A Word From Russia

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · May 20, 1915

A Word From Russia

THE superintendent of our work in the Russian mission field writes, under date of March 29, as follows: “Yesterday I had the first word from our two missionaries who were banished from Odessa to Siberia. They were sent four hundred verst north of Tomsk, near the ‘White Lea.’ They were over three months on the road, and had been in eight prisons during that time. Part of the time they were troubled with sickness. One of them is so weak at present that the strong wind which blows up north is too much for him and throws him to the ground.”

“The village in which they now live is very large, and composed mostly of such exiled people. How they will be able to stand the hard work they do not know. But they thank God that the journey is over, and they are grateful to know that it is only for the word of God and for the testimony of Jesus Christ that they are called to suffer. They ask us to remember them at the throne of grace.

“We are surely in great danger, and our hearts would fail us did we not trust in a mighty God. Those who simply look on from the outside cannot realize the situation in which we are placed. But I take great comfort in the message of God to Moses when he was standing before the waters of the Red Sea: ‘Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord.’ This is true of every fresh difficulty, be it great or small.”