was written capital punishment was considered to be abolished in

The second relation of the Church to a question of life was

with regard to war and executions.

At that time Russia was at war. And Russians, in the name of

Christian love, began to kill their fellow men. It was impossible

not to think about this, and not to see that killing is an evil

repugnant to the first principles of any faith. Yet prayers were

said in the churches for the success of our arms, and the teachers