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THE WORLD'S RESPONSE. 43 lect of the West. You have my most cordial sympathy in the great work of bringing together, on a common humanitarian platform, the representa- tives of all important moral creeds. I regard your program as marking an epoch in the history of religious development."

The Right Hon. Lord Egerton of Tatton wrote :

As Chairman of the Church Defense Institution, London, for seventeen years, I am thoroughly in favor of denominational teachings according to

the doctrines of the Church of England, but I think the bringing together of God-fearing men of different religious opinions, may tend to that relig- ious unity, which we trust may be eventually obtained in God's appointed time. Even though I should not be able to be present with you, I wish your Congress God-speed.

The Rev. J. E. Rankin, D.D., LL.D., President of Howard University, Washington, wrote :

Nothing in connection with the Columbian Exposition pleases me so much as the Parliament of Religions. It is as though the Babel tongues of the world were coming back to speak the one dialect of Heaven. The con- ception is worthy the age in which we live, and of the country which we