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Title: The Agony of the Church (1917)

Author: Nikolaj Velimirovic

Release Date: December 28, 2006 [EBook #20206]

Language: English

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THE AGONY
OF THE CHURCH

BY THE REV.
NICHOLAI VELIMIROVIC, D.D.
OF ST SAVVA'S COLLEGE, BELGRADE

WITH FOREWORD BY THE
REV. ALEXANDER WHYTE, D.D.
PRINCIPAL OF NEW COLLEGE, EDINBURGH
LONDON

STUDENT CHRISTIAN MOVEMENT
32 RUSSELL SQUARE, W.C.

1917

Printed in Great Britain
by Turnbull & Spears, Edinburgh.

FOREWORD

The Eastern Church, the Church of the Apostles and the Mother of us all,
in this book, speaks to her children in all lands and in all languages,
and to us, with an authority and a wisdom and a tenderness all its own.
The author and the publishers are doing us a service of the very best
kind in issuing it. May God's blessing rest upon it.

PUBLISHER'S FOREWORD

The contents of this book was originally given in the form of lectures
at St Margaret's, Westminster. There is, we think, a special fitness in
the lectures appearing in book form bearing the imprint of the Student
Christian Movement, for though Father Nicholas has hosts of friends in
Great Britain now, when he first came here our Movement was perhaps the
only body which had the right to claim him as being already a friend.
When the Student Christian Movement made its way to Serbia a few years
ago, Father Nicholas became one of its first friends and, the year the
war commenced and the