John Bellows Letters and memoir . of conscience in Russia! To his Wife. 20-12-92. I believe my last brought our narrative to First-daymorning. In the evening we went to bid farewell to Baroness and family. Two young ladies came in. One of them was a strong apologist for the support of theGreek Church as a political necessity in the present condition of Russian society. Except Princess , she was decidedly the most original and vigorous thinkerwe have met with since coming from England, and Igreatly enjoyed her determined onslaught on whomsoevershe attacked. She admitted several of our points ho
John Bellows Letters and memoir . of conscience in Russia! To his Wife. 20-12-92. I believe my last brought our narrative to First-daymorning. In the evening we went to bid farewell to Baroness and family. Two young ladies came in. One of them was a strong apologist for the support of theGreek Church as a political necessity in the present condition of Russian society. Except Princess , she was decidedly the most original and vigorous thinkerwe have met with since coming from England, and Igreatly enjoyed her determined onslaught on whomsoevershe attacked. She admitted several of our points to the maintenance of the Greek Church by the iron-handed repression of dissent, I put it to her that all thiscould do would be, not to preserve the Greek Church, butits empty shell; and that the Pobedonostzeff policy wouldsimply do for it what the white ants do in Africa for all thefurniture in a house : eat out the substance more andmore, leaving the outside seemingly sound, till at last thewhole thing crushed to CHAPTER VII. JOURNEY TO SOUTH RUSSIA—COUNT TOLSTOI—VLADIKAFKAS—THROUGH THE MOUNTAINS-MAGNIFICENT SCENERY—ARRIVALAT TIFLIS. AS a knowledge at first hand of the people they weretrying to help was indispensable, the two Friendsnow left St, Petersburg for the Trans-Caucasus, travellingby way of Moscow and the Georgian Road through themountains, to Tiflis. After an absence of three months ontheir dehcate errand, they returned by the Black Sea andthe Crimea, to Moscow and St. Petersburg. The absence of allusion, in these letters, to the moreprivate part of the work they were engaged in, is due tothe reticence which Joseph Neave and his companionalways felt obliged to maintain on the subject. The railway journey southward to Vladikafkas—onthe north of the Caucasian Mountains—was describedby John Bellows, in The Friend, as follows :— A little before seven in the morning the guard comesto awaken those who have bespoken coffee at Klin, twohours sh
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