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sometimes admitted even by orthodox people themselves. Thus
a Russian bishop has given the following significant story
in an official ecclesiastical paper.
“Among the natives on the Taimyr some had adopted
the orthodox faith and been baptised in order to get
presents in the shape of vodka and tobacco. Others, on the
other hand, and among them an old Shaman, had stuck
to their pagan views. So it happened one winter that a
certain bishop and a priest were to travel to the Taimyr.
The old heathen Shaman drove the bishop, and the baptised
natives the priest. A terrible storm arose, the travellers
lost sight of one another, and the reindeer got loose and ran
away. The old Shaman wrapped the bishop in reindeer
skins, gave him a reindeer-tongue to eat, and disappeared.
The bishop, believing himself doomed to a horrible death
on the tundra, read his prayers and prepared for his end.
But on the following day the Shaman returned with reindeer
and food, and fetched the bishop to the next camp. The
priest, on the other hand, had been left by the baptised
natives to perish.”
Thus the story of the good Samaritan holds good even
on the tundra to-day.
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