The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-04-14
Russia Now Free In
Pursuance of All
Church Faiths
WORLD RESULTS
ARE EXPECTED
Holy Orthodox Church
Is Put Behind New
Democracy
eY TIE RELIGIOUS RAMsLER

significance rs only nov being real
ized by specialists who have consid-
cred itS bearing upon their particu.
lar fields of interest Religiously,
'hr revolution IS epochal IL means
tar more than appears upon the sur.
lace Tor Russia has been really n
church state. with the ecclesiastical
power paramount Only within the
rast 30 DAYS have Laws imposing re
strictions upon other faiths been
abolished
The Holy Orthodox church. as II
Is commonly caused in Russia or. 10
give il the full oricial uue-"The
Holy Orthodox Catholic Apostolic
Eastern church"-0is one OF the
three grand divisions % Christen.
dom. the other two being the Roman
Catholic church and the Protestant
churches
This church really comprises nine
national churches. each seltEoyern-
I ing but all are dominated TO a do
gree by the Russian church. az the
largest and most viriie OF them all
Politically. Russia has been the
I sponsor and protector thruout the
world 81 all the Greek churches
Greek being the colloquiai name
for the HOLY Orthodox church. The
czar has been the secular head OF
/ iht Russian church-the Little
l father on earth. vicegerent OF the
Great Father above Ecclesiastical
control has been in the hands OF the
Holy Synod the prccdrator OF
which has been a powerful political
force; and until the revolution.
reactionary The church has been
the most potent agency OF Pan
I Slayism.
Nothing reveals the difference be
tween the east and the west more
definitely than religion. In Amrica
things ecclesiastical are subordinat-
ed in popular interest 70 matters
I political. over In Russia the reverse
Is the case. Not one reader in 10
600 Of an American newspaper
knows what the let F1loque" con
troversy IS. yet the ignorant shsp-
herd boys on the hills OF Lebanon
debate about il TO this very day. tho
the issue is a thousand years old
and the one that finally split the
eastern and western churches.
To the average American II seems
like hair-splitting but the eastern
church Is the inheritor OF The Greek
philosophical state OF mind. and Il
has always been a valiant contender
tor theological subtleties So this
quarrel over what Is technically
called the Procession OF the HOLY
Spirit Is really factor IN present.
day politics. The eastern church
which holds 10 the creed of the
FIRST seven general church councils.
resented the western churcn's add
ton Of the words let Folique"-"and
from the Son. 20 The declaration
that the Holy Spirit proceeds from
the Father Doctrinal ard mystical
those and the words that Sun
characterize tho Russian church
Ghmpses o. the grandeur thai
Was Rome come 70 one ~ be looks
upon The eastern church It's mi
macy was and f.. az Const4ntinople
where Constantine the Great estab
lished the scat OF the Roman ON
pire and where Roman civilization
was conserved when the barbarian,
overrsn The city BY the TIber. II
those days As the council OF Nice,
recognized there were Ave patrl
archs, or supreme heads. OF m,
Christian church-the bishops o
/ Rome Constantinople, Jerusalem
Antioch and Alexandria. Gradual,
the see Of Rome claimed primacy
which the eastern church denied
To this day the four patrigrchs q
the Holy Orthodox church reside a
Constantinople. Jerusalem, Alexan
dria and Antioch
: Belonging 20 what n called III
eastern church, hat not within IN,
communion OF the Holy ORTHODOX
body. are the Gregorians, or Aruen
ian the HISTORIANS the Jacobites
the MareHites, the ChsIdeans. N,
Abyssinians. and the Copts
Even tho there are million mem
hers Of the Holy Orthodox churcl
, IN North America. the average per
= son in this country leaves them en-
tirely out Of his thinking upor
things religious To the American
mind. there arc only two majo
groupings OF Christians Protestant
and Roman Catholics
I'm an the world however. Their,
b are FRISCO 600 Roman Catholics
. III 500 900 Protestsnts. and 100 900
{ 600 members OF the eastern
churches
Between the Greeks" and N,
"Latins." - the two bodies arc 10
, cally called. there are various diver
gencies. aside from the doctrina
one already named The Holy Ortho
COX church requires its clergy an,
descons 10 marry, bur forbids a sec
end wife Bishops may not marry
nor monks 80 The former Away
come from the monssteries. Tn,
priests are usually well educated. bu
they have almost sutocrstie power