The earnest desire of our hearts is that many readers of the “Message” may be led to pray for that unhappy country. I give a few extracts from the “Friend of Russia.” Thank God for the soul hunger, and Christ our Lord’s own promise is, “They shall be filled.” We read of “meetings overcrowded, attendances of two or three thousand, of the baptizing of people from the ages of sixteen to sixty-five every Sunday, of conversions numbering hundreds and thousands. A Bible is found in a village, and the people flock to that village only to hear it read.” The Soviet government has issued a fresh decree forbidding the teaching of religion, under severe penalties, to those under eighteen years of age. There is much persecution, arresting of large numbers.
How wonderful to read of the work amongst the children. “Taught in the day schools that there is no God, and forbidden to pray, they nevertheless do pray... and join in small bands to read the Gospel, and protest when they are forced to sing the godless songs now used in schools.”
Brave children! God bless and keep them. Pray for the laborers in that great harvest field, men of faith, men of prayer
A. A. L.