The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-05-24

both sides of the doors of the altar:
then Czaritza Alexandra advances. fol-
lowed by her own and hardly less i'm
posing retinue of gentlemen and ladies
in waiting.
AS the car stands before the omen
doors, the eldest metropolitan brings
out a precious vessel containing the
holy chrism with which to annoint the
sovereign. This vessel is made of las
par, mounted in gold. and is known to
have belonged to the Roman Emperor
Augustus Caesar; IL was sent as a pres
ent to the Russian Grand Duke Vladi-
mir Monomachus by one of the Greek
emperors. just before the close of the
tenth century. The metropolitan takes
in his hand little stick. and immers-
ing IL in the chrism, annoints Nicholas
H. by tracing cross on the latter's
forehead, on his nostrils, his ears, his
barred breast and on both sides of his
hands-each time uttering the words,
The seal of the gift of the Holy
Ghost" while another metropolitan
wipes on each Amounted spot with a
piece of tissue paper that Is forthwith
burned on the altar. The annointment
of the different parts of the cars body
is meant to be the token of the grace of
the Holy Ghost that is to strengthen all
the faculties of the car, to enable him
to bear the enormous responsibilities
devolving on him as the autocratic rul-
er OF 1871 900 human beings belonging
to over 20 different tribes and nation
alities.
AS Nicholas withdraws, taking his
stand to the right of the altar, before
the image of the savior, the czaritza
approaches and is also Amounted; but
she has the sign of the cross traced on
her forehead alone. Immediately after
this both take communion; she, in the
form in which all the lay people take
It, but the car takes Ii as do the
priest He is led to the altar, where
he kneels thrice before the exposed
host and then administers communion
to himself with his own hands-first
the body, and then the blood of Christ.
This is the only time in his life when
the car is allowed to do this for ii is
to be remembered that the car holds
no ecclesiastical rank in the church
whatever, any more than does Queen
Victoria in the Church of England
A solemn Thanksgiving TIE Deum fol-
lows; then the royal pair leave the ca
thedral, emerging from the northern
door and proceed along the elevated
walk outside, In plain view of the hun
dreds of thousands who throng the
whole enclosure of the Kremlin. First,
they proceed to the Cathedral of the
Archangel, and thence to the Cathe-
dral of the Announciation, where they
pray for a little while at the biers of
former Russian rulers, of the patri-
archs of the church, and at the shrines
of several saints reposing within those
walls. E
Nicholas II. and the Empress Alex
andra return to the large Kremlin pal
ace by the historic Red Porch" on
which they stop. Here both the czar.
and the czaritza, standing on the red
carpeted stairs, and bend their heads
low before the people-those in front,
and on the right and on the left-amid
the unceasing "hurrahs" of the assem-
bled populace. And that the people are
sincere in this profuse expression of
their JOY at the event is open to no
doubt in the minds of such as have
any knowledge of the masses of the
Russian people.
DR.. KLOPSCH MEETS THE CAR.
Having received, the day previous, a
communication from the minister of
the interior that the then caesarevitch.
now the Emperor Nicholas H., desired
to meet the commissioners" who were
visiting Russia on an errand of mercy
in connection with The Christian Her
add" steamship Leo, laden with bread