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 Lord, what an inciting and repulsive sermon! The Metropolitan mispronounced the Ukrainian words. He cursed and anathemized the great Russians and those Ukrainians who were not in accord with him. He shouted that many Ukrainians, following the example of the "Katzaps" (Russians), fraternized with the Jews, disobeyed the Church authorities, and listened to the Rabbis instead; that they were breaking away from the power of the clergy and, consequently, from God Himself; that many of them had been circumcized by the rabbis, broken God's Commandments, and were robbing and killing the innocent landed proprietors, who, as edu-



cated men, were the flower of Russia and the Ukraine; that, finally, they had dared raise their voices against Hetman Skoropadsky himself, who had been chosen by God and the saints of the Pechersk Monastery and who was the Savior of the Ukraine and the Orthodox Faith; that they dared resist the German soldiers whom God Himself sent to aid Skoropadsky and who though yesterday's enemies, forgot their animosity and came to bring about peace and order from chaos; and yet the people were unwilling to share with