Russia Copying after America.
FROM a private letter from Elder W. C. White, dated Basel, Switzerland, August 16, we take the following item:— “At last report from Russia, Brother Conradi was lying in prison on the charge of heresy. He was having real good meetings, and had organized one church, and the sound of the truth was going all about. The devil could not bear to see this, and stirred up some of his agents to secure Brother Conradi’s arrest. On Sabbath afternoon, July 31, the officers entered the meeting and arrested him and Brother Perk. They were to be tried in two weeks; but meanwhile were treated with much severity, not being allowed to write, and to see friends only in the presence of the officers.” We trust that all lovers of the present truth will heed the apostle’s injunction to “remember those that are in bonds as bound with them.” The trial of these brethren is now no doubt some time in the past, but news from them comes slowly. Brother White has kindly promised to give us the facts as soon as he learns them. Russian officials know how to treat prisoners with severity, and prisoners for conscience’ sake usually have the least consideration shown them in any country. It will not be long, however, till there will not be a land where there are not Seventh-day Adventists in bonds because they have not shunned to declare the whole counsel of God. But it will not be for long, for the morning cometh as well as the night. Since writing the above, we learn that through the efforts of the U. S. minister, Brother Conradi has been set at liberty, but has been ordered to leave Russia.