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...Patriarch of Alexandria, the Metropolitan of Sofia (Bulgaria) bowed their gray heads in reverent appreciation...
...Kingdom of God." His theme etched a contrast between old church councils which debated dogma and this conference which concerned itself with the practical good which Christianity should attempt to achieve in the world today; his crescendo, "the sovereignty of Jesus in everything pertaining to human affairs." The Patriarch of Alexandria uttered the benediction...
Since the War, Archbishop Platon has been in actual possession of the American branch of the Russian Church, but he has been hostile to the new regime in Russia, and did not follow the Patriarch Tikhon when that lately deceased ruler (TIME, Apr. 20) compromised with the new Church faction in Russia. Patriarch Tikhon had summoned him to Moscow to be unfrocked. Thus Platon may be generally identified with the aristocratically inclined "unreconstructed Russian...
Once more the patriarch of song and dancing has operated on his current show. New blood for its failing veins he has purchased, new cooling costumes for the chorus, new backgrounds, new tunes. Since this year's Follies was one of the smartest ever staged, these changes seemed scarcely necessary. They advance the show's excellence sufficiently to make it worth while on second visit...
Significance. Mothers used to say "Brigham Young" instead of "bogey man" to scare their offspring. Now, soothed by the years, they are hardly aware that some 400,000 Mormons still revere the much-married patriarch who managed people by telling them to believe in him or "go to Hell across lots." This patriarch's works constitute the most vivid chapter in native religious history and an impressive section of the chronicle of the Far West...