Last Testament of the Patriarch Tikhon ■j* By M. Raffes (Moscow) entire Moscow press Las pub- rpHE significance. revolutionary blows against the So- of the people.” lished the last testament of Tik- Tikhon and the many government tens of thou- viet among the orthodox But to stamp out this opium, a per- hon, patriarch of Russian ortho- sands of urban priests clergy, th« and rural who sistent and lengthy struggle la neces- dox church, who died few days ago. follow him (and a Indeed, the over- TTOW, then can the relations be- sary. Following Tikhon’s appeal In this whelming tha testament this erstwhile Irre- majority of the Orthodox Ax tween the Soviet government orthodox priests will do all in their concilable enemy of the Soviet church), power become finally reconciled and the Communist Party on the one power to strengthen their influence calls upon all be peace with existing government Cling- believers to at the hand and the orthodox church on the among the masses of the town with the gov- ing (heir bigoted, and Soviets as ‘'there it no to old formulae, they other be subsequently consolidated? still more among the village popula- ernment that does not come also declare the Soviet power from to be There is no better way th»« on the tion. They are carrying on their ac- God.*' established hy the Lord God, exactly basis of the decree separating the tivities and will continue to do so on Patriarch recognises the So- in the way capitalist power Tikhon same as church from the state and the schools the basis of the decree on liberty of viet regime as government in Europe. the real from the church. Those ‘‘golden conscience. But there is yet another of the people, strongly ail We Communists, condemns of course, may re- days" when the church was an official decree in the Soviet republic, tha Counterrevolutionary religious proach Tikhon groups Patriarch with not part of the government will never re- like of which is known by other and also appoints a special commis- having an no international point of view turn. Church ceremony and the state In the world. This is the decree sion for bringing to trial and that In easily all these or- his heart he la too clergy have once and ter ell been on the state propaganda of Commun- thodox bishops who have carry- to entirely been reconciled such contradic- thrust out of the state institutions. ism. As against the propaganda of ing on struggle abroad ter the tory governmental as a re- systems the So- The Soviet school and the Red army the church there stand in fully array storation of the old orderj viet and bourgeois regimes. But we wfll never see a priest within their the entire organization of state power, need net look far find Patriarch Tikhon asserts categor- to an wpiaiw. precincts nor will they hear his ser- the whole apparatus of the Commun- tlon for ically that all the decrees and prac- this. Patriarch Tikhon and mon. There is only one territory left ist Party, the Y, L, his C. and Comm un- tical measures of the Soviet govern- entire church organization are be- on which the priests may preach the iat Children’s Sections, and coming adapted. a whole ment are quite compatible with com- "word of god” and that Is in network of Red Army They the Soviet schools plete freedom of all religions. He desire to conserve their influ- churches. of all degrees thru which 600,000 ence over the tolling of therefore summons his followers to masses are But, Just as in the past, the energet- the peasant youth pass every year. the thereby compelled adjust regulations of external to adapt them- ic persistent and uninterrupted fight The whole of this organized force Is selves the political views ehnrch life and activities to the new to of these against religious dope which has been by no means neutral on religious ques- toilers. they may state order: So that still be able carried on thruout the length and tions, nay, tt is a fighting organization to carry on religious propaganda, TIKHON’S renuncia- they breadth of the Soviet Republic, win of struggle against religion PATRIARCH have decidedly broken with be and of eounter-revolutionary ideas all their continued. During the years of revo- against the church. the guid- and past political ideology. Under his recognition of the Soviet power The Patriarch lution and civil war the orthodox ance of the Communist Party Tikhon and huge took place already year ago, the whole of his church lost tens of mniiona of its fol- anti-religious propaganda atm a and church organization in. since that time he has again been were Indeed only lowers. These were lost as a result creases. A wide network of aide of to the atheistic to be at the value counter-revolutionaries of the revolutionary fervor of the circles wiD, during the head of the orthodox insofar as the authority next few church. Nevertheless this last appeal and extensive masses. They had no need whatso- years, embrace the entire working this of his, on deathbed, connections that church had ever for any lords or gods. The class and peasant youth, written when his among the masses not to men- by the very nature of Its contents could be utilized church also lost these masses as a re- tion the children who already, for the struggle against is of enormous political significance. the Soviet sult of its counter-revolutionary activ- ago have been lost to the regime. In army church. What falsehoods have been spread by Kolchak’s there ities, which helped the people to un- T ET us now draw the necessary oon- was a whole detachment of orthodox the bourgeois and menshevik press, derstand the class character of the elusions: Patriarch Tikhon's ap- particularly fathers." Generals Denikin and orthodox church. What has peal in connection with the Wrangel been lost Is a blow to the counter-revolu- made connections with will question of the church) the never return. And the orthodox tion and In itself Is a sign of the kulak elements In the villages thru church In Here we Its attempts to entice back ever growing strength of the have a man who Is un- the Intermediary of the Soviet doubtedly orthodox those who have once left, can only regime, in fact the appeal an authority in that connec- priests. The various still more tion, and scattered kulak meet with failure. At the same time strengthens the Soviet power. who announces to the whole risings even in always 1921 had a we must not lose sight of the enrom- The organs of the Soviet power world that there is complete freedom group of priests and orthodox within their ous difficulties in uprooting religious the Communist Party, in of conscience in the Soviet republic. midst placed the future as Whoever has hopes in beliefs In a huge peasant country, in the past, This alone is a blow for the whole an armed wfll stHl more consistently struggle against the where for the overwhelming counter-revolution, which thereby power—even Soviet masses of carry on their struggles against the Including the theoretical peasantry, god still represents opium loses yet another argument In Its agi- leader an all- of religion, so as to prepare for of the international menshe- important In tation against republic. factor their life, bestow- the time when priests will have no the Soviet viks, Karl Kautsky—has up upon of to now ing them rainy or dry weather connection whatever with, toiling But this blow is still more serious always sought his for the allies counter- as required. "Religion is the opium masses of the Soviet republics. Dr. A. Moskalik FILM LIFE OF DENTIST PHOTO WORKERS & W. Comer 7th and Mifflin 6t«. LENIN PRAISED TRY TO BUILD PHILADELPHIA, PA. AS FINE’MOVIE’ NATIONAL ONION GRIGER & NOVAK MY NEW LOCATION GENTS FURNISHING and Workers’ Aid Plans to First Local Formed in MERCHANT TAILORS Show “His Heritage” New York Special X-Ray Union Merchandise oMg A foreign 1934 W. Chicago Avenue staff correspondent of a NEW YORK, May 39.—Local New (Cor. Winchester) big Chicago dally reports from Berlin York of the recently organized photo- ° that a new w rkerß Phone Humboldt 2707 Russian film has Just been graphic workers has been received in- shown It is there. called "His Heri- to the American Federation of Labor, ~ tage” and deala with the life of Nicolai Louis J. B&um, secretary and organiz- 12 YEARS. Lenin, it Is ESTABLISHED but interwoven with s er announced. The local Is chartered My Examination Is Free Georgs E. 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