. Dedicatory and opening ceremonies of the World's Columbian exposition : historical and descriptive . United States has recognized the Worlds CongressAuxiliary as the proper agency to arrange and conduct a series of InternationalCongresses to be held in connection with the Worlds Columbian Exposition of 1893,and has invited the governments of other countries to send delegates to all or any ofthese Congresses, in addition to those who will attend as the representatives of theInstitutions and Societies of participating peoples. Hence it was thought that theDedication Ceremonies of the Worlds Co
. Dedicatory and opening ceremonies of the World's Columbian exposition : historical and descriptive . United States has recognized the Worlds CongressAuxiliary as the proper agency to arrange and conduct a series of InternationalCongresses to be held in connection with the Worlds Columbian Exposition of 1893,and has invited the governments of other countries to send delegates to all or any ofthese Congresses, in addition to those who will attend as the representatives of theInstitutions and Societies of participating peoples. Hence it was thought that theDedication Ceremonies of the Worlds Columbian Exposition would be incomplete with-out a proper presentation of the plans and purposes of the Worlds Congress Auxiliary,the progress made and the success assured. The Auxiliary therefore sought for thepurpose of such presentation an orator equal to the occasion, and whose name wouldcommand attention in the Old World as well as in the New. Such an orator it foundin the Most Reverend John Ireland, Archbishop of St. Paul, who will now deliver theoration on the Worlds Congresses of 1893. ..^. ORflTION OF f^RGHBISHOP IRELf\ND. Inauguration op The Work of The Congress Auxiliary ofThe Worlds Columbian Exposition. THE greatest of things is mind. Mind, conscious, intelligent, potent to put intoaction thought and wish, differentiates itself absolutely from matter, rises aboveit to immeasurable heights, dominates and moves the unthinking world. Mindis the causative power in all orderly results. Without it, there is nothing, or there isaimless movement and chaos. The universe is the product of the supreme mind—Godincreate. Within the universe there is created mind—man. Whatever outsidethe workings of the First Cause, comes in the universe of beauty, goodness andprogress, comes through man. He is, within the limits of Gods creation, a secondcreator. The manifestations of mind in men are of varied measures. The degree ofmind lifts man above man: the higher the mind, the greater
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