It is the theory of the Eastern Church that all are equal before God.

In His service, no distinction is made; autocrat and subject, noble and peasant, stand or kneel in the same manner while worshipping at His altars.
As we entered, we found the wedding party standing in the center of the church; the spectators were grouped nearer the door, the ladies occupying the front.

With the thermometer at seventy-two, I found the upright position a fatiguing one, and would have been glad to send for a camp stool.

Colonel Bulkley had undertaken to escort a lady, and as he stood in a conspicuous place, his uniform buttoned to the very chin and the perspiration pouring from his face, the ceremony appeared to have little charm for him.
The service began under the direction of two priests, each dressed in a long robe extending to his feet, and wearing a chapeau like a bell-crowned hat without a brim.

"The short one," said a friend near me, pointing to a little, round, fat, oily man of God, "will get very drunk when he has the opportunity.