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 BETWEEN THE CZAR AND THE SULTAN. 45 out are not understood to be dependent upon the CHAP. ill volition and motive of the pilgrim, for they hold L_ good, as baptism does, for children of tender years. Of course every man who thus came from afar to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre was the repre- sentative of many more who would do the like if they could. When the Emperor of Paissia sought to gain or to keep for his Church the holy shrines of Palestine, he spoke on behalf of fifty millions of brave, pious, devoted subjects, of whom thousands for the sake of the cause would joyfully risk their lives. From the serf in his hut even up to the Great Czar himself, the faith professed was the faith really glowing in the heart, and violently swaying the will. It was the part of wise states- men to treat with much deference an honest and pious desire which was rooted thus deep in the bosom of the Russian people. On the other hand, the Latin Church seems not to have inculcated pilgrimage so earnestly as its Eastern rival. Whilst the Greek pilgrim -ships poured out upon the landing-place of Jaffa the multitudes of those who had survived the misery and the trials of the journey, the closest likeness of a pilgrim which the Latin Church could sup- ply was often a mere French tourist, with a jour- nal and a theory, and a plan of writing a book. It is true that the French Foreign Office had from time to time followed up those claims to protect the Latin Church in the East which had arisen in the times when the mistresses of 'the 'most Christian kings' were pious; but it was