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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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nd us back to our homes morereligious, in the deepest sense of the word, than we were before, and there-fore better able to take up this great work of religion to the redeeming of theworld out of darkness into light, out of sorrow into happiness, out of sin andmisery into the righteousness that abideth forever ! There is one voice speaking to us this morning which was laid down inthe close of one of his poems, those words of Shelley in that magnificentpoem, Prometheus Unbound. It will stand for every language in everytongue to-day and for the embodiment of tlie outcome of religious feelingin you and me : 38 594 PARLIAMENT PAPERS: FIFTH DAY. To forgive wrongs darker than death and night;To suffer woes that Hope thinks infinite ;•To love and bear; to hope, till hope createsFrom her own wrecks, the thing she contemplates.Never to change, nor falter, nor repent,This like thy glory, Titan, is to beGood, brave, and joyous, beautiful and free ,This is alone Life, Love, Empire, and victory.
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MRS. LAURA ORMISTON CHANT, LONDON, ENGLAND. this PARLIAMENT WILL BH FAR-REACHING. THERE IS NO LIMIT OVER THE WORLD TOWHAT IT WILL MEAN IN THE IMIETUS GIVEN TO THE OEKrENINi; OK KKLICilOrS LIKE. IT WILLBE SO MfCH EASIER FOR YOU AND ME TO UNOERSTANU THAT MANKIND IS GODS CHILD, ANDSHALL DE ONE WITH HIM ONE DAY, AND LIVE WITH HIM FOREVER. CONFUCIANISM.By Kung Hsien IIo, of Shanghai. I. The most important thing in the superior mans learning is to feardisobeying Heavens will. Therefore, in our Confucian Religion the mostimportant thing is to follow the will of Heaven. The book of Yih Kingsays, In the changes of the world there is great Supreme which producestwo principles, and these two principles are Yin and Yang. By supreme ismeant the spring of all activity. Our sages regard Yin and Yang and thefive elements as acting and reacting on each other without ceasing, and thisdoctrine is all important, like as the hinge of a door. The incessant production of all things depend on this as the tre

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