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) (14578827607)

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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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ure can God take in the blood of ani-mals or in smoking altars ? How could the true God ever prescribe suchpuerilities ? This is the inquiry of the higher religion of our day. We canonly say that God was training Israel to understand the meaning of a highersacrifice, even the obedience of the Christ in a holy life and a martyr deathin the service of God and of humanity ; and of the similar sacrifice thatevery child of God is called upon to make. The offering up of childrenand of domestic animals and grains was all a preparing discipline. Thetraining was true and faithful for the time. But it was provisional andtemporal, to be displaced by that which is complete and eternal. Thesewere the forms in which it was necessary to clothe the divine law of sacri-fice in its earlier stages of revelation. These partial forms were the objectlessons by which the little children of the ancient world could be trained tounderstand the inerrant law of sacrifice for men. They have their propriety GC c O
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658 PARLIAMENT PAPERS: SIXTH DAY. as elementary forces, but they err from the ideal of religion as it lies eter-nally in the mind and will of God. Paul calls them weak and beggarly rudi-ments, (Gal. iv. 9) a shadow of the things to come. (d) We cannot defend the morals of the Old Testament at all points.Nowhere in the Old Testament are polygamy and slavery condemned.The time had not come in the history of the world when they could be con-demned. Is God responsible for the twin relics of barbarism because hedid not condemn them, but on the contrary recognized them, and restrainedthem in the Old Testament ? The patriarchs were not truthful ; their ageseems to have had little apprehension of the principles of truth, and yetAbraham was faithful to God, and so faithful under temptation and trialthat he became the father of the faithful, and from that point of view thefriend of God. David was a sinner, but he was a penitent sinner, andshowed such a devout attachment to the worship of God th