The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-08-24
sung. These are questions which ev- cry church has right to settle for it. self.-Boston Evening Transcript.
ELECTING A PATRIARCH.

Turbulent Scenes When Joachim III of Constantinople Was Chosen. By the kindness of the authorities at Phanar l was allowed to be present at the reelection of Joachim III as Ecu menica.l Patriarch at Constantinople. The election was a unique one in every way, principally by the fact that for the first time, it is believed, the electors were unanimous, also that it Is prob ably the last of the struggle which has been going on for the last seventeen years between the Joachimists and anti Joachimists. which has divided the strength and unity of the Greek Ortho- dox community here for so long, Accompanied by one of the lawyers of the Patriarchate, I went by caique from the Stamboul Bridge to Phanar. On arriving we found an excited popu- lace crying out for the election of Joachim; we were then shown into an ante-room where were seated many members of the mixed council consist ing of laymen and Metropolitans.
 By a special favor I was allowed to attend the meeting of the mixed coun- cil, whose duty it was to choose three names from their list of candidates, as amended by the Porte, After an ad- dress by the Locum Tenens, the Arch bishop of Broussa in which he pointed 'out the responsibility which rested on the assembly and the momentous influ- ence 1t would have on the church, the council proceeded by ballot to elect; the three elected candidates being Joachim III and the Metropolitan of
 
 somewhat disturbed by the excited cries of the crowd without the council chamber.
 Directly the result of the poll was de- clared, an indescribable scene of con- fusion reigned; the archbishops, on whom falls the final choice, trying in vain to proceed to the church through the excited throng. An archbishop, seeing was in danger of being left be- hind, gave me his hand, and by the help of the secretary of the synod on the other side, we managed to reach the cathedral door. Here Turkish soldiers tried in vain to make passage for the procession of the archbishops, and it was not for some minutes we were able to proceed. I had lost my friend the secretary of the synod, but still had the support of one of the Metropoli- tans; in this way we reached the mid- dle of the cathedral, where round ta- be on which were two lights and book of the Gospels, with bowl for the votes, we grouped ourselves.
 By this time the excitement had grown in dimensians, and a short hymn of invocation was nearly drowned by the camor Then, headed by the Locum Tenens, the Metropolitans came up to the table one by one to record their votes, which, after kissing the book of the Gospels, they placed in the bowl. There was no real secret as to the vot- ing, one or two of the Metropolitans showing me his vote before he dropped it in.
 With unanimous voice the arch bishops chose Joachim again to the throne and when the result was read out, the excitement, which before was intense, knew no bounds; the arch bishops were seized and kissed by the excited crowd, and cheers for the new Patriarch drowned all other sounds We were hurried out by side door behind the altar, and returned to the Patri- archate where telegram was sent to Joachim IT, who was living at Mount Athos, to announce his election-The Church Times.