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CHAPTER THREE
Jainism at Chicago
(Speech)
" Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen, - I will not trouble you with a long speech. I, like my respected friends, Mr. Mozoomdar and others, come from India the mother of religions. I represent Jainism, a faith older than Buddhism, similar to it in its ethics, but different from it in its psychology and profess by a million and half of India's most peaceful and law abiding citizens. You have heard so many speeches from eloquent members and as I shall speak later on at some length, I will, at present, only offer on behalf of my community and their high priest Muni Atmaramji, whom I especially represent here, our sincere thanks for the kind welcome you have given us.
This spectacle of the learned leaders of thought and religion meeting, together on a common platform, and throwing light on religious problems, has been the dream of Atmaramji's life, he has commissioned me to say to you that he offers his most cordial congratulations on his own behalf, and on behalf of the Jaina community for your having achieved the consummation of that grand idea, of convening a Parliament of religions."
Mr. Virchand Gandhi then was presented by Dr. Barrows as one who he had come to esteem greatly as a guest in his own
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