Excerpt from The Russian Church: Lectures on Its History, Constitution, Doctrine and Ceremonial; Preface by the Lord Bishop of London Mr. Birkbeck's words on p. 52 are very much to the point. The Russian theologians consider the differences which they find between the Latin teaching and their own on the subject of the invoca tion of Saints and of prayers for the dead to consti ture, not a mere development of statement, but an actual alteration due to an altered conception as to the essential nature of the unity of the Church.' The Eastern Church is also a restraining influence upon those who want to tamper in any way with the Faith. The Russian clings with touching tenacity to all the great truths of the Catholic Faith, but most of the conversation of the great ecclesiastics whom I interviewed was to the effect that they were neither idolaters nor Roman Catholics. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.