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Crown with Thy loving kindness, O Lord, this year which now begins!
When on commissariat duties in Pomerania by order of the author of my being,[2] I heard that at Moscow, in the church of the Assumption, Stephen, the Metropolitan of Riazan, denounced the decree relating to delators-informers in civil and church matters-and other laws contrary to the Church, crying unto the people: -