My friend! consider yourself not only as a schoolboy and a student. I do not think you have been too old to learn, that your strength and achieved this maturity and development, and that the nature of your soul and have already received this form and may not be the best. For a Christian not the finished course, he's always up to the student and disciple of the coffin. As usual, the natural course of...

IX
  About the same
(From a letter to gr. AP T. .... th) [1]

Note, though the power of the Church because we have weak, that our clergy has little sleight of secularism and treatment in society, there is such an absurdity, as the assertion that the clergy, we do debarred from any touch with the life of the charters of our Church and is linked to their actions by the Government . Clergy we describe the laws and the exact boundaries of its contact with the light...

VIII
A FEW WORDS ABOUT OUR CHURCH AND CLERGY
(From a letter to gr. AP T. .... th) [1]

In vain ye troubled you attacks, which are now distributed to our church in Europe. Blaming the indifference of our clergy will also be unfair. Why do you want to our clergy, hitherto been characterized by stately calm, so it decent, was in the ranks of European shouters and the beginning, like them, ill-advised to print brochures? Our Church has acted wisely. To protect her,...

IV
THAT IS THE WORD[1]

     Pushkin, when I read the following verses of the ode to Derzhavina Khrapovitsky:

     For words let me gnaws,
     In case satirist honors, [2] --

     said: "Derzhavin not quite right: the words of the poet's essence is his case." Pushkin rights. Poet on the field of speech should be as immaculate as any other in his career. If the writer will justify what some circumstances, the former...

III
THE IMPORTANCE OF DISEASE
(From a letter to gr. AP T ..... th) [1]

... My strength weakening every minute, but not the spirit. Never before had physical ailments were not so exhausting. Often it is so hard, so hard, so terrible fatigue is felt throughout the body, that he was glad the case, as God knows what, when the day finally ends and dobereshsya to bed. Often, in the emotional impotence, exclaims: "God! where is the last beach of all? "But then, when...