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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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our race, but the inexpli-cable evolution from antecedents offering no such promise, the question ispertinent and full of threatening. But we believe that this Jesus hath Godraised up from the grave, and that thereby he is declared to be Gods Sonwith power; that thereby is accredited the claim he ever made to be God ofGod, Light of Light, very God of very God, that all power in heaven andearth is his, and that therefore, and only therefore, is his kingdom an ever-lasting kingdom. But can I believe this ? Can I believe that the universal law has oncebeen broken, that the strong man, death, has even once been bound in hishouse, and the victor has come forth bearing his spoils ? I answer, yes. 1can believe it, nay, must believe it, except I shall refuse to accept any andevery fact attested by human testimony. Here is the record, preserved asby miracle, which has come even unto us, specifying the witnesses, hundredsin number, to whom it was given to see with their eyes, to hear with their
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