| Show FLEEING PROM persecution the western country is soon 0 o receive a strange class of people from russia known as the who to the number of are to select agricultural lands in ohp arid regions and form a permanent colony the deny that there Is n per jonil god their doctrine of the trinity is that memory is god the father reason god the son and will god the holy ghost they bp aleve in the immortality of the soul hut say that a newborn new born child has no soul and the soul docs not enter the hody until the fifteenth or sixteenth year after birth they recognize no authority of man and denounce the forcing ot one man to do an others bidding they are far from being revolutionists however they have never offered the slightest resistance to the russian government their family ties are based on mutual affection and their unions are not binding the of this eeck began on august 28 1799 in the ukase of paul I 1 he ordered that all adherents and members of this pernicious sect shall he banished to siberia for life and kept nt hard labor and that they shall never have the chains removed from their hands and feet so that they who deny authority of earthly potentates enthroned by the will of god hall feel sharply on their own bodies that hero are authorities established by god on earth tor the defense of the good and chastisement of villains like themselves in consequence of athla ukase about ot the communists were transported in 1832 alexander I 1 gave his permission for the sect to colonize on a siberian farm in 1839 the government seized the farm lands and ordered all who were able bodied to do military service in 1860 they got permission to return to Ilus sla and about of them went back from that day up to a year ago they were driven from one part of russia to another never being allowed to re euln in one place longer than six months by that means their numbers have been reduced to count tolstoi the novelist has taken great interest in their welfare and is virtually the promoter of the scheme to get athla persecuted people away from the abuses inflicted by the bussan government |
