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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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he westernhemisphere, and from twenty centuries before Christ to this last decade ofthe nineteenth century after Christ ? One contribution made by the Hebrew to the Christian Scripturesdemands special notice because it occupies so central a place in the develop-ment of the Christian system. I refer to the record of a first man, Adam,a Garden of Eden, a fall, an utter depravity resulting, and ending in auniversal flood ; a re-beginning, and another fall and confounding of speechat Babel. The founder of Christianity never refers to these events and thegospels are silent concerning them. Paul first alludes to them, but in hishands and those of his successors they have become central in the theologyof Christendom. Whence came this record of these real or supposed events?Genesis is silent concerning its origin. The antiquary delving among theruins of ancient Chaldea finds almost the identical record of the same seriesof events upon clay tablets which are referred to an Akkadian people, the
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