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The Stunda is perhaps the largest and most rapidly developing faction of nonconformity, for it has ramified from Odessa its starting point throughout Tsarland, save in the extreme north and north-east. This faith can be traced directly to the influence of certain Lutherans who emigrated from Würtemberg and settled in the fruitful "tchenoziom," or black earth lands, some half-century ago.
That he has the full courage of his opinions, that he will suffer for conscience' sake Russian officials only know how bitterly that he will lay down his life, or almost equal sacrifice for him forsake his land and "izba," and face the future among the wild native races which bound European Tsarland on its north and east not so very long ago he suffered the knout and the stake rather than recant one iota of what he thinks to be the only true rendering of the Biblical text, all this must in common fairness be allowed to the poor Russian.
Everything is so different, from the dapper stationmaster with gold-laced cap of German build down to the porters in clean white linen blouses, which pleasantly contrast with the malodorous sheepskins of unwashed Russia. At Helsingfors there is nothing, save the soldiery, to remind one of the proximity of Tsarland. And out in the country it is the same.
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