Soon after her arrival, she gathered the Lesna children and started preaching atheism to them. Everything is nature. Nobody created it. The world has always been and will be forever. But even a cart doesn't go by itself without a driver.
Someone has to guide the horses.
Maria Feodorovna was at a loss as to how to respond to the intelligent remarks the Lesna children made. God did not create man. I cannot recall all the intelligent statements the children came up with, and all the foolish propaganda Maria Feodorovna put forth. I only remember how amazed I was at the Divine wisdom permeating the children's speech, as if they were not the ones speaking, but the Holy Spirit Itself was speaking through their pure lips. The children pinned the godless one to the wall, as they say.