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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
Publisher: Chicago : Parliament Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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rld to-day, and set its wheels inmotion. Every cry could sh^pe itself against them, every class could takealarm, and every prejudice go loose. And hence the Proteus form of Anti-Semitism. Wherever the social conditions are most unstable, the equilibriummost threatened and easily disturbed, in barbarous Russia, liberal Franceand philosophic Germany, the problem is most acute, but there is no countrynow, civilized or uncivilized, where some echo of it has not reached ; even inour own free-breathing America, some wave has come to die upon ourshores. What answer have we for ourselves and for the world in this, the triai-hour of our faith, the crucial test of Judaism ? We, each of us, must lookinto our own hearts, and see what Judaism stands for in that inner shrine,what it holds that satisfies our deepest needs, consoles and fortifies us, com-pensates for every sacrifice, every humiliation we may be called upon toendure, so that we count it a glory, not a shame to suffer. Will national or
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A MKNIUCAM DtRVISII. 714 PARLIAMENT PAPERS: SIXTH DAY. personal loyalty suffice for this, when our personality is not touched, ournationality is merged ? Will pride of family or race take away the sting,the stigma ? Lo ! we have turned the shield and persecution becomes ouropportunity! Those that were in darkness, upon them the light hathshined. What is the meaning of this exodus from Russia, from Poland,these long black lines, crossing the frontiers or crushed within the pale—these despised and rejected of men, emerging from their Ghettos,scarcely able to bear the light of day ? Many of them will never see thePromised Land, and for those who do, cruel will be the suffering beforethey enter, long and difficult will be the task and process of assimilationand regeneration. But for us, who stand upon the shore, in the full blessedlight of freedom and watch at last the ending of that weary pilgrimagethrough the centuries, how great the responsibility, how great the occasion,if only we c

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