Travelogues; . ?tr-f day, after looking at amob of peasants fightingfor a chance to pay forthe privilege of kissingthe frontal bone of somedefunct old worthy laidout in a silver coffin, be-side which ministers ofGod sat collecting fees,I turned away with tears MUJIK PILGRIMS MOSCOW 153. MUJIK PILGRIMS 154 MOSCOW the Russian form of worship, and the church is so richthat it could well afford to discourage these pitiable sceneswhich are painful to all intelligent witnesses, and which mustgrieve even those who profess the Orthodox belief. But,however we may deprecate the extravagant practices of
Travelogues; . ?tr-f day, after looking at amob of peasants fightingfor a chance to pay forthe privilege of kissingthe frontal bone of somedefunct old worthy laidout in a silver coffin, be-side which ministers ofGod sat collecting fees,I turned away with tears MUJIK PILGRIMS MOSCOW 153. MUJIK PILGRIMS 154 MOSCOW the Russian form of worship, and the church is so richthat it could well afford to discourage these pitiable sceneswhich are painful to all intelligent witnesses, and which mustgrieve even those who profess the Orthodox belief. But,however we may deprecate the extravagant practices of theignorant classes, reprehensible upon merely sanitary grounds.
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