Serbia in Light and Darkness

in Light and Darkness, by
Nikolaj Velimirovic

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Title: Serbia in Light and Darkness With Preface by the Archbishop of
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Author: Nikolaj Velimirovic
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SERBIA IN LIGHT AND DARKNESS
BY

REV. FATHER NICHOLAI VELIMIROVIC
WITH PREFACE BY THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY
WITH 25 ILLUSTRATIONS
LONGMANS, GREEN AND CO.
39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON
FOURTH AVENUE & 30th STREET, NEW YORK
BOMBAY, CALCUTTA, AND MADRAS
1916
AUTHOR'S NOTE.
The aim of this volume is to give to the English-speaking people some
glimpses into the past struggles, sufferings and hopes of the Serbian
nation. I have tried to describe the Serbian life in light, in its peace, its
peaceful work, its songs and prayers; in darkness, in its slavery, its sins,
its resistance to evil and battle for freedom.
It is only the peoples which suffer themselves that can understand and
sympathise deeply with the Serbian soul. I dedicate, therefore, the
following pages to all those who suffer much in these times, and whose
understandings are enlarged and human sympathies deepened by
sufferings.
I will take this opportunity of expressing my warm and respectful
thanks to His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury for his kind
assistance and generous commendation of my work in England.
My gratitude is due to the Rev. G.K.A. Bell and Dr. E. Marion Cox for
their help in the revision of these pages.
NICHOLAI VELIMIROVIC.

London, April, 1916.
CONTENTS.
PREFACE BY THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY

PART I.
LECTURES ON SERBIA ENGLAND AND SERBIA SERBIA FOR
CROSS AND FREEDOM SERBIA AT PEACE SERBIA IN ARMS

PART II.
FRAGMENTS OF SERBIAN NATIONAL WISDOM

PART III.
FRAGMENTS OF SERBIAN POPULAR POETRY
ILLUSTRATIONS.
H.M. KING PETER CROWN PRINCE ALEXANDER PREMIER N.
PASHITCH KING MILUTIN SOLDIER ON GUARD THE
GOAT-HERD DURING TURKISH RULE IN SERBIA THE
MONASTERY OF CETINJE THE SECOND SERBIAN
REVOLUTION OF 1815 THE MONASTERY OF KALENIC
SERBIAN SOLDIERS WITH AN ENGLISH NURSE SERBIAN
OFFICERS UNDER ADRIANOPLE IN 1912 THE CATTLE
MARKET A TYPICAL MONTENEGRIN LADY--H.M. QUEEN
MILENA PEASANT TYPES THE SUPERIOR OF A MONASTERY
KING PETER AND THE TURKISH GENERAL WOMEN DOING

THE WORK OF MEN From a photograph by Underwood and
Underwood SERBIAN WOMEN CARRYING WOUNDED From a
photograph by kind permission of Mr. Crawford Price WAITING FOR
A PLACE IN THE HOSPITAL From a photograph by Topical Press
Agency "MY MOTHER."
SPLIET-SPALATO
A SERBIAN REFUGEE
SPINNING BY MOONLIGHT
DUBROVNIK-RAGUSA

PREFACE
BY THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY.
The presence of Father Nicholai Velimirovic in England during the last
few months has brought to the many circles with which he has been in
touch a new message and appeal enforced by a personality evoking an
appreciation which glows more warmly the better he is known. But this
little book is more than the revelation of a personality. It will be to
many people the introduction to a new range of interest and of thought.
He would be a bold man who would endeavour at present to limit or
even to define what may be the place which the Serbia of coming years
may hold in Eastern Europe as a link between peoples who have been
widely sundered and between forces both religious and secular which
for their right understanding have needed an interpreter. Of recent days
the sculpture and the literature of Serbia have been brought to our doors,
and England's admiration for both has drawn the two countries more
closely together in a common struggle for the ideals to which that art
and literature have sought to give expression. It is not, I think, untrue to
say that to the average English home this unveiling of Serbia has been
an altogether new experience. Father Nicholai's book will help to give
to the revelation a lasting place in their minds, their hopes and their
prayers.

RANDALL CANTUAR.
LAMBETH, Easter, 1916.


PART I
LECTURES ON SERBIA

ENGLAND AND SERBIA.
Delivered for the first time in the Chapter House of Canterbury
Cathedral. Chairman: the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury.
THE SIGN OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND.
YOUR GRACE, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,
To come to Canterbury, to visit this Sion of the Church of England, that
has been my dream since my fourteenth year, when I for the first time
was told of what a spiritual