Church review . leas-ure well worth many an effort and sac-rifice. Many millions of dollars willhave been expended in its production,and the highest skill in science and artwill have been employed to bring toperfection an exposition worthy of thiswonderful era of development in allthat concerns humanity. Ten years of modern progress out-weigh in importance centuries of the dustries, manufactures, and the pro-ducts of the soil, mine and sea, andalso declared that •the proposed Pan-American Exposition, being confined tothe Western Hemisphere and beingheld in the near vicinity of the greatNiagara
Church review . leas-ure well worth many an effort and sac-rifice. Many millions of dollars willhave been expended in its production,and the highest skill in science and artwill have been employed to bring toperfection an exposition worthy of thiswonderful era of development in allthat concerns humanity. Ten years of modern progress out-weigh in importance centuries of the dustries, manufactures, and the pro-ducts of the soil, mine and sea, andalso declared that •the proposed Pan-American Exposition, being confined tothe Western Hemisphere and beingheld in the near vicinity of the greatNiagara cataract, within a days jour-ney of which reside forty million peo-ple, would unquestionably be of vastbenefit to the commercial interests, notonly of this country, but of the entirehemisphere and should therefore havethe sanction of the congress of theUnited States. On behalf of the national govern-ment, the Department of State, in , invited the governments of theWestern Hemisphere to participate in. MACHINERY — pan-american exposition. remote past. The world is enjoyingmore and more the priceless benefitsof popular education. The wide dis-semination of knowledge and the quick-ening of thought among the greatmass of people have left their resultantexpression in the countless useful in-ventions of machinery and applianceswith which the world is today blessed,in the multitude of wonderful discov-eries in science and in the marvelousartistic creations met with on everyhand. Great expositions are mile-stones inthe progress of the world. On theseoccasions we turn our thoughts uponthe vista of the past and take accountof what mankind has done. The Pan-American Exposition will concern it-self strictly with the progress of thestates and countries of the WesternHemisphere and the new possessions ofthe United States during the Nineteenthcentury Its scope is, nevertheless, so broadas to include all departments of humaneffort. The purposes of the expositionare manifold. One
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