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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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d and priestly thora, in lyric psalm and in sentences of wisdom, until thezenith is reached in the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the world.Take them, therefore, as the guide of your religion, your salvation and yourlife. The Holy Scriptures of the Christians are now the center of a world-wide contest. We are living in a scientific age which demands that everytraditional statement shall be tested by patient, thorough and exact criti-cism. Science explores the earth in its heights and depths, its lengths andbreadths, in search of all the laws which govern it and the realities of whichit is composed. Science explores the heavens in quest of all the mysteriesof the universe of God. Science searches the body and the soul of man inorder to determine his exact nature and character. Science investigates allthe monuments of history, whether they are of stone or of metal, whetherthey are the product of mans handiwork, or the construction of his voice or Copyright, 1893, by J. H. B. 650
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