Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-09-13
UNITED TO SAVE MEMS SOULS.
Hundreds of Delegates Attend the Opening
Session Of the Religious Congress.

iiulul QUO Vi OoloSUoSO FNooS''S 49,
Session Of the Religious Congress.
CHICAGO, ILL.,, Sept. 11.-An event Of
world wide historic interest, one never
before accomplished, took place to-day
1t 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 it's 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
" 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
oil thnSa PunO
Kwang Yu, Confucian, secretary of
the Chinese legation at Washing
ton; Il. Dharmapala, Northern Bud
dhist, secretary of the Maha-Bodhl
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
Tcheraz, Armenian Church; Horiu
Toki, Shaku Soyen, Zitsuzen Ashitus,
kiujdo Machida and G. Noguchi, Budd-
hist priests from Japan; Swami Vive-
kananda, secretary of the Orthodox
Brahminical Society of India; Ganen-
dra Natl Chakrayati, Theosophist from
India and many others including the
notabIes of the recent Roman Catholic
and Jewish congresses, who were still
III 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
Eninence, 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 C. 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. Bernstorff,
Berlin; the most Rev. Dionysius Latas,
the archbishop of Zante, Greece; Carl
Won Bergen, Phi. D., Sweden; Prof. G.
\. Chakravati, H. Dharmapala and P. G.
Mozoomdar, of India; Pung Kaang Yu,
of China, principal grant Of Canada;
Mrs. Laura Ormiston Chant, Dr. F. g.
Hirsch, Bishop B. ". Arnett, Miss
Jeanne Serabii, KEerseI;i Laugraua, of
Bombay; Carl Won Boer Bergen, of
Sweden, and others. The entire day
was practically taken up by these adj
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