DURING the week which has just ended, more than a dozen of the principal forms of religion—non-Christian and non-Judaic — the forms of religion we were taught to stigmatise as “heathen”—have been expounding their views to one another; and lo! their coming together has been found “conducive to love and unity.” Those who followed the Conference through its various expositions, became conscious of a thought growing more and more into a conviction — the staggering thought and conviction, namely, that, spite of all surface differences, the living Religions are characterized by a fundamental unity. Where one may have expected conflict we find concord; where he anticipated antagonism we have found reconciliation; and where he looked for contraries we have discovered Unities. Throughout these wonderful days, indeed, we have been receiving an object-lesson in the noble science of Comparative Religion. The old presumptions have been shrivelling up before our eyes. Our ears have heard—not the brazen discords of a sectarian jazz band, but the harmonious notes of a spiritual symphony. The note of our age is Reconciliation; and the grand symphony of the Universal has received new expression from the lips of the various exponents of the common faith. It is through the unity of the spirit exemplified in this Conference that the peace of the world will be finally secured.