The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1893-12-19


and made its displeasure felt in fore
ible way. Excited women raised
themselves from their chairs and crieC
"Non 'Neverl' srNeverri AlIabou
the house sounded the deeper-yoiceC
cries of excited men, but still the con.
verted American, wearing his red fez
stuck to the point. Then a storm Of
misses broke out and ran about the
house in increasing volume. Moham-
med Webb took the hint, for it was q
decided one, and went on to talk about
other phases of the faith of Islam.
An Oriental who was always lis
tened to with great interest was P. c.
Masoomaden of India, of the Brahmo
Somaj, author of the "Oriental
Christ" He is a most scholarly APP
pearing man, speaking elegant Eng
lish. heard him read most thought
full paper upon "The Worlds Religious
Debt to ASIA" which, though taken
from an unusual point of observation
to us, was full of suggestive thought
with which we may he too little ia
miliar. He said in closing, contrast
ing Eastern and Western methods,
"You of the West are always busy,
and you work is your worship. We
of the East pray night and day, and
our worship is 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 to one
were from those representing the re-
ligion of Jesus Christ, and a list of
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. 7. Stead, of Lon
don, Prof. Henry Drummond, DIR.
Lyman Abbott, DR.. G. F. Wright, of
Oberlin, DR.. Rexford, of Boston, Com.
Darlington Booth, Bishop Fallons,
Prof. Max Muller, DR.. Washington
Gleddin, DR.. Pentecost the evangel-
ist, Henry NJ. Field, D. D., DIR. Brand
of Oberlin, and B. 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
personal faith in personal Christ, in
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
ler, his face beaming with earnest
and the contagion of
livine love.
WOman's voice too, was heard at |
every session, and the prominence
RELY accorded her must have seemed |
| strange innovation to the dark-eyed |
)rientals in the teachings of whose
'eligiOn woman "has never a soul to |
ave-" Such women as Mary A. |
Livermore, Julia Ward Howe, Rev.
olympia Brown, Antoinette Brown
were enthusiastically re-
eived. So an illustration, from a
eport in Chicago paper, when
drs. Eliza Sunderland of Ann Arbor,
Iich., spoke more than 5000 people in
he Hall of Columbus stood up and
heered and applauded. Hers was
he loudest, clearest voice in all the |
'reat Parliament of Religions yester-
ay. She spoke of Comparative Re-
igions," and she showed such depth
t scholarship, such clearness and
Orce of expression that the audience
allied her as easily the orator of the
ay.
Through all the proceedings of the
90 Ior,,. |
ant. Louder than the words of ORR
ntal sages above the arguments of
ewish thinkers sounded her clear
ote. En- the morning Mrs. Ormiston-
'hante came into the proceeding with
n address that shook the hall with
uman life and feeling.
| have not time to refer to many ,
Their interesting aspects of this won
erful gathering. AS to its effect
pom the future there are all classes
opinions. Perhaps, cannot better
Inn them up thereby giving a few
entences from two of the closing adj
resses. Suami Vevekanada, the
range sobid HindoO monk said at
lie last meeting: Much has been l
lid on the common ground of reli- t
ious unity. If any one here hopes |
lat this unity would come by the
iumph of any one of these religions
nd the destruction of the others to 6
i'm say, Brother, yours is an inn I
1ssible hope" Do L wish that the !
hristian would become Hindoo ?
cd forbid. Do wish that the Hin
20 or Buddhist would become Chris q
an ? God forbid. (
If the Parliament of Religions has :
Town anything to the world it is
lis, that it has proved to the world {
lat holiness, purity, and charity are I
1t the exclusive possessions of any
lurch in the world and that every !
stem has produced men and women !
the most exalted character.
In tine face of this evidence if any a
,dy dreams of the exclusive survival
his own and the destruction of the n
hers, 1 pity him from the bottom of =
Y heart, and point him out that upon 1
e banner of every religion would C
on be written in spite of their re- t,
stance. "Help and Not Fight"
assimilation and Not Destruction"
harmony and Peace and Not Dis Il
nsion." Il
Hon. c. C. Bonney, in his address D
lich closed the Parliament, said: 4
IsWhat men deemed impossible God !
8 finally wrought. The religions of II
e world have met in great and i'm s.
sing assembly; they have conferred 81