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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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wenton side by side, listening alternately to the same addresses.When the scientific section was opened for the considerationof a certain class of subjects, the diversion gave no appreciablerelief to the pressure of the eager crowds at the main sessionof the Parliament. Nor was the qualify of the attendance less significant thanits numbers. Out of the thousands of hearers, the ministers ofthe Gospel of various sects and orders, both Catholic and Pro-testant, might always be numbered by hundreds. And amongthe multitude of ministers were some, in large proportion,whose presence was specially significant^—missionaries of thecross, returned from labors in the ends of the earth, and teach-ers in the theological seminaries, not of Chicago only, but ofthe country at large. Nothing can give a better idea of theintentness of the interest that prevailed than the fact that thesplendors 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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112 HISTORY OF THE PARLIAMENT. powerless to divert it. There were men in unintermittedattendance on the Religious Parliament day after day, throughall the seventeen days of its continuance, without once havinglooked on the prodigious array of the glories of the materialworld, within easy reach of them, so much worthier and noblerseemed 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 ofthe names of successive participants and themes, except as,from time to time, some incident or episode requires mentionand commemoration. The Second Day.—Tuesday, September 12. At 10 A.iM. President Bonney invited the assemblv, rising,to invoke, in silence, the blessing of God on the days pro-ceedings ; then, while the assembly remained standing, Chair-man Barrows led in the Universal Prayer, Our Fatherwhich art in Heaven. Dr. S. J. NiccoLLS, Pastor of the Second Presbyt

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