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Chapter IV. 



rectangular form, and an octagonal pavilion, not unlike 

 many summer-houses or garden pavilions that I have 

 seen at home. How far the divergence between the two 

 forms of religion was indicated in the two mathematical 



THE NEW CHURCH AND THE OLD CHURCH AT KHABAROVA. 



{From a Photograph.) 



figures I am unable to say. It might be that the 

 simplicity of the old faith was expressed in the simple, 

 four-sided building, while the rites and ceremonies of 

 the other were typified in the octagonal form, with its 

 double number of corners to stumble against. Then we 



