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Title: Serbia in Light and Darkness
With Preface by the Archbishop of Canterbury, (1916)

Author: Nikolaj Velimirovic

Release Date: November 19, 2006 [EBook #19871]

Language: English

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SERBIA IN LIGHT AND DARKNESS

BY

REV. FATHER NICHOLAI VELIMIROVIC

WITH PREFACE BY THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY

_WITH 25 ILLUSTRATIONS_

LONGMANS, GREEN AND CO.

39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON

FOURTH AVENUE & 30th STREET, NEW YORK

BOMBAY, CALCUTTA, AND MADRAS

1916

AUTHOR'S NOTE.

The aim of this volume is to give to the English-speaking people some
glimpses into the past struggles, sufferings and hopes of the Serbian
nation. I have tried to describe the Serbian life in _light_, in its
peace, its peaceful work, its songs and prayers; in _darkness_, in its
slavery, its sins, its resistance to evil and battle for freedom.

It is only the peoples which suffer themselves that can understand and
sympathise deeply with the Serbian soul. I dedicate, therefore, the
following pages to all those who suffer much in these times, and whose
understandings are enlarged and human sympathies deepened by sufferings.

I will take this opportunity of expressing my warm and respectful thanks
to His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury for his kind assistance and
generous commendation of my work in England.

My gratitude is due to the Rev. G.K.A. Bell and Dr. E. Marion Cox for
their help in the revision of these pages.

NICHOLAI VELIMIROVIC.

London, _April_, 1916.

CONTENTS.

PREFACE BY THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY

_PART I._

LECTURES ON SERBIA
ENGLAND AND SERBIA
SERBIA FOR CROSS AND FREEDOM
SERBIA AT PEACE
SERBIA IN ARMS

_PART II._

FRAGMENTS OF SERBIAN NATIONAL WISDOM

_PART III._

FRAGMENTS OF SERBIAN POPULAR POETRY

ILLUSTRATIONS.

H.M. KING PETER
CROWN PRINCE ALEXANDER
PREMIER N. PASHITCH
KING MILUTIN
SOLDIER ON GUARD
THE GO