PRAYERS TO LENIN
1 ‘MIRACULOUS’ ’ A NSWEft
LONDON. Nov. 15. A Russian correspondent describes, in a letter to “The Times,” how sever?! hundred children from 7 to TO years of age, in an orphanage at Batum, on the Black Sea, went to bed hungry and the following day "a. Soviet official explained that the pre* vailing famine necessitated their praying to God for food and water. After going without food for another day, many prayed and, after 36 hours, starvation, all prayed fruitlessly. After the third day, the official returned and said that, as God had not answered their prayers, it might be useful to pray to Lenin, who was the Russian-god. The children accordingly prayed to Lenin, after which food was mysteriously produced.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10752, 24 November 1928, Page 5
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