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Show INVADING CHURCHES. At last the Bolshevik! have turned ; o the churches of Russia to supply them with treasures with which to! supplv food for the starving Brisbane, ! commenting on this belated move, jeayi: The Russian Greek church, without with-out its consent, will supply its treasures in gold, silver and precious prec-ious stones, to help feed the starving. starv-ing. In the cathedral of St. Peter at Petrograd, one single sacred imago of solid gold wears a neck lace of enormous blue white diamonds dia-monds and decorated with more than throe thousand other diamonds, dia-monds, fifteen hundred pearls, etc. The sacred gold ikons are to be melted and the Jewels sold to buy food. The hold that religion has upon the masses in Russia Is shown by the fact that Bolshevism Bolshev-ism has waited so long before seizing the treasures of the church Those that control Bolshevism Bol-shevism evidently attach no alue to religious belief, since they post up signs which read: "Religion is the opium of the people " But, although al-though they do not respect religion, reli-gion, they fear it seeing it outlive out-live government, through the ages |