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#002 The Worlds Columbian Exposition Scrapbook, 369
From The Arena, July, 1892.
THE WORLD'S RELIGIONS AT THE WORLD'S
FAIR.
BY REV. FRANK N. RIALE, PH. D.
The title of this paper, it must be admitted, is rather mis-
leading. It is to act, however, merely as a Richard Roe
(using Macaulay's simile) to introduce the real subject, and
then pass entirely out of view. The fact that such extensive
preparations are now being made to have a congress of all the
world's religions at the world's fair, is certainly a very marked
indication of the rapidly growing interest in the study of
other faiths besides our own. How these are to be thought
out, is the question of the hour, and is one that must he met
with more caution and with more thoughtfulness than has
hitherto been displayed in any other sphere. Now that we, as
world peoples, are coming to sit under one umbrella in other
things, we feel there must be some better understanding of
the real relation of our religious beliefs than hitherto we have
had. To make a long story short, the best are now firmly
convinced that the hour is here when religious facts are to be
brought under the influence of scientific study, if heart peace
and soul harmony are ever to hold sway.
Though these facts are the first in importance, they have
been the last to submit to such treatment; for somehow we
shudder to take down our heart idols, even though we do it
so gently that it seems like an act of worship. Of course the
more progressive have been looking and longing for this for
many a day, smd have tried to force the issue; but the more
cautious have felt that the fullness of time for a general ad-
vance along this line had not yet come. But now that we
have brought the "no life," the plant life, the animal life, as
well as the historic and economic life, into scientific harness,
and have thought them all out in terms of evolution, we feel
the next field for such study is the religious, the grandest
and the noblest of them all—the sphere of life which is the
holy of holies, and of which we want to know the truth and
the whole truth, that we may the better live.
One of the most conservative, and yet confessedly one of
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Object Description
| Title | World's Columbian Exposition 002 |
| Subject LOC |
World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) World's Parliament of Religions (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) World's Congress of Representative Women (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) Chicago (Ill.)--1890-1900 |
| Subject IDA |
Religion Papers |
| Description | This is a collection of documents from the World's Columbian Exposition and the World Parliament of Religions, which was held in Chicago, Illinois, in 1893. |
| Date Original | 1893 |
| Searchable Date | 1890s (1890-1899) |
| Identifier | WCE 002 |
| Coverage Geographic | Chicago (Ill.) |
| Coverage Temporal | 1890s (1890-1900) |
| Type | Text |
| Collection Publisher | Meadville Lombard Theological School |
| Rights | These documents can be read, downloaded, and the transcripts printed for educationalpurposes. |
| Language | en |
| Contributing Institution | Meadville Lombard Theological School |
| Collection Name | Jenkin Lloyd Jones World’s Columbian Exposition Collection |
Description
| Title | 0369 |
| Subject LOC |
World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) World's Parliament of Religions (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) World's Congress of Representative Women (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) Chicago (Ill.)--1890-1900 |
| Subject IDA |
Religion Papers |
| Description | This is a collection of documents from the World's Columbian Exposition and the World Parliament of Religions, which was held in Chicago, Illinois, in 1893. |
| Date Original | 1893 |
| Searchable Date | 1890s (1890-1899) |
| Coverage Geographic | Chicago (Ill.) |
| Coverage Temporal | 1890s (1890-1900) |
| Type | Text |
| Collection Publisher | Meadville Lombard Theological School |
| Rights | These documents can be read, downloaded, and the transcripts printed for educationalpurposes. |
| Language | en |
| Contributing Institution | Meadville Lombard Theological School |
| Collection Name | Jenkin Lloyd Jones World’s Columbian Exposition Collection |
| Transcript | #002 The Worlds Columbian Exposition Scrapbook, 369 From The Arena, July, 1892. THE WORLD'S RELIGIONS AT THE WORLD'S FAIR. BY REV. FRANK N. RIALE, PH. D. The title of this paper, it must be admitted, is rather mis- leading. It is to act, however, merely as a Richard Roe (using Macaulay's simile) to introduce the real subject, and then pass entirely out of view. The fact that such extensive preparations are now being made to have a congress of all the world's religions at the world's fair, is certainly a very marked indication of the rapidly growing interest in the study of other faiths besides our own. How these are to be thought out, is the question of the hour, and is one that must he met with more caution and with more thoughtfulness than has hitherto been displayed in any other sphere. Now that we, as world peoples, are coming to sit under one umbrella in other things, we feel there must be some better understanding of the real relation of our religious beliefs than hitherto we have had. To make a long story short, the best are now firmly convinced that the hour is here when religious facts are to be brought under the influence of scientific study, if heart peace and soul harmony are ever to hold sway. Though these facts are the first in importance, they have been the last to submit to such treatment; for somehow we shudder to take down our heart idols, even though we do it so gently that it seems like an act of worship. Of course the more progressive have been looking and longing for this for many a day, smd have tried to force the issue; but the more cautious have felt that the fullness of time for a general ad- vance along this line had not yet come. But now that we have brought the "no life," the plant life, the animal life, as well as the historic and economic life, into scientific harness, and have thought them all out in terms of evolution, we feel the next field for such study is the religious, the grandest and the noblest of them all—the sphere of life which is the holy of holies, and of which we want to know the truth and the whole truth, that we may the better live. One of the most conservative, and yet confessedly one of 243 |
