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Minister of Justice does not reach them; but so much the
more must their own consciences punish them—if they have
any at all.
“I beg your High Holiness most earnestly to cease your
incitements. You must see that no good will come of it, nor
can it. Remember that to propagate one’s faith is one thing;
the circulation of a pamphlet like ‘The Damned Stundist’ is
quite another. May the enormities of Babinjetzkaja be the
last! At least see to it that none may have cause to reproach
you for having had a share in evoking such wicked deeds. I
think that a man may from such fruits unerringly judge of the
tree that produces them.”
We are permitted also to give an English translation of a
protest, sent by General Ustimovitch to one of the highest
officials standing near the late Tsar, enclosing a copy of an
open letter sent to him as to other persons of rank concerning
the persecutions.
“Permit me to call your attention to the enclosed open
letter. It is impossible that your High Excellency should not
have been filled with indignation at the atrocities which, in the
name of Orthodoxy, have been perpetrated against the
Stundists in the province of Kiev. If it really be the Tsar’s
wish to oppose the spread of Stundism, the felonious deeds
described in the letter can certainly have nothing to do with
the manner of fulfilling that desire. The heart of every
Christian must be full of deepest indignation at all these
fiendish acts, which have been committed against peaceable
Stundists by barbarians who are counted as belonging to the
Orthodox—and this at a time when so large a proportion of
the children of the Church are almost drowned in drunkenness,
sloth, ignorance, and wickedness. It is certainly gratifying
to see how in the neighbourhood of Moscow—though there
only—processions of the cross, with hundreds of thousands of
followers, take place in honour of the purest and most
praiseworthy Saint in Christ, the most holy Sergius, the
wonderworker and light-bearer. But it is sad to know that the same
Christ, in whose name all saints are worshipped, is in other
parts of Russia altogether forgotten, and even blasphemed and
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