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Title: The World's Parliament of Religions : an illustrated and popular story of the World's First Parliament of Religions, held in Chicago in connection with the Columbian exposition of 1893
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Barrows, John Henry, 1847-1902
Subjects: World's Parliament of Religions, Chicago, 1893 Religions
Publisher: Chicago : Parliament Pub. Co.

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f infidelity tothe only divine and infallible religion. Doubtless such a cry of distress mightbe heard from some souls in nearly every country and every party repre-sented here, for the reason that nearly everybody is persuaded that he holdsthe only true and divine faith. Indeed, has not Constantinople joined withCanterbury in chanting a double requiem over the decay and death of allreal devotion to the true faith ? Every man is the true believer, himselfbeing the judge, while nobody is the true believer if som.ebody else is per-mitted to decide. Thus by the traditional methods; but a more helpful char-ity will concede a divine quality to every mans faith who cherishes it as hisbest. Let him not forget, however, that there are other men in the world.I revere the father and the mother who begat me, but I revere them the moreas I think of them as types of that universal parentage that has begotten allsouls. So do I revere the religion into which I was born, but I revere it all tr > 2
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512 PARLIAMENT PAPERS: FOURTH DAY. the more as I think of it as an expression of that universal religious Spiritthat holds its eternal seat in the heart of God. I am not willing to standwithin the limits of my sect or party and from thence judge of the world. Iprefer rather to stand in the world as a part of it, and from thence judge ofmv party or sect, and even of that great religious division of the worlds faithand life in which my lot has fallen. And if Religion as a world-problem beworthy of our study, that worthiness will be found in the great organizingfact that we ourselves have been, are, and forever must be involved in thatsacred process which embraces in its mysterious workings not only the rudestprimitive beginnings of the religious life of man, but the progressive des-tinies of all souls. There is no separableness in the providence of that Infin-ite Being who is over all and through all and in us all. The primary fact or condition which justifies this Congress in theminds

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