Beasts in cassocks - End Time Deception
Beasts in cassocks - End Time Deception
Beasts in cassocks - End Time Deception
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morbid imag<strong>in</strong>ation. I tried to drive awa}^ these apparitions and<br />
tried to imag<strong>in</strong>e that noth<strong>in</strong>g special happened. Unfortunately, how-<br />
ever, the truth stood before my eyes. God knows how I was anxious<br />
that all this should not be true, but to my great sorrow these were<br />
pictures of life which I personally saw.<br />
After all what I saw with my own eyes my faith not only <strong>in</strong> the<br />
Lords of the Church was shaken, but my deep faith <strong>in</strong> the purity and<br />
justice of the Russian Orthodox Church lost all its mean<strong>in</strong>g and sig-<br />
nificance. And s<strong>in</strong>ce then I began more seriously to look up every-<br />
th<strong>in</strong>g that surrounded me and especially to the circle <strong>in</strong> which I<br />
m<strong>in</strong>gled.<br />
Evidently the moneys which I gave did not let the Lords ot the<br />
Church to rest and especially it was Alexander Nemolovsky who<br />
tried and succeeded under one or another pretext to obta<strong>in</strong> from me<br />
sums of money. When all my funds, so hardly earned, gave out and<br />
I could not be milked as a cow any more, Alexander Nemolovsky,<br />
<strong>in</strong> order to rema<strong>in</strong> friendly with me and not to give me cause to be<br />
resentful at them, has organized specially for me a few sitt<strong>in</strong>gs on<br />
which I was violated <strong>in</strong> a most brutal manner by the above mentioned<br />
Alexander Nemolovsky and other Lords of the Church. For each<br />
sitt<strong>in</strong>g I was be<strong>in</strong>g paid a few dollars. But the money thus earned<br />
was f<strong>in</strong>ally taken back <strong>in</strong> a most shameful way. When I was com-<br />
pla<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g of not hav<strong>in</strong>g money for a liv<strong>in</strong>g I was given a few dollars<br />
like alms which I sent to my poor wife and my crippled son. Thus<br />
is cont<strong>in</strong>ued until I could not and did not have the strength to go on<br />
with such life <strong>in</strong> an atmosphere of falsehood and filth.<br />
Be<strong>in</strong>g afraid that I might disclose much of the do<strong>in</strong>gs of the<br />
Lords of the Church, Alexander Nemolovsky promised to make of me<br />
a priest. I argued aga<strong>in</strong>st such elevation, po<strong>in</strong>t<strong>in</strong>g out that I was<br />
not literate enough and am not fit for the place after what I have<br />
performed together with the dignitaries of the Church.<br />
''Your Em<strong>in</strong>ence," said I, 'T will offend the pure faith of the<br />
people <strong>in</strong> the Orthodox Church." To this Bishop Nemolovsky<br />
answered: "Noth<strong>in</strong>g matters, darl<strong>in</strong>g, you just fit for the office and<br />
you will make a good priest; the herd and the most egregious fools/*<br />
so he called the faithful Russians, "anyway don't understanr anyth<strong>in</strong>g<br />
and you wil be for them a real parson." And so by the order of<br />
Nemolovsky I was given a packet with which I went to Bishop Stephan<br />
Dztubat at 233 East 17th Street. I gave him the packet and<br />
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