Gapon's Life in the Church

Gapon saw in the official hierarchy only corruption, hypocrisy and decay. He then spent a few years bouncing round, trying different things to make money. One of his teachers then slipped him some tolstoy, whose anarco christian broadsides further blasted gapon's faith,. Not in god, but in the church. Gapon wanted to minister to the poor and the impoverished and the suffering like a true christian. His evident concern for their material as well as their spiritual well being made him a potentially potent leader of the workers movement.