ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING.* 
Davip Howarp, Esq., D.L., IN THE CHAIR. 
The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed, and the 
following elections were announced :— 
Member :—Richard D. Dicker, Esq., Philadelphia, U.S.A. 
AssocrATEs :—Professor G, F. Fitzgerald, F.R.S., Trin. Coll., Dublin ; 
Rev. E. H. M. Waller, M.A., Allahabad. 
The following paper was read by the Author :— 
ON THE BEING OF GOD. By the Venerable Arch- 
deacon W. MACnONALD SINCLAIR, D.D. 
I. THE EXISTENCE OF GOD. 
1. Science investigating the Works of God. 
HE question “ Do you believe in God ?” is not as certain 
now of receiving an affirmativeanswer as it would have 
been one hundred years ago, but in many cases the answer 
would be more intelligent. Whatever may be the faults of 
the times in which we » live, it is an inspiritng thought that 
our day has come inan age which seems to bring us, in some 
sense, very near to His self-existent Being. 
Never was investigation so patient and so close into the 
myriad ways of His working in Creation. In a sense that 
never before was known, the Heavens are declaring His glory, 
and the firmament showing His handywork. 'The ray of light 
which left its distant orb scores or hundreds, it may be 
thousands of years ago, yields up its secret in the prism, and 
tells us the very elements of which that remote world is 
composed. The principles on which the very Creation itself 
is being perpetually built up, seem to be, in some small 
degree, revealing themselves to the understanding of man. 
Man halts, of course, and makes mistakes; he forms a 
supposition, and it may be that more than one generation 
* Monday, May 7th, 1900. 
