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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.
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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the modern world waslargelv prej)ared to receive and adopt the new idea. Under date of August 8, iSqi. Mr. Gladstone, the dis-tinguished statesman of that Empire whin. I 12 HISTORY OF THE PARLIAMENT. can think of nothing more impressive than such an assemblage of therepresentatives of all the children of our Heavenly Father, convened to telleach other what witness he has given them of himself, what light he hasafforded them in the awful mysteries of life and death. In my eighty-fourth year, and in very feeble health, I can do but little in aid of this greatwork. May God bless thee in the noble work assigned thee.
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REV. i)K. H. ADLKR.CHIKK RAHIM oK THK BRITISH K.MIMRK. rr WAS UK. ADLKK WHO SUCMiKSTKI) THK Mtrm> AIXJPTKU BV THK PAKUAMRNT : HAVK WK Ncrr ALL ONK KATHKK ? HATH NOT ONK tiOU CKKATKO US ? 14 HISTORY OF THE PARLIAMENT. His Eminence, Cardinal Gibbons, of Baltimore, sent the fol-lowing cordial letter : Judged by the tenor of the Preliminary Address of the General Commit-tee on Religious Congresses in connection with the Exposition of 1893, Ideem the movement you are engaged in promoting worthy of all encourage-ment and praise. Assuredly a Congress of eminent men gathered togetherto declare, as your address sets forth, what they have to offer or suggestfor the worlds betterment, what light Religion has to throw on the laborproblems, the educational questions, and the perplexing social conditions ofour times, cannot but result in good to our common country. I rejoice,accordingly, to learn that the project for a Religious Congress in Chicago, in1893, has already won the sympathies and enl

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