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thou the tail,” he said: “I once travelled through a village, and
as soon as I entered it, I saw a gin-shop. I went in and asked
the keeper if he were Molokhan, Stundist, or Orthodox, and
got the answer that he was Orthodox. Then I asked him who
were his chief customers, his neighbours, the Mennonites, the
sects just named, or the Orthodox. ‘Mennonites or
sectarians!’ he exclaimed, ‘I assure your Excellency, that you
could not get them inside a gin-shop for any money. The best
customers I have, certainly, are the Orthodox.’
“I left the place greatly depressed, and thought within
myself the Bible’s saying, ‘he shall be the head,’ is true of
the sectarians and Mennonites, and ‘thou shalt be the tail,’
of you, beloved Orthodox Christians. As I passed along the
street, I saw a neat house, and went in. The owner received
me very politely, and brought me into a poor but tidy room.
There was no picture” (of a saint) “in the corner, but, instead, I
saw, on a table that was covered with a white cloth, a Bible
and New Testament. I asked the man what faith he professed,
and learnt that he was a Molokhan.
“I could see from his conversation that he was a sober and
orderly man, and, besides, well grounded in the Holy Scriptures.
As I took leave of him I passed the same reflections as on
coming out of the gin-shop. Not far from this I saw another
neat and pleasing-looking house. I went in there also; the
man was a Stundist, equally friendly, sober, and orderly as the
Molokhan, and even better acquainted ivith the Bible.
Besides the Bible I saw on his table ‘Spiritual Songs and
Psalms.’ I had the same thoughts as when I left the
molokhan. As I went further along the street I met a rabble
of drunken fellows, shouting and singing obscene songs in
harsh voices. I knew them for my own sheep, and was
ready to weep. I thought once more of the Lord’s word:
‘Thou shalt be the tail.’”
Our readers will now be in a position to appreciate the
following extracts from correspondence furnished by a
Stundist lady well known to us, who is compelled herself by
persecution to live outside Russia. The truth of the
narrative given does not depend upon one but five different
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