

crowded full of generals and all Kind

of high personages and petitioners, many
of them in uniform, with swords by
their side

One after another was called in

awaited my turn. Finally the room was

school, the Russian Bible Institute, in almost empty. I had been five hour

the city of Philadelphia, where the waiting for the gracious reception, and
Lord has given me about a hundred could not understand it. Many time
bright Russian men and women stu

dents, preparing for the Lords work i
Russia, when they gathered together

and we were lying upon our faces be

fore the Lord, I wish you had beard

to come to this land, and said goodby

before that it had been enough for m

to call up the office on the telephone, o
even sometimes the home of the Prim

Minister, for his wife had attended m

there One of the first sermons pub-

lished was Fact, Faith, Feeling, by F

B. Meyer, the second, Safety, Satistac

tion and Enjoyment, by Geo. Cutting,

and the third, Hell, by Dr. Torrey

Some of my friends in New Vork of the

family and others, my secretaries and Nety Theolosy twpe said, Hellr Dons

Associate pastors standing at the station

I would answer in a two-fold manner; as my train was about to pull out one

the Holy Ghost, yet God saw their lieved in honoring and respecting on
rouble, and somehow in those four dark government, whatsoever it be. The onl
centuries, those light streaks were weapon we had against a bad ruler wa
warm within the tissues of the Russian to pray for him, to bring him before
people, which I would call the religions God; so that when the revolution broke

as they understood.

nights the morning would come, such a

bright one, but, praise God, it has come
was sent out of my country an

midnight, with gendarmes walking on

each side, suspecting something danger

send that tractfr They thought there

was no such thing in existence. I said
That is the very thing I want to send

We Russians believe in heaven and hell

ous was there. When the last bell (a bell we want to know how to get out of hel
on the station rings three times before and to set to heaven.
the train pulls out), rang, they stoo
waving their white handkerchiefs

heard the goodbye once more from the

lips of my dear wife and friends and

was left practically to myself, teaning
against the window in the darkness o

the night, hastening toward the border

of Sweden-to what I did not know

Then I felt the presence of one tha

sticketh closer than a brother, a sister,

wife or children, there by my side, and
knew that He was carrying the heavies

end of the cross. He seemed to put His
hand upon my shoulder and to say

Be of good cheer, I am with thee, and
when thou passest through the waters

they shall not overflow thee, and through
the fires they will not consume thee; bu

go ahead, I will hold thy hand," and

went

Never once could I suspect that things

would be changing so remarkably. Never

once could I expect that in three years

such a change would come for my be-

loved country. Never once could

guess that the very priests who incite
my banishment were committing one of
the greatest boons and blessings for Rus
sia that even angels could not devise, for

I could never, in Russia in perfect free
dom, all these three years snce the wa

as been going on, have accomplished
by od's grace and under he guidance

of the Spirit of God one thousandil
part of the blessing I have seen through
this banishment

Let me give you a bit of advice. Dont

be troubled about circunstances. B

meetings, and I was able to get the andi

To our disappointment, I received let

ters that these brass plates never

reached our friends on the other side

Some of the authorities evidently
thought we were trying in a camouflase
way to smusgle brass into their coun

try, and the plates were confiscated

Necessity is the mother of invention,
and instead of making copper plates, we

made paper plates, which of course cannot be made into cannon balls, and sent

these paper mache plates by first das
mail to Sweden, and our Swedish com

mittee got them safely into the hands o
our printers As a result, miltions of
copies of tracts have been printed, and
pread among the Russian war prison-

ers, and great have been the results.

A Harvest Comins

I am glad that the Moody Church wa
back of this work almost from the be

ginning, not without a good deal of

merit to my little friend with the big

heart," Woolley. When I was here

about eighteen months ago, friends gavi
money to publish a sermon by D. 1
Moody, and one by your present pastor

Ipublished a sermon by Moody, on Re

pentance and Restitution," and a trace

by Paul Rader on Naaman, the Great

Syrian General My wife translated
them both into the Russian language

and many thousands of copies have been
printed on these two subjects with the

noney which the Moody Church friends
gave

Vou might ask, Well, what is the re

sulrr Sometimes we are not allowed

troubled about yourself. Vou get righ see results immediately, and sometimes
with God, and by the Spirit of God, an
we see them fairly soon. The latter has
by the Blood of the Lamb right with been the case with this work. I do not
had to wait for two months; and now
repents deeply, and he understands what could not understand what was the bod, and never mind if you have 1
elieve D. I. Moody ever preached
trouble.
make vour bed in hell, you will awake in
"repentance means.
ermon before any American or English

their repentance for their past life The
Russian man sins deeply, but he als

Do you Know, one of the greatest dan

gers in your Protestant churches in this
country is that many of them have for
gotten what it is to have conviction for
in. In many places I have found they

wanted to receive members into thei

ence in a short time, while other peoph

By and by the War Minister came out.

Few petitioners were left, and they

were all lined up, I among them. H

went to the third, the fourth, and I was
vaiting for my turn. At last I stood be
fore him, not trembling, because I have

churches as easily as possible, with lit-

never been accustomed to tremble since

He conviction of sin, and they imagine

trembled before the Lord. If you

that there should be some kind of

tremble before the Lord you will no

made-up joy in the mind of the Chris-

tremble before men or devils, but if yor

tian, without first of all experiencing the

bitterness of Calvary. Among the Russian people, this very feeling of sin, thie

do not tremble before the Lord, you wil
tremble when a cat or a rabbit run

cross your path. I stood there, ver

very degradation, made them dwarfed humbly, and said, Your High Excel

and undeveloped in those things which
had been putting more than the yoke of

the Tartar upon the heads of the nation

It was their awful abysmal sin, and that

very sin made them turn to God. The

lency, I have a petition to make, and
presented my paper. Nothing doing

Vothing doing 1 he said,I

will not do

He became very angry at me, as i

wanted, they waited, they longed for he had seen some terrible enemy of his
something better.

Now this is practically the first time

I understood then that he had been in

cited, of course, by the priests or some
a man has stood in your presence after other reactionary agency. I had waite
the Russian revolution, with a definite

five or six hours, was exhausted, an
all for missionary effort among that had been praying the whole time, and
people. The Russian people are not bet
expected some teniency on the part o
ter than they used to be before they
were made free. They were under the

burden of sin before, but we were no

allowed to bring them relief. If we dic

we were imprisoned and sent to Siberis

flogged, or beaten almost to death.

One of our dear brothers was stand.

ing up before his congregation in th

southern part of Russia about four years

Paradise. Vou cannot keep in hell whe

God. and so the Lord is working worr
terfully.

Sometimes people come to me and say

Pastor Fetler, what should we do

This is such a bad experience, and there
this trouble and that

went.

Some of you may have had some un

leasant experiences and Know how
elt. I went out stirred up, out into the

street, and Kind of a human resentment

and say, Ient there some trouble there

in your heart] If there is no troubl
in your heart, go ahead. The lions ma)
roar around you, and bears, and wolves

and gendarmes and secret police, bu

never mind if you are right with God.

Go ahead. Go ahead

stand before you tonight as a wi

ness of the wonderful grace of Co

Through all these years of my humbl
ministry in Russia, and these three year

of my alienation from my native land,
have learned simply that there is on
great guiding hand of God, one grea

head of the Church of Jesus Christ, H

Himself, and that we simply have to b

ou in one or two ways what the Lord

has done
Some of you know the story already
One of the blessings that I got was My

fore I came to this country. I had the

rivilege of reaching a great number of

ago. His wife and several childrer

came into my heart for a moment, and Russian war prisoners in the Germas
I thought, That is unjust, that i
and Austrian camps. The German and

of Greek church people were there. An

say, Oh, God, punish him," before

were nearby in the congregation. A lot wrong," and I was almost tempted to

assassin, incited by the Greek Church

went into the street. I said instead,

ward the preacher and plunged the day

and I remembered my Savior upon the

priest, with a big dagger, rushed to
ger deep into his breast, and he fe

dead in the sight of his wife and chil

dren. It cost something to be a Chris

tian.

The Morning Cometh

Lord, what wouldest Thou have done

cross, and how He hung on the cros
efore the railing crowd, and when He

looked down upon those who had jus
put the terrible nails through His hand:
and feet, and upon those who were rail

For the first time in ten centuries we ing and calling Him all Kinds of name
can go to Russis, open the Bible, sing
and the priests and politicians who ha
or preach the Cospel message, or pray

it out, in any way we like, with no on

watching us. For the first time, one
hundred and eighty-two millions of

human beings, burdened with the burden

of sin, can be reached by the Cospel

ried, Crucify him, Crucify him," look

we sent to the two miltion war prison
ers

in one of the larger camps, where

think there are perhaps ten to fifteer
thousand Russians together in Germany,

fourteen Russian Christians got togethe

of the Russian Christians ha
I just put my finger over their hear Some
been called to the war. Sometimes

is Excellency. He practically took me in His way, to be following Him, and
by the collar and said, Vou go through caring for nothing. Let me just show

that door and don't come back," and

congregation which has given more

on are right with God. Von canno
blessings than those two sermons which
keep in Siberia if you are right with

Austrian armies have captured by them
selves more than two millions of Rus
sians. When the Russian government
said to me, Fetter, you cannot pread

to the Russian people," I said. 7 an

going to preach" They said, We wil

send vou out of the country and prevent
ou from preaching

When they did not allow me to go to

my congregation, God brought me congregations out in Germany and Austria
two miltions of them. I was preaching

wondered why they were called, and

then I found that the Lord wanted to
have some evangelists among the troops
These fourteen were from many differ

ent places, but they got together and
started a prayer meeting, and Bible read-

ing. Then they got our tracts. Not
many months went by, when, instead of

fourteen believers, there were in tha
camp, as my reports tell me, 618 con

verted men. They organired a Moody
Churchr in Germany, found their minis
ture Paul Rader and elected him pas

tor, and probably they also found a Rus
sian Woolley, Now they are going
ahead, and I do not know how man

more believers there are, for my repor
is five or six months ofd. I would not
be surprised, however, if there were a

thousand Russian converts already

Now this is not the end of the story,

because when the war is over, and the

Russian soldiers return to their native

land, other results will come. Vou see
one of the great blessings of the revolution has been the abolishing of censor
ship. If the Crar were upon the throne
those Russian captives on their way bacd

from Germany and Austria would be
searched and everything Protestantic,
and everything Moody-like would be
eliminated, and they would make a bon

fire on the border between Germany and
Russia of those tracts; but now the cen

orship has been abolished, and the Rus

sian soldiers, very much democratired,

will be able to take their bags containing
any kind of contraband, and among

to two thousand in my church. Now those things will be the sermons and
ing at Him from under their brows witl
have been preaching through printed tracts and Gospel portions. Then what
an awful feeling of satisfaction tha

their arch-enemy was now brought to
naught, I remembered that instead of
cursing or asking for their punishment

pages to two miltions during those two
years.

After coming to this country the Lord

put it on my heart that tracts, Bibles

will happent I calculate, being rather

conservative, as I prophesied eightcer
months ago in this place, that at least

20.000 Russians will have been led to