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112 HISTORY OF THE PARLIAMENT. powerless to divert it. There were men in uninterniitted attendance on the Religious Parliament day after day, through all the seventeen days of its continuance, without once having looked on the prodigious array of the glories of the material world, within easy reach of them, so much worthier and nobler seemed to them the objects of intellectual and spiritual con- templation. And this in "a materialist country" and "a ma- terialist age ! " The daily chronicle of the Parliament is a simple record of the names of successive participants and themes, except as, from time to time, some incident or episode requires mention and commemoration. The Second Day. — Tuesday, September 12. At 10 A.M. President Bonney invited the assembly, rising, to invoke, in silence, the blessing of God on the day's j)ro- ceedings ; then, while the assembly remained standing, Chair- man Barrows led in "the Universal Prayer," "Our Father which art in Heaven." Dr. S.J. NiccoLLS, Pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church of St. Louis, being invited to the chair, made an introductory address. Papers were presented as follows : The Rational Demonstration of the Being of Gcd; by the Very Rev. Augustine F. Hewitt, C.S.P., D.D., of New York, Superior of the Community of Paulists. Read by the Rev. Walter Elliott of the same order. The Philosophic and Moral Evidence for the Existence of God; by Rev. Alfred W. Momerie, D.D., London. The Harmonies and Distinctions in the Theistic Teaching of the Various Historic Faiths ; by Prof. M. Valentine, Gettys- burg, Pa. The Theology of Judaism; by Dr. Isaac M. Wise, Cin- cinnati. The Ancient Religion of India and Primitive Revelation ; by the Rev. Maurice Phillips, of Madras, India.