Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-11-05
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bred monks. and many iinclooking
Creek priests stood about as ! went
up the stairs of rose colored marble.
| passed through several rooms filled
with, high-capped, black-gowncd ccclc-
siastics, and as waited priests and
bishops from the four quarters Of
! Greek Catholicism passed In and out.
! one of the priests, who spoke English,
went with me into the audience
| chamber. and gave me seat at the
| right of the throne. He asked me to
wait telling me that his bentitude
| would be in5very shortly.
In the meantime there were others
| who had come. Tor an audience. and
| the long tabletin the center of the
room and the chairs on each side of it
| were soon filled. The most of the men
were bearded, tinc-lOoking priests,
| dressed In black gowns and high
caps.
AS we waited n servant brought In n
silver tray containing plate of rose
and white cubes of Turkish delight and
| several glasses of water. Upon the tray
were many silver forks. each having
| two fine tines as long as my little fn-
| ger AS the candy was passed each
! man of us took q fork and stabbed It
into a cube of the sweet, and thus con-
vcycd it to his mouth. 1t was de-
| licious.
ny ana pS llit psttTl'lFcn entered. 1it
talked first with some Of the priests
and | had n good chance to study him
Imagine II tall. iine-lOoking, full-hrurtl-
ed, farfaced man of 81, dressed In Il
long, black gown and a rinleSs black
cap, which rises eight inches over his
forehead. The gown is cut full and it
falls to his feet. His cap is draped with
black cloth which covers his shoulders
and about his neck Is long, heavy gold
chain. to which hangs an ivory medal
lion rs big as the palm of your hand
The rim Of this medallion is studded
with diamonds and inside tho rim Is a
painting Of the Madonna with the Holy
Child in her arms.
l watched the man as no talked. He
gcsturcd now and then and | saw that
his hands were soft and his nails well
kept. His face changed with the sub
ject and the man he spoke to. At times
he was serious. again his eyes sparkled
with animation, and now and then he
broke into n smile.
My talk with him was through the
Greek priest, who spoke English. I
asked his beatitude as to the condition
OF the church and whether 1t would
improve In the revolution which Is now
going on In Turkey. He replied that
he had no doubt of that. saying that
the church was democratic body and
1t ought therefore to do well under Il
constitutional government, such as Tur-
key now has.
His bcntitudo spoke of the many sects
Of Christians which We're now IN the
Holy Land saying that they were grad
ually growing more liberal. and that
they would work more in harmony than
they had In the past.
FUTURE CHRISTIANITY.
asked his holiness as to the life Of
the priests and whether he thought 1t
WAS as plous MS that of the hermits
who lived In the second and third CEN
turtles after Christ. He replied that he
doubted whether man was as good now
rs then. but that tho church was doing
what 1t could to bring him back to tho
faith. He said he believed that the
time would come when al mankind
would be Christians although that, time
would probably be fnr In the future.
l was surprised to hear him speak well
of the Protcstants and to say that all
Christian sects would eventually unite
and work together as one for the sal
walton of man.
His beatitude was much Interested In
America, and at my request gave me
the blessing which he gives to MI true
believers, saying that might transmit