Note 7 — Chapter L · THE USSURI AND SUNGACHA.

Their work seemed very nearly a repetition of the wholesale baptism at Kieff by command of Vladimir, or of the baptisms by Roman missionaries of whole villages at a time. The first missionary whom I questioned thought it enough if, before baptism, the candidates could say the short prayers of the Russian Church; the second appeared content with less than this. Further south, however, I met a parish priest who was not a missionary proper, but who in ten years had baptized ten persons; and in his case he said he had usually kept his candidates under instruction for a year or more.