TRIAL OF RUSSIAN PATRIARCH.
Soviet Defiance of World Protests.
Daspite the strong protests date, and a Helsingfors message made by various Powers, the of April 24th. announced another Soviet authorities brought to trial respite. However, with a refine ▲ number of Russian ecclesiastics ment of cruelty worthy of its accused of plotting against "Red"} authors, the Patriarch has been authority, and death sentences kept in a state of mind, by con- and terms of imprisonment were tinuous threats as to his awful | passed not long ago, which drew fate, amounting to slow torture. much adverse criticism from the civilised world. Britain's com. munications on the subject were met by insulting rejoinders from the Bolshevike, and form one of the causes of the present trouble and between our Government Russia.
The massed pressure of the. entire civised world againat what witaesses of the trials call a travesty of justice has not, how. ever, swayed the Soviets in their anti-religin war.
WHAT THE SOVIET SAYS,
This is what Prov la, the offcial Soviet paper, says:
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"We must carry on our agita- tion against religion just
we do in systematically as political questions, but with even more determination.
"Although we have declared war on the denizens of heaven, it is by no means easy to sweep them from the household of the workmed. The women especially are intractable.
The most prominent figure mong the victims in the Soviet's! persecution of the Church is Dr. Tikhon until his arrest, early in the year the Patriarch of all Rusi sia and Metropolitan of Moscow, Were he to share the fate of his fellow scoliastics who were put to death, a future Russia, if brought back to Christian sanity, would no doubt hold him a martyr.
Apparently the condemnation of the whole civilised would has had some effect on the "Red rulers, for though Monsigcor Budkewicz, Vicar General of Petrograd, has been executed, and Archbishop Zepliak, Metro politan of Petrograd, was first condemned to death and the sentence was later commuted "to
In conformity with this policy, 10 yeare imprisonment, the the all-powerful Cheka the Patriarch Tikhon's trial has been Soviet secret service is acting postponed, April 11th. was first against all religious sects. Build Sred for the case, then a laterings of the Orthodox Russian
"With an iron sweeper, the workmen must clear their homes. of the last vestige of all that is 'holy.'"
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Church have been secularized. The Jawish synagogue of Minat has been turned into a Soviet lectureball. Many Roman Cathollo ohurches have been saized.
The charges against the prelates already tried and executed ar son tenced to prison were the same as those against Dr. TikhỏnTM persistent" and organized op position to the decreas of the Soriet for the separation of oburob and state, and opposition to the sequestration of obuzeh treasures." This means that they persisted in holding services and prevented the government from seizing gold and silver vessela belonging to the churches.
Dr. Tikhon met refusal wher be offered to sell all cburgh treasures for the starving people, stipulating that the clergy should bave the authority to select the "articles not used in the rites of; the church, and that they alone should distribute to the needy.
Public Frosecutor Kıylenka, in his speech to the Supreme Re- volationary Tribunal, at the trial of the Catholic prelates, sneered that "they have lost the game and must pay up."
Bebrichtcheff Pushkin, on be- half of the prisoners reported:
"If you want to employ these: tactics, would it not be more
WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 1923.
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The world's demand for in-Purpose of the Association io simple and honest to organize a formation is being satisfied by Initiating these free concerts is to bole al slaughter under govern-radio. That this demand is further the use of radio among men' manices?""
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Official information was recent large number of scientific worke The
Soviet being read today. It is part of ly received to the affect that found a willing the great progress made in scienti- British Columbia is to have A worker to whom fic development in the last quarter | direction-finding station. It is to to relegate the century.
be situated at Pachens Point, on task of bounding;
And radio has not been the the west coast of Vancouver] religious advo cates out of their lost progressive in this advance ment. In fact, with the develop- parishes. and
ment of radio, all other sciences wherever possible stamping out there being sided For radio is feme of belief being used as a means by which among people. No knowledge of the other sciences is being spread. better hunterofin- offensive prelatoo Those who tune in en say could have been broadcasting station will just a Nicolai likely hear a lecture on the funds secured.
With a view to exploring the possibilities of developing wireless telephony over long distances the Postmaster-General has
appo. inted a committee "to consider in the light of recent progress in wireless science the possibility from a technical standpoint of V. Krylenko as mental principles of the Einstein Transatlantic wireless telephony sumed the mantle theory as on the latest develop of sufficient reliability for com of his appointmentments in the cure of cancer. Unmercial use, and to advise what with an ease born iversities throughout the United
practical steps, if any, can at of soapparent abStates have enrolled their facul conscience. He is the public pro- information under their auspices. sence of what we term ordinary ties toward the dissemination of present be taken to develop this
means of communication." secutor who demanded the death Regular courses in certain sub- of Monsignor Budkewicz-and got jecta are being broadcast, and
It is understood that the tele. it; who waged the bitter fight more are being planned.
phone authorities in the United Concerts are giving radio list States are willing and anxious to against Archbishop- Zepliag and won; who is now preparing eners a wider knowledge and co-operate in any studies aiming the state's case against the Most greater appreciation of music. at making telephonic communica- Rev. Dr. Tikhoo. He is bent on Plays, classic and modern, also tion across the Atlantic a prac- wiping out all religion from Rus-help advance the education of tical means of commercial inter-
the public, by radio. Health course. lectures are regular events for enthusiasts. So are lectures on child care, and on various other topics chosen now and then by tendance and popularity, through
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Churches have gained in at-
the broadcasting of their services.
Small in stature-only five feet tall he is & finished artist whe be takes the floor in the court- room. When unable to convince the court with reason, he sways it with words of fire-a typical The U. 8. government also bas This is the announcement made) product of the madness, that the taken advantage of this new by the Rev. Robert W. Anthony, outside world terms Bolshevism. form of publicity and is sending pastor of the First Presbyterian
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