Ere this number of the JOURNAL shall appear, the great Congress of Religions will have gone into history. It has no parallel in the annals of time. That its effects must be good admits of no question.
There should, and doubtless will result from it a larger charity among religionists, and a broader outlook in the direction of brotherly love. Many religions, concerning which little is known to the general world, will have had a hearing which could not otherwise have been obtained. Their peculiar beliefs and tenets will hereafter be better known and understood.
Much less friction should hereafter exist, much less sectarian bigotry and bitterness, much less harshness of criticism, much less unrighteous judgment.
