Religion will play a highly important and colorful part in A Century of Progress exposition, ending its first week. Exhibits will portray the chief contributions religion has made in the last 100 years to the world’s welfare, particularly in the fields of education, social service, architecture, art, hospitalization, home and foreign missions, the care of the aged, indigent and homeless, international relations, industrial justice and spiritual unity.
The beautiful Hall of Religion in a garden-like setting and overlooking the central lagoon, will be the focal point of the religious section of the exhibition. Here different faiths will tell the stories of their services, while ecclesiastical relics and works of art will be shown. An auditorium will be available for meetings and lectures.
Dedicatory exercises for the Hall of Relion will take place Sunday afternoon, June 11. George W. Dixon, chairman of the committee on progress through religion of A Century of Progress, will preside. Others on the committee who conceived and built the Hall of Religion are Dr. Allen D. Albert, secretary; Dr. Louis L. Mann, rabbi of Sinai Temple, treasurer; Dr. Ernest Graham Guthrie, Bishop George Craig Stewart, Rabbi Gerson B. Levi, Dean Shailer Mathews, Dr. Joshua Oden, Dr. John Timothy Stone, Dr. John Thompson, Bishop Ernest Lynn Waldorf and Walter R. Mee.
The Hall of Religion was erected at a cost of $100,000 and will contain exhibits by Episcopalians, Christian Scientists, Lutherans, Presbyterians, the Salvation Army, Methodists, Congregationalists, Baptists, Volunteers of America, Jews, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and many others.
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