. History of Saskatchewan and the Old North West. dinary man, or even a robber, it wouldseem to us that we had decided to kill Christ. The state demands that our brethren should learn the use of the gun,in order to know well how to kill. The Christians do n(jt agree to this ;they are put into prisons, beaten and starved ; the sisters and mothers arecoarsely defiled as women, very often with railing exclamations: Whereis your God? Whv does he not help vou? (Our God is in heaven and onearth and fulfills ail His will.) This is sad, especially because it js all taking place in a Christiancountry.


. History of Saskatchewan and the Old North West. dinary man, or even a robber, it wouldseem to us that we had decided to kill Christ. The state demands that our brethren should learn the use of the gun,in order to know well how to kill. The Christians do n(jt agree to this ;they are put into prisons, beaten and starved ; the sisters and mothers arecoarsely defiled as women, very often with railing exclamations: Whereis your God? Whv does he not help vou? (Our God is in heaven and onearth and fulfills ail His will.) This is sad, especially because it js all taking place in a Christiancountry. Cut our community in the Caucasus consists of about twentvthousand men. Is it possible that such a small number could injure theorganism of the State, if soldiers were not recruited from among them?At the present moment they are recruited, but uselessly. Thirty men arein the Ekaterinngrad penal battalion, where the authorities arc only tor-menting themselves by tormenting them. Man we regard as the temple of the living God, and we can in no r ?1. ?—.•rvT^tS^-


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