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And none of those present, from the inspector down to Maslova,

seemed conscious of the fact that this Jesus, whose nareat number of times, and whom he praised

with all these curious expressions, had forbidden the very things

that were being done there; that He had prohibited not only this

and the blasphemous incantation over

the bread and wine, but had also, in the clearest words,

forbidden men to call other men their master, and to pray in

temples; and had ordered that every one should pray in solitude,

had forbidden to erect te that He had come to

destroy them, and that one should worship, not in a temple, but

in spirit and in truth; and, above all, that He had forbidden not

only to judge, to i done here, but had prohibited any kind of violence, saying

that He had coive freedom to the captives

No one present seereatest blasphemy and a supre done No one seeilt cross with the enamel medallions at the ends, which

the priest held out to the people to be kissed, was nothing but

the eallows on which Christ had been executed for

denouncing just as going on here That these priests, who

i the body and blood of

Christ in the form of bread and wine, did in reality eat and

drink His flesh and His blood, but not as wine and bits of bread,

but by ensnaring "these little ones" horeatest blessings and

sub froht That thought did

not enter into the mind of any one present

The priest did his part with a quiet conscience, because he was

brought up from childhood to consider that the only true faith

was the faith which had been held by all the holy men of olden