by JAMES, CARDINAL GIBBONS, Archbishop of Baltimore. Read by the Right Reverend JOHN J. KEANE, D.D., Rector of the Catholic University, Washington, D. C.

Religion Essentially Characteristic of Humanity; by LYMAN ABBOTT, D.D., Brooklyn.

The Divine Basis of the Cooperation of Men and Women; by Mrs. LYDIA H. DICKINSON, St. Louis.

The Religious Intent; by the Rev. E. L. REXFORD, D.D., of Boston.

AFTERNOON SESSION.

Spiritual Forces in Human Progress; by EDWARD EVERETT HALE, D.D., of Boston.

Orthodox or Historical Judaism; Its Attitude and Relation to the Past, and its Future; by Rabbi H. Pereira Mendes, of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue, New York. by Mr. WILLIAM Pipe.

Read

The Certainties of Religion; by JOSEPH COOK, of Boston. The History of Buddhism and its Sects in Japan; by HORIN TOKI. Read by KINZA RIUGE M. Hirai.

THE FIFTH DAY.-FRIDAY, September 15.

At the morning session Dr. BARROWS presided, and after silent devotion, the Lord's Prayer was said by the Rev. GEORGE A. FORD, American missionary to Syria.

What the Dead Religions have Bequeathed to the Living; by Prof. G. S. GoODSPEED, of Chicago University.

The Points of Contact and of Contrast between Christianity and Mohammedanism; by President GEORGE WASHBURN, D.D., of Robert College, Constantinople.

The Study of Comparative Theology; by Prof. C. P. TIELE, of the University of Leyden. Read by the Rev. FRANK M. BRISTOL, D.D., of Chicago.

The next address and speaker were welcomed with more than usual demonstrations of interest and applause.

The Real Religion of To-Day; by Mrs. LAURA ORMISTON CHANT, London.

At the AFTERNOON SESSION, presided over by the Rev.

Dr. F. A. NOBLE, the first paper was one of several essays which had come to the Parliament as the result of offers advertised by Dr. Barrows in the Chinese newspapers, proposing a premium in gold for the best essays on Confucianism and Taoism. This fact, announced by the reader, added to the general interest with which this paper was received. Forty-two Chinese scholars had entered into the competition.

Confucianism: a Prize Essay; by KUNG HSIEN HO of Shanghai, China. Translated by the Rev. TIMOTHY RICHARD, of the English Baptist Mission in China. Read by Mr. WILL

IAM PIPE.

The Comparative Study of the World's Religions; by MoNSIGNOR C. D'HARLEZ, Professor in the University of Louvain, Belgium. Read by the Rev. D. J. RIORDAN.

The Importance of a Serious Study of all Religions; by Mrs. ELIZA R. SUNDERLAND, Ph.D., of Ann Arbor, Mich.

Just before the close of the afternoon session, the Chairman invited some remarks from the Hindu monk SWAMI VIVEKANANDA, of Bombay, who responded with a little fable intended to illustrate the variance among men of different races and religions.

The frog lived in a well. It had lived there for a long time. It was born there and brought up there, and yet was a little, small frog. Of course the evolutionists were not there then to tell us whether the frog lost its eyes or not; but, for our story's sake, we must take it for granted that it had its eyes, and that it every day cleansed the water of all the worms and bacilli that lived in it, with an energy that would give credit to our modern bacteriologists. In this way it went on and became a little sleek and fat-perhaps as much so as myself.

well.

Well, one day another frog, that lived in the sea, came and fell into the

"Whence are you from?"

"I'm from the sea."

"The sea? how big is that? Is it as big as my well?" and he took a leap from one side of the well to the other.

"My friend," says the frog of the sea, "how do you compare the sea with your little well?"

Then the frog took another leap, and asked: "Is your sea so big?" "What nonsense you speak, to compare the sea with your well!" "Well, then," said the frog of the well, "nothing can be bigger than

my well; there can be nothing bigger than this; this fellow is a liar, so turn him out."

That has been the difficulty all the while.

The proceedings of this crowded day concluded with an EVENING SESSION, at which, by a coincidence unusual enough on our republican soil, the audience listened to discourses from men of the highest title and rank in their own countries.

The Social Office of Religious Feeling; by Prince SERGE WOLKONSKY, of Russia.

The Buddhism of Siam; by His Royal Highness Prince CHANDRADAT CHUDHADHARN, brother of the King of Siam. Read by Mr. WILLIAM PIPE, and prefaced by a short introductory by the Hon. PHRA SURIYA, Royal Siamese Commissioner to the World's Columbian Exposition.

THE SIXTH DAY.-SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16.

At the morning session of this very memorable day the chair was taken by Chairman BARROWS, and the moments of silent prayer were followed by the Lord's Prayer, said by Bishop KEANE.

No small feeling was aroused by a telegram from the Brahmo-Somaj, of Càlcutta, sending its benediction and godspeed to the Parliament. There were resounding cheers from the audience, and expressions of grateful acknowledgment from some of the Hindus on the platform. Mr. MoZOOMDAR arose and said: "It delights my heart to see the spontaneous response to the message which my fellow-believers have sent this vast distance. I feel now, more than I have ever felt, that India and America are as one in the Spirit of the God of all nations." The speaker sat down overcome with emotion.

The leading theme of the day was to be The Scriptures of the World, and the strongly representative character of some of the speakers and their contrasted views gave peculiar interest to the course of discussion.

The Truthfulness of Holy Scripture; by Professor CHARLES A. BRIGGS, D.D., of New York.

The Catholic Church and the Bible; by the Right Reverend Monsignor SETON, of Newark, N. J.

The Greatness and Influence of Moses; by Rabbi GOTTHEIL, of New York.

Christianity as Interpreted by Literature, by Dr. THEODORE T. MUNGER, of New Haven, Conn. Read by Dr. BARROWS. At the AFTERnoon Session, Dr. GEORGE DANA BOARDMAN, of Philadelphia, presided.

The Sacred Books of the World as Literature; by Prof. MILTON S. TERRY, of The Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill. The Outlook of Judaism; by Miss JOSEPHINE LAZARUS, of New York. Read by Mrs. MAX LEOPOLD, of Chicago. Buddhism; by BANRIU YATSUBUCHI, of Japan. Read by

Mr. NOGUCHI.

The Influence of the Hebrew Scriptures; by Dr. ALEXANDER KOHUT, of New York. Read by Rabbi JOSEPH STOLZ, of Chicago.

The Character and Degree of the Inspiration of the Christian Scriptures; by the Rev. FRANK SEWALL, of Washington, D. C.

THE SEVENTH DAY.-SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 17.

On this day the morning session of the Parliament was omitted, and sessions were held in afternoon and evening.

THE AFTERNOON SESSION.

The chair was taken by Chairman BARROWS, and after the customary act of silent prayer and the saying of the Lord's Prayer, the proceedings of the Parliament were entered on. With the exception of Mr. Nagarkar, of the Brahmo-Somaj, the speakers were representatives of Christendom, and by a striking coincidence and contrast, mainly of those two divisions of Christendom whose mutual relations in past generations have been the most unsympathetic-Presbyterianism and Catholicism.

The Divine Element in the Weekly Rest-Day; by the Rev. Dr. A. H. LEWIS, Plainfield, N. J.

The Catholic Church and the Marriage Bond; by Prof. MARTIN J. WADE, of the Law Department of the State University of Iowa.