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summoned by the authorities, with the purpose of bringing
about the outbreak, they resolutely refrained from furnishing
any pretext whatever.
His rupture with the ecclesiastics, also, could not long be
delayed, and occurred in this way. The Archbishop of
Kharhov was greatly troubled about the spread of the
Stundists, and devised various means for combating this
heresy. He adopted the practice, increasingly common of
late, of arranging public meetings for discussion of religious
questions. An order of “Orthodox missionaries” has been
created whose business it is to conduct these discussions on
the side of the Church. But instead of giving opportunity
for free discussion, they are simply traps for unwary
Stundists. The “missionaries” have free licence to heap
all manner of lying calumnies on the heretics, but if the
latter dare to attempt any refutation, they are silenced, and
are marked by the police, with banishment to Siberia as a
result.
In Prince Khilkov’s district, when these meetings were
held in the villages, large numbers of the peasants would attend,
and, before the discussion began, would hand to the priests
the pictures of saints from their homes, declaring that they
had no further need of them. Sometimes they would ask
him to read to the people such passages as Matthew xxiii.,
xxiv., Isaiah xliv., &c. The Orthodox who came and heard
these things out of the Bible were astonished, and many
joined the Stundists.
Another plan of the Archbishop was the distribution of a
shameful pamphlet he had edited, written in verse, and called
“The Damned Stundist.” Prince Khilkov bought up several
hundred copies, and provided each verse with a Biblical
commentary, and a selection of Scripture passages on the back
page of the pamphlet. All these he wrote with his own hand,
distributed them among the peasants, and sent a copy to the
Archbishop himself.
We give a facsimile of the title-page of this remarkable
brochure, with the Prince’s comments in his own handwriting,
and a translation of the text and annotations.
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