Photo by Gilbert H. Grosvenor 



A NEAR VIEW OF THE WONDERFUL CATHEDRAE OE THE SAVIOUR 



Its interior is a blaze of color (see page 498). Nearly seven thousand worshipers can 

 find accommodations in it at one time. On Sundays the services are attended by so many 

 men that women are wont to go on the other days of the week. This stately ediiice, the 

 magnificent cathedrals of St. Isaac's (see page 506), and the Church of the Resurrection 

 (see page 499) were all erected within the last one hundred years, and are lasting monu- 

 ments to the present religious spirit in Russia. No other Christian country within the last 

 century has built three cathedrals, or even one, to equal these. It should be remembered, 

 however, that the Russian church does not proselyte, whereas the Protestant and Roman 

 Catholic churches have devoted hundreds of millions of dollars to foreign mission work. 



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