It is said that he was shot four or five times.
He ate a poisoned meal and did not fall. He was shot in the vitals, but got back up. They tossed him into the wintry river.
No one alive today can say whether his actions were good or evil. All we know for sure is that history recorded him as a friend of the tsar, an opponent of war, and a messenger of God's love to the people of the motherland.
Intrigue. Threats. Deceit. Diplomacy. Poisoning. Assassination. He faced many challenges, but didn't take them lying down. He resisted until his final hour.
Flesh may crumble, but faith stands strong.
Ideals may drift, but conviction holds true.
It will never fade or be defeated.
No weapon or person ever managed to change his way of life.
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He came from a poor farm, knowing little of Scripture. A seed budding in a barren land, as if to declare itself a miracle of the Lord.
It was said that this man was shot four or five times.
He did not collapsed even after eating a poisoned meal, he stood up after taking bullets to the vital parts of his body, and his dead body was thrown into the freezing winter river.
People who live in the present time like us cannot measure whether what he had accomplished was right or wrong, good or evil.
All we know for sure is the records of that man being a friend of the Emperor, that he protested wars, and that he preached the love of God to the people of his fatherland.
There were many schemes, many threats.
Swindles. Negotiations. Poisonings. Assassinations.
There were so many hardships, but the man did not take them lying down, he fought against them until the very end.
His body might have collapsed, but his faith did not.
His ideals might have been lost, but his faith did not.
It will never disappear, nor will it be broken.
No kind of weapons or human beings could change the way he lived.
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The man has arrived, coming from a poor farmland where the Lord's teaching is scarce.
A seed has sprouted in the barren land, as if to say what happened was surely a miracle of the Lord.