My thanks to Redcliffe College for providing a copy of this book for digitisation. This title is in the public domain.
Preface
It was during a visit to St. Petersburg in the winter of 1831-32,-the last winter but one of his own residence in the country, that I became acquainted with Mr. Knill and the small circle of English Christians which there surrounded him. There was nothing in the city at that time more deserving of the admiration of a stranger than the union in these men of the habits of commercial life and the elevated tone of Christians-of the spirit of enterprise, nurtured by faith, with the submissive adjustment of conduct to the course rendered possible by jealous hierarchy and the absolute civil government under which they lived. At a time when the smallest measure of haste or imprudence would have imperilled their personal liberty or their leave to remain longer in the country, they were able first to translate, then to pass through the censorship, and eventually to disseminate far and wide, a large number of select religious publications; while the copies of the New Testament which had been arrested by Imperial decree and stored away in the cellars of the Holy Synod….
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