Raskolniks

The Old Believers, Raskolniks, or dissenters, are indeed a numerous, although officially an uncounted, body in the North; half the trade of Moscow, most of that which is Russian at all, in the Port of

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The Raskolniks have set a far higher value upon education than the

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Let us turn our attention from the Raskolniks, or Old Believers of the far North, who, as we have seen, so literally "forsook all" for their ancient Faith, to some few of the many new, or lately developed creeds whose followers are seeking after truth with equal earnestness and vigour, but along very different lines.

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Far from civilization, in the impenetrable forests of the great lone land of Archangel, the fugitive Raskolniks were able to found retreats for themselves, untroubled and unobserved; these refuges still exist, and are called "Obitel" or cells.

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A great many of the Controversial section of the Raskolniks are coming into the

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Established Church has set up a section of these Raskolniks in union with it, but has permitted them to keep all their peculiar practices, and these are called the Yedinovertsi or "Uniates".

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As none of the Russian bishops seceded from the Established Church the Raskolniks therefore had but an incomplete form of Church.

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Protestants left the Catholic Church because they claimed a desire to reform it by dropping dogmas, beliefs, and rites; the Raskolniks left the

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Subsequently a later patriarch deposed him, and when his resentful feelings against the a Constantinople authorities were at their height, the Raskolniks approached him with the request to become their bishop.

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The Raskolniks represent in the Russian Church somewhat the antithesis of Protestantism toward the Catholic Church.

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