The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-12-14

You Of the West are always busy,
and you work is your worship. We
OF the East pray night and day, and
our worship - our work.
Let no one fear that Christ and His
truth were not with equal earnesthesS
set forth. OF the more than two hun
dred addresses given, eight 10 one
were from those representing the re-
ligiOu OF Jesus Christ, and list or
only few OF the eminent Christian
ministers and laymen who spoke there
will show that some of the very best
talent of America and Europe was
called upon TO present the truth Of the
gospel. Rev. Joseph Cook, Edward
Everett Hale, VIM. T. Stead, OF Lon
Lyman Abbott, DR.. CT. F. Wright, Of
Oberlin, DR.. Rexford, of Boston, Com.
Ballington Booth, Bishop Fallons,
Prof. Max Muller, DIR. Washington
Gleddin, DR.. Pentecost the evangel-
ist, Henry NJ. Field, ID. D., DR.. Brand
Of Oberlin, and Il. Fay Mills the
evangelist, who delivered a most elo-
quent address upon Christ the Savior
of the world, which reused to the
greatest intensity all the devotion to
evangelical Christianity which ex-
listed among his hearers; and at the
close of his enthusiastic appeal for
language Of the most Enthusiastically
Protestant type, received the homage
of the staid old ecclesiastical ortho-
dox of the Orient in the person of his
grace the Archbishop of Zante, of the
Greek Church, who advanced to con-
graduate him in the warmest man.
ner, his face beaming with earnest
appreciation and the cOntagion of
divine love.
Woman's voice too, was heard at
every session, and the prominence
freely accorded her must have seemed
a strange innovation TO the dark-eyed
Orientals in the teachings Of whose
religion woman "has never a soul to
save.n Such women as Mary A.
Livermore, Julia Ward Howe, Rev.
Olympia Brown, AntOinette Brown
Blackwell, were enthusiastically re-
ceived. So an illustration, from a
report in a Chicago paper, when
Mrs. Eliza Sunderland of Ann Arbor,
Mich, spoke more than 5000 people in
the Hall of Columbus stood up and
cheered and applauded. Hers was
the loudest, clearest voice in all the
great Parliament of Religions yester-
day. She spoke of "Comparative Re-
ligions," and she showed such a depth
of scholarship, such clearness and
force of expression that the audience
hailed her as easily the orator of the
day.
Through all the proceedings of the
day the voice of woman was dOmi-
nant. Louder than the words of ORR
entail sageS above the arguments of
Jewish thinkers sounded her clear
note. In the morning Mrs. Ormiston-
Chante came into the proceeding with
an address that shook the hall with
human life and feeling.
L have not time to refer to many
other interesting aspects of this won
derful gathering. AS to its effect
upon the future there are all classes
of opinions. Perhaps, / cannot better
sum them up thereby giving few
sentences from two of the closing adj
dresses. Suami Vevekanada, the
orange sobid Hindoo monk said at
the last meeting: Much has been
said on the common ground OF rell-
gious unity. If any one here hopes
that this unity would come by the
triumph of any one of these religions
and the destruction of the others to
him / say, "Brother, yours is an i'm
possible hope" Do L wish that the
Christian would become HindOO
God forbid. Do / wish that the Hin
doc or Buddhist would become Chris
tan God forbid.
If the Parliament of Religions has
shown anything to the world it is
this, that it has proved to the world
that holiness, purity, and charity are
not the exclusive possessions of any
church in the world and that every
system has produced men and women
of the most exalted character.
In the face of this evidence if any
body dreams of the exclusive survival
of his own and the destruction of the
others, pity him from the bottom of
my heart, and point him out that upon
the banner of every religion would
soon be written in spite of their re-
sistance. "Help and Not Fight"
assimilation and Not Destruction, p"
Harmony and Peace and Not Dis
sension.'
Hon. G. C. Bonney, in his address
which closed the Parliament, said:
"What men deemed impossible God
has finally wrought. The religions of
the world have met in a great and i'm
posing assembly; they have conferred
together on the vital questions of life
and Immortality in a frank and friend
ly spirit, and now they part in peace
with many warm expressions OF mu-
tual affection and respect.
"The influence which this Congress
of the Religions of the World will eX-
ert on the peace and the prosperity of
of the world is beyond the power of
human language to describe. For this
influence, borne by those who have
attended the sessions of the Parlia.
ment of Religions to all parts of the
world, will affect in some important
degree all races of men, all forms of
religion, and even all governments
and social institutions.
''The results of this influence will
not soon be apparent in external
changes, but will manifest themselves
in thought, feeling, expression, and
the deeds of charity. Creeds and in
situations may long remain unchanged
in form, but new spirit of light and
peace will pervade them, for this Con-
gress of the world religions is the
most marvellous evidence yet given of
the approaching fulfillment of the
apoc alypsic prophecy:
Behold l make all things new y
Whatever may be the future out
come of it all, feel sure that no one
could have sat there day by day with
out feeling
That in all the ages
Every human heart is human,
That in even savage bOsoms
There are longings, warnings, strivings,
For the good they comprehend not,
And the feeble hands and helpless
Cropping blindly in the darkness
Touch Gods right hand in the darkness