STUNDISTS | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 12, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 19.

STUNDISTS.

The Stundists sprang up among the South Russian peasantry about the year 1860. The name "Stundist" is derived from the German word stunde, "hour," applied to them because they met at regular hours for the purpose of singing hymns, offering up prayers, and reading the Holy Scriptures and explaining them. In almost every particular they comply with the teachings of Christ, and even the police authorities, who are called upon both by the State and the clergy to persecute them or compel them by force to attend the worship of the Orthodox Greek Church, recognize the superiority of their morality over the rest of the population. Yet on account of their religion they are treated as if they were criminals. But evidently God's blessing is upon them, as they constantly increase in number.—Sel.