James Thompson Bixby ( 1843 – 1921) was a United States Unitarian minister and writer.
The New World And The New Thought~1902
by James Thompson Bixby
Unprecedented in size and material, and artistic
magnificence, as the
Chicago Exposition
(of 1893) was, it was
still more unprecedented and remarkable in its astonishing Parliament of Religions. To get together
on the same
platform Trinitarian and Unitarian,
Monotheists and Polytheists, Roman cardinals and
Free Religious Lecturers,
Greek archbishops and
protestant presbyters, Buddhist
monks and Confucian
moralists, expounders of
the Bible, the Koran and
the Avesta, was
indeed a
marvel. But when from the
lips of these
representatives of diverse sects, whose
ancestors had persecuted
and cursed and battled with
one another so
bitterly ;
when alike from the yellow
robed Buddhists or
the scarlet robed Catholic, from
the Greek ecclesiastic in his black gown, the Hindu in
his red, or
the Shinto in his white vestments, came
the same sentiments
of righteousness, aspiration and
good-will ; and in their advocacies of their own faith,
earnest as they
were, scarcely a
word fell that could
give offense to
those of rival faith—it seemed, indeed,
a new day
of Pentecost, a
descent of the holy dove of
the Spirit, beneath
a rainbow
of blended spiritual rays,
as comforting as
that which foretold to Noah and his sons the
end of storm and wrath upon the renovated
earth. Every one who read the inspiring accounts of these meetings, where the representatives
of these varied faiths exchanged such pleasant words of amity and mutual respect,
must have been impelled to ask why may not this Pentecostal fellowship be maintained?
Why may not Jew and Gentile, Roman and Protestant, Christian and Parsee and
Brahman, be united, not merely for a few days, in some public meeting, but constantly,
in daily life, in the unity of the Spirit and the bonds of peace ; and thus
“The whole round earth be bound
With golden chains about the throne of love.”
THE NEW WORLD
AND
THE NEW THOUGHT
BY
JAMES THOMPSON BIXBY,Ph.D.
1902
New thought Christianized ~ 1917 By James M(ann) Campbell (1840-1926)
James Mann Campbell
Science of the New Thought ~ 1904 By E(rastus) Whitford Hopkins
The ignorant and superstitious ignore these facts,
although they pretend to believe in good and bad angels
which influence them for good or bad. For the sake of
your own God-hood, wake up, and learn the laws of how
to be yourself, and how to live in freedom in a grand
and beautiful mental home HERE AND NOW.
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