FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE.
A STARTLING ADDRESS.
(Per R.M.S. Ventura at Auckland.)
San Francisco, Nov. 14,
A despatch from St. Petersburg says that great excitement was caused by an address which M. A. Stapkovich, Marshall of the province of Orel, used in greeting the Missionary Congress at Orel. Stapkovich boldly preached freedom of conscience, toleration of the dissidents, and other arch-heresies, with which tho nobles and officials are popularly supposed not to be tainted. The speech was printed by the paper of Princo Oukptomsky, which appears to have more than common courage, and called forth a storm of protest from the orthodox priests, and from the whole reactionary press. The speaker declared that the orthodox faith was strong enough to dispense with police, and said it was time for everybody to preach salvation after his own fashion.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 279, 4 December 1901, Page 3
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