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’s published books, personal letters and 26 Baptistic Theologies evangelical fellowships as well as Baptist fellowships until 1909. 10 St. Petersburg was an ideal spot due to the various venues available to the programme (Dom Evangel and the Li even Palace). There was also opportunity to speak and attend a multitude of smaller evangelical services where Kargel and the others preached. Kargel taught classes on sin and sanctification as well as a class on the book of Revelation. 11 By 1912, the Evangelical Christian Union had been formed with Ivan Kargel often serving as Vice President and Ivan Prokhanov as President. The leadership of the Union approved the start of a two-year Bible School in St. Petersburg. The school opened on 14 th February 1913. On that day, Kargel addressed the students with the example of Ruth, the Moabite, challenging them to collect the kernels of truth they would gather here. He challenged them to return each night and sift them and reflect on them so as to store them up in the storehouses of the mind as well as the heart. The students studied for one year but did not return after the summer break of 1914. The school was closed before the programme finished due to the outbreak of World War I. 13 With the closure of this school, the political chaos of a World War, the overthrow of the Russian aristocracy, a Communist takeover, a famine and a Civil War, the training of ministers for the Evangelical Christian Union and Baptist Union was no longer accomplished in residential schools but returned to short term regional classes. 14 The St. Petersburg Bible School continued to assert influence over the Evangelical Christian Union by sending their teachers into various regions. During these years, Kargel taught courses running from six to eight weeks in the regional Bible School in various villages in the Ukraine and Russia. He taught courses covering the topics of the Book of Revelation and the second coming of Christ, Doctrine and Homiletics. 15 After the Russian Civil War ended in late 1922, the Evangelical Christian Union opened a nine-month training programme with the Russian Baptist Union in St. Petersburg (Petrograd). From 1923 to 1924 the school articles referring to his life). Skopina’s biography titled From the Biography of I. V. Kargel and his Daughters, ET from Russian, p. 696. 10 Istoriya Evangelskikh Khristian Baptistov SSSR, p. 167, states that the classes were held until 1909. In 1909, after Prokhanov founded the Evangelical Christian Union, Baptists began to use the Bible School in Lodz, Poland operated jointly by German and Russian Baptists. It was forcibly closed in 1911. At that time the Russian Baptist Union petitioned the Baptist World Alliance for financial aid to open a school in Moscow but it never materialised. 11 Kargel, Sobranie Cochinenij, in Karetnikova Ivan Beniaminovich Kargel (1849-1937), p. 685. 12 J.S. Grachev, Bratski Vestnik, The First B