Salt Lake Telegram | 1905-04-08 | Page 1 | Church Revolt in Russia is Attracting Great Attention

CHURCH REVOLT IN RUSSIA IS ATTRACTING GREAT ATTENTION ST. PETERSBURG, April 8. The revolt re-volt against the tyranny of the church administration is attracting Immense attention. The clergy are now speaking speak-ing their sentiments quite as openly on religion as are Liberals in the political field. The intimate connection between the movements for the regeneration of the church and the reorganization of the state Is set forth in a strong letter printed this morning and ascribed to" "a high ecclesiastic," in which the writer says: "The church as a living Idea Is inextricably inex-tricably bound upwlth Russian life, and when the Russian public realized that they could not any longer exist without breaking the shackles of the bureaucracy, the church awoke from 200 years of lethargy and Its first murmur mur-mur was that It was the universal right of every thinking Russian to do his task with freedom."