< nriicii. 



JirtS 



l t.) n rupture of our diplomatic relations 



i can 



nts. Ho one can 

 nas not provoked 

 nii'Mt will CXCIte 



(In the (,,! 



. y l!i>' maintenance of 

 ..I. Crccce U 



i making known t" th'- powers, and es- 

 M policy which she has 

 public <i]>iiii(iii 

 retail movement 

 in (J recce ; and 

 \\ een tin- people 

 iMilili--. \\ i i-c to take place in 

 hut then would be the posi- 

 ilent of Crete, and the 

 itiired, oblige us to reflect 

 ieet, to organize our internal 

 Mliug with the gravity 

 r, mid above all to conform strictly to 

 lit, in case ,,f need, to rely in the 

 'irsclves, and thus render ourselves 

 :Ueacious help of friendly nations, 

 'U- of that of the guaranteeing powers. 

 e must take care that our position 

 'ion to Crete should not be erroneously viewed 

 in the e\es of Knrope. We must show it that, alto- 

 iLcers to the origin of the Cretan move- 

 ment, v. e continue spectators of events very close at 

 hand, to confine ourselves Mrietly \\ithinthe narrow 

 ,r international duties. In order to nc- 

 ese intentions, we will ask your authority 

 i.il missions to the' difl'erent powers tor 

 the jur quainting them with the truth M to 



ual .situation of our country, and as to what 

 in our neighborhood. In this 

 'lemen, we hope to avoid all danger, 

 1 attain more surely and promptly the 

 t' the wishes and hopes wliich animate 

 irt of the country and of the Hellenic people. 



i.KK CHURCH. The most important 



in the recent history of tho Greek 



!i is tho increasing interest in establish- 



: connections with the Anglican 



V-s of Europe and America. This, in par- 



p, is reported to be the case in Russia. 



p of. Moray and Ross (of the Scotch 



l-.-il church}, who visited Russia on a 



1 mission in 1866, refers in his charge to 



tho clergy of his diocese to the feeling of (lie 



mid laity with regard to this 



t, as 1'uliuws: 



I did not converse with a single Russian who did 

 not introduce the subject himself, and converse upon 

 ii in : : ndly and sensible manner. To un- 



cb. other to learn and know the doctrine, 

 discipline, and worship of our respective churches 

 to m'a-ter such works as represent truly ami with 

 authority the tenets of our churches, and to abstain, 

 in the mean time, from all acts which could irritate 

 or compromise either. This was tho desire, and 

 the feelings of all those with whom I 

 And I cannot bring mv remarks to a 

 in a more touching manner than by quoting 

 the words of the (Jrand Duke Constantino, the em- 

 'l brother, which he used in tiie course of a 

 :i I hud \\ith him in an interview with 

 which he honored mo. Speaking of tho union of 

 the churches, he said : " It is a subject of which I 

 havi IO-.IL; urn! often thought, and in which I take a 

 live!\ It is one," he said, "in wliich I 



think all nii'Jit to t;i!vc aii interest, and which all 

 : to promote ; for I am sure it must 

 b<- pleasing to our Saviour Jesus Christ to see any at- 

 tempt being made to accomplish the object of his 

 .-iiyer, tha; we 'all may be one.' " 

 VOL. vi. 25 A 



The II.v. <,.or;.'c Williams, of England, who 



.11 tr:iv. lling in th- K:t~t in the ii. 

 <!'( liurcli I'nity, \\ri!.^on the. sanx- SM!.J. 

 the " KiiMrni Church A-sociation : " 



The Bishop of Na/nreth was perhaps the most 

 hearty in hi- empathy of all with whom I con- 



I, and In- repeated more than once: "Your 

 '.\ ation of the world it is nothing 



of that'." The Hishop of Mount Till 

 most devout man, was deeply interested in the idea 



: ion, and it is a comfort to think that prayers 

 are continually ascending from Tabor's lonely peak 

 for the good success of our work. The Bishops of 

 Horns and llamah were also warm in their approval, 

 iind (lie la>t bishop whom I saw, viz.: the successor 

 of S. Polycarp, at Smyrna, expressed himself mosl 

 strongly in favor of intercommunion. 



More indefinite is a statement of Bishop 

 "Whitohouse, of Illinois, in a communication to 

 his diorese, who, after having spoken of his 

 a -^Delations with the Lutheran bishops of Swe- 

 den. thus speaks of the Russian Church: 



During my long stay in Russia, and especially in 

 Moscow," I have enjoyed oportumties for a similar 

 acquaintance with tfie Russo-Grcek services, and 

 occasions of full and intimate conference on the 

 otate and relations of our respective churches. In 

 eta I owe every thing to the unwearied 

 kindness of his eminence, the Bishop of Lconidc, 

 Viear of the Metropolitan, which left nothing more 

 to desire in personal and official recognition. 



the close of tbo year French and 

 papers (Independence Beige, London 

 . . circulated the report that with the 

 support of the French and Austrian Govern- 

 ments negotiations had heen carried on be- 

 tween Rome and the Greek bishops of Turkey 

 concerning a recognition by the Greek churches 

 in Turkey of tho supremacy of tho Pope, and 

 that several bishops, and even the Patriarch of 

 Constantinople had been gained for the plan. 

 The report produced quite an emotion in Rus- 

 sia, and one of the most influential organs of 

 public opinion, the Moscmo Gazette, demanded 

 that Russia should appeal to arms rather than 

 submit to the humiliation of allowing France 

 to dislodge her as protector of the Christians 

 of Turkey. Subsequently an emphatical denial 

 was given in Constantinople, and by the patri- 

 arch himself, to the whole report. In Decem- 

 ber, 1 *<;<, the patriarch was deposed from his 

 oftico by tho Turkish Government, at .the 

 urgent request of a large number of tho most in- 

 fluential Greeks. The patriarch had made many 

 iKinies by excommunicating and imprisoning 

 the editor of a Greek paper in Constantinople 

 \vh. had been advocating a religious reform. 

 Owing to the great excitement against him, he 

 gave in his resignation, but at the same time 

 induced tho Porte not to accept it. As the ex- 

 citement against him, however, continued and 

 increased, he was finally forced to vacate his 

 olliee. The Turkish Government, with which 

 the patriarch had always been on the 

 terms, gave him a monthly pension of 5,000 

 piastre*. 



The long struggle between the Government 

 of tho Pannbian Principalities and the < 



