The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy: the village to which he was commissioned. He
was pleasantly conscious of the importance of his
mission. All his doubts as to his own faith passed
away, and he was now fully convinced of its real-
ity.
His thoughts, far from being concerned with
the real foundation of his creed--this was ac-
cepted as an axiom--were occupied with the argu-
ments used against the forms of worship.
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THE village priest and his wife received Father
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