THE SIN OF SHAVING.
MANIFESTO BY RUSSIAN OLD BELIEVERS. . One of the. severest sects of Russian Old has just issued a. manifesto, directed against the "noxious evil" of shaving and cutting the beard. This heretical custom has, it is stated,' been spreading among Old Believers during the last thirty years. Shorn men and men with clipped.beards come to church, kiss the holy cross and the holy' ikons, and even receive the Holy Mysteries. They • are apparently unconscions that they are living in a. state of habitual deadly sin. In order to make them realise the abominable nature of their criminal vanity, it is now ordered that, if a shorn man wishes to be married, he is to be told that the Church will not provide a grand wedding with singing and ceremonies unless ho repents. Olherivise the sorvi:o will be of tho barest character. The clergy aro warned that some persons, with subtle' cunning, seek to conceal .their sin by shaving so exceedingly clean that they have the appearance of beardless youths.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 811, 7 May 1910, Page 15
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172THE SIN OF SHAVING. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 811, 7 May 1910, Page 15
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