Travelogues; . 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 WALL OF THE CHINESE CITY —for the indiscriminate kissing of relics and icons must be asure and constant means for the dissemination of disease-germs— we must confess that many of the religious expres-sions o
Travelogues; . 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 WALL OF THE CHINESE CITY —for the indiscriminate kissing of relics and icons must be asure and constant means for the dissemination of disease-germs— we must confess that many of the religious expres-sions of the Russians denote a faith well founded and with the Russian is an affair of every day, andalmost every minute of every hour in the day is he remindedby the church that something is expected of him. In the
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