bore no ill-will against Turk or Austrian or anyone; they
were good fellows happily lodged by the Church, and without much care
or sorrow of any kind; such a contrast to those outside the Church.

They gave me a room with a comfortable bed and white sheets, and they
regaled Kostya Lukovic and myself and anyone else who happened to
arrive, with old-fashioned generosity of wine and viands.

It was here we met the Archbishop of Minsk, once Rector of the
Theological Academy at Petrograd. He had lost his diocese and lost his
academy; a little old, stooping, grey-haired man, very witty, very
sardonic and indulging in endless pleasantries at the expense of us
all. He drank to England but not to Lloyd George. He drank to meeting
me again--in Moscow. He drank to Serbia, and hoped they'd raise the
standard of doctorate of divinity. He drank to France, without her
ally Poland who had seized most of his diocese of Minsk and was making
it Roman Catholic. He drank to Russia--and a change of heart. In
fact, it is difficult to remember all the toasts he proposed. I
responded in sips, he in half-glasses; the Archimandrite, who had only
a second place at the table, in tumblerfuls; the deacon opposite me
having a strong character, refused to go on, and it was certainly
curious to see this little old archbishop taunt him and ask him if he
were afraid and stir him on to drink more than was good for him. But
he was a Russian first and then an archbishop, and he had lost all that
he cared for. It may be asked, had he lost his faith, too? But do
rectors of theological academies have faith? Seldom, surely.

"The teaching of theology has been abolished in Russia now," said he
next morning, sitting out in the sun and feeding young calves with
bread which he had saved from the breakfast table. "There are no young
students now preparing to be priests. The next generation will be
without clergy."

"But it is a people's Church," I observed. "If there are no priests,
they will take the services themselves. The peasants have an
extraordinary amount of church lore among themselves."

The prelate appeared to be scandalized. "That is of no use. A priest
must first study and then be ordained. Without knowledge the Church
would soon be lost."

"What do you think of the Patriarch of Moscow? He has come to terms
with Lenin."

"He is a weak man," said the Archbishop.

I recalled an opinion of Bishop Nicholas of Serbia that Patriar