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d this action, did not sign because he had been arrested a month earlier. 67. BV, 3-4/55, pp. 10-24; 1/56, pp. 50-52. CE. 1/64, p. 38; 2/65, pp. 28-34, 68. Disagreement on method began to split the CCECB after 1976. See below, p. 2756 69. Giuctd in Bourdeaux, p. 54. 70, Ibid., pp. 55 and 60, 71. AS 770, p. 588. 72, F. M. Rudinskii, Svoboda sovesti v SSSR (Moscow: Gosiurizdat, 1961). 78, Neither the 1960 statute nor the letter of instruction refer to the age of eighteen, 74. BV, 3/61, pp. 36-89, Cf. other articles on sanctification: 4/62, p. 35 and 51 (which includes a warning against false Christians who try to draw suffering upon themselves); 2/64, pp. 44-57; 4/64, pp. 43-53; and 3/65, pp. 38-45. 75. At the 1969 congress Alexander Karev repeated the reference to Isaiah 30:15 calling the observance of “quietness and confidence” a “condition for bless- ing” (BV, 2/70, p. 23). : Dissent Begins, 1960-1965 : 199 76. BV, 1/61, pp. 43-49. 77. Quoted in Bourdeaux, p..60. Officials-from the Council for Religious Af- fairs in conversations with the author in May 1979 still referred to such action as le- gitimate interference in order to maintain decency and order as demanded by the Bible in 1 Cor. 14:40! 78. AS 777. 79. Supra, Chap. 5, p. 143. 80. BV, 3/64, pp. 78-79; 4/64, p. 76. Deyneka, Song in Siberia, focuses on the Barnaul story. 81. Quoted in Bourdeaux, pp..54-55, 82. Umsiedler interview data. 83. AS 779; AS 794, 84. Lialina, pp. 48-51. 85. Umsiedler interview data. 86. Lialina, p. 51. 87. BV; 1/58, p. 29, where Karev claimed 5,400 ‘congregations and 25,000 preachers. 88. Lialina, p. 51. 89. Puzin, quoted in AS 622, p. 5. : 90. Some of the terms plied’ to Initsiationiki in the Soviet press (AS 565). What divides us is not differences of opinion, but distrust of each other. — BV, 6/66, p. 69 "There is no openness or trust without suffering. There can be no reconciliation, no peace, no justice in our world unless we are prepared to place ourselves on the line. —Philip Potter EPS, August 4, 1977 7 The Union Defended, 1963-1969: Congresses | | Jacob Zhidkov, president of the AUCECB since 1944, was already old when the Initsiationiki challenge came. He had a long illustrious career be- hind him beginning with youth work before the Revolution. He had led the Evangelical Christian Union till his imprisonment in 1938 and he was the key figure in helping the AUCECB become established in the difficult Postwar years, The teamwork with Alexander Karev had worked well. One associate noted that Jacob Zhidkov had been especially endowed with wisdom and Alexander Karev had received an extra measure of love.! Yet Zhidkov’s last appearance before his union showed him a tragic figure. At the closing session of the All-Union congress in 1966 Zhidkov left his sickbed to address the delega