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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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ted, not as a religious system, butas a system of social and family morals enjoining obedience to 2l6 INTRODUCTION TO PARLIAMENT PAPERS. parents and loyalty to rulers. In this aspect Confucianism hashad, and still has, a strong hold among the higher and well-educated classes. Professor M. J. Wade, in a seventh day paper, presentedthe Catholic view of marriage as a sacrament, the wrong toboth religion and family life of divorce as permitted by statelaws, and the need in particular of more stringent laws secur-ing the proper support of the wife and family. On the sameday Brother Azarias argued the extreme importance of thereligious education of children. In a twelfth-day paper Rev.Olympia Brown especially urged the hope of the race in bettermotherhood. Miss Frances E. Willard, in a fifteenth-daypaper, urged the claims of social purity, the dependence ofsocial health upon pure homes, and the urgency of the appealto men to be as spotless as they expect women to be. X M> r oa >C P5 r
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CHAPTER VIII. ELOQUENT ADDRESSES ON THE CHIEF RELIGIOUS LEAD-ERS OF MANKIND. THE Shintoism of Japan, its oldest religion, and in its tra-ditional form representing in one the primitive totemworship, nature worship, and ancestor worship of the Japanese,never had an individual originator, but points to a mythicaldivine ancestry for its representative objects of historicalreverence. The Zhikko sect of Shintoism of Japan, represented onthe third day by Rev. Reuchi Shibata, reveres as its founderHasegawa Kakugyo, who was born in 1541, A.D., enteredupon pilgrimages of search for truth in his i8th year, becamespecially inspired through prayers at the sacred mount Fuji,and up to his death in his io6th year, carried on the creationof a new sect, and the propagation all over Japan of a creed,the essence of which is the practical realization of good teach-ing, the improvement of the present life, and the care of pub-lic interests. In regard to Mohammed, the Prophet of Arabia, Dr.George Washburn,

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