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Show them that they were expected immediately immedi-ately to resign. "They accordingly went in a body to the imperial palace) and humbly tendered their joint and several resignations. It was mw the turn of the czar to Lie overwhelmed over-whelmed with aiikizeiuent, mid it was only after a good deal of embarrassment Ifnd reciprocal explanations that the matter was set right. The interview terminated with a mild hint on tho part of his majesty that, 'ven in the records of religious bodies, verbal accuracy is a very desirable quality." All for a Slight Krror. Tho Berlin correspondeut of a syndicate syndi-cate of provincial papers is responsible for the following story: "On tho occasion occa-sion of tho reassembling of the holy synod in the Russian capital it was resolved re-solved to forward to bis majesty, in accordance ac-cordance with traditional usage, the arehipastoral benediction. The clerk who was employed Eo prepare tho document docu-ment formally communicating the pious resolution made a curious mistake. By a slip of the pen he wrote) 'architectural' instead of 'arehipastoral, and tho resolution reso-lution was forwarded without the error being detected. "When the czar received it he laughed heartily and wrote on the margin, 'I have no need of such a blessing.' Ho then dismissed the matter from bis mind. The document, however, wilh the imperial impe-rial annotation, found iis way back to the holy synod, and produced among the members of that body the greatest surprise sur-prise and consternation. Without stop-piug stop-piug to investigate tho matter the ecclts-siustics ecclts-siustics who were responsible f.ir the resolution res-olution jumped to tho conclusion that they bad iu soui" way or other incurred the czar's displeasure, aud that his majesty's maj-esty's cuuimeut wad au intimation to |