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AN APPEAL FOR THE STUDENTS OF THE
RUSSIAN BIBLE INSTITUTE
By PASTOR FETLER
WHEN Pastor Woolley heard about our desire to call such a con-
ference, he said, "The Moody Church will be glad to offer its
hospitality to this conference." Therefore I think we should
express our gratitude to him, and through him to the Moody Church and
its pastor, the Rev. Paul Rader, for the use of this great tabernacle. The
more I have been in this tabernacle, the more I have been thinking,
"How soon shall I be able to put up a tabernacle in Moscow?" And I
expect the Lord to give us the money to put up there a tabernacle. All
of those friends who wish to express their heartfelt gratitude to the
Moody Church for this tabernacle, will you lift up your hand? All
right!
One more word. Indefatigable, in a remarkable degree, and exceed-
ingly zealous, so far even as almost to forget his own work, our
friend, Dr. Brooks, has been laboring to make this conference what it
has been, so far as the human side is concerned. We are not here
just to pat one another on the back and say good words about each
other, but I do feel it is our heart-felt Christian duty to express our
sincere gratitude to the man who was elected under God to be the
first chairman of such a conference in the history of the world; and
therefore all of you who wish to express your thanks to Dr. Brooks,
will you all lift up your right hand?
The Students in the Conference
We wanted our young men here at this conference, to be inspired
for the work of the Lord in Russia. We could not come but by
paying railroad fare. Our committee could not justly guarantee any
expense, because we had nothing. So we came trusting the Lord,
and the Lord has been blessing. We started, when the first two hun-
dred dollars came, the money which a Swedish brother sent to us
toward these expenses. But now we have to go back again to Phila-
delphia. For three weeks the students have slept and have lived as
inexpensively as possible. We found a place not far from the taber-
nacle, and they went into a basement and slept there; the first night
they had no blankets and no pillows, but the Lord we had, and so
it was all right. Now this conference comes to a close. These fifty
men are only half of the number of students staying at the Russian
Bible Institute in Philadelphia. When the committee found out
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