THE PARLIAMENT OF RELIGIONS AT CHICAGO by Christian Alliance Weekly

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 18, 1893

THE PARLIAMENT OF RELIGIONS AT CHICAGO.

By Christian Alliance Weekly

WE are glad to hear that Dr. Pentecost has had the courage to call this absurd thing "an oriental humbug." We have been astounded all the year at the names of prominent ministers of the gospel who have allowed themselves to be drawn into this disgraceful compromise. But God wisely overruled the proceedings, so that the parliament brought its own retribution. Some of the Buddhists from India and Japan took advantage of the opportunity so unexpectedly offered, to pour a whole battery of hot shot into the Christian camp, and to denounce Christian missions in the most bold and misrepresenting manner. They could not be blamed for it. When we go on the devil's ground, the best thing that can happen to us is to get a good thrashing. There is absolutely no common meeting place between Christianity and the false religions of heathenism. They are wholly false and devilish. Christianity is wholly divine, and requires no argument to establish its claims.

It speaks to man with the authority of God, and there is no pathway for us to take out to the plain of Ono, to confer with Sanballat, Tobiah, and Geshem, the Arabian. Sanballat and his friends always get the best of Nehemiah when they meet him off his own ground. Such servants are not likely to be trusted long with the honor of Christ and the interest of his kingdom.—Christian Alliance Weekly.