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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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went on side by side, listening alternately to the same addresses. When the scientific section was opened for the consideration of a certain class of subjects, the diversion gave no appreciable relief to the pressure of the eager crowds at the main session of the Parliament. Nor was the qualify of the attendance less significant than its numbers. Out of the thousands of hearers, the ministers ofthe Gospel of various sects and orders, both Catholic and Protestant, might always be numbered by hundreds. And among the multitude of ministers were some, in large proportion, whose presence was specially significant missionaries of the cross, returned from labors in the ends of the earth, and teachers in the theological seminaries, not of Chicago only, but ofthe country at large. Nothing can give a better idea of the intentness of the interest that prevailed than the fact that the splendors and wonders of the great Fair itself often seemed ZIO > w r o> < d c c C/3 V3 HO W o C o V. rr a. c
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111 Shiva’s bull carved out of solid stone on the side of Charmandi Hill, Mysore, India.

112 HISTORY OF THE PARLIAMENT. powerless to divert it. There were men in unintermitted 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 mataeril 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 materialist age! The daily chronicle of the Parliament is a simple record ofthe 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 days proceedings ; then, while the assembly remained standing, Chairman Barrows led in the Universal Prayer, Our Father which art in Heaven. Dr. S. J. NiccoLLS, Pastor of the Second Presbyt

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