True, there had been for nearly half a century the "Free Religious Association" of Boston, of which "Thos. Wentworth Higginson" was for many years president, where every form of Religious belief was welcomed, and even "unbelief" had its opportunity, and there we have spoken in the presentation of Spiritualism in company with Robert Dale Owen. But the world-wide representation and later influence of the Congress of Religions of the Columbian Year can only be termed a great culmination and a prophecy.

Chinese, Hindoo, Hebrew, Mohammedan, Christian (with its many denominations); it seemed almost like the veritable "Millennium," when "all nations, kindred tongues and people" will be gathered in one Divine accord, each "worshipping according to the dictates of conscience," yet all united in the one Fraternity of Spirit, each intent on doing good to bis fellow men: