Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-08-20


wv WARSAW, Aug. s.-Fierce re-
ligious prosecutions still con-
" tinue in that part of the Rus
sian empire known as the
Chem country. Even In other parts
of the empire Roman Catholic priests
are fined and imprisoned for bapizng
young people who wish TO enter that
church. At the present moment the
Russian parliament has declared tor
those who took the church OF Obol by
force from its owners and worshipers
and turned It into temple Of tho
orthodox Greek church. This church
was built some 100 years ago. by Count
Suhodolski; and endowed by his family.
Their bodies found a resting place
there, till Bishop Euloginz who is a
Greek ecclesiastic, considered that the
church should belong to Greek Catho-
lies. The necessary alterations were
made. but. according to the Russian
orthodox rite. the bodies of the dead
may not lie in the front part of the
church, so the remains of the founders
family We're taken from their graves in
order to be moved to the cemetery.
SO strong is the feeling between Or
thodox and dissenters In the Chelm
tldl lut oTtfONOA NoTkintll
could not restrain themselves from des-
ecrating the bodies. The founder OF the
church was taken from his coffin and
his embalmed body propped up on
pile of birches. while the mon worked
its arms up and down and made the
sign OF the cross after the orthodox
fashion. This mans descendant who
went from Paris in order to see the re-
mains OF his ancestors reverently re-
moved, was Mortified TO find, on enter
ing the church yard, that they were
all set against the church wall, much
to the amusement Of the workmen, who
put these silent corpses through a mock
catechism When the count applied TO
the authorities he was told that moth
ing could be done.
SURPRISING THE UNIATs.
These are the comparatively mild
remnants Of the terrible treatment
these Uniats of the Cheim country were
subjected 10 until year or two back.
The Uniats were a sect who though
practising some orthodox rites had al
legiance to Rome. The Russian reac-
tionaries determined TO make them or
thodox and take their churches away to
give the livings 10 Russian clergy. But
the peasants were attached to their Gus
toms and grimly determined to pre-
serve them. The government called the
tndllktS necessary 70 bfi0S -uDVlt tnlh
state OF affairs reforms" Among other
things the clergy were told 20 abolish
organs, benches, hymns I'm the Polish
language and many other details The
peasants were to sign papers To- the
effect that they voluntarily eschewed
their faith. The priests who would not
submit were TO he exiled and orthodox
clergymen Installed in their stead. IT,
many villages. whore orthodox clergy
were Installed the peasants ceased 70
attend church at all. In others they
surrounded the churches and defied the
soldiers TO take the orthodox priests in.
When they refused 10 go the soldiers
shot them down. The mems corps -
covered the steps and their places were
taken by women and children.
Seeing that the resistance was so
stubborn and that the soldiers, quar-
tered on the peasants, were loath TO
shoot down their defenseless hosts, the
government sent orders from ST. Pc
tersburg that the soldiers were to be
sent away and replaced by Cossacks.
Eye witnesses state that many OF the
soldiers wept at leaving the peasants,
saying God bless you. and help you.
for the Cossacks will treat you a thou
sand times worse than we have done"
STRIPPED AND FLoGGED.
The peasants, thus warned betimes,
entrusted their slender savings 10 sym
pathizing landowners. and drove their