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on so fearful a scale that man could scarcely look on them 

 and live : yet they prepared the earth for him to have his 

 being on it. 



We have occasionally eruptions and earthquakes awful 

 enough when they do occur ; but still, even the worst of 

 them within historical record, is as nothing to what Geology 

 teaches must have taken place in the Pre- Adamite world. 



May they not be sent as warnings of the instability of even 

 the earth itself ? Warnings from the Great Power " Which 

 removeth the mountains and they know it not; which shaketh 

 the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble ; " 

 and that surely as '' The mountain cometh to nought, and the 

 rock is removed out of its place ; as the water wears the 

 stones, and washes away the thing that grow out of the 

 earth " so even may man's hope be destroyed, if he lift not 

 his heart for help, " From nature unto nature's God." 



SHANCE DU VENDREDI 25 JUIN 1869. 



sous LA PRESIDENCE DE L^HON.V. NAZ. 



Sont presents .• — MM. C. Bewsher, Ch. BrucCj Ev. 

 Dupont^ P. Lemiere et Bobillard. 



L. Boiitou^ Secretaire. 



MM. Baissac et Eugene Bazire, visiteurs. 



M. F. Vandermeerscli est propose en qualite de mem- 

 bre resident par THon Henry J. Jourdain, seconde par 

 M. L. Bouton. 



M. Ange Begnardj administrateur de Riche Mare h. 

 Elacq, est egalement propose comme membre resident 

 par le Dr. Le Juge, seconde par M. L. Bouton. 



Sur la proposition du President^ le Secretaire est char- 

 ge de consigner dans le proces-verbal du jour, Texpres- 

 sion des regrets de la Societe, a propos de la mort de 

 I'Hon. L, Arnaud, et de M. Samuel Wimphen. 



