Throughout the world last Sunday the holy men of Christendom and of Jewry stood before their believing flocks, raised high their prayers for brooding, savage, militantly godless Russia. In Manhattan a host of 3,500 Protestants gathered in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine to hear Bishop William Thomas Manning, guarded by three detectives, conduct a solemn service of supplication. The proceedings were similar to those which took place throughout the western world and in far-away missionary lands—a multitudinous echoing of the cry of Christ: "Father forgive them, for they know not what...
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