The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-17
tyrs Naturally he became a priest, a
village pope
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blole with ms own Interpretation, an
he took it to mean that a divine ca
had come to him to join the ranks c
the village clergy in order that he Nigh
reach the people and in time effect
much-needed reform among the slothfu
and immoral popes> Yet even that wa
! denied him. Some petty official in hi
parish reported the zeal of the new pop
and complained that the revenues fron
the sale of spirits were falling off be
| cause the people were taught at tn
! church that drunkenness was a sin
may not be advisable to discipline
| priest for leading his flock towart
cleaner living, but it is possible to at
| tam the same end in other ways. Hon
charenko was called from his villag,
seclusion and ordered to Constantinopl,
| to be priest of the embassy. for sucl
/ posts had been found effective before il
changing the current of life for too hon,
est and uncompromising priests. There
are many temptations in the city of the
Golden Horn, even for a priest.
Amid the temptations which thus as.
sailed him the young priest passed from
the stage Of doubt to that of heresy. anC
in Russia heresy is treason. He became
one of the Raskolnik, or old believers
How the Raskolnik differ from the or
thodoX is to be stated only by the stu
! dents of religious forms: there is some
thing about the woods which enter into
the making of the double cross: there is
something, also, about the number of
fingers with which the priest confers
the blessing; but in general the old be-
levers aim to practice a. primitive and
apostolic Christianity. Honcharenko
mad about as much enthusiasm as John
Bunyan and no more mental training.
and religion after the type of the Pill
grim Progress appealed to him.
his heresv caused his removal to
Athens. where he might be disciplined
with less notice than in Constantinople
where every eye is trained on the Rus
sian. AT the embassy in the Greek
capital Honcharenko received word
from some trusty source that the holy
synod had ordered his confinement in
one of the rigorous monasteries until
he should recant his error. With Eng
lish assistance he Struggled himself out
of the Piraeus and went to London.
without knowledge of the language, ut
terly ignorant of the new order of life,
with which he was associated, with no
trade by which he could earn a. liVeli-
hood, he was in fair way of starry
ing. In his plight he fell in with the
political refugee, Alexander Herzen,
who was then publishing his revolu-
tonary paper KOlOkol, or the Bell So
far Honcharenko had dabbled only in
free religious thought; under Herzen's
guidance he was to learn that the
church was not the only thing in Rus
STA to which reform might be applied
After no great time he was employed
on the revolutionary paper. He advo-
Gated gradual reform in Russia politi-
can conditions, but without violence:
ms was intended to be a campaign of
This secured for the young
as well as religiously he was an outlaw.
DRIVEN FROM ENGLAND.
Herzen and Honcharenko were advo-
Gates of education and the slow cam
paign. But the believers in the quick
committed some outrage of
which the cold and cruel villainy stir
red all Europe. In return all the Rus
sian political refugees lost the privi-
leges they had been enjoying, the Eng
lish authorities put a stop to Kolol1ol,
and Honcharenko was once more
thrown on his own resources. He soon
came TO New York and found employ
ment in the translation of the Bible
then being made by the American Bible
society, for he had displayed the Gus
tomary Russian facility in acquiring
the English language. When this work
was done the hereto and outlaw went
TO Alaska. While there he was a
source OF worriment to the orthodox
bishop, who was left after the Russian
occupation ceased in order that lie
might carry out the religious work al
ready started. 1t may he true, at least
believes it true, that the
bishop was able to exert sufficient in
auence in Washington TO Gust the exile
from the petty administrative office
which he had given him because of
his knowledge Of Ussian. At any rate
found himself out of
livelihood in Alaska, and went to San
Francisco.
Here he established newspaper un-
Ter the title Svoboda, and it is from
hat period that he has brought the !
signboard which has hung across the |
gable of his cottage. He had the char
Realistically Russian idea that the re-
'ormation and redemption of the world |
are TO be brought about through news !
Dapers and tracts. In this occupation /
ne was at first impeded and finally |
'uined. Again the holy synod and the !
Third Section had proved too strong |
or him, and the great white car was
,huckling in the winter palace over the |
downfall of his enemy. 1t would be lu- |
licrouS if twere not more pitiable, this /
liked idea of the exile, this belief that |
police powers of Russia |
all AOIh tllt-llNelN ri the united ]
States. The paper failed because there |
we're not enough subscribers, because
he bills for white paper and presswork
must be met, and because money did |
lot come in to replace that which went
nut. Such an explanation could never
satisfy a Russian and an outlaw; it
must be the police or nothing.
Then HoncharenkO turned his mind
Wholly to his propaganda. With the
title saved out Of the wreck of his other
chemes he purchased his few acres at
Upwards. built his house. settled down
O farming and the making of honey.
lug his grave and was happy with the
,lack-eyed Italian woman whom he had
married.
HIS PROPAGANDA
That propaganda in mysterious
hing, as BELTS the high title by which
lie speaks Of it. 1t is only to the most
friends that he will mention it
It all. and no one really knows the full
Xtent of its operations. 1t appears to
'e a fact that he has q font of Russian
ype AMI some sort of press, that he
oeS all the work of composition and
printing with his own hands. and that
lie has some agency for the distribution
f the tracts which he prints There is
yer present with him the dread of the
russian police, reality to him even in