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What people wanted,
he said, was a New Jerusalem. A violent altercation with his Superior
touching the attributes of the Holy Ghost ended in a broken jaw-bone on
the part of the older man, and the expulsion of the younger. The
dialectical period had set in. The convent inmates, on the whole, were
glad to see the last of him--particularly the Father Superior.
We next find him living in a large barn about fifteen miles from
Moscow. The Superior being unwilling to publish the true facts of the
broken jaw-bone, a certain fame, the fame of an earnest but
misunderstood religious innovator, had preceded him. Adherents, barely
twenty at first, gathered to his side. These disciples, humble
analphabetics like himself, have left us no word of what passed at
those long discussions. Certain it is that he now began to formulate
the rules of his Revised Church. They were to live on charity, to go
bare-headed, and to wear red blouses--like the Christians of old. The
charm of these simple regulations spread abroad, and gained him fresh
recruits.


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