The Way of a Pilgrim and the Pilgrim Continues His Way by Olga Savin

Author:Olga Savin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Shambhala

THE SIXTH MEETING

“Brother helped by brother is like a city, strong and tall; it is fortified as a firmly established kingdom.”

—PROV. 18:19 14

PILGRIM: “As I promised and gave my word yesterday, when I saw you, I brought along my esteemed travelling companion, the one who made my journey more pleasant with his illuminating conversations, and whom you wanted to meet.”

STARETS: “I am very pleased, as, I hope, are my honored guests, to see both of you and to enjoy the benefit of hearing about your experiences. Here are my guests: This is a venerable skhimnik, and this is a Reverend Father. And so, where there are two or three gathered in the name of Jesus Christ, there He Himself also promised to be. Since there are already five of us gathered in His Name, then certainly His Grace will be poured out on us all the more abundantly!

“Good friend, the story that your travelling companion told me yesterday about your ardent devotion to the Holy Gospel is remarkable and enlightening. I would be curious to hear how this great devout mystery was revealed to you.”

PROFESSOR: “In His great mercy, the abundantly loving Lord, who desires that all be saved and come to the knowledge of truth, revealed this knowledge to me in a wondrous manner, without any human intervention. I was a professor at the Lyceum* for five years, living a de-generate life swept away by vain secular philosophies, but not according to Christ. I might have totally perished if not for some positive influence from my devout mother and my sister, a serious, unmarried young woman, with whom I lived. . . .

“One day, while strolling along the main boulevard, I met and made the acquaintance of a wonderful young man. He told me that he was a Frenchman, with a degree, and had recently come from Paris to seek a tutoring position. I was very impressed by his high level of education. Since he was new in town, I invited him to my home, and we became friends. For two months, he often visited me, and sometimes we went out together, amused ourselves, and went to places that were, as you may imagine, frequented by less-than-moral people.

“One day, he invited me to one such place and, to convince me to go, he carried on about the special attractions that this place had to offer. After a few moments, he suddenly stopped talking and asked if we could leave my study, where we had been sitting, and go to the drawing-room. This seemed strange to me, and I mentioned that this was not the first time that I had noticed his unwillingness to be in my study. I asked, ‘What is the reason for this?’ I was also trying to detain him, because the drawing-room was next to my mother’s and sister’s rooms, and it would be inappropriate to hold a conversation such as ours there. He offered several pretexts to get me to leave, until finally, he honestly admitted, ‘Among the other books on your shelf, there’s a New Testament.

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