On this day, Swami Vivekananda wrote a letter to The Indian Mirror from London introducing John Henry Barrows, an American clergyman and one of the main organisers of the Parliament of Religions in Chicago, where Vivekananda made his famous speeches. Barrows was about to begin a lecture tour in India.

An excerpt:

“It was the great courage, untiring industry, unruffled patience, and never-failing courtesy of Dr. Barrows that made the Parliament a grand success.

“…he comes to us in the sacred name of religion, in the name of one of the great teachers of mankind, and I am sure, his exposition of the system of the Prophet of Nazareth would be extremely liberal and elevating. The Christ-power this man intends to bring to India is not that of the intolerant, dominant superior, with heart full of contempt for everything else but its own self, but that of a brother who craves for a brother’s place as a co-worker of the various powers already working in India.”

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