FREEDOM IN RUSSIA.
TO THE EDITOa
Str, —a Press Association message from Wellington on April 12, published under the heading “Freedom in Russia,” gives the experiences of a Russian under Bolshevist mlo. His complaints are not unlike some we hare heard from ex-soldiers on the one hand and immigrants on the other in “God’s Own Country.” Let me quote a somewhat different experience to that of the “disillusioned Russian.” ' At the Glasgow Missionary Exhibition, held at the M’Lellan Galloiies in January, 1920, the Baptist Missionary Society Handbook was among the literature available. It contains the following “Prior to 1914 the Baptists of Russia, numbered about 100,000. For more than a generation many of their noblest leaders suffered imprisonment, exile, and death. Then came the war, and until 1920 nothing could be known of their fate or welfare. Now, when the veil is lifted, we find that God has been at work among the people, and to-day fho 100,000 has grown t- 1,000,000, representing a Christian community which brings new- hope for the future.” —I am, etc., S. DOUKHOBOIt. April 1”. [The extract does not imply the existence of freedom in Russia. The Baptist religion is, we believe, a religion that is officially proscribed by the Soviet. — Ed. O.D.T.]
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19764, 15 April 1926, Page 14
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