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ORDINARY MEETING.* 
THE PRESIDENT, SIR G. GABRIEL STOKES, BART., M.P., P.R.S., 
IN THE CHAIR. 
The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed, and the 
following Election was announced :— 
AssociaTE :—F. C. Huddle, Esq., London. 
The following paper was then read. 
GOD IN NATURE: SOME THEISTIC ARGUMENTS 
DRAWN FROM NATURAL PHENOMENA. By 
Professor Epwarp Huu, LL.D., F.R.S., Director of the 
Geological Survey of Ireland. 
T might seem incredible that, in this nineteenth century 
when philosophic research has demonstrated that our 
whole cosmic system consists of phenomena indicating 
marvellous adaptations and evidences of design, it should be 
necessary to remind mankind that such evidences exist: 
and the theist will gladly abandon the attempt to demon- 
strate that which to him is self-evident whenever the atheist 
desists from his attempt to prove that there is no God. But 
until this happy consummation arrives, the theist is bound to 
endeavour, humbly and reverently, to meet his opponent by 
arguments, perhaps, often used before, but which are by no 
means worn out by length of service. 
Since the time when the Psalmist pointed to the Heavens 
as declaring the glory of God and the evidence of His 
handiwork, astronomy has made many grand discoveries as 
regards the laws regulating the Universe which were un- 
known when this inspired poet wrote. St. Paul appealed to 
* May 5, 1890. 
