Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-09-14
UNITED TO SAVE MEMS SOULS.
Hundreds of Delegates Attend the Opening
Session of the Religious Congress.

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Session of the Religious Congress.
CHICAGO, ILL.,, Sept. u.-An event o
worldwide historic interest, one never
before accomplished, took place to-day.
It was the assembling of the parliament
of religions, gathering of representa-
tives of all the great beliefs of the world
The object is to show how important are
those things upon which all are agreed,
and how comparatively unimportant
are the differences of creed. The result
of the parliament, it is expected, will
be to emphasize what is fundamental
and throw into the background those
differences which are accidental and SUI
perfcial.
Ingress was impossible to the spacious
Art Palace on the lake front long before
the hour appointed for the beginning
of the proceedings. No such i'm
mense crowd had gathered before
during all the memorable series Of con-
crosses since the beginning Of the
Worlds Fair. Aside from the size of
the crowd, it was even more distin-
guished by its cosmopolitanism, which
some enthusiastic participants de-
clared had never been exceeded
not merely since the beginning
of the Worlds FAIR, but from
the beginning of the world itself. Bril-
liant costumes of the Orient mingled in
picturesque array with others apparent
1y betokening the prominence Of the
wearers in the high religious councils
of Europe and America, and in the
almost bewildering throng it was nearly
impossible to particularize individuals
ais. Among those present were Pung
Kwang Yu, Confucian, secretary of
the Chinese legation at Washing
dhist secretary of the Maha-Bodhi
Society of India; Virchand R. Gandhi,
secretary Of the Jain Association of
India; DR.. Ernest Faber, Christian
missionary to China; George T. Cand-
lin, Christian missionary direct from
Tien Tsin, China; Yzo Nomura, Japan
csc Buddhist, of Kio; Prof. Minas
Tcheraz, Armenian Church; Horiu
Toki, Shaku Soyen, Zitsuzen Ashitus,
kiuido Machida and G.. Noguchi, Budd
hist priests from Japan; Swami Vive
kananda, secretary of the Orthodox
Brahminical Society of India; Ganen-
dra Nath Chakravati, Theosophist from
India, and many others including the
notables of the recent Roman Catholic
and Jewish congresses, who were still
in the city.
Just as the new liberty bell at the
Worlds Fair was tolling ten times, a
hush fell on the great audience and His
Eminence, Cardinal James Gibbons in
clear voice and words Of touching sim
plicity, pronounced the invocation to
the Deity. Then followed addresses of
welcome by President G. c. Bonney, of
the Worlds Congress Auxiliary of the
Worlds Fair; the Rev. John Henry
Barrows, of the First Presbyterian
Church Of Chicago, the president of the
parliament of religions; the Rev.
Augusta J. Chaplin, d. D., Arch
bishop P. A. Feehan, the Rev.
Alexander Mckenzie, d. d., and Presi-
dent Higinbotham, of the Worlds
Fair. Responses by Cardinal Gibbons,
the most Rev. Archbishop Redwood,
New Zealand; Count A. Bernstorf,
Berlin; the most Rev. Dionysius Latas,
the archbishop of Zante, Greece; Carl
Won Bergen, Phi. D., Sweden; Prof. G.
N. Chakravati, H. Dharmapala and P G.
Mozoomdar, Of India; Pung Kaang Yu,
Of China, principal grant Of Canada;
Mrs. Laura Ormiston Chant, DR.. Z. G..
Hirsch, Bishop B. w. Arnett, Miss
Jeanne serabii, KherseI;l Laugraua, of
Bombay; Carl Won Boer Bergen, Of
Sweden, and others. The entire day
was practically taken up by these ad-