The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1893-08-19
CREEDS CONVENE.
The Most Distinguished Ecolesias-
tics in the World Will Meet
in Conference.
PARLIAMENT OF RELIGIONS.
Cardinal Gibbons Sanctions the
Movement and Looks for Great
and Lasting Results.

.s5 AO0oIAAO0s
Have we not all one fat-er? Hath not
one God created us?
These words represent the spirit that
will prevail at the great parliament of
religions to be held in Chicago from Sept.
II to SEPT. q. The projectors of the
splendid series Of congresses being held
in conjunction with the Columbian Ex-
position are gradually modelling into
shape coronet of literary gems of sur
passing beauty, and when the work is
finished it is eminently fitting that the
crown jewel should represent all that is
best of modern thought concerning mans
condition on earth and his state in the
great hereafter. For the first time, q
thoroughly ecumenical council will be
held, not for the purpose of propagating
any one system of belief, but with the
greater object in view of determining by
free and friendly discussion on what
points the religions agree as affecting
mans condition. It is not anticipated
that the millennium is near at hand, but
it is hoped that there may come time
when the whole world will unite in &C
'znowledging the sovereignty of one God,
and when that time does come the ar
chives of history will show that the first
step toward this unity was taken in Chi
cago. Then will Tennyson's beautiful
words be realized:
~ dreamed
tn stone by stone reared sacred fame,
temple, neither pagod, mosque nor
M church,
s$ vt loftier, simpler. always open-doored
III every breath from heaven, and truth
! H. and peace r.. IN
And@,ye and justice came and dwelt therein.
The plans for the parliament arranged
by the general committee presided over
by Rev. John Henry Barrows, D. d., pas
tor of the first Presbyterian Church of
Chicago, have already begun to crystal
lie into shape, and il ever there was q
shadow of doubt that the undertaking
wou Id not or could not be brought to a
successful issue, it is now entirely re-
moved. Since the beginning of the
operations upwards of twenty Thousand
communications have gone forth to diff
ferent parts # the world telling the good
tldings OF the coming ratification Of the
brotherhood OF man. Representatives of
every sect which acknowledges the Man
OF Nazareth as it's banner bearer have
been invited to participate in the pro
ceedings. Invitations have also been
sent to Jews and Parsees. Moslems. and
Confucians, jams and Hindue, Budd-:
hists and Shintoists, Taolsts and Sikhs,
and multitudes of other sects which &C.
knowledge and worship deity. No
matter what may be their belief, all are
asked to meet on q common platform,
and by virtue of the fact that all are hu-
man, deliberate on questions which con-
cern humanity. To do this in harmony
and good fellowship no one is asked to
abate one jot of his faitn, or acknowledge
in any way that Of another. Much has
been said pro and con about the parlia-
ment, and expressions of opinion have
been given to the world all along the
line from the Archbishop Of Canterbury,
surrounded by the pomp, wealth, luxury
and exclusiveness of the English church
to the humble missionary hedged about
by the most primitive types of human
ity. What has already been written
about the parliament would fill library,
and the views OF the writer's, for the
sake Of comparison. are as far apart as
are the north and south poles.
The Catholic Church has recognized
the great Importance of the occasion and
is making preparations on great scale
for proper representation. Cardinal
Gibbons, the primate of the American
Church, has heartily endorsed the move
ment and looks for great and lasting re-
suits. At their last meeting in New
York the archbishops appointed Rt. Rev.
John J. Keane to arrange for On ade-
quate presentation of the Catholic doc
trine. In communicating this informa-
tion to the general COMMITTEES Bishop
Keane wrote: 81 ask leave to add the
expression OF my own profound conviic-
tion that the project is an admirable one,
and that it ought to receive the encour-
agement Of all who really love truth and
charity, and who wish to further their
reign among mankind. It is only By q
I friendly and brotherly comparison ot1
convictions that reasonable men can1
eyer lg. oometo an agreement about the all,
Important truths which are the founda-