theologians deny that any such headship is claimed or allowed, except in temporalities. If the Eastern Church is bound to the past by its Greek and Asiatic traditions, the great Christian nation of Russia, whose dominion spreads over the whole East of Europe, Northern Asia, and a large tract of Western America, forms her bond of union with the present and the future. In Russia, Church and State are most happily united—for the present Imperial Family and reigning Czar are the descendants and representatives