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Title: Juvenile Instructor
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: George Quayle Cannon 1827 – 1901 Deseret Sunday School Union (1872-1971)
Subjects: Deseret Sunday School Union (1872-1971) -- Periodicals Church periodicals
Publisher: Salt Lake City George Q. Cannon Deseret Sunday School Union 1866-1929
Contributing Library: Church History Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Digitizing Sponsor: Corporation of the Presiding Bishop, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

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ch the streetsrun out like the spokes of a wheel. Churchesexist in great abundance, and from an ele-vated position scarcely anything but domesand spires can be seen. Gardens and parksare plentifully distributed throughout the city,and, altogether, Moscow is a very delightfulplace of residence during the warm season ofthe year. The thought of going to Russia on a pleas-ure trip would doubtless almost appall some ofour readers who have heard but little exceptof the most dismal kind concerning the coun-try and its rulers. Still there is much of thebright side which has not yet been pictured. In condemning the Emperor for his cruelty, THE JUVENILE INSTRUCTOR. 125 we must not forget the training which those ; ual increase of intelligence and the growth ofwho we.e destined for the rulership have re- the spirit of freedom among all nations that ceived, nor the inherited traditions of past I can be blamed, ages. If the present Czar is cruel, he is mild 1 When we read of olden rulers who would
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M S-< oa in comparison with some of his pred, ,s„rs pintfcfoot,J<£^^ and it is not the extreme seventy o ,-en <; ho ,Ug^ ( % ^ laws in compar.son with those of the past his SWOtd that causes the unrest in Russia, but the grad- ™« «■ his rob., 12 6 THE JUVENILE INSTRUCTOK. the servant; or who at his banquet would be-come the executioner of captives, we mustfeel that even in Russia a brighter day hasdawned. Compare the following incidents from thelife of Ivan, the Terrible, with anything re-corded in modern history, and you will read-ily confess that the present age is far in ad-vance of what has been. Ivan (or John), called the Terrible, showedhis brutal instincts when a mere boy. It isrelated that he used to sit in a lonely towerand delight himself in torturing harmless ani-mals; and certain it is that at the age of thir-teen he ordered his guards to have one of thechiefs of the government torn in pieces byhounds. At his coronation he took the titleof Czar. He conque

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