The Detroit times., 1917-11-17

Aom These political aspirations
are f0r tho moment gone The peo-
pie are 900 busy with the immedi'
ate implications ~ the revolution 20
give heed o the fnlhiment OF
-7--777--T- rT--1UIr IEVTT3rIuus. NV
errhrless The ar>t large fact to
bold n mind concerning the Rus
an church Us trat IN Is rhe largest
1i fhc divisions ~ The eastern
church. which followed upon the
separation ~ thp cl<t from the
west tho Greeks from the iarins
Why EAST ard West Divide.
Russia herself did Got become
christian untl near the end az the
gfa century when Vladimir Ted
n-- ul1r people bs hordes mo the
4ek thoh church. har,iEInc
Ham oN masses IN the Dueiper
river During the golden period OF;
Fsu m Russia Was "a harbsrous
art Nrh ,he decline of Ryzan
ln fha NuscnFre power Increased
70 t1a church, $50 thar there everfV-
l.Iy ,su % ~ patriarch ar Mos
cow go aa tt place ot Che re-
Elaare nsraflh at Rome This
Va rte lnai break between
Rome ar lca eastern church. The
ar fr denies the primeCy
d. t- lrof 90 Rome. contendinE
trU fFs fsrriarchs or the early
cal-ch salem Antioch Alex
laa Cons 1t'n0p.e and Rome
al ar equality One Constan-
-rnU patriarch dii once claim
.rwac o.t hls fellows which
au Rome resented o. behalf al
ta atler fear
Ta ro n-a 7N the differences he.
aceu -1 Roman ana the Greek
churches would De an intricate srl
tedious task There are professors
ut church history and countless aIt
BOOKS o1 the subi-et. Who lreat t'e
theme with fullness The Giy sion
has continued ever since II be anne
complete. Ia the eleventh century
with bitterness on both sides While
fhe Roman Catholic church and ,he
Greek Catholic church have an u.s.
enuals IN common-creed ltfurgy
history orthodoxy. and eCciesissti
cal practices-yet the gulf between
them is wider by Far than that be-
tw cen the Episcopal church and -he
Russian church The Moscow cogn
cil which is now in session. may
lake STEPS fhat viii lead 70 relation
ship between the Anglican com
muni1n and the Gresk bur even the
most sanguine persons do nor eK.
poet any immediate step toward re-.
union between the eastern and west
eru bodies
Wher. state Ruled Church.
Hair-snlitfiIE d0ctrlnai questions
--vh p now have been Implanted
by fhe ophistrie- ~ political doe
t~inairt occupied -he minds az fce
Russian cclasiastlc- even ss they
did the fathers n the early church
cf the east The primacv 0t the
pore Is less an issue with the
Greeks fhan Rome Insertion cf ire
~Fllioque~ clause into the Nicene
Creed. both the Professionalism and
Catholicism % The west c0niendlng
thar the Holy spirit proceeds from
both The Father and the Son There
o. scarcely pulpit In America
where the doctrine % the process
sion % The Holy Spirit as 70 is
called "a SO much as mentioned. The
very term itself is unknown 20 The
average person % intelligence. Yet
here n the eastern church it is an
absorbing subiect even With the
laity-or was uutl the revolution
substituted 6ew ,dering and en-
crossing lot of speculations concern
ing the complete making over ~
LIE within few weeks AS the
idea OF t0 acres ard a mule" drove
an Jess concrete considerations from
ne minds of Tho freed slaves ~ the
south. SO rhc prospect of an imue-
dlare economic millennium has
uslrped the place ~ religious inter
est among The great mass 81 the
Russian people
Matters az church governu en-
haze elwavs concerned The east.
ern church less chan questions "
doctrine and practice Thus, three
az tho emperors on the eastern EN-