Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-04-15
oUTRAGES AT ODESSA.
British Chaplin Describes a Reign o'
Terror.

The Chronicle DuDnSneS an artlcle
by R. Courtier Foster, a British Chap
lain at Odessa and Russian ports Of
the Black Sea, describing the religious
persecution practiced by the Bolshe-
Wiki upon their former capture OF
Odessa. He says:
Committees were held on board the
ships of the Black sea fleet, among the
lockers in the port, and in the towns
and villages on every hand, which
passed resolutions reading: We alb
olish Cod In Odessa cathedral, when
the archbishop of Kherson was cele-
brating the Holy Misteries an uproar
occurred with cries of Down with the
Chruch. At fete in the town gardens
one saw a soldier of the Red army, amid
the outlaws of his fellows, spit on the
Russian holy picture of the face OF
Christ, then tear it into fragments and
stamp it into the dust.
1.-THE Bolshevist conception OF re-
ligious liberation is considerably more
elastic and far-reaching than the ideas
of any medieval inquisiticn. In this
matter the Bolsheviki pride themselves
on being far in advance of our effete
western thought. They have murdered
Valodimir, the Metropolitan Of Kiev,
twenty bishops, and many hundreds OF
priests. Before killing them they cut
off the limbs of their victims, some OF
whom they buried alive in the krem-
lin. The cathedrals in Moscow and
those in the towns Of Yaroslav and
Simferopol have been sacked. Many
nuns were violated and the churches
defiled.
The ancient and historical sacristies
and famous libraries Of Moscow and
Petrograd were pillaged and countless
sanctuaries profaned. In Cronstadt
cathedral the great figure Of the Cruel
fed Christ was torn down and re-
moved, and monstrous and appalling
pagan form placed in its stead, SYM
bolizing Freedom of Mind
1T is not against any one particu-
lar form of religion that the terrors OF
the New Freedom are hurled. Ortho-
dox Roman Catholics and Lutherans
alike have been tortured, mutilated'
and done to death under the aegis OF
the Holy revolution, which appeals 10
the proletariat Of the whole world TO
join its forces.
"The revolutionary government is
subiecting the Christian religion to per-
secutions as great and brutal as any
thing the world ever saw during the
first three centuries of the Christian
era. Moral disintegration and ruin
spread their tentacles on every SIDE
Any restraint on sinful impulse or
coyetous desire is laughed to scorn
The Bolsheviki publicity encourage
outrage and looting. The propaganda
for freedom Of the mind is essential!
nihilistic. It is based on negation and
denial of the existence Of God, denial OF
the authority of any moral law, denial
of all rights of conscience, denial o'
all religious liberty, denial Of all free
dom of the press, denial OF any libert!
of speech.
zone officer remarked despairinglH
to me: In Russia now there is no God
no Gar, no law, no property no mon
ev, no food-only freedom And IT
that travesty of liberty which the
whole civilized world may we'll shud'
der at. all mercy, pity, and toleratlor
are alike scorned. And it Is this new
and wonderful equality Of man whicf
by means of torture, outrage, and as
sassinations proclaims the freedom o.
mind and body to the devastated Rus'
sian nation"