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34 HISTORY OF THE PARLIAMENT. nary, Louisville, wrote : "Let an honest effort be made to get at the facts of religious experience, and the truth of God will take care of itself."

Rev. James Kerr, of Glasgow, wrote :

The conception of such a Parliament of Religions is worthy of so great an occasion. The faith of Christ, of which I am a witness, cannot suffer any eclipse in the presence of any or all of the great historic faiths of the

world. The comparisons and the contrasts between the Gospel of the once crucified but now exalted Jesus, and the other gospels that have proffered their healing balms for humanity, which such a Parliament will present and accentuate amid the world's civilization at the close of this nineteenth century of the Christian era, must, I am fully confident, draw world-wide attention to the song of the heavenly host on the plains of Bethlehem, " Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace, good will to men."

Rev. Lyndon S. Crawford, an American missionary in Broossa, Turkey, wrote :

The very thought of such a gathering sends a thrill of joyful hope