The Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal, December, 1892, Shanghai American Presbyterian Mission Press, The December number of this excellent monthly opens with an address delivered recently in New York by the Rev. John Henry Barrows, D.D., on ''the Religious Possibilities of the World's Fair." It is intended that the great Exhibition at Chicagonext year shall include a sect devoted to the religions of the world, and that " series of religious congressos aboli be held, and Dr. Barrows is the Chairman of the General Committee having the matter in charge, It is said that the greatest and wisest of the Mogul Emperors, Akbar, the builder of the Ti at Agra, and hero of the posthumous puei by Tennyson just published, contemplated summoning just such " religious parliament as will assemble at Chicago. The list of those who have sent their commendations of the design, beginning with Glidatone, Tennyton, and Whittier, is too long for us to extract, but we may make one quotation from this spirited andre I have no doubt that this phenomenal meeting will make apparent the fact that there is a certain unity sin religion; that is, that mon not only have common desires and needs, but also have perceived, more or less clearly, certain.common truths. And as the Apostle Paul, with his unfulling tact and courtesy, was careful to find common wand for himself and his Greek auditors in before he preached to them Jesus resurrection, so the wise Christian missionary is discovering that he must not ignore any fragment of truth which the heathen mind cherishes, for, thus ignoring it, he makes an impassable barrico against conviction in the non-Christian linind. I Delieve that the Parliament will do much to promote the spirit of human brotherhood among those of diverse faiths, by diminishing ite wil, by softening raucous, and giving men the privilege of.getting their impressions of others affrst hands We believe. that Christianity is to supplant all other religions, the trath there is, in them and much beside, revealing a redeeming God. The object of the Parliament, it scarcely needs to be said, is not to foster any temper either of bigotry or of indifferentism, Each man is required to speak -out with frankness; his own convic. tious, and, without compromising individual faiths, ill are to meet under aflag.emblazoned-with the words, Truth, Love, Fellow. ship," rejoicing in a fraternity that. involves no surrender of a1 opinions, and.no abatement of faith on the part of those who recognise how widely. Christianity is differentiated from other systems, The' Rev. J. Jackson follows with an. article on the ' Objects, Methoda'and Results of Higher Education' in our Mi Schools," in which he pleads for' the' best possible education being given to the Chiwese scholars, and combats the that the secular education offered be merely the inclu scholars to come in and be 44Tu other words, religion is the studetits are to: be prevailed upon to Sswallow,/and secular instruction'the sugar-tu: make.it go down the! more "The difficulty is that the people at home who contribute. to support these
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