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 114 HISTORY OF THE PARLIAMENT. and because of what he represented. And when the successor of Ram Mohun Roi and of Chunder Sen came forward to speak of the Brahmo-Somaj, he was greeted with loud applause. The Brahmo-SomaJ; by P. C. Mozoomdar, of Calcutta, India. At the conclusion of this address, the multitude rose to their feet and, led by Theodore F. Seward, sung the hymn, "Nearer, my God, to Thee." A not less earnest greeting awaited the next speaker, the Most Reverend the Archbishop of Zante in the Ionian Islands, And a not less divine afflatus breathed on all the congrega- tion when the venerable archbishop lifted up his hands and his eyes to heaven, and led all minds and hearts in a fervid prayer to Almighty God. The Greek Chiit'ch ; by the Most Reverend Dionysios Latas, Archbishop of Zante. Man from a Catholic Point of View; by the Very Reverend Thomas S. Byrne, D.D., Cincinnati. Human Brotherhood as Taught by the Religions Based on the Bible; by Dr. K. Kohler, of New York. Read by Dr. Emil G. HiRSCH, of Chicago. The Chairman of the afternoon session was the Rev. Dr. W. C. Roberts of New York, formerly President of the Lake Forest University. His opening address, after some graceful words of greeting, contained the following sentences, too val- uable to be omitted from this History : It has been asked of me more than once how I could reconcile the idea of a Congress of Religions with the Christian Religion. I find no difficulty whatever with this. God has given two revelations, one in nature that displays his power and Godhead, and the other in his rational creatures where we find much concerning his own moral character. And we find that these friends who have come to us from China and India and the islands of the sea, have been studying this very revelation of God in our nature ; and I am inclined to think that, with their keen interest, they have gone deeper into the study than we have, because we have accepted the verbal revelation that has been given us, and have let that suffice for many things. They have not that, and, therefore, have gone more thoroughly into the other phase of divine revelation. In so far, therefore, as they give the right interpretation of that revelation of God in human nature, those of us