Notes Notes A few months ago, Khlistoun was banished to a remote and inhospitable part of the Caucasus, where he has suffered great hardships and poverty. Kapustinski was banished nearly five years ago, and is now only a wreck of the man he was when he roused the peasants of Kief to their revolt against the formalism and slavery of the Russian Church. We dare not give the name of this man. His term of imprisonment has expired, and he is again at liberty; but should public mention be made of him and of his work, it would do much to reawaken the suspicion of the Russian authorities. In another chapter we shall have more to say about the removing of the children from the care of Stundist parents. Within the last year or so it has become quite a common occurrence. The cases mentioned above vere among the first. There are ten verses of this violent rubbish. The poem bears the official imprimatur of the Ecclesiastical censor. It is entitled "The Damned Stundist," and its motto and superscription is, "If he neglect to hear the Church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican." Our remarks on the details of the organisation of Stundist communities deal with, the normal position of the affairs of this body. Within the last three years, however, the persecution has been so fierce, and the consequent internal disorder be complete, that at the present moment it can hardly be said that the Stundists have any well-ordered communities at all. The penal code of Russia contains several clauses dealing with "crimes" against icons and similar objects. Disrespectful language about an icon is punishable with eight months to three years' imprisonment, and the wilful destruction of an icon with banishment to Siberia for life. Marriages among Stundists, conducted as we have described, are illegal. Stundists to be legally married must have had the ceremony performed in the Orthodox Church by an Orthodox priest.