CHURCH IN RUSSIA
IN DANGER OF EXTINCTION. SOVIET OPPRESSION. Published in "The Time*-" LONDON, November 23. The Warsaw correspondent of “The Times” says: “That the Orthodox Ohurch of Russia is on its last legs is the impression of Bishop Bury, who conducted the first Anglican service in Moscow for three years. It may maintain a precarious existence while the Patriarch Tikhon lives. It will then fall to pieces. “The Patriarch is a broken man, and the Soviet is probably awaiting his death to deal the Orthodox Church a death-blow. ‘I visited Tikhon,’ said the Bishop. ‘He is a frail old man, and lives under strict surveillance, unable to communicate with his brother Bishops. The hulk of the people still adhere to the Orthodox Church. Its services are crowded, whereas the Soviet’s churches are almost empty.’ ”
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11686, 26 November 1923, Page 8
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