Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-10-20

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partly aers influence and directions tried ~
himself up of state and to give advice people whom
thought need of it. He terae brute but NJ ~
the instincts of dOmneeng mind which circumstances and a
station of which he had been born had from dv
ing had also something ese-an undoubted magnetic &
which allowed him to add autouggestion to all his words ~
which made unbeeving people succumb sometimes oA.
hypnotic practices he undoubtedly exercised to @
siderable during the last of his adventurous cx
RaSputn Universally Attacked
Amidst discomfort which, it would be to dny n,
existed in Russian empire during the period which mme
preceded great the personality of Raspu had played
great part giving certain people the opportunity exploit NJ
at the side of the sovereign
oment public opinion against the Emperor throw dis
upon by representing him being entirely under nAus
the cunning peasant who by strange freak Of destiny sud-
denly become powerful than the ministers them
selves press belonging the opposition parties got m
the attacking him and calling his attendance the imperial
open scandal which ought in the interest Of the ya
to be put q end TO by every means available.
the Duma his had been mentioned than and
always with contempt Every kind of reproach had hurled
him. and others had not been spared He had become at last fan
astc exploited than anything
able than destructive whose real roe will be known
its extent who might in other countries than Russia
another time have become the founder of religious order
secret association actions when examined in detail differ
very much those the fanatics which in Paris under %
Of Louis XIV were called the and who gave way
kind under the pretext that these acceptable
to God by of the personality of the people who inspired
them In civilized intelligent weeducated Europe such apps
on would impossible but In Russia that land Of myu
of faiths where there still exist religious se given
kinds Of and attacks of pOus madness or II
hardly called other name he acquired within relatively
short time affections of whole lot Of people They
inclined to him prophet whose capable
winning them the Divine Paradise for which their hungry souls
we're onaug There nothing all phenomenal about IT,
was even certain quite natural manifestation Of this
large nature which capable of many good or bad
which has deeply ncrused at the bottom Of its heart
tendency the default of the religious
vctions which, thanks circumstances has to lose
The American public is perhaps not generally Of the
character religious sects in Russia which considered
to be country of orthodoxy with the Tar at its head and %
oa one develop itself In reality, things very different
and to this day. recognized nonconforms who
have their own bishops and priests and whose faith recognized
and acknowledged by the State there number OF %
more spersous and each powerful than the other regard
to the which they exercise their adhrent THESE
though numerous by any MEANS yet are actuad y @
anacm that they become apt at certain moments to become SUD
ecs considerable to the authorities some az
inspired by the conviction that the only means TO escape
the devil consists in suicide in the murder OF nu
The TDO Principal "HeTesies"
For instance the Baby Killers Dietooubtsy they an
called think send Heaven the souls Of newo
infants destroy they the light OF he
thinking thus themselves agreeable to the Almighty
snahing children from the power of the EVIL one Ano
sect goes by the of Strangers fully believes @ ~
doors of Heaven only opened before those VINO nave
violent DEATH and whenever relative or friend Is
they proceed smother him under the weight OF many pillows
s 10 hasten The Phpowtsy preach salvation tousn
suicide and voluntary death Of several people common
considered by them most mertorous action Sometimes
villages decide to unite themselves in immense holocaust ~
bacade themselves in house. which is afterward set on m
this day in Russia peasant called khodKme
people retire together with him into grow
hidden the forests Of the government of PERM wnes
compelled them die of hunger Two women having
escape the fanatics fearing that they might be denounced %
themselves with the first weapons which fell under their nen
their terror that they might find themselves
their sinister design and thus fall again into the
Satan for fear of whom they had made up their minus
awful DEATH Even late the end oil ne ~
century of fanacism could be met with here and %
the and center of Russia In 1885, under tho reign
of the Tar in the government OF
called Jouof burnt himself TO death by setting fire to ms
which he had previously soaked in paran and expired uo
awful orments singing hymns of praise to the Loro
Among all these heresies there which have atE
than the others the attention of the authorities thanks 70
rites and to their immoral tendencies They are the
Voluntary Eunuchs about which 1t is useless to say a
here and the Khysty Flagelant which to this day mas
siderable number of adopts and to which RaSputn
0nged to which, in fact he openly owed allegiance rms
which calls itself "Men Of God has the strange rites when %
imagination invent According its precepts human
should try raise its soul the Divinity with the hs
of all kinds During their assemblies they ndu
kind Of waltz around and around the which REMINDS w
nothing much the rounds Of the Dancing Deyshes IN n
They dance and dance until their strength fails them %
drop to the floor in kind of trance ecstasy during
hardly accountable for their actions they imagine that th
Christ and the Virgin Mary them. They then threw
selves into the embrace Of the supposed dvnites