The Parliament of Religions
It is thus that Rev. W. W. Faris, D.D., one of the editors of the Occident, speaks of the Parliament of Religions:— “I have been asked these questions: ‘Will the Parliament of Religions in your judgment prove to have been beneficial or injurious to the world?’ Answer—Injurious. ‘In what do you look for this injury?’ Answer—The Parliament of Religions has done somewhat to obscure the majestic exclusiveness of Christianity; to give currency to the pernicious notion that information about religion has inherent moral force, apart from the sacred functions of appointed gospel agencies, the broadest and most important of all broad churchism, and thus to so conceal Christ in the disguise of an esoteric force that men will less easily find him as a personal Saviour.”