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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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ous bodies in the Hall of Washington and else-where. And they will greatly help to complete the picture of the spiritualforces now at work among men and to bring to a gainsaying and gold-wor-shiping generation a sense of those diviner forces which are moving onhumanity. I cannot tell you, with any completeness, how vast and various are myobligations to those who have helped us in this colossal undertaking. Letme, however, give my heartiest thanks to the devout women who, from thebeginning, have championed the idea of this Parliament and worked for itsrealization; to the President of the Columbian Exposition and his associ-ates; to the President of the Worlds Congress Auxiliary, whose patient andTitanic labors will one day be appreciated at their full value ; to the Chris-tian and secular press of our country, which has been so friendly and helpfulfrom the start; to the more than three thousand men and women upon ourAdvisory Council in many lands; to the scores of missionaries who have
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