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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 8, 1912

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 89, No. 32.

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Crimea

By D. Isaak

SEBASTOPOL.—Believing that a short report of our work in this city will be of interest to the readers of the REVIEW, I shall tell how it has developed.
Every reader, I believe, will know where the peninsula of Crimea is located; if not, it will be well to look it up. Every map of the world, of Europe, or of Russia has it. Here, in the years 1853-55, was fought a great battle. Then the Turk received help, but lost all property in Russia. Large monuments and forts are yet to be seen in Sebastopol as signs of that battle. This city is called a city of war. Not only are large battle-ships anchored and munitions stored here, but air-ships are now being used.
We are glad for the work the Lord is doing in Sebastopol. About four years ago we started our work here, and at present we have a good Russian church of seventy-two members. When I visited them last, about a month ago, fifteen arose requesting baptism. Others are continually being added, and we expect soon to have a hundred members here.
An earnest young Russian worker who attended the school in Friedensau, is doing excellent work. The Sabbath-school is in good order, and the lessons are well learned. Children and all love to come to the Sabbath-school and meeting. They are pleased to be enrolled with the Sabbath-schools of the people of God over the whole world. Our worker here has also started a young people's band, called Bible class, at which the older brethren are also attending, as we are not allowed to have young people's meetings. This church has already two young brethren in the work, one of whom is in far-off Siberia.
On Sunday morning, upon calling on some brethren who have started a bakery for the manufacture of unfermented bread,—called here bublike (a small circle-formed bread),—we passed by the two large barracks of the soldiers and sailors. Here our attention was called to the hundreds of holes in the walls of the sailors' buildings, which were made by the soldiers' bullets in the autumn of 1905, when the sailors were striking, and hundreds of them were killed. We also passed by the dark prison, where one of our young brethren is confined, under sentence for two years. May the Lord soon bring deliverance. D. ISAAK.