Foreign-born Americans and their children; our duty and opportunity for God and country from the standpoint of the Episcopal church . that union between the Orthodoxand the Anglican churches was almostaccomplished, whereupon the whole bodyrose, and many wept with joy. Russia is a land of mystery and aland of wonderful oppontxmity. The in-tellectual class ranks as high as any:theologians, scientists, authors, musi-cians, and the rest. The peasant classhas never had a chance to develop. Be-tween the two are those who havewrought miuch evil, a class of devils andfools, egged on into crime or fana
Foreign-born Americans and their children; our duty and opportunity for God and country from the standpoint of the Episcopal church . that union between the Orthodoxand the Anglican churches was almostaccomplished, whereupon the whole bodyrose, and many wept with joy. Russia is a land of mystery and aland of wonderful oppontxmity. The in-tellectual class ranks as high as any:theologians, scientists, authors, musi-cians, and the rest. The peasant classhas never had a chance to develop. Be-tween the two are those who havewrought miuch evil, a class of devils andfools, egged on into crime or fanaticismby German intrigue. Probably the greatest missionary ofthe nineteenth century was a Siberianpriest who afterwards became Arch-bishop Innocent of Kamskatka andAlaska. He it was who with indomi-table courage and faith brought theRussian Church to America over BehringStrait by the bridge of the Aleutian Is-lands in the first part of the last cen-tury. The title of the present Ru-ssianArchbishop is Archbishop of NorthAmerica and the Aleutian Islands. TheRussian Church has always been a greatmissionary Church. For example, the. THE KREMLIN Moscow in winter. See the churches. The gates of Hell now open in Russia, Shall never gainst that Church prevail second largest mission in Japan is Rus-sian, started in 1861 and carried on bythe late Archbishop Nicolai, whose entirestaff, save one, have been Japanese. From Alaska, the Russian Churchcenter was moved to San Francisco. Thetheological seminary was started in Min-neapolis. Churches were built in variousparts of the country. Great numbers ofUniats, who had in Austria-Hungarygone over to the Church of Rome, butwere allowed to keep their married priest-hood and Slavic services, came back tothe Orthodox fold in this country. Thenthe cathedral of the archbishop wasmoved to New York, where it is today,and the seminary to Tenafly, New Jersey. There are about three hundred Rus-sian priests in America, sixty of whomwere born and brought u
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