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RELIGIONS OF THE EMPIRE. [CONFERENCE IN LONDON.A. Conference on Some Living Religions within the Empire was opened at the Imperial Institute last week and will be continued until-the end of this week, -under the auspices of the School of Oriental Studies -and the Sociological Society. The organization devolved on an executive committee under the chairmanship of Sir Denison Ross, Director of the School- of Oriental Studies! Great interest is being shown in the proceedings.A message of loyal greeting was sent to the King at Balmoral, and in reply Sir Denison Ross received the following telegram from Lord Stamfordham :—“I am commanded to express the thanks of the- King to you and the members of Conference, for your kind message of loyal greetings to his Majesty.”A “word of greeting’7 was read from the Prime Minister, who wrote : “Many religions and many creeds live in amity within our Empire, each by their different way leading our peoples onwards towards some ultimate light. I welcome cordiallythe objects of the Conference and the knowledge which surely it spreads amongst us that our peoples in the aspirations of the spirit, also ‘walk not back to back, but with a unity of track/77 Sir Denison Ross stated that in their endeavour to secure papers by representative speakers on all the important religions of the Empire not widely known in this country, the promoters had failed only in the case of Confucianism.Sir Francis Younghusband, in his ( ina-ugural address, said that included in the Empire there were more Mahomedans than Christians, and at least twice as many Hindus as Ma-homedans; also many millions both of Buddhists and of adherents of, primitive religions of every grade. | Even in the oldest of these religions . there were. signs of vigorous life. The British Government aimed at being strictly impartial in its dealing;! with .all these forms of faith, but this necessary neutrality of the State j did not mean indifference to religion as such.- The ultimate basis upon which the ' British Empire should stand must be religion. If the component nations of the Empire couldUp lt;211 pp thnt. wifli nil t.Tiplr rliffprpneps
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