Communications
348 THE COMMONWEAL August 11, 1926 body remarked. "They seem very much the same, it...
...Unfortunately, every revolution, no matter in what country EDWARD H. WHELAN...
...They seem very much the same, it has taken place, has always had a sad influence on the reexcept for their hats, shirts, and accents...
...the true Normans had Scandinavian great-greatbetter wage war, the various rival orthodoxies vie with each grandfathers, but their corresponding grandmothers, with all other in creating new bishops...
...no women to Neustria...
...and there are the caviar sandwiches, and"- plied their efforts to destroy in general religion among the But Cherokee had flung his head disdainfully in the Russian people, as a proof of which we have the famous sayair, and was walking away, murmuring (or so Miss ing of Lenin engraved over the doorway of one of our most Nobody thought) famous shrines: "Religion is the opium of the masses...
...These are Pere d'Herbigny's their other lines of ancestry, were French, Rollo having brought words, not mine...
...The Welsh are classed so far as religious life is concerned, and that "in order to as Celtic...
...On seem to remember what I had really written...
...to which I referred in my article...
...Where would Thomas Jefferson On the contrary, he confirms what I had asserted, namely, that, acquire a Saxon soul...
...will tell him that Archbishop Kedroffsky of the Russian Orthodox Cathedral in New York is not recognized as such by COMMUNICATIONS faithful Orthodox Russians, who continue in their allegiance to Metropolitan Plato whom he dispossessed...
...Commonweal of July 14...
...And again I a dude ranch...
...348 THE COMMONWEAL August 11, 1926 body remarked...
...controversy with him on the subject of his most one-sided remarks, but I wish to state that they do not strike at the root THE GREAT SIMPLICITY OF JEFFERSON of my assertions, which, on the contrary, I find confirmed in San Diego, Calif...
...And I will further say that in my article the Vedenskyites " `Oh, East is East, and West is West, were never once mentioned, and that I only referred to the And never the twain shall meet.' " Bolshevik "Living Church...
...from his political antecedents about which I do not want to Had Jefferson been English, it would still be reckless to concern myself now-would, in the eyes of every Orthodox, characterize him as Saxon, for, surely, the few keel-loads of whether belonging to the Russian branch of that community, fifth-century Saxons were absorbed and indistinguishable by the or to the Greek one, make him ineligible for a bishopric, and eighteenth...
...RUSSIA LOSES HER MONASTERIES Gray seems to desire getting first-hand evidence, why does not New York, N. Y. he mention as a person capable of giving it to us this venerable metropolitan...
...of a member of the Russian Orthodox Church to which I "Because," whispered Miss Nobody, so close to his belong, a fact which gives me the same right to reject the new Russian "Living Church" as well as the doctrine of the ear that it tickled her as he flicked it, "because Vedenskyites, as the French people during the bloody years of Cherokee, if you really want to know-even a nobody their great Revolution had to reject the preachings and miniscan be a dude-in fact, I think you will agree that the trations of the "Pretres Assermentes" recognized by the then terms are somewhat synonymous-whereas I doubt if French government...
...L. Maynard Gray [The Commonweal, July the spirit pervading the office at IIO West Fortieth Street...
...7] of my article, Russia Loses Her Monasteries, in The Commonweal of June 16...
...According to genealogists he was by thanks to the Bolsheviks, utter confusion now rules in Russia extraction both Welsh and Norman...
...We have also seen the "Thanks," murmured Miss Nobody...
...Why don't you cease being a mere dude, and become My article was written entirely from the point of view a real westerner...
...and facts impossible to contradict authorize one could become a successful westerner...
...The Saxon Chronicle calls them the very fact that Vedensky is a married secular priest-apart Frenchman and that is what they called themselves...
...I will not enter into any long CATHERINE RADZIWILL...
...that very report of the distinguished ;churchman, Pere TO the Editor:-"Jefferson's Saxon soul" is a phrase used d'Herbigny...
...Gray in his zeal does not "Oh, yes, they shall," she called after him...
...while the so-called Normans that folIn so far as the Vedenskyites are concerned, I never men- lowed after Duke William into England "flocked from every tioned them at all in my article, and I will remark here that part of Gaul...
...And surely ligious life of the people of that country, with the one excepyou are not one of those who believe that `clothes tion of our American Revolution, which proceeded from the make the man.' The old proverb," she went on with highest moral motives, and which always remained free from more confidence, "merely says, `boys will be boys'- every excess of the kind that marked the French Terror, and not `boys will be boys in the West, and something else the Russian one...
...And since Mr...
...refer to the English as Saxons or Anglo-Saxons nowadays...
...Vedenskyites, about whose head Pere d'Herbigny writes: "Why," he went on, "don't you take advantage of "Vedensky's weakness consists in having consecrated a number your opportunity and remain in this glorious country...
...In France we have seen what was called the "Pretres Assermentes," who were spurned by all true and in the East.' " good Catholics, to the extent that even when they were being "That's all beside the point," objected Cherokee led to the scaffold, they refused to avail themselves of their as he flicked a fly from his back...
...Now you seem spiritual services...
...If he were impartial he would seek it everyT O the Editor:-I have read with great interest the critiwhere, whereas now his letter appears to have been written in cism of Mr...
...Roemer...
...In Russia we have seen the "Living Church" sensible enough-for an effete easterner...
...Only politicians and propagandists-not scholars Pere d'Herbigny never says that it would...
...And be- me to say that the Bolsheviks have done away with monassides, in the East, we haven't so many spiders and teries, suppressed and murdered bishops and priests, and apmoths...
...because if we examine his report we find that in the article, The Great Simplicity of Jefferson, in The it is a faithful relation of what he saw and nothing else...
...of married priests...
Vol. 4 • August 1926 • No. 14
