Religious Liberty in Russia

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 23, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 37.

Religious Liberty in Russia

THE world moves backward. Peter the Great, of Russia, guaranteed to the Princess Wolfenbüttel-Braunschweig perfect liberty in the matter of religion, and permitted her to have her own chapel after the manner of English and Danish royalty.

But Alexander III. by imperial ukase demands that the future czarevna "should make her conscience part of her dowry," and embrace the Russian orthodox creed. The German princess Alix, granddaughter of Queen Victoria, and now betrothed to the heir apparent to the throne of Russia, is a Protestant. She will on her marriage, or previous, become a member of the Greek Catholic Church, the State orthodox creed of Russia. It is just as well perhaps. The Protestantism she possesses is merely conventional and traditional.