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We give this week the conclusion of
the sketch of the Stundists of Russia.
In this are set forth the terrible per
secutions to which these noble people
of God have been and are being sub
jected. When we contrast the favor
able circumstances in which God has
placed us, surely our hearts ought to
be filled with gratitude to him, and
our lives with living service.
The Russian Stundists —Perse -
cutions.
If what was told of the Stundists in
our previous paper has awakened the
sympathies of the reader, we are sure
that the following accounts of their
sufferings will transform that sympa
thy into a real compassion, which will
lead him to pray for these afflicted
brethren and to do whatever lies in his
power to alleviate their miseries. E
urope seems almost to douut the facts,
as the abominable work is carried on
in the shadow. The proceedings are
all conducted behind closed doors,
and the cries of the victims are stifled.
To whom can they present their com
plaints when the appeals to the jus
tice of the Czar himself are vain?
The persecution began about 1870,
and a few years later it assumed the
present systematic and cruel charac
ter. The clergy gave the signal. They
realized, however, that they must
have the aid of the State in order to
deal successfuly with a religious
movement which was extending so
rapidly. For some time accusations
against the morality and the civism
of the Stundists had been frequent.
In a conference of bishops, held at
Kiev, presided over by the Metropoli
tan Platon, it was determined to de
mand the intervention of the govern
ment, and, after some pressure, this
was granted.
The first steps taken consisted in
the confiscation of Bibles and relig
ious books; the interdiction of all their
gatherings for worship; the placing of
a strict watch by the police over the
chief Stundists, not allowing them
to leave their villages. The Stundists
held their meetings wherever they
could —in caves, stables, mills, forests,
or In desert places.
After a time, however, when, de
spite the “gentle, fatherly pressure”
brought to bear upon the peasants, the
movement continued to increase, the
persecutions doubled. Those who were
found in attendance upon the meet
ings after they had been commanded
to stay away were heavily fined.
The police Imprisoned the men and
sold their furniture. The clergy, hear
tily seconding all this, clamored for
still more rigorous measures, and rec
ommended, among other things, that
the administrative power be applied to
the cases. Every one knows what
that move means. Each governor of a
province has the discretionary power
of exiling to Siberia or Caucasia, with
out trial, any persons suspected of be
ing dangerous to the public peace.
It was against the Stundist leaders
that this terrible weapon was used.
Let us cite a representative case. Ivan
Solovev, of the province of Kiev, an In
telligent young man full of ardor, was
accused of having spread heretical
doctrines, and received an order to
quit the province in a fortnight. He
was the father of five children, and
had a flourishing farm, which he was
obliged to sell at a ruinous price. He
departed for the province of Kherson,
but had hardly settled there when he
received another command to move.
He had borrowed money to buy grain
for his cattle; the Jews took all he
possessed In payment. An old horse,
which he still retained, was the only
mode of conveyance for his whole
family. After traveling about a month
they reached the province of Bessara
bia; but two children had died en
route. He had just settled near Kis
cbeneff when a new order arrived for
him to depart. A third child had died
in the meantime. The family once
more pressed on toward Taurida,
where they hoped to find friends who
would help them. But the police in
formed him that he must once more
take to the road, and they sent him
to Caucasia, where he finally arrived,
a broken-down, persecuted man, with
a sick wife and but two remaining
children.
Usually the Stundists are made to
march from the central prison of the
province chained indiscriminately with
the worst criminals, dressed in the
State garb of prisoners, with shaved
heads. They are obliged to spend the
nights huddled together In Infected
holes, where they must listen to filthy
conversation and submit to the gross
indignities of the keepers.
These long marches furnish the
Stundists abundant occasion to preach
the Gospel, and they do not neglect
the opporunity. Any move is consid
ered fair against the Stundists.
In the latter part of the year 1888
the persecution was aimed not simply
at the leaders, but at the obscure
members of the Stundists communi
ties. Suppression was no longer their
idea, but extermination. There was
hardly a prison in all the south of
Russia which did not hold a number
of Stundists, nor a party of exiles
headed toward Siberia or Transcauca
sia which did not* have among its
number some of their preachers. These
facts may well astonish us when we
recollect that by the decree of March
27th, 1879, the Emperor Alexander II
accorded recognition to the Baptists,
and that by the law passed May 3,
1883, Alexander 111 granted religious
liberty to every sect of the empire.
These edicts concerned only those who
were born in the Evangelical church,
for a Russian subject born in the or
thodox church is not permitted to
change his faith. The edicts, however,
are nothing but a dead letter. The
clergy, saw that public trials af
forded the Stundists an opportunity
to explain their doctrines and often
times to make a great impression upon
the people. So, without cessation,
they clamored for more expeditious
and secret proceedings.
On May 1, 1893, the government
gave the force of laws to the resolu
tions passed in July, 1891, at an as
sembly of clergy at Moscow, as fol
lows:
“The children of the Stundists shall
be taken from their parents and
placed in the charge of some relative
who belongs to the orthodox church;
if there is none such, they shall be
confided to the clergy of the place. It
is from henceforth forbidden the
Stundists to erect schoolhouses or
places for preaching by order of this
edict. Passports given to Stundists
shall expressly say that they are mem
bers of that sect. Any employer who
shall give work to a Stundist shall be
fined heavily. The names of members
I of the sect shall be given to the Min
ister of Transportation, who shall have
them posted in the ticket offices and
waiting-rooms of the railroads, so
that they may not secure employment.
It is forbidden the Stundists to have a
member of the Greek church at any
of their meetings; any infringement
of this regulation shall be punished
by transportation to Caucasia for not
over five years. The Stundists shall
not benefit by the shortening of re
cruit service, to which their education
would admit them, unless they can
pass an examination in the rites and
ceremonies of the orthodox church
and recite the prayers before a priest.
Stundists are prohibited from buying
or renting property. Any Stundist
found reading the Bible and praying
with others shall be arrested and with
out further formality shall be trans
ported by order of the government to
Siberia. Every preacher shall be con
demned to penal servitude in that
couatry. Stundists shall be burled out
side the consecrated grounds of the
cemeteries; they shall not be allowed
to hold funeral services over their
dead.”
Elisabethpol, in Transcaucasia, is
one of the principal centers of banish
ment for the Stundists. An eye-wit
ness recently confirmed the statement
that 223 men who have been banished
over five years with their families (565
persons in all) live there In the great
est misery.
One of the exiles, the father of a
family, writes: “Seven persons, and
not a morsel of food nor a piece of
money! Our condition is worse than
imprisonment!”
In the province of Don Cossacks
several Stundists were condemned to
exile. Their wives had already sold
everything In order to follow them.
The authorities told them, however,
that if they accompanied their hus
bands to Caucasia, they must leave
their little ones behind, so they must
choose between their husbands and
their children. The poor women hesi
tated; the police came up, seized their
children, had them baptized, and gave
them over Into the charge of members
of the orthodox church. Multitudes of
families have thus been destroyed.
The position of the Stundists who
remain at home is terrible. Men, wo
men and children are exposed day and
night to intrusion Into their houses,
and tremble, continually fearing the
arrival of the police. A decision of
the Committee of Ministers, confirmed
by the Emperor on July 4, 1894,
strictly Interdicted their meetings and
deprived them of all rights and pro
tection ’ which the other subjects of
the Czar enjoyed. The consequence,
of course, was a new outburst of Rus
sian fanaticism. Every sort of cruelty
has been perpetrated even upon the
women and little children.
But all this is insignificant in com
parison with the events of 1892 in
the province of Kiev. One could hard
ly believe the facts if they were not
authentically attested. “We were
forced,” says a Stundist, “to do all the
drudgery for the community; and at
night we were not permitted to enter
our homes. The principal men of the
town and the commissioners of the po
lice gathered a lot of drunken peas
ants and went with them to our
farms, where they dishonored our
wives. » » • They shattered our
windows and confiscated all our
books. The Governor-General of
Kiev, Count Ignatieff, was told of
these atrocities; several months pass
ed, and no attempt was made to find
the perpetrators of the crimes.
Then a mock search, they tell me,
took place, but only for the purpose
of denying the reality of the charges.
Where, indeed, could any one find
witnesses to testify against the town
authorities themselves?”
The role played by the church In
the persecution is not the least sad
dening part of the history. Arch
bishop Ambroise, of Kharkov, a poet,
has publicly invited the people to in
form the priests of every case of sus
pected heresy, thus making the des
tiny of thousands of unfortunates rest
upon the judgment of the most ignor.
ant peasants of all Europe. The con
vocations of the clergy spend their time
in discussing the most efficacious
methods of exterminating heresy. So
it is not astonishing that overtures
made to the high church dignitaries in
favor of religious liberty should meet
with no success. However, the move
ment has grown, and has even begun
to reach the upper classes of the
towns. Despised as Stundism may be,
it has nevertheless exceed a salutary
influence over the Russian church as
the Reformation did over the Romish
church. They are beginning to real
ize the barrenness of a service where
the Bible is not read and explained.
They are beginning to give more at
tention to the observance of the Sab'
bath and to the suppression of drunk
enness. The Stundist teachings, de
spite the persecution, are spreading,
people are listening to them and dis
cussing them, and perhaps the hour
of freedom of religious thought is
nearer than we think. But up to the
present there seems to be no break in
the clouds. The Czar has not set right
any of the wrongs, although some
years ago, when he was traveling
abroad, the Evangelical Alliance suc
ceeded in getting into his hands a
statement of some of the dreadful
things which the Stundists were suffer
ing. After learning of them he said:
“It is impossible that such things
should be taking place in my empire.”
He promised to make an Inquiry. Af
ter his return to Russia he called his
prime minister, who declared that it
was all false. Not entirely satisfied,
the Czar gave him three months to
gather all the information he could
on the subject and render a report.
“At the end of that time we received,’’
says the Secretary of the English
branch of the Alliance, “an official re
port stating that ‘Russia alone, among
all countries of the world, accorded to
her subjects full and entire liberty in
all things concerning religion.” The
Stundists are without the reign of law
under the reign of terror.
What will be the outcome of this
movement, which some consider the
most remarkable since the Reforma
tion? Will these persecutions suc
ceed in stifling it as the Reformation
was stifled in Italy and in Spain, or
will it come forth purified from the
fire of affliction? We do not know,
but our duty is plain. Let us pray,
pray with earnestness and persever
ance. Bring to the notice of others
the sufferings of our brethren; en
lighten those who are in ignorance of
the facts; and then let us act, act
promptly and generously. Let us give
money that it may be devoted to the
most urgent necessities of these mis
erable exiles and their families, that
their sufferings may be to a small de
gree lightened. The needs are great,
and the money which was gathered has
been quickly exhausted. It is from
God himself that we look for help.
“Turn again our captivity, O Lord, as
the streams in the South. They that
sow in tears shall reap in joy.”—Pro
fessor G. Godet, in Missionary Re
view.
THE CHRISTIAN INDEX THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 5 18M.
young yeopU’e
department.
Prayer Meeting Topics.
Nov. 8. —Christ Worshipped by All.
rail. 2:5-11.
Nov. 15.—Magnifying Christ in Our
Life. Phil. 1:9-20.
Nov. 22. —Christ’s Universal Su
premacy. Eph. 1:15-23.
Nov. 29.—Missions in Brazil.
W-'A.
The Atlanta Union.
We are sure our readers will
be interested in the progress of
the city union of Atlanta. Its
last meeting was at the West
End church. The large room
was completely tilled and with
both old and young. Six churches
had representatives present. In
two others the unions are just be
ing reorganized and it is hoped
to have them represented at the
November meeting. The pastors
have taken a lively interest in or
ganization and are helping in its
work. Mr. Henderson Hallman,
a young lawyer of the First
church, is its president. Rev.
John D. Jordan, secretary
of the Southern Union, was
present and captured the
crowd. He gave an address
of great force and interest. Each
union reports its month’s work
and its delegation is counted and
the number recorded on the min
utes. At the November meeting
the subject will be “The Devo
tional Meeting.” It will be an
open parliament. This union is
serving to bring the younger Bap
tist workers into sympathy with
each other, and is one of the many
signs of new life among Atlanta
Baptists.
Having Plenty of Topic Cards.
It is not enough to announce a
subject on Sundays or to even
rely on some paper to supply it.
In the one case we forget and in
the other we are as apt not to be
able to find our paper as to find
it. It is very essential, there
fore, that cards containing the
topics be obtained and very gen
erally distributed. These can be
printed at home or purchased
ready printed. The Southern
Union at Birmingham has a very
neat card that fits the vest pocket
which they sei 1 very cheap. This
makes possible a meeting where
all are informed as to what is to
be the subject. There are not
many of our young people who
can speak impromptu, and even
these will speak better when they
get ready beforehand. It is but
fair that those interested in car
rying on a young people’s meet
ing should be given full facilities
to do so to advantage. We hope
every union will supply its mw
bers with cards and plenty of
them.
The Regular Prayer Meeting.
A society of any kind in a Bap
tist church justifies itself in pro
portion as those influenced by it
faithfully maintain their relation
to the church services that belong
to the whole body. These are the
Sunday services and the church
prayer meeting. Here all meet
as one. In other places work is
specialized that all may be given
an opportunity. Our young peo
ple’s meetings, therefore, must
look well to their being helpers
to the regular church prayer
meeting. We have known
churches where the young peo
ple’s meeting was more largely
attended than the church prayer
meeting. This shows that some
thing is wrong, for if the young
people had been doing their duty
every one of them would be in
the regular meeting and that
meeting necessarily the largest.
It must always be a matter of
watchful concern to those respon
sible for our young people’s meet
ings that the connection with the
great channels of common work
and worship is kept as it ought
to be.
The Southern Union Topic.—Nov 8.
Christ Worshipped by All.—Phil.
2:5 11.
God has exalted Jesus so that,
with a name high above every
name, he is to be worshiped by
all. Before him every knee shall
bow and every tongue shall con
fess that Jesus Christ is Lord to
the glory of God. This was the
result of the mind of Christ as
laid down in this passage. What
Christ did in employing himself
for us is back of the wherefore
that introduces the declaration of
the exalted degree given to Je
sus.
Three stages are noted. In
the first Jesus yields his rightful
privileges as the Son of God. He
counts it not robbery to be equal
with God, but he does not retain
this privilege. The first step is
the surrender of his own riches.
This is the self-emptying of Jesus.
The second step is to humiliate
himself by becoming a man. This
is very different from the mere
emptying. That lets go. This
takes up. Jesus yielded his own
place and then took man’s place.
The third step is to accept the
conditions of this new life. It is
one thing to take up a new line
of living, but another to submit
to all the degradations of that
life. This Jesus did. Being
found in fashion as a man he
humbled himself and became obe
dient unto death, and that even
so shameful a death as the cross.
All this Jesus did for us. He
let go his place in heaven, he be
came a man, and as a man accept
ed even death to save us. How
great is the distance between the
first and the last! Yet because
of this God highly exalted him
and gave him the name above
every name.
Although we have here a very
lofty theme, entering into the
very mind of Christ in its loftiest
exercise and in its greatest deed,
we have a very practical subject.
Sacred as is the theme, we are
urginl to imitate the example of
Jesus. Let this mind be in you
which was also in Christ Jesus.
The early verses emphasize this
also by bringing this imitation of
Jesus’ mind into such ordinary
affairs as the cordial fellowship
among believers. In exhorting to
unity of mind Paul asks the Phil
ippians to be like-minded to Jesus
in the great process of redemp
tion. To these apostles lofty
thoughts were for the most lowly
duties.
We are then to try to have Je
sus’ mind. When the welfare of
others, or the cause of Christ de
mands it, we are not to think our
own privileges a thing to be
grasped at to retain, but we must
be willing to surrender any es
tate. We must also as truly be
willing to accept such humilia
tion of condition as may be nec
essary to carry out our high aims,
and must also be ready to submit
to all the incidents of that newly
accepted line of life. Surrender,
acceptance,submission—these are
the three.
But this must be for some aim
like Jesus’. It must be for men’s
best good and for God’s glory.
Surely we can hope for some
blessing for such a course. If no
other, we may hope to exalt the
name of Jesus thereby and lead
to the final hour when all shall’
worship him.
©he §eho r I
GuDS BLESSING UPON SOLOMON.
Lesson for Sunday, Nov. 15. 1896.
Scripture Lesson.— l Kings 9:
1-9.-
Motto Text.—“ The blessing of
the Lord, it maketh rich, and he
addeth no sorrow with it.” —Prov.
10:22.
Solomon’s Buildings.—F o r
about seven years Solomon was
employed in building the temple.
After this had been completed
and dedicated, about
b u i 1 d i n
iie
ployed about Wl*
terials had not been prepared for
this as for the temple, and so a
much longer time was necessary.
The palace, like the temple, was
a building of great elegance and
beauty. Many other buildings
were erected by Solomon, in Je
rusalem and other parts of the
land, and the first twenty years
of his reign were marked by great
activity and prosperity.
Buildings Finished.—The com
pletion of such vast enterprises
brought great rejoicing. But
t here are dangers as well as joys
in success and prosperity. Solo
mon is now surrounded with all
the conditions of peace and luxury
and the evil one wants no better
conditions for plying his tempta
tions. It is then easy to beget
selfish ease, indulgence, and indif
ference. Labor is one of man’s
greatest blessings. In the steady
and diligent pursuit of some hon
orable occupation is to be found
the surest means of happiness
and of every virtue. Seasons of
hardship and suffering are com
monly regardfid as having great
trials, but most men have their
severest trials in time of ease
and prosperity. The head grows
dizzy through one’s promotion
and the heart grows cold through
a sense of physical comfort and
plenty. The Lord’s grace came
to Solomon at this critical point
of his experience for encourage
ment and warning. This is said
to be the Lord’s second appear
ance to Solomon. Twenty years
before this was the first appear
ance. Though the Lord, through
all this lapse of years, had made
no striking manifestation of him
self, he had nevertheless been
with Solomon, maintaining peace
among the nations, and guiding
all his affairs to successful com
pletion. The Lord is constantly
with his people, and specially re
veals himself in the times of their
real need.
Prayer Heard —Work Approv
ed. —How gracious were these
words the Lord spoke to Solomon.
“I have heard thy prayer and thy
supplication that thou hast made
before me; I have hallowed this
house that thou hast built, to put
my name there forever; and mine
eyes and mine heart shall be
there perpetually.” What bless
ing like that of having clear as
surance that our prayers are an
swered and that our works are
approved! How many of our so
called prayers are never answer
ed! How much of our working
seems to bring forth no practical
fruits of righteousness. All pray
ing and working that conform
not to the Lord’s will are but in
vain. What an honor upon the
woman whose two mites the Lord
so warmly commended; upon the
lad whose few loaves and fishes
he so wondrously multiplied;
upon Peter whose words at Pen
tecost were made so effectual in
breaking men’s hearts and sav
ing men’s souls. The Lord put
great honor upon Solomon in us
ing the house's he built for show
ing forth the divine truth and
glory. Many buildings have been
constructed of costly materials
fashioned by cunning skill, but
what has been their use or honor
when the Lord has not approved
them or dwelt in them?
Unceasing and Increasing Obli
gations.—ln building a house
unto the Lord Solomon had not
fulfilled all that the Lord required
of him. His obligations are rather
increased by virtue of the honor
the Lord has already shown him.
He must build up and maintain
his own character in integrity
and uprightness. The stability
of the buildings he has erected
must depend not on the quality
of stone and timbers used, but
on the obedience and righteous
ness of the people. Character is
the only stable thing, the one
thing that will abide through all
the crash of matter and wreck of
worlds. Other things have their
use only in witnessing to truth
and principle. Right and endur
ing character is possible only in
fellowship with God. Full, de
veloped character is the product
of all our thoughts, affections and
deeds. So our hearts and lives
need constantly to be guarded
lest any corrupt judgments or
purposes enter in to weaken or
destroy the whole fabric. The
Lord admonishes Solomon to
walk uprightly, and points him
to the example of David, his fa
ther, for instruction and encour
agement.
Faithful Warnings.—S uc h
warnings from the Lord are
spoken only when there is real
danger. In the indulgence of the
luxury about him Solomon may
forget and neglect the command
ments and statutes of the Lord.
The claims of the false gods of
the heathen will be pressed hard
upon him. If he yields to become
disobedient and go astray the re
sults will be most calamitous.
The Ijord’s words are no idle
threats as men so often use.
Though the temple is now the ad
miration of all eyes and its
praises upon all lips, those things
may come to pass in consequence
of which it shall be hissed at,
and shall become a reproach be
fore the nations. Israel, now
highly exalted in God’s favor,
may be cut off out of the land
them. If Solomon
►disobeys the Lord he will have
these things as penalties staring
him in the face.
It is a great thing to submit
one’s self fully unto the Lord's
will and plans and be used of
him for his own glory. It is an
awful thing to forget and dis
obey him, and bring upon our
selves his wrath and the re
proach of men.
Why They Don’t Go.
There is a great deal of human
nature shown in the following
from the pen of the celebrated
lecturer and writer, Robert J.
Burdette:
“So you are not going to
church this morning, my son?”
“Ah, yes; I see. ‘The music is
not good,’ that’s a pity. That’s
what you go to church for, to
hear the music we demand.”
“ ‘And the pews are not com
fortable.’ That’s too bad —the
Sabbath is the day of rest, and
we go to church for repose. The
less we do through the week the
more rest we clamor for on the
Sabbath.”
“ ‘The church is so far away; it
is too far to walk, and I detest
riding in a street car, and they’re
always crowded on the Sabbath.’
This is, indeed, distressing.
Sometimes when I think how
much farther away heaven is
than the church, and that there
are no conveyances on the road
of any description, I w'onder how
some of us are going to get there.
“ ‘And the sermon is so long
always.’ All these things are, in
deed, to be regretted. I would
regret them more sincerely, my
boy, did I not know that you will
often squeeze into a stuffed
street-car, with a hundred other
men, breathing an incense of
whiskey, beer and tobacco, hang
on a strap by your eyelids for two
miles, and then pay 50 cents for
the privilege of sitting on a rough
plank in the hot sun for two
hours longer, while in the inter
vals of the game a scratch band
will blow discordant thunder out
of a dozen misfit horns into your
ears, and come home to talk the
rest of the family into a state of
aural paralysis about the ‘dan
diest game you ever saw played
on that ground.’
“Ah, my boy! you see what
staying away from church does.
It develops a habit of lying. There
isn’t one man in a hundred who
could go on the witness stand
and give, under oath, the same
reasons for nut going to church
that he gives to his family every
Sunday morning. My son, if you
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If not for sale by your JL Guitar and Mandolin, or
local dealers write us for Harp are produced at will
Catalogue and Prices. NVUMIBk of performer.
CHICAGO. 1893-
Augusta, Ga.., 1889 and 1891
Received Bisbeel Award
Montgomery, Ala., 1889.
■WS I " ATLANTA. 1895.
And numerous other Fairs and Expositions.
The Plectrophone is a simple device, cannot get out of order ant
actually preserves the hammer felts and adds to durability of the Piano.
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ly commend it. Several friends
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Yours truly,
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