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) (14578573510)

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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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t, by the rise of the Hittite Empire. It is difticult to see any traces ofher doctrines in the religions of Western Asia, unless it be in that ofPhoenicia. But with one people, at a later period, it would seem probablethat her religious ideas would find lodgment. Just what Egypt contributedto the religion of Israel is a subject of contention among scholars. For anumber of years, if Israelitish traditions are to be trusted, the Hebrews wereunder Egvptian domination and the formation of their nation and theirreligious system dates from their deliverance from this bondage. Did they not borrow from the well-organized and imposing religioussystem of their captors ? Could they avoid doing so ? The evidences ofany such borrowing are not easy to discover. Either they have been care-fully removed by later ages or another and more powerful influence hasobliterated them. It is also to be remembered that the feeling excited inIsrael by the rigors of Egyptian slavery was one of repulsion and abhor
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A HAWAIIAN WOODEN IDOL. 560 PARLIAMENT PAPERS: FIFTH DAY. rence of everything Egyptian. It is more probable, tnerefore, that theinfluence of the religion of Egypt upon Israel was a negative one, and thatthe foundations of her social and religious institutions were laid in a spiritof separation from what was characteristic of her oppressor. This negative influence, beginning thus in the birth of the nation andcontinuing through several centuries in the relations of the two peoples, was,in its formative power over Hebrew religion, second only to that which waspositively exercised by another religious system,viz., that of Assyria-Baby-lonia, to which we now turn. There were three great periods in which the Hebrews came into closerelations with their neighbor on the Tigris and Euphrates. The first wasthat represented by the tradition respecting Abraham. He came from Urof the Chaldees with the doctrine of the true God. The circumstanceswhich moved him to depart from that center of the worl