By Richard Wurmbrand
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5:7). Of course, Western Christians also cry. They cry at their servants and waiters, and sometimes their wives and children. Many Western Christian ladies would shed a tear if a cup of a costly china service were to break. But to weep over lost souls—that would be considered distasteful ! Although the documents presented in this book speak about oppression and suffering, we are not left with a gloomy impression. 1 OBSERVATIONS 31 The Christians jailed and tortured in Russia are spiritually in heaven.
Pravda Vostoka describes some preachers as 'ardent' as if this were a wretched thing! In the West I know of pastors who teach that 'God is dead'; while others say that Jesus was a playboy or a homosexual. Some are destroyers of human souls, and some, like the priest and the Lévite in the Parable of the Good Samaritan, simply do not care for souls. This is never true of a pastor in the Underground Church—he knows his true purpose in the world. There is an old legend about the Lord. It tells how Jesus was once asked by one of His disciples about the meaning of the 32 THE SOVIET SAINTS phrase in the book of Ecdesiastes 'Vanity of vanities; all is vanity'.
The Pentecostals in pretty Krasnodon hate everything : the factories, schools, libraries and movies. 'I was dragged into the sect,' nineteen-year-old Zotkina testified, 'but I soon realized where the Piatidesiatniki were pulling me. My friends who opened my eyes, helped me. I thank them. ' But perhaps most striking was the appearance at the trial of the mother of a murdered young Guardsman, Polina Dmitrievna Lopukhova, a teacher at the Gorkii school. For some time she has been waging a courageous war for the son of the sectarians, Sasha Plotnikov.