Priest objected to his name being associated with Tolstoy's. A striking illustration of this was given, seven years ago, at the university of Dorpat, at the occasion of the celebration of its hundredth anniversary. In commemoration of that event the institution elected as honorary members of the corporation a number of Russians distinguished in literature, science and art, one of these was Tolstoy, another was Ivan, the miracle-working priest of Cronstadt, elected to allay the church's indignation at the choice of Tolstoy. Ivan, the priest, refused the honor, and in the following letter to the Rector of the University: "YOUR EXCELLENCY--I have read your estimable and respectful letter to me, which is so full of subtle delicacy--I decline absolutely the honor of the membership to which I have been elected. I do not wish to become connected, in any way, with a corporation--however respectable and learned--which, by some lamentable misunderstanding, has put me side by side with that atheist Leo Tolstoy--the most malignant heretic of our unfortunate age--who, in presumption and arrogance, surpasses all previous heretics of any age. I do not wish to stand beside Antichrist. I am surprised furthermore, to see with what indifference the University Council regards that satanic author, and with what slavishness it burns incense to him." IVAN SERGEIEF, _Prior and Archpriest of the Cronstadt Cathedral_. This letter tells of the attitude of the church towards Tolstoy better than any words of mine can tell. And this same Ivan, it is said, approved of the massacre of the petitioners of St. Petersburg on that memorable White Sunday, and when petitioned to protect the Jews against threatening massacres, treated the appeal with silent contempt. Government hatred back of that of the church. It is to be remembered, however, that over and back of the Church of Russia stands the government. The Czar is the head of the church. Whom the government favors the church favors; whom the government hates, the church hates. The church hated Tolstoy because the government hated him, and why it hated him we shall be told in the next discourse of this series. My Visit to Tolstoy. (_Continued._) A DISCOURSE, AT TEMPLE KENESETH ISRAEL, BY RABBI JOSEPH KRAUSKOPF, D. D. Philadelphia, January 1st, 1911.