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We offer prayer in the temples,
We sing the hymns of our church,
Or we perform the holy sacraments:
All is blasphemed by the accursed Stundist.

And why call ye me Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I
say? (Luke vi. 46). But go ye and learn what this meaneth, I desire
mercy, and not sacrifice (Mat. ix. 13).

VI.

Our great and holy thaumaturgi,
Defenders of the Russian land,
And our spiritual shepherds:
Defamed are all by the accursed Stundist.

For there is one God, one mediator also between God and men,
himself man, Christ Jesus (1 Tim. ii. 5).

VII.

The relics of the men of God,
Our holy images of saints
And our processions of the Cross
Are loathed by the accursed Stundist.

Are ye so foolish, having begun in the Spirit, are ye now perfected
in the flesh? (Gal. iii. 3).

It is the Spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the
words that I have spoken unto you are spirit, and are life (John
vi. 63).

VIII.

When we sing Te Deums in the fields,
Or consecrate our brooks and springs,
Yea, when we kiss God’s holy Cross,
Then gibes the accursed Stundist.

Ye hypocrites, well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying, This people
honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. But in
vain do they worship me, teaching as their doctrines the precepts of
men (Matt. xv. 7, 8, 9).

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