Foreign-born Americans and their children; our duty and opportunity for God and country from the standpoint of the Episcopal church . MICHAEL ANAGNOS. CATHEDRAL AT ETCHMIADZIX, ARMENIA The Greek wedding service is verybeautiful. As with many another immi-grant race, so with the Greeks, HolyMatrimony is regarded as a breaking up of family ties and thenfinding here a low regard for the sacred-ness of family life, is a shock to manyan immigrant. It would not be that, ifthe immigrant, our neighbor, saw theinside of the true American home. Every Greek is a member of the GreekChurch, t
Foreign-born Americans and their children; our duty and opportunity for God and country from the standpoint of the Episcopal church . MICHAEL ANAGNOS. CATHEDRAL AT ETCHMIADZIX, ARMENIA The Greek wedding service is verybeautiful. As with many another immi-grant race, so with the Greeks, HolyMatrimony is regarded as a breaking up of family ties and thenfinding here a low regard for the sacred-ness of family life, is a shock to manyan immigrant. It would not be that, ifthe immigrant, our neighbor, saw theinside of the true American home. Every Greek is a member of the GreekChurch, though many are not faithful,often because no church of theirs iswithin reach. In Holy Week, on EasterEve, the Greeks crowd their churches,and in picturesque symbolism commem-orate the suffering and resurrection ofour Lord. On Easter morning, on thestroke of midnight, the priest cries outin a loud voice: Christ is risen from thedead. The multitude answer: He isrisen indeed. Then the wonderful Eas-ter liturgy is celebrated, including the Easter hymn we know so well, The Dayof Resurrection, Earth tell it all new Archbishop of the GreekC
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