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| Ecclesiastical Department (At the approach of Christmas the Baptists petitioned the Ecclesiastical Department for permission to hold prayer meetings on the festival, and, moreover, sent a deputy to the head of that Department, who promised to order the reopening of their house of prayer – from The United Methodist ('Religious Intolerance in Russia') Tamerlane) | |||
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