Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1923-05-03 | Page 7 | 'Red Clergy' Heaps Praise

RED CLERGY HEAPS PRAISE I I II Though Denying Deity Deit Bolsheviks Are Held Good Fellows MOSCOW May By 3 3 By The As- As As Associated Pr Press ss While tile the out out- outside outside side world orld Is with Ith charges cha that Christianity Is being persecuted ed d by the tho Bolshevik regime In Russia speakers at the all Rus all slon church conclave e Wednesday laid lild a halo of praise upon the th the th tb evangelical Christmas of oC soviet gO Premier Lenine L was declared to tobe tobe tobe be dear to the church and prayers were neri ere asked for or hi reco ery It was solemnly asserted that there theres Is s no persecution of thought In Russia while the gov- gov government eov was lias characterized d as an organization which although non non- non belle Is doing good many of us who are belle belies believers ers era are ar doIng wrong r ron ng V KS Among Amone the speakers was Dishop Edgar Blake Blak of Chicago o bishop o of oth the American Methodist church of southern Europe Ito 11 said In hr general genral that the church CAnnot stand aside but must lob lob- low tol-low low revolutionary upheavals als aIs and accept 0 every ery ry movement looking toward greater gro-ater brotherhood four hundred and fifty dels- dels delAgal's gates gals to th the conclave e e represent Inc represent represent- representIng representing Ing all parts part of o Russia Ruela held theIr first business Wednesday night The Tb Th priest head of o oth the th delegation representing the th apostolic apostolic church Metropolitan Antonin of o tho the church regeneration tion croup and other said sad that the church had broken I Ith the th pact r p A ASSAILED S By stale methods said V den sky the SO soviet to government co gO eminent li is try try- trying try Inc InC ing to bring brine about an 0 anglIca brotherhood on earth then offered a resolution resolution resolution tion of thanks to the th government go to and nd of greetings to Premier Metropolitan Antonin group plans to present t a resolution branding the tho activities neth of C tho the Mot Mo t tRe Rev Re Dr Tikhon the form former r pa- pa patriarch patriarch patriarch as a criminal demanding that ho he ho he unfrocked dolt of the delegates s are arc known Imo kno n as ae fled Re clergy and supporters of oC Dr Tile hon apparently have hale disappeared Tilt Tilt-I