Coming Together

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Feb 18, 1913

Coming Together.—There is not a principle of theology which should keep apart the Russian Orthodox—or Greek Church—and the Roman Catholic, save the acknowledgment of the pope as the head of the church. And this is sure to come, and that not long hence. The czarina, the wife of the "Little Father" of the Russian people, has been on a visit to Italy with her little son and heir to the throne of the Russias. Various reasons are given for her absence from St. Petersburg, among them fear of the Nihilists. The London correspondent of the Western Watchman recalls the visit she made to the shrine of St. Nicholas of Bari, for the health of her son, and that she is about to take the child there in person again. But if this does not avail, "she will secretly take him down to Rome, and beg the pope to cure him." Of course, Russians do not like this; but seeming necessity, policy, and expediency will work wonders.