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Controversies (Sept - Oct 1893)
Controversies (Sept - Oct 1893)
Total Records Found: 39
Sep 1893
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Officially the Parliament was not intended to be a controversy but, rather, a symposium of all the faiths of the world. (ND 1.104)
Sep 1893
Analysis
The subjects presented were devided in two catagories. (ND 1.104)
Sep 1893
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During the first ten days of the Parliament every religion had its say. (ND 1.104)
Sep 1893
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Misconceptions regarding Eastern religions had been uprooted. (ND 1.104)
Sep 1893
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In an article on Barrows's book, The World's Parliament of Religions, the Review of Reviews for March 1894 reflected the change of attitude that was brought about on idolatry: (ND 1.105)
Sep 1893
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During the first ten days of the Parliament the full range of Christian conviction was also expounded. (ND 1.107)
Sep 1893
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On the afternoon of the third day of the Parliament, a Reverend Frank Bristol read a paper by the Reverend Thomas Ebenezer Slater, of the London Missionary Society. (ND 1.107)
Sep 1893
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In his paper at the Parliament the Reverend T. E. Slater conceded to native ideas the fact that they were based on a search of the human spirit for the Divine. (ND 1.107)
Sep 1893
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On the fourth day, the Reverend Joseph Cook from Boston, gave a talk on "Strategic Certainties of Comparative Religion." (ND 1.107)
Sep 1893
News reports
Chicago Tribune reports on Mr. Cook's performance on the fourth day in the Parliament of Religions. (ND 1.108)
Sep 1893
Analysis
Mr. Cook's obsession with sin and lurking damnation was representative of what in that day was given out as religion by a large part of the Christian clergy. (ND 1.109)
Sep 1893
News Reports
News Reports in Open Court. (ND 1.109)
Sep 1893
Analysis
This approving roar seriously alarmed many a Christian missionary. (ND 1.109)
Sep 1893
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Several Christian delegates were prompted to attack Hinduism openly on September 19, the day that Swamiji was schedule to read his paper (ND 1.110)
Oct 1893
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Every day in the parliament of religions, the pronouncements were made about superiority of Christianityby missionary minded Christians. (ND 1.119)
Oct 1893
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It is tempting to go on quoting similar statements made during a parliament the avowed purpose of which was to bring together the representatives of the great religions of the world for mutual enlightenment and understanding. But perhaps by now the general trend has been made clear. For the most part it was the Protestant Christians who shouted from the platform. (ND 1.119)
Oct 1893
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As for the Catholics, they handled the subversive influences of the Parliament in their own way. "Before the Parliament was half over," an observer of the proceedings writes, "when its trend was properly cognised, there appeared placards in conspicuous places in the Art Palace stating that `questions regarding Catholic faith would be answered in room six.' Thus any Catholic whose mind had been unsettled by the papers of Pagan, Protestant, or Agnostic could be straightened out even before he left the building. (ND 1.119)
Oct 1893
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But the speakers at the Parliament were truly liberal. (ND 1.120)
Oct 1893
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The most remarkable talk for its broad views came from the Reverend E. L. Rexford of Boston, who in the course of a long paper on "The Religious Intent" said: (ND 1.120)
Oct 1893
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But such papers, indicative of a broad and liberal outlook, were rare. To the Christian clergy as a whole it never occurred that evangelism was presumption or that the occupation of soul saving in foreign lands might be, to say the very least, superfluous. (ND 1.120)
Oct 1893
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Only one session -the afternoon of the twelfth day-was devoted to a discussion of this all important issue. (ND 1.121)
Oct 1893
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The non Christian delegates made bold to state in no uncertain terms that Christian conversion was not necessary to salvation. (ND 1.121)
Oct 1893
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The Christian speakers replied to the effect that (1) Christian missions were not a failure; (2) while some individual missionaries might make mistakes, missionaries were, on the whole, worthy followers of Christ; (3) Christianity was the only religion that gave assurance of salvation. (ND 1.121)
Oct 1893
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Although Swamiji found it necessary to deliver a few well aimed blows as the extent and virulence of Christian bigotry became more and more pronounced, it was on the whole the other foreign delegates who in prepared talks dwelt upon missionary activity in discomforting detail. (ND 1.121)
Oct 1893
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In the course of expounding the doctrines of their respective religions during the first days of the Parliament, the Confucian Pung Kwang Yu and the Japanese Buddhist Horin Toki found little that was good in the intrusion of Christian missions into China and Japan. The missionaries, they said, were uneducated, arrogant, and totally unnecessary. Such denunciations were delivered with impeccable and devastating politeness. (ND 1.122)
Oct 1893
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A third talk was a political speech. (ND 1.122)
Oct 1893
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On seventh day (17th Sept.), spoke on work of Christian missionaries in India. (ND 1.122)
Oct 1893
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On 10th day (20th Sept.), after two papers, Swamiji agreed to address the audience.It was titled ' Religion not the crying need of India'. (ND 1. 123)
Oct 1893
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Chicago Inter Ocean of September 21 that printed what appears to have been the full address, taken down on the spot. (ND 1. 123)
Oct 1893
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The Catholics received Swamiji's criticism with sympathy. (ND 1. 126)
7 Oct 1893
News Reports
News Report of Outlook on Swamiji's speech on topic of missionaries. (ND 1.127)
Oct 1893
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Mr. Haweis wrote of the Parliament and of some of Swamiji's utterances, the vigor of which was clearly still fresh in his mind. (ND 1.127)
Oct 1893
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The afternoon of the twelfth day of the Parliament was officially devoted to the "Criticism and Discussion of Missionary Methods." (ND 1.129)
Oct 1893
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Dharmapala, who opened the discussion, did not spare the missionaries; whereupon, in reply, Mr. Candlin, an American missionary to China, who for some reason always dressed during the Parliament in Chinese cos¬tume, objected with indignation to Dharmapala's "personal remarks." (ND 1.129)
Oct 1893
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Narasimhacharya, who followed, attribute the failure of Christianity to their interference with native custom. (ND 1.129)
Oct 1893
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The session was short, and it was over without mishap. But the evening session of Sept. 24 was stormy (ND 1.129)
Oct 1893
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It is true that Mr. Pentecost represented the extreme of bigotry and not the spirit of the Parliament; but he represented also that large number of his kind, both in America and in India, who were later to do their utmost to destroy Swamiji. (ND 1.130)
Oct 1893
Analysis
In a sermon preached on November 12, 1893, a Reverend Dr. Morgan Dix of New York gave voice to this view: (ND 1.132)
Oct 1893
News reports
But although the lecture was well attended, the Daily Free Press of October 9 ran the following somewhat dreary review: (ND 1.170)
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