Constantinople and its problems : its peoples, customs, religions and progress . The Eastern Church 135 ticians stratagem, expected to goad the peopleinto violent outbreak, by leading them to sup-pose that the Turks had committed the crown-ing oppression of denying the Greeks their re-ligious privileges. Such outbreaks, or the fearof them, would drive the Turkish Governmentinto granting the demands of the clergy. Itseems not to have occurred to the bishops that theTurks can endure in placid unconcern the sus-pension of religious services by Christians quiteas long as the Greeks themselves can.
Constantinople and its problems : its peoples, customs, religions and progress . The Eastern Church 135 ticians stratagem, expected to goad the peopleinto violent outbreak, by leading them to sup-pose that the Turks had committed the crown-ing oppression of denying the Greeks their re-ligious privileges. Such outbreaks, or the fearof them, would drive the Turkish Governmentinto granting the demands of the clergy. Itseems not to have occurred to the bishops that theTurks can endure in placid unconcern the sus-pension of religious services by Christians quiteas long as the Greeks themselves can. What theTurkish Government did was to issue an indig-nant denial of the imputation that it had in anyway interfered with freedom of worship, renew-ing at the same time the declaration that this isan inalienable right of all classes of the Sultanssubjects. This explanation prevented outbreakson the part of the Greek rabble, who turned theirwrath against the priests for refusing to performmarriages, administer baptism, or officiate incanonicals at funerals—whimsically making
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