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country town, with great pomp, in a special railway car,
accompanied by the singing of the priests and the
swinging of censors. The people collected at the station in
such numbers that those who were on the front part of
the platform were compelled to take refuge in the
railway carriage, to escape being crushed. The picture was
brought into the church, where a Te Deum was sung.
The day passed without either storm or accident, and
there was not a workman who had a doubt as to the
supernatural cause thereof.
Another illustration of the spiritual point of view of
the peasants and priests is the following from the same
time. Not far from the little town Biezhitsa the huge
head of a mammoth was found. A young princess, whose
country-seat was in the vicinity, bought this head of the
peasants. Some one or other who wanted to play a trick
on the public or the clergy wrote to the local newspaper
of the department that the peasants, after the head was
dug up, had brought a priest, who had read the prayers
for the dead over it and then buried it again. — Could
one believe it! On this account the whole clergy of
that region were excited, and just because what had been
stated in the article was untrue and nothing had
happened. What if it had been a human head, and they had
neglected to read the prayers for the dead! The
consistory in St. Petersburg sent a mandate to the most
distinguished prelate, required an examination into what
had happened, and commanded that the clergy of the
district should take the measure of the head that had
been found (literally — “inasmuch as it is of anthropological
interest”). The day after a whole procession of
priests arrived at the country place and held a great
council as to how they ought to act to show that this
was a mammoth and not an antediluvian man, as they
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