Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 88, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 August 1931 — Page 12

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RUSSIAN CHURCH 1 MUSTERS POMP FOR ITS DEATH Congregations Merely Trying to Pass Out With Olden Splendor. The Time* and the United Prea* oresent herewith the fourth of the Jack Howard series on Russia. Today's articles deals with the Russian church situation. BY JACK HOWARD Cnited Press Staff Correspondent 'Copyright. 1931. bv United Pressi PARIS, Aug. 21.—While the church has received what was intended as a death blow in Russia, it is not yet dead. It is not fighting desperately for survival, for it Is too late for that.j It and its congregations merely are 1 trying to pass out of the picture j with as much of the old-time splen- j dor of the orthodox church of the j czar’s as possible. The Communist regime realizes ; that the power of the church is' dead. It can be eradicated completely any time, or It can be allowed to disintegrate by itself. Eradication is more costly and no more effective. The Russian church always was allied closely with the ruling class and never had a real hold upon the people. Therefore It has not been a hard task to tear the young generation away from God and push it toward Lenin. Old Only Attend Services Many churches still hold services, but these are attended by old persons only. God does not exist for the young Russian. Most of the old men and women one sees attending church services seem to go through habit. Mechanically they take their part in the ceremony. When they have ' passed on there will be no one who ' ever can go through the superficial forms of worship. Os the vast number of priests and monks_ who once swarmed over Russia, those who took advantage of the situation early in the revolution are faring as well as the average. They are working in factories with the rest of the proletariat, or doing other work that fits into Communist plans. Those who clung tenaciously to the church are not doing so well. Many have become beggars. Others peddle papers or souvenirs on Moscow streets. Many Are Torn Down A few still can be found day in and day out sitting in the empty little shrines, or the emptier little churches. With the overthrow of the church, the wholesale destruction of j churches did not take place. Many churches have been torn down to make way for improvements. But seldom is any church touched that has any artistic or historical value. ! One beautiful church has been ordered torn down to make way for a new temple of labor. It is the Cathedra} of the Redeemer, occupying one of the most commanding sites in Moscow. This church is a* magnificent structure with a greaF dome made from a ton of pure gold, but the Communists claim it has no historical or artistic merit. It was completed late in the last century and is not pure Russian in style. Perhaps the real reason it iq doomed is because it can be seen from almost any spot in Moscow and such a reminder of God rankles the Soviet soul. ‘Lenin* Is New Religion ' Russia really has not eliminated religion from the lives of the people, for the faith of Communism with its prophet Lenin merely has moved into the spiritual vacancy forcibly vacated by the church. ? Peasant women, who still make tne sign of the cross before some Icon of the virgin or Christ, do likewise before a small statuette or picture of Lenin. Thousands daily stand in line under a broiling sun and wait their turn to see the remains of the proletarian prophet laid out in state in his magnificent red marble tomb in the Red Square of Moscow. Already many myths are growing up around the life of Lenin and most of the famous sayings of great radical leaders are attributed to him. Lenin's famous statements apparently outnumber the prodigious number of beds of which Americans boast as resting places of George Washington. The zeal of a true Communist is stronger and more fiery than that of most Christians today, because it is the zeal and fire of apostles. The Communist feels he has found the right way to live and he wants to spread this theory to all parts of the globe.

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