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 REV. AUGUSTA J. CHAPIN, D.D., CHICAGO. " THIS PARLIAMENT IS THE GRANDEST AND MOST SIGNIFICANT CONVOCATION EVER GATHERED IN THE NAME OF RELIGION ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH. A HUNDRED YEARS AGO THE WORLD WAS NOT READY FOR THIS PARLIAMENT. FIFTY YEARS AGO IT COULD NOT HAVE BEEN CONVENED, AND HAD IT BEEN CALLED BUT A SINGLE GENERATION AGO ONE HALF OF THE RELIGIOUS WORLD COULD NOT HAVE BEEN DIRECTLY REPRESENTED. WOMAN COULD NOT HAVE HAD PART IN IT IN HER OWN RIGHT."