Ruthenians Revive Hussite Tradition In Simple Worship

Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 277, 23 November 1935, Page 13

Ruthenians Revive Hussite Tradition In Simple Worship

I’EAGUE. —la the section of Bulkeaia which, was a battleiiold duriug the Great War, and especially among the simple eodntry population living along the Biver Uz, a religious movement is spreading which has much in common with the ancient Bohemian (Jhurch of LJnitas i'ratrum. Xta centre is the village of Yolosanka. Bar from being fanatical sectaries, the new brotherhood maintains a high standard of morals. They' have given up smoking and drinking, and live in conformity with tho spirit of the iNcw Testament. Their louder is Peter Alusak, a Buthenian railway worker. Tho brethren meet in his cottago dressed in white liuen trouosers. and m big woollen coats. Their older gives readings out of an old Czech Bible and from a Bussian prayerbook. The enthusiasm, with which thoy ceiqbrato the feast of John Hus Bay is a sign 1 of their rolaliionship to ~the Bohemian Hussite tradition. , ; » . • “What happened to your nice lodger, Mrs. Murphy?" '‘Oh, I had to get rid of him. He cold mo - he was a Bachelor of Arts from Cambridge and I found out he had a wife and family in Nottingham.’’