nt and unhappy ones
of the community. Around her they gathered, a beautiful picture of
feminine grief in its sweet purity of girlish tears, and at the same
time a beautiful picture of promising hope for the future of Russia when
all of that long-suffering people may be reached by our tactful
Christian women.

In this connection now I think of the conversation with our Miss Taylor
the last Sunday we were in Economia. She and Miss Dunham were staying on
in Archangel hoping to get permission to go into the interior of the
country again. And it is reported that they did. She said to me:
"Wherever you can, back home among Christian people, tell them that
these poor people here in Russia have had their religious life so torn
up by this strife that now they long for teachers to come and help them
to regain a religious expression."

A prominent worker among the College Y. M. C. A.'s in America, "Ken"
Hollinshead, who was a "Y" secretary far up on the Dvina River in the
long, cold, desperate winter, also caught the vision of the needs of the
Russian people who had been Rasputinized and Leninized out of the faith
of their fathers and were pitifully like sheep without a shepherd. He
remarked to the writer that when the Bolshevist nightmare is over in
Russia, he would like to go back over there and help them to revive what
was vital and essential in their old faith and to improve it by showing
them the American way of combining cleanliness with godliness, education
with creed-holding, work with piety.

Can the Russians be educated? The soldiers know that many a veteran
comrade of theirs in the war was an Americanized citizen. He had in a
very few years in America gained a fine education. The general reader of
this page may look about him and discover examples for himself. Last
winter in a little church in Michigan the writer found the people
subscribing to the support of a citizen of the city who, a Russian by
birth, came to this country to find work and opportunity. He was drawn
into the so-called mission church in the foreign settlement of the city,
learned to speak and read English, caught a desire for education, is
well-educated and now with his American bride goes to Russia on a
Christian mission, to labor for the improvement of his own nation. He is
to be supported by that little congregation of American people who have
a vision of the kind of help Russia needs from our people.

Another story may be told. When the writer