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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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arly, unmoral thought, and lacks thetrue power which comes from contact of the soul of man withthe Soul of the world, and from feeling a divine personality asthe ideal of justice and love. If inadequate conceptions ofGod and of the moral life, the life of God in the soul of man,were swept away; if the habit of contemplation of the idealwere more cultivated and depended upon ; if men more fullyfelt themselves to be literally working with God and God work-ing with them; not only would moral evil in the presence ofsuch a communion be powerless, but men would have a con-ception of religion in which almost all, perhaps all, the relig-ious systems of the world may agree. At the opening of the morning meeting of the eleventhday, Theodore F. Seward explained the principle of a pro-posed Brotherhood of Christian Unity, the bond of which isdesire to serve God and our fellow men under the inspirationof the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. Rev. R. A. Hume, in a sixteenth-day paper, pointed out
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A SHINTO IRIKST. ARKAVF.I) IN FULL SACKRDOTAI. koUKS. 246 INTRODUCTION TO PARLIAMENT PAPERS. the intense longing of tlie Hindu mind for comprehensiveness,for unity, first in the objects of intelligence, and also in unifi-cation of opposites—a mood of the Hindu intellect whichmakes the sympathy of faiths and the sympathy of humanityvery easy and natural to Hindus. On the sixteenth day, Mr. Kinza R. M. Hirai, of Japan,expressed the belief that the one aim and object common to allassembled in the Parliament, that of desire in love to help andteach the others, must have the grand, far-reaching result ofbringing into one. Christian and Buddhist and Parsee andMoslem and Brahman and Jew, through the glorious revelationto all eyes of one pure holy truth, unclothed of sect andcreed, and clothed in the common heart and mind of manymen of many faiths. Shaku Soyen, a Japanese Buddhist, on the sixteenth day,presented assurances of his faith that from the Parliamentwould date all over the world a

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