Arizona republican., 1900-11-27


 serivce, his hsad bare and bowed. M. Loubet, the most democratic president France has known. is d Catholic, and prefers to worship in a simple way as a private citizen. King Victor Emma h. uel of Italy is a Roman Catholic. Car los l. of Portugal, is a Catholic, as in dolent and as apathetic in his religious duties as in those of his rule rship. AL fonso, the boy king Of Spain, is a Cath ollie. Pope Leo XIII is his godfather. With his mother. the queen regent. he attends mass every Sunday Leopold, king of the Belgians is q Catholic.
 The czar of RGssia, the only layman of the Orthodox Russian church who is allowed to step foot into an altar. has his private chapel in both St. Peters burg and Moscow. There is high mass for his majesty every Sunday. The mu- sic is entirely vocal. the singers being inVistbl" according to the customs of the church-no instrumental music be- ing allowed. The altar in the cZar's | chapel is behind golden gates. on which sacred subjects are frescCed. Suddenly th= gates burst open and the 'Gloria" is sung by the invisible choir. Both the czar and the czarina. are very pune tilious about their hours of worship.
 King George, of Greece, and Queen Olga. are both davctees of the Ortho- d-X Gre, k church. Their private chap el in Athens is one of the prettiest lit- tie churches in Greece. Here they wor- ship every Sunday vixen in the capital. Nicholas. rul-r of Montenegro. also , lives according to the teachings of the n faI,t L- rl pf Roumun!a and Carmen Sylva, his queen. belong to the same church, as does Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria. King Alexander of Servia is of the Or thodox Greek faith, but not at all reg ular in his church attendance.
 The Sultan of Turkey, an extreme Mohammedan. scas to public worship at the big mosque in Constantin0pie every Friday. He rides in a closed car riage, attended by t5n thousand sol Gf IFS. and all along the line os march the people shout as he passes: There is no God but AL lah and MOhammed is his prophet" On all Vther days in the year he wor- ships in privat5. The Khedive of Egypt and all his family are also of tn. Mohammedun faith. At the alabaster mosque of MOhamet Ali in Cairo, once "a year. the Khedive and all the male members of his household attend pub lie worship. No outsider is Dc rmitt5 q Go attend. The shah of Persia is a Mo- hammedun who Cbss rves his religious duties only in a most perfunctory and worldly way. The sultan of Morocco, a young man only eighteen years old, is of the Mohdmmedln faith. the religion of his prs decessors.
 Menelik II. king of Abyssnla, goes to his native church every day in the year. On Sunday he attends Holy Trinity church; for Christianity was in- troduced into his country in the fourth century.
 The king of Siam is Buddhist and was for some time d priest, as is the custom with all the rulers of that cour- try. During his priesthood he shaved his head and temporarily gave up the crown to wear yellow cotton scarf about his waist and spend his days n fasting and prayer.
 The emperor and empress of Japan are disciples of Shintoism, the faith of their ancestors for centuries back They are both attentive to their reli- si us duties. though their outward life, perhaps unc0nEciously. carries out many of the teachings Of christianity.
 It is said that among monarchs tn. emperor of China is the greatest martyr to religious ceremonials. As the chief high priest he has to offer a sacrifice to q different god almost every week in Ghe yeug. To each sacrifice is d. dicated
 
 is supposed to pass every one of these days in solitude. Another heather r5- ligiOus rule which the emperor is bound ito observe is that of offering hundreds of silk balloons each year before the tablets of his long line of predecessors. Altogether he spends more than one hundred and fifty days each year in re- ligious duties.
 President Mckinley is in every sense of the word a Chr.stian-regularly at tending service at the Metropolitan Methodist Episcopal church in Wash ing.on or the Methodist Episcopal church of Canton. When he is not in his pew on Sunday, the pastor knows that something extraordinary has oc- cured tO keep the most distinguished member of his flock at home. Mrs. Mckinley, being an invalid, is not able to be a regular attendant at church. so the presidt mt has to go alone, or q: best accompanied by a cabinet minis ter H. always joins in the hymns and li.r ems intently to the sermon. He particularly enjoys the rour of ser vice. because fer this hour he is the private citizen, the simple worshiper.
 The presid n;s of the South and Gen. eral American republics are nearly all Catholics but only a few of them at tend divins service. Among the few is President D.aZ. of Mexico. a devoUt re- ligionist and most scrupulous in mat ters of doing good. He is very benev- Olent and assists Mrs. Diaz in main taining many charities.
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