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In 1785, Archbishop Ambrosius of the Russian
Orthodox Church, in an effort to identify as heretics 9
group of dissident Russian peasants, referred to them as
“Doukho-bortsi.". The term literally’ means - spirit
wrestlers — and the priest intended it as a derogatory

label meaning that these people were struggling against

the Holy Spirit.

The Doukhobors adopted the name, but gave their own
interpretation to it, saying: “We are Spirit Wrestlers
because we wrestle with and for the Spirit of God.” By
this they meant that in struggling for a better life they
would use only the spiritual power of love, rather than
any form of violence or coercion.

Thus the Doukhobors acquired their name although
they had already existed as a group for some time.
Earlier, they had been called. “Ikono-bortsi": (Ikon

+ wrestlers) because of their renunciation of the Russian

Orthodox Church ritual of worshipping ikons. “Why
should we bow to a wooden ikon?” they asked. “Let us
rather bow to each other, thus recognizing the Spirit of
God which dwells in each of us.” *
e Di base their on the
“Law of God” which. consists of two commandments:
Heatly, “Recognize and love God — the spiritual Force of
ess and Creativity — with all thy heart, mind and
sot and secondly, “Love thy neighbor as ‘thyself.”
“What is God?” they are asked. The Doukhobors answer:
“God is a word, God is a spirit, God is iuve.” “What is a
soul?”'“The soul of a person is the reflection of God's
spirit in that person. Where there is love between people,
that is where God dwells.”
The Doukhobors understand Jesus Christ to have been

‘born, to have lived and died, in the flesh. His Soul exists

unto eternity; He arose in spirit, and continues to arise in
those people who follow His teachings, not in word, but in
deed. The Doukhobors believe that Jesus, both in His
teachings and His life, showed that the true meaning and
purpose of life is to fulfill God's law. They believe that
through loving between

sense, would mean the renunciation of ali violence and
war and the attainment of a life of peace and goodwill, a
true “heaven on earth.”

The Doukhobors were always interested in a practical
common sense religion which could help people to live a
contented, happy life on earth. Their history is marked by
efforts to bring their beliefs into practive in everyday life.
In this context, D ism can more be
called a way of life, or a social movement, rather than a
religion. This is especially true because, in ving together
as a group for several

“human body, created by God to be pure and

( Who are the

PETER V. VERIGIN

se:
PETER P. VERIGIN
1859 - 1924 1881 -:1939

- because of the foresight of the second leader of. the

oriented ‘society. It consists ‘ofa process of adapting to
changing | conditions, while still -retaining fundamental
values and boliefs. Whereas for centuries the Doukhobors
were illiterate, in the span of a generation or so they have
gained access to the highest levels of formal education,
and in a language and culture totally different from that
in which their whole way of life originated. The stresses
of this transitionary period have resulted in a variety of
changes. In the case ofa small number of | people this haa,

Fortunately, the vast majority. of Doukhobors® i;
Canada were able to avoid these kinds of pitfalls, largely. .:

Doukhobors in Canada, Peter Petrovitch Verigin. In the
years of.the decline of the communal structures, he
counselled young Doukhobors to acquire all of the
positive, constructive aspects of knowledge and skills
which were offered’ through formal education, while at
the same time- retaining their valuable heritage. ‘The
combination of the best influences from these two sources
would prepare them for a life as truly responsible citizens
of the world.:.

Peter P, Vérigin’s initiative brought most of the former
gether in a new organization, the

The Doukhobor stand against killing met with harsh
oppression on the part of Czarist State and Church
and the Doukhot were ‘tortured and

exiled under extremely arduous with the total
loss of all. normal freedom and privileges. Many Deople

to;
Union of Spiritual Communities of Christ (USCC). Also
known as the Orthodox Doukhobors, this group has been
instrumental in maintaining the thread of Doukhobor
cultural activity until the present day. Youth activities, in
particular, have gained new prominence, with the
of Sunday Prayer meetings, Russian-

died, Suffering of such proportions
attention, and with the help of humanitarians such as Leo

Tolstoy and the Society of Friends (Quakers), the’ ,
Doukhobors were able to emigrate to Canada — “a home -

away from home, a haven and a refuge."
In Canada, the Doukhob d

language classes, and youth activity groups. Annual‘
youth festivals held each spring have been a focal point of
cultural activity for 27 consecutive years. The Honorary
Chairman of the. USCC, John J. Verigin has led the
efforts of the ib a f mutual

life-style which has sometimes been rilesred to as their
“Golden Age.” Their agrarian communal society (in some
respects similar to those of the Amish and the Hutterites)
was a glowing tribute to their slogan of “Toil and Peaceful
Life.” The day to day process of working together for
everyone's benefit was a living embodiment of the
Christian ethic “Do unto others, as you would.have them
do unto you.” At the same time, it provided nearly total
self-sufficiency for their simple needs.

pane virtually utopian concepts achieved by the

inspired the obser-
ae in the di This

he
, developed many unique cultural customs oy traditions.
Possibly their: highest development and moral.

achievement was produced by the Doukhobors at the end
of the 19th century. Inspired by the high ideals and
dynanite leadership of Peter Vasilievitch Verigin, the
‘hot made great prog strides in the
Pista of the practical moral and ethical aspects of
their life-style. Aspiring to pacifism, they made a decisive
stand against militarism and all forms of violence. In 1895
they burned. all of the arms and weapons which they
ic t marking their total

ig - Of “life. “Believing that the

the D i in their

lives and, when living up to the ‘standard ot their faith, ‘

di respect, py with the society
around them; so as not to assimilate into cultural oblivion,
but to integrate and live in harmony.as part of Canada's
multi-cultural: mosaic.

Thus, the Doukhobor cultural identity has endured
until now, and in recent years, with the advent of a new
generation of young people, aware of their destiny, it
shows all the signs ofa helathy, vigorous future. Instead ‘

their cultural inh the D
n ‘applying traditional concepts to their everyday lives,
are striving to be in harmony with modern conditions. In
the lL and cult f their origin, they
shave grown to appreciate their
bilingual or even multi-! eguel status. In a orl which i is
faced with a,

present one of the nearest
of the Chrisitan ideal whieh | has ever oan attained.”

The death of their leader and the Great Economic

Depression made it more difficult for the Doukhobors to
in the high of their faith. A

of complex factors, internal and external economic and
cultural pressures, eventually brought: about a discon-
tinuation of the communal life-style. The Doukhobors
entered into a period of,transition: which gontinues to this
day. or _
The i one from a unique, rural,

they resolved henceforth to abstain from the

ethnic, ‘pi life-style to the conventional

tion of animal. flesh’ as food. The habits of alcoho) and
tobacco’were rejected because they serve to harm the

day-to-day existence of the average North American, in
the midst of a fast-paced, technological and urban-

Pp shey Have gained. anew respect ny the simple,
Hf sound traditional life-style

of their pein .

And, most of all, in a world constantly threatened by.
‘outbreaks of violence large and small, Doukhobor youth
stand fast by the precious heritage of eternal Truth which
they inherited. “The welfare of the whole world is not
worth the life of one child” is-a Doukhobor slogan with
passionate meaning in every Doukhobor's heart. And,

times every-

+where,are continuing to strive — se with like-minded «|

people all over the world — for a world where killing and...
war would be unknown and we would ail be one loving.
human. family,.a “Brotherhood of Man under the

* pondence,

Fatherhood of God.”
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Three movies made in
Canada are cleaning up at the
box office, but you'd never
know they're Canadian.

The three films — Porky's,
Quest for Fire and The Ama-
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million during the last’ 10
weeks, a record for films with
Canadian financing.

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for $53.3 million, looks at sex

on a Florida campus. Quest

for Fire, which has gained

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Delegates return

19 peace groups attend

Tworepresentatives of the mothers, the delegates were
Union of Spiritual Commun- _ justified in their efforts to cut
ities of Christ Ladies Organ- through bureaucratic pro-
izations in the Grand Forks ,cesses to attain their goals of
and Kootenay areas recently ‘world disarmament and
returned from Ottawa, peace.
where they attended a Na- The Coalition Conference,
tional Coalition for Disarm- which took place on the firat
ament Cohference. weekend in April, was organ-

While in Ottawa, the two ized by Operation Dismantle,
USCC delegates, Elaine Pod- a nation-wide Nuclear Dis-~
ovinikoff of Grand Forks, and armament group, with head-
Florence Swetlikoff of Slocan quarters in Ottawa. Repre-
Park, also met with various sentatives from 19 different
federal government officials. Peace groups “and organi-

A letter which was add- zations were represented,
ressed to the Prime Minister
(with copies to the leaders of
the USSR, USA and United
Nations) and which was to be
presented Personally, was
instead delivered to Tru-
deau's chief aid, Ted John- —_ Nearly 100 people from the
son, who i that the Koot area
Prime Minister had been travelled to Vancouver. on
unexpectedly called away to’ the weekend, to participate
Winnipeg. in the. massive “Walk for

Johnson arranged for a Peace” which took place Sat-
half hour meeting with Ron-  urday.
ald Erwin, the parliamentary The trip to the coast, made
sé¢retary to Mark MacGui- in two chartered buses (from
gan, External Affairs Min- Grand Forks and Castlegar),
ister. The women also met . as well as several private ve-
with Patrick MacDonald of hicles, was by the

Tho results of the conference
included the initiative of a
National Disarmament Cam-
paign to be co-ordinated from
Toronto.

The USCC delegates ex-
pressed thelr pleasant sur-
prise at the very broad range
of involvement in the peace
movement that they wit-
nessed during their trip. The
learned that between now
and November, over 14 im-
portant dates for disarma-
ment activities are planned,
many of which are happening

ticipants, by police esti-
mates), was staged by the
Coalition for World Disarma-
ment. Based in the Lower
Mainland, this umbrella or-
ganization is composed of a
broad range of church
groups, community organi-
zations, student and profes-
sional associations, peace
groups, women’s groups, and

communications and corres- Union of Spiritual Commun-
ities of Christ Committee for
All three officials read the World Disarmament and
delivered letter and expres- Peace.
sed their appreciation of the § The Vancouver Peace Ral-
USCC Ladies’ Organization's ly, reported to be the largest
concerns. They acknow- of its kind in Canadian his-
ledged that, as women and tory (with nearly 35,000 par-

Information
forum for
veterans

A Community Information
Forum, jointly sponsored by
the Department of Veterans
Affairs and Pacific Command
of the Royal Canadian Le-
gion, will be held 1 p.m., May
16 in the Trail Junior High
Schoo! auditorium.

The forum is to provide
information on benefits avail-
able to-war veterans and
their dependents and to all
senior citizens generally.

Information will be pro-
vided on veterans legislation,
including new legislation
which provided eligibility for
pensions. for widows who
have not previously been eli-
gible.

With the cooperation of of-
ficials of National Health and
Welfare and the Provincial:
Ministries of Human Re-
sources and Health, informa-
tion will also be provided on
Old ‘Age Security Pensions,
Guarnateed Income Supple-,
ment, Canada Pension Plan,
and provincial legislation
such as Guaranteed Income
for. Need, Shelter Aid for
Elderly Renters ete.

Robson tea
a success

Robson” Evening Group
Ladies Spring Tea was quite
successful. The bake table
and raffle tables drew the
most attention.

In charge of door tickets
was Roberta Zurek; bake ta-
bles, Edith Geraud and Blon-
dine Perra; sew table, Betty
Porter and Irene Godberson;
raffle tables, Em Scott, Syl-
via Smith and Veronica Len-
ihan. The kitchen was cap-
ably manned by Faye Bel-
beck, Sharon’ Batting, Judy
Rowlands, Bernice Jenson
and Linda Hawley.

of all levels
of politics and government.

The huge demonstration,
stretching out over a 6.5 kil-
ometre route, ended at Sun-
set Beach in Vancouver's
West End. Here the crowd
listened to featured speakers
such as Dr. William Epstein,

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in several cities at the same
time, “It seems that almost
everyone is concerned with
the danger of being blown up
through nuclear war,” they
stated.

ROCKFORD, ILL. (AP) —
Money isn't everything to
Jerry and Debbie Weiner —
it's virtually nothing. They
simply don't use it.

‘With few exceptions, The
Weiners live without cash,
everything

At the they
learned that Operation Dis-
mantle was being established
in England. Gerry Birch, one
of the English organizers,
was in Ottawa at the same
time, and they were pleased
to meet him, during a visit at
the Operation .Dismantle
head office.

Walk for Peace

a Canadian UN official, Jim
Douglass of the Trident Nu-
clear protest group “Ground
Zero,” Federal Members of
Parliament representing all
major parties, and others.
Entertainment was also pro-
vided, including an excellent
children's choir with a reper-
toire of peace songs,

April 24 had been desig-
nated “International Nuclear
Protest Day,” and demon-
strations were held in num-
erous locations throughout
the. world. Kootenay-Boun-
dary residents who took part
in the Vancouver walk re-
ported the event: to be “a
very inspiring experience."

lron

Cast

through trade.

They just moved into a
$120,000 home in a nice sub-

urb and furnished it without.

a cash outlay. And, contem-
plating living a full life, they
have arranged for a funeral
site together through barter.

It began 15 months ago
when they were married in
California with about every-
thing paid for on trade-—
from the engagement ring, to
the catering, to ballroom
rental, to musicians, Hawai-
ian honeymoon and scubs
diving.

Even the required legal
bloodtests, the minister, car
rentals, flowers, tuxedos,
bridesmaids’ dresses — all
were taken care of in trade.

“It was $10,000 worth of
wedding and the only cahs
involved was about $300 for
tips and sales taxes,” said
40-year-old Weiner, who is
even paying child support of
a previous marriage through
barter.

“Barter is one of the
world’s oldest professions.
Simply, it's the exchange of
actual goods and services for
each other instead of cash.”

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The granddaddy of all
trades was pulled off in 1626
by Peter Minuit, a Dutch
colonial governor, who gave a
tribe of Indians some trinkets
worth $24 for Manhattan
Island,

“About the only thing we
pay cash for is Uncle Sam
(taxes) and the phone com-
pany..They don't take trade
yet, but we're working on it!"

May 15

CASTLEGAR NEWS, April 28, 1982 BS

Answer to tight money

sald Mrs. Weiner, bedecked
in barter-gained designer
clothes and jewelry.
- The Weiners came up
through the ranks of Busi-
ness Exchange, a 20-year-old
California-based group that
has hit the computer age
with about 66 offices and
15,000 member businesses
across the country.

“We're an association of

Sheep-to-shawl

‘Shear’ ‘delight for the
public is the Second Annual
West. Kootenay Sheep-to-
Shawl Contest is held May 15
at the Slocan Valley Threads
Guild, located five miles
north of Winlaw on Highway
6 in the Slocan Valley.

Four teams, each team
consisting of one live sheep, a

-shearer, and four spinner-

weavers, will race through
shearing a fleece, carding and
spinning the wool, and warp-
ing and weaving on the loom
to produce a 30” x 60" hand-
spun and woven shawl,

At last years competition
the scores, based on quality
and speed, were very close;
so this year the four teams
from the Nelson-Castlegar
area are already training to
win the Sheep Trophy 82. +

: The Sheep-to-Shawl Con- °

test begins at 11 a.m. sharp;
there will also be a sale of
textile crafts, and local
sheepbreeders will have
fleece for sale to handspin-
ners and quilters.

Everyone is welcome:
come and be a ‘shearleader’
for your favorite team!

small business owners and
medium-sized businesses
that deal with one another
through trade checks,” said
Weiner, who in a few months
has expanded his Rockford
area franchise to 125 busi-
nesses, “When a member
wants to buy something, he
goes to a store that is a
member, picks out the prod-
uct he wants and pays for it
with a trade check.”

New members pay a $345
entrance fee for a book of
“BarterCheks” with accounts
in “Barter Bank,” giving
them access to every con-
ceiveable business and ser-
vice in the system.

“We do everything a bank
does, but we do it on debits
and credits of merchandise
rather than hard cash,” said
Weiner, emphasizing that at
at ime of sky-high interest
rates, barter creates a par-
allel economy not tied dir-
ectly to the nation’s money
system,

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hamper, Meda Webster and
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hope to see everyone again i in
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