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 (1893) (14578563498)

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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 Christian Religion; by Prof.Max MiJLLER, of Oxford University. Read bv Dr. Barrows. Man^s Place in the Universe; bv Prof. A. B. Bruce, of theFree College, Glasgow. Read by the Rev. Dr. S. J. McPher-son, of Chicago. Religio Scientice; by Sir William Dawson, of Montreal.Read by Mr. William Pipe. Music, Emotion and Morals; by the Rev. H. R. Haweis, ofLondon, England. AT the afternoon SESSION. The Rev. Dr. F. A. Noble in the chair. Man in the Light of Science and Religion; by Prof. ThomasDwiGHT, of Harvard Universitv. Read by Bishop Keane. What Constitutes a Religious as Distinguished from a MoralLife; by President Sylvester F. Scovel, of Wooster Univer-sity, Ohio. How can Philosophy give Aid to the Science of Religion ? bvProfessor J. P. Landis, Ph.D., of Union Theological SeminaryDayton, Ohio. Hinduism; by Swami Vivekananda, of Bombay. The Evening Session was presided over by the Rev. Dr.A. H. Lewis, of Plainfield, New Jersey. The first of the even- X HO O 5 ww> H a w HO W c« O G

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126 HISTORY OF THE PARLIAMENT. ings proceedings was the conclusion of the paper on Buddhismby Mr. H. Dharmapala which had been begun the day before. The Relation of Natural and Other Sciences to Religion; byDr. Paul Carus, of Chicago. The History and Prospects of Exploration in Bible Lands; byDr. George E. Post, Beirut, Syria. The Tenth Day.—Wednesday, September 20. After the Parliament had been called to order by Dr. Bar-rows and after silent devotion and the reciting of the LordsPrayer by Rev. Dr. McGilvary, of the Laos, Siam, a briefaddress was made by the Rev. Henry M. Field, D.D., ofNew York, editor of The New York Evangelist, a representa-tive Presbyterian journal, who said: It has been my fortune to travel in many lands, and I have not been inany part of the world so dark but that I have found some rays of light, someproof that the God who is our God and Father has been there, and that thetemples which are reared in many religions resound with sincere worshipand praise to him

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