Ill.) World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago
The World's Columbian Exposition was the world's fair held in Chicago in 1893 to mark the four-hundredth anniversary of Columbus's arrival in the Americas. Alongside the fairgrounds, its World's Congress Auxiliary sponsored an extensive series of congresses on religion, scholarship, and reform, meeting in the newly built Art Institute building downtown. As part of this program the Universalist Church convened its Columbian Congress, and the papers and addresses delivered there were published by the Universalist Publishing House in 1894.
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When the World's Columbian Exposition brought the World's Parliament of Religions to Chicago in 1893, the Universalist Church convened its own congress and put its best minds on the platform. These collected papers and addresses — on theology, missions, education, social questions, and the denomination's place among the churches — are Universalism's formal self-presentation to the world at the moment of its greatest institutional confidence.
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