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their Mighty Warrior who was also the Victor!This book will encourage those who are risen with Christ to "set [their] affectionon things above, not on things on the earth. For [they] are dead and [their] life ishid with Christ in God."Lynn F. MartinShippensburg Christian FellowshipShippensburg, PennsylvaniaOctober 23, 1999
1Speaking Without a TongueThe sun set in gold on a treeless ocean of snow, the Kulunda Steppe, at the end ofChristmas, 1963. Here and there a dry weed stood in the snow. Snow had blownacross the frozen river Ob. It had whirled down the streets of Barnaul, filling thegaps between small houses and piling itself on their back window sills. Smokecurled from the houses and from a square cement-block building in the middle oftown. But in those houses and in that sparsely lit building the snowy eveningproduced no coziness, and Christmas it was not supposed to be.In their over clothes, Vasily and Nikolai Khmara, and one woman, LyubovKhmara, stood before the Altai Regional Court.One year earlier no one would have found this surprising. The Khmaras were wildliving people. Nikolai, an incorrigible drunkard, had gotten into so many fights noone kept track of them all. The Khmaras stole and got into trouble with the law.But now, at the end of 1963, those who knew them felt differently. Instinctivelythey felt that something wrong was taking place—that the Khmaras should not bein court—and they feared.The Khmaras had become “believers” and changed their ways. No one doubtedthat it happened. Nikolai, whom no one knew apart from his drunkenness orperiods of grouchy irresponsibility had become a new man. His face shone. Hewore clean clothes. He smiled and helped the neighbours. In the summer of 1963 avisiting believer had taken him and his wife Mariya down to the river and baptisedthem.Now they stood before the court.“Why must you tell others what you believe?” one of the judges, a woman with aknitted cap and a red nose, asked Nikolai. “Why can’t you keep your nonsense toyourself and stop contaminating the town?”Nikolai answered gladly, with a smile, “I was a drunkard. I came to know Christ.He rescued me from my bad way of life and gave me hope and joy. It is so good
Page 1 and 2: The Russians' SecretWhat Christians
Page 3 and 4: Please note: If you click on a foot
Page 5 and 6: Acknowledgements and DedicationWith
Page 7: church grow so rapidly and large wh
Page 11 and 12: Lord. Weep for those still in darkn
Page 13 and 14: What to ExpectI took as a clue to t
Page 15 and 16: little by little, the story behind
Page 17 and 18: 3Old Russia—Its Heart and SoulYek
Page 19 and 20: With Methodius’ help Cyril gather
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Page 23 and 24: During the Dark Ages, in a time of
Page 25 and 26: 5Christ VictoriousFrom the halls of
Page 27 and 28: From the Greek (Byzantine) Church,
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Page 31 and 32: him? . . . Yet he did not leave us
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Page 42 and 43: like Christ said. 5John, a Greek ce
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Page 46 and 47: her to change her mind.“But it is
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Page 52 and 53: 7The AntichristAll Russians sensed
Page 54 and 55: many shrugged off what had not been
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A plague struck in the 1570s. So ma
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Nikon, whose wife and three childre
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Gennady, archbishop of Novgorod, an
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An early occasion for conflict aros
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Moscow. Only eighteen, he had grown
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tract written in the early 1700s st
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that did not matter much to Russia
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communion every day of his life,”
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Novaya Zemlya. For more than a hund
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eminded the Old Believers who they
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Wherever they settled, core groups
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9NemtsyOld Believers, meeting in se
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Most Russians liked Catherine. Here
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Thanks to August Hermann and his pr
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“Are you Catholic?”“No.”“
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arges that followed less than two y
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6 the northern part of modern Roman
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A wool merchant from Tambov, Ilaryo
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follow Christ in their hearts, whet
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They condemn luxuries in food or dr
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invited to appear before the genera
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The Spirit Christians believed it t
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Yekaterinoslav, Kharkov, Tambov and
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9 At fellowship meals after meeting
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Sasha protested. “What do I know
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Moscow. But he had a problem. A ser
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studying his Bible, and the writing
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arrival. A year later, Aleksandr an
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12Salt and LightRumbling eastward,
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The new Molokan brothers--people ca
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6Neuhoffnung. In 1845 the Neuhoffnu
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handicrafts has six brick and two w
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Radicheva followed them to this pla
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13An ExplosionLate at night, the sp
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Secret meetings continued.So did ar
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Explosion Upon ExplosionYefim lived
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efore them. On October 20, 1848 Hut
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The Lord Christ who kindly helped t
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A Soldier and a Sick BoyIn 1853 fig
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for Granville Waldgrave to speak in
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Molokans in Georgia joined their fe
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and Arizona in the early 1900s.14 a
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good road built from the Volga Rive
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The boys watched as the bosyak, his
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careful hand) he read: “Do you lo
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In the workshops of city craftsmen
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The men knew where the priest was s
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Vasily regularly visited hospitals.
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was mistaken. Following Christ invo
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16The Kingdom WithinWhile Granville
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ConflictWith their older children n
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2But his wife interfered and he end
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secretary. He was also a friend to
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and know all about the Gospel. Lev
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pretty nearly, their past, and thei
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Wickedness, Lev came to see, is tig
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need to declare itself a church. It
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“What is he muttering? asks the p
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In countries that have a state reli
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teachings themselves. I became conv
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where everyone may develop his crea
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said. “If you make a profit on th
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The Spirit Christians sang as they
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Cast Down But Not DestroyedTsar Nik
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God’s community in Christ.” Hei
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18The Lion and The BearOn November
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orn to a reigning tsar since the 16
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people helped to collate, staple, a
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camps. When the White front moved b
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Because the shedding of human blood
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Go!By 1921 foreign relief organizat
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we could proceed to Chelyabinsk. Af
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not read but they said traders come
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During the time of high water in th
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proposed to call it Yevangelsk, Cit
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night, into Persia. From there they
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For many there was no way to turn,
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Christ the victor over hell, cold,
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For some time, spiritual revival an
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search one heard the same shouted c
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The friends of Christ with steel ri
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21The Pilgrim’s WayThirty years b
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Pilgrim’s story is the story of a
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have given serious believers only o
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During the World Cup soccer games (
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not quite where we are makes us unc
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Note on NamesFor security and other
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French, R. M., trans. The Way of a
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