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Excerpt from The World's Congress of Religions: With an Introduction The World's Parliament of Religions was formally opened in the Art Palace of the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago on the 11th of September, 1893, and closed on the evening of the 27th of September, having been in session seventeen days. For the first time in the history of the world, representative men, admitted to be the authentic exponents of their various creeds, assembled together fraternally, not for polemical purposes, but to listen each to the other in elucidation of what appears to him religious truth. Gathered on the large rostrum in the Hall of Columbus were men of all nations, all types and races, and of all religions. From far-away India, from the snow-locked crests of the Himalayas, from the valleys of the Tigris and Euphrates, the representatives of a race and country old and decrepit with age clasped hands with a race now in the vigor of manhood. The oldest religions in the world greeted with friendship the youngest. It was fitting that this golden bond of union should have been forged in the greatest city in the new world. Long before the hour announced for the opening of the parliament, the vast hall was packed with people. It was a magnificent gathering which greeted the representatives of the religions of the world as they marched down the centre aisle, and, amid the cheer that welled up from the hearts of four thousand men and women, took their seats upon the platform beneath the waving flags of all nations. Gathered there, clad in their native garb, were the sages of India, the followers of Buddha, the devotees of Brahma. Parsees and Presbyterians, Methodists and Moslems, Baptists and Buddhists, sat side by side and greeted one another as brothers in the world's first council of the faiths. "Peace on earth, good-will to men." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.