. The religion of Russia. A study of the Orthodox Church in Russia from the point of view of the Church in England. sisting PUBLIC WORSHIP 25 of Matins and Lauds with Prime, is recited in the earlymorning; the second, consisting of Terce and Sext, precedesthe Liturgy; and the remaining offices are said in the even-ing. This grouping and continuous recitation of severalservices is no novelty in the West. As is well known, ourown offices for Morning and Evening Prayer are combina-tions of several pre-reformation services. Morning Prayercontains elements derived from the old offices of Matins,Lau
. The religion of Russia. A study of the Orthodox Church in Russia from the point of view of the Church in England. sisting PUBLIC WORSHIP 25 of Matins and Lauds with Prime, is recited in the earlymorning; the second, consisting of Terce and Sext, precedesthe Liturgy; and the remaining offices are said in the even-ing. This grouping and continuous recitation of severalservices is no novelty in the West. As is well known, ourown offices for Morning and Evening Prayer are combina-tions of several pre-reformation services. Morning Prayercontains elements derived from the old offices of Matins,Lauds, and Prime; Evening Prayer is a similar compilationfrom Evensong, or Vespers, and Compline. The Russianservices, like our own, chiefly consist of psalms, verses, andprayers, but are ordinarily without the long leclions fromHoly Scripture with which we are familiar. They areextremely lengthy and complicated. The long-drawnrhetorical prayers and anthems are the natural expression ofthe poetical Eastern temperament, and contrast stronglywith the brief concise collects of the more prosaic andbusiness-like Ill FAITH AND PRACTICE We have now to consider the theological position of theRussian Church. It is hardly necessary to say that theNicene Creed is accepted without reserve, in its proper andancient sense, as the authorized summary of the ChristianReligion. There is, indeed, no Filioque clause, that is tosay, the words and the Son are not added to the words proceeding from the Father in the clause relating to theHoly Spirit, a phrase to which all Easterns take exceptionas being both an irregular addition to the Creed, and alsopatient of a heretical interpretation; but when Filioque is explained to be equivalent to Per Filium they aresatisfied that our doctrine is orthodox, although they stillstrongly object to the interpolation. At a recent conferencein Petrograd between an English theologian and a numberof Russian divines, the chairman (the Bishop of Kholm)authorized th
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