Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1893 — “Freedom of Worship” in Russia. [ARTICLE]

“Freedom of Worship” in Russia.

George Kennan, in July Century. If the Savior himself should appear, poor and unknown, in a Rus sian peasant village, as he appeared in Galilee nineteen centuries ago, if he should speak to the people the same words that he spoke in Galilee and that are recorded in the four gospels he w’ould not be at liberty twentyfour hours. He would first be handcuffed and sent to the pale of settlement by etape as a Jew, and then, if he continued to teach, he would be rearrested and thrown into prison. If he finally escaped crucifixion at the hands of the holy orhnodox church which bears his name, it would be only because crucifixion has been superseded in Russia by exile,incarceration in the “heretje cell” of remote monasteries, and deportation to the mines of the Trans-Baikal