Identifier: russiathennow18900reev (find matches)
Title: Russia then and now, 1892-1917; my mission to Russia during the famine of 1891-1892, with data bearing upon Russia of to-day
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Reeves, Francis B. (Francis Brewster), 1836-1922
Subjects: Famines -- Soviet Union Soviet Union -- Social conditions Soviet Union -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York, London, G.P. Putnam's Sons
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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ful paternal relationtoward the peasant class, irrespective of theirreligious affiliations, and that in this respect theyare the peers of their fellow-Christians in any land.They are struggling with the great civil and socialproblems of the day in an earnest spirit of broadChristian chanty. If their progress appears tosome to be dreadfully slow in comparison withour own, we have but to remember the differ-ence in our forms of government and the dangersinvolved in sudden, radical political changes,even when those changes are in the line of greatreforms. Let us remember the fate of Presi-dents Lincoln and Garfield and McKinley, andbe still! We have reason for rejoicing in our constitutionaldeliverance from a condition that was in violationof the fundamental principles of our Declaration ofIndependence; so has Russia for her emancipationof the serfs in 1861, and their deliverance from anhierarchy, which means its peoples deliverancefrom a sectarian yoke and from ecclesiasticaldomination.
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o o *rt -u • F-) O w c 2o RUSSIAS JEWISH PEOPLE 83 Rev. Floyd W. Tomkins, D.D., in a recentexplanation of a Sunday-school lesson, said: Let it not be thought that we are justified in treatingthe Jews unkindly or critically because the Gospelwas preached to the gentiles after the people of Judearejected it. We can never earn Gods love or approvalby frowning upon those whom He loved and amongstwhom He lived and died. We want to do all we canto make the Jews know that Christ was their Messiah,and those who ill-treat them and are cruel by wordor action will not only lose the favour of God, but willincur His displeasure. Rabbi Joseph Krauskopf, D.D., has givenme the privilege of quoting from his publishedaddresses delivered at Temple Keneseth Israel ofPhiladelphia. • The story of his visit to Tolstoy, 1894, is especi-ally interesting. No one of our Jewish fraternityis to my mind more trustworthy than he in theelucidation of now existing relations between theRussian Jews and their Gover

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