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Title: The World's Parliament of Religions : an illustrated and popular story of the World's First Parliament of Religions, held in Chicago in connection with the Columbian exposition of 1893
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Barrows, John Henry, 1847-1902
Subjects: World's Parliament of Religions, Chicago, 1893 Religions, Dionysios Latas, Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Zante
Publisher: Chicago : Parliament Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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nities and the Roman conquests,saying to them : I sacrifice according to the holy traditions of Moses andmy other Prophets who were inspired of God, in order to bring down God toman. And the voice from Egypt, having Alexandria as its centre, re-echoedthe voice to Jerusalem, which in those days had become the theater of thepolitical conquests between the Ptolemies of Egypt and the Seleucidae ofSyria, saying : We exert ourselves in researches, we select and acceptwhatever is sublime and excellent, sketching out to us the image of divinity.We keep pushing with all our might all things, in order to elevate and raiseman to God. Of all these things the consequence is, that if the ladder, by means ofwhich the Son and Word of God came down from Heaven into the world,had its basis on Judaism, if the gate through which he passed was Palestine,still the field, the smooth and well-cultivated field, on which the Messiah wasto sow the doctrines of his Gospel and to reap the fruits of his teachings,
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