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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Religious Spirit of the Slavs (1916) by Nikola1 Velimirovic This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Religious Spirit of the Slavs (1916) Sermons On Subjects Suggested By The War, Third Series Author: Nikolai Velimirovic Release Date: September 7, 2004 [EBook #13388] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK RELIGIOUS SPIRIT, SLAVS *** Produced by Zoran Stefanovic, Frank van Drogen and Distributed Proofreaders Europe. This file was produced from images generously made available by Project Rastko. *St. Margaret's, Westminster* SERMONS ON SUBJECTS SUGGESTED BY THE WAR THIRD SERIES *THE RELIGIOUS SPIRIT OF THE SLAVS* THREE LECTURES GIVEN IN LENT, 1916 BY The Rev. FATHER NICOLAI VELIMIROVIC _Priest of the Serbian Church, and Professor of Theology in the University of Belgrade_ I. SLAV ORTHODOXY II. SLAV REVOLUTIONARY CATHOLICISM III. THE RELIGIOUS SPIRIT OF THE SLAVS 1916 I SLAV ORTHODOXY The Holy Synod and Tolstoi. When Count Tolstoi was excommunicated by the Holy Synod of Russia because "he preached the teachings which are contrary to the Christian faith," the world was divided in opinion and sympathy into two parts. The partisans of Tolstoi were in the majority in the Western world; those of the Holy Synod in Russia and the Orthodox East. Yet Holy Russia rejected Tolstoi with much more compassion than Western Europe approved of him. It was a human tragedy which is not often repeated in history and was understood only by Russia. The conflict was more stern than appeared on the surface. The problems in question meant not less than the dilemma: either the Christian world was to continue or it must return to the starting point of human history and begin all anew. A little blade of grass in the field said to its green neighbours: "Why do we grow up? It is nonsense and pain. In growing up we grow in complications, which enhance the darkness and pain of our lives. I propose, therefore, to go back into seeds, from which we have grown big and unhappy." So spoke one blade of grass to the field. And the field replied: "Although perhaps we ar
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