The Bolsheviks have renewed. their persecutionof the Orthodox Church. For
protesting against the wholesale seizure. of sacred vessels, ostensibly to be sold for the. benefit. of -the famine- stricken, five priests.. were shot last week in Moscow. Tho Patriarch , Tikhon is in confinement.- Several bishops have been arrested. To the very mild protest made- by the Arch- bishop of Canterbury and several .Nonconformist leaders against the maltreatment of the.Patriarch, the Bolshevik despots:replied with a :sneer at. their -" narrow caste- solidarity." which was " dire,cteclagainst the-real interests..of. the.,people." There has never, been any concealment of.. the feet that. the. Bolshevik movement. is . definitely anti-Christian; But the. Bolsheviks, who, began by murdering many bishops and-clergy, had.f or the last year .or .two left:the.Chureh-severely alone. The revival of the Terror . suggests: that,t/ae . Bo laheviks . are growing desperate.
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