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part of the authorities to treat in such a manner those who with
all their heart desire to follow Christ, loving their neighbours
as they love themselves, and therefore refusing to occupy a
position that would imply a violation of their obedience to
Christ and their love to their fellow-men.
“While I was in this place the chief of the police again
came and commanded me to perform the above-mentioned
service, saying, ‘Go and do your duty.’
“I answered, ‘I cannot do a public service in which I shall
have to act as a police over my brothers.’
“Then a priest came in, accompanied by other persons,
among whom were some gentlemen. The priest said, ‘Render
unto Cæsar the things that are Cæsar’s.’
“I answered, ‘This I do; but the things that are God’s I
must not render unto Cæsar. The body I render unto Cæsar,
but the will unto God.’
“The priest asks, ‘Are you Russian?’[1]
“‘I am the Lord’s.’
“The priest: ‘We all belong to the Lord and are Christians,
if we have the true faith.’
“I answered, ‘The true faith is to follow Christ and do His
will, and His will is that we should all and each of us love and
treat each other as brothers; yea, even love our enemies.’
“The Priest: ‘Yes, we love our enemies, and we desire to
make them better in the prisons.”
“‘Yes,’ I replied, ‘in former days the Church used to burn
people to death in order to save them.’
“The Priest: ‘But we never do that.’
“I: ‘No, in the present time they are slowly tormented to
death in prisons, or left to starve to death.’
“Although they loved me, yet they took my work from me,
and reduced me to misery” (referring to his former sufferings)
“and now, when I had found a refuge and got a small piece of
land of my own, I was torn away by violence from my home,
like a common criminal, although I have done no harm.”
I have mentioned the placards that I saw in Saratov,
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