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72 TJie Inspiring Vision of a Regenerated Russia
R. Mott, a most loyal citizen of the United States, that says his own
beloved and revered nation waited three years, when Russia was stand-
ing, and, in the providence of God, the first year it was the chief
obstacle to the domination of Prussian militarism. Prussian militarism
would have been over the world today, humanly speaking, but for what
they did. In this day of poor Russia’s sorrow let that be gratefully
spoken about her.
Russia’s Political Crisis
Consider what happened in Russia that day last year, March 15th, at
midnight, when the last of the Romanoffs abdicated his throne, that
day when the people passed through their political revolution, when
tens of thousands of criminals were let loose. On that day something
like a hundred eighty thousand policemen through the empire were
given their freedom, if you may so call it, or their marching orders,
as you please. Try to grasp that most impressive historical crisis.
I venture to say it would not be safe in Britain or in the United States
(without controversy two of the most advanced in the Christian re-
ligion of the nations) under such conditions. I venture to affirm they
would not have stood the test as well as Russia did. Then right on
the top of that political revolution there came an economic revolution,
an economic revolution that has been going on here and in Britain
and in Scandinavia and all over the world. Dr. John R. Mott and
others have told us of things prepared with demonical subtlety and
deceit by Germany that were ready immediately when the Czar abdi-
cated. For example, they had one large lithograph representing a war-
worn and weary Russian soldier coming up out of a slimy trench, and
yonder was a beautiful field of wheat waving with its golden grain,
and just in the middle ground were little children running with their
arms out, beckoning him. But between the slimy trench and all that
picture of love and home, and children, there stood two malign and
sinister figures. They were the United States and John Bull, and both
of these with clenched fists are saying to the soldier: "You haven’t
finished your job for us yet. You must fight for our capital, and when
you have won the war for us, then we will let you out of the trenches."
That was the lying representation of Germany concerning Great
Britain and the United States at such a time; and there were many
other things like that. Do you wonder that with the I. W. W. working
and the socialists working that such things came out? You say that
the Russian soldiers turned and ran. Never. There are today parts
of the Russian army and parts of the Russian navy standing as surely
and as strongly as any part of the armies of any of the allied forces.
You have Semenoff in Siberia, and you have others standing here and
there, apparently submissive to the Bolsheviki. They seem to be so
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