134 REV. C. GODFREY ASHWIN, M.A. 
recognise what they will not call a Creator, but what corresponds 
with that idea, and I believe that one way in which we may 
hope to save some of the younger men of the present day from 
plunging into scepticism is by bringing before them the testimony 
of such men as these, that they do in reality recognise what we 
understand as God. The human mind apart from Revelation cannot 
rise further than that.* My paper does not touch Revealed Religion, 
therefore I have not referred to the Bible in my argument, and I 
think I have shown that these men do recognise that there is a 
God. Finally, let us bring calm, quiet, thoughtful, reverent minds 
to the study of God’s Word, and remember that there must be 
the same gradual correction of preconceived misapprehensions 
respecting that Word as has taken place in the gradual 
removal of erroneous views respecting the explanation of the 
natural laws now at work in the universe. Growth in the 
knowledge of God’s Revealed Word must, I think, be pari passu 
with growth in the knowledge and interpretation of the works of 
nature. 
The meeting was then adjourned. 
* Natural Religion, which has had many and long ages to develop its 
fruits, has failed to meet the exigency of man’s spiritual condition. The 
state of man everywhere, without a Divine Revelation, is sufficient proof of 
this.—Eb. 
