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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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toward peace. For the Parliament is not thegateway to death. It is a new portal to a new life ; for all of us a life ofgreater love for and greater trust in one another. Peace will not yet comebut is to come. It will come when the seed here planted shall sprout up toblossom and fruitage; when no longer we see through a blurred glass, but,like Moses of old, through a translucent medium. May God, then, blessyou, Brother Chairman, whose loyalty and zeal have led us safelv throughthe night of doubt to this bright hour of a happy and glorious consummation. There are 5,000,000 of Methodists in the United States,said Mr. Bonney, and the Rev. Dr. Frank Bristol will tell uswhat the Methodists think of the Parliament of Relitrions.Dr. Bristol began his speech with the following quotation :Then let us pray, that come it may. As come it will for a that.That man to man the world oer, Will brothers be and a that. (Applause.)Since this Parliament opened, all thoughtful, serious men must have X •y.
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176 HISTORY OF THE PARLIAMENT. been living in a larger world of faith and hope. Little things have beendiminishing, and great things have been growing greater. We have beenprofoundly convinced of the non-essential character of the non-essentials,and of the essential character of the essentials. Perhaps some have beensurprised to learn how true it is that God has not left himself without a wit-ness in any nation, among any people. We have been convinced as neverbefore that, in the language of Edmund Burke, Man is a religious animal,and religion is the greatest thing man is thinking about, for religion addsthe evidence to assure us that man universally aspires to the divine, forreligion is in itself a peoples deepest, most pathetic sigh, O, that I knewwhere I might find him. That sigh, that aspiration, in whatever articulationit may clothe itself, must henceforth be respected by all thoughtful men. It has often been said that one-half of the world knows not how theother half lives, nay,

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