ABSTRACT
Large numbers of churches are converted into Labour clubs, with slight alterations which come so much cheaper than new buildings, and the most beautiful and most artistically valuable churches are turned into museums, carefully preserved and renovated, the removal of redundant structures and decorations throwing their severe beauty into stronger relief. Divine service is no longer held in them, but sufficient churches remain for this purpose; and where this is not the case, the regime is careful to prevent the exercise of coercion by a minority, and to ensure that churches are sequestrated only where such is the desire of a majority of the population. Its campaign against the churches, which is stern and vigorous, proceeds on other lines. The State disfranchises the priests politically on the ground that they used to degrade the faith into a pliant tool of Czarism.
