St. Nektary, Archbishop of Yaransk (†1937) "foresaw that although our struggle for the Truth
of Christ was holy, it would be weak and without success. From the history of the Church we see that
all the fighters for the Truth of Christ perished in the struggle and that the work of God for which they struggled triumphed only after their death. That is what will happen in our struggle with sergianism. The people has become indifferent and lukewarm towards church questions, while the clergy - in its greater part, that is - have become simply fulfillers of the rites whose only concern is to have enough to eat and live quietly...
The Church has departed into the wilderness, that is, she has hidden in secret places; Thus was it in the times of martyrdom, of iconoclasm and of all the heresies when there was a persecution against the supporters of Divine Truth - while our time is that of the preparation for the Antichrist and his kingdom."