138 ANNUAL MEETING. 
Mr. J. B. Bratruwaire.—lI feel it a great privilege to move: 
“That the report now read be received, and that the thanks of 
the members and associates be presented to the Council, Honorary 
Officers, and Anditors for their efficient conduct of the business 
of the Victoria Institute during the year.” May I say that I have 
been specially struck with the value of the papers which have been 
read of late, and I trust that we may all be stimulated to give fresh 
and increased effect to the work of this Institute, and in that 
spirit which is expressed in a sentence of the Report which I will 
take the liberty of reading: “Such work as is carried on by this 
Institute must tend to the advantage of science and to the right 
interpretation of the book of nature, and we may well be sure 
that when the truth in regard to that book is arrived at, it will not 
be found to clash with the other, the Book of Revelation.” I trust 
that we are all interested in that sentiment, which is of special 
importance in the present day. Our Heavenly Father cannot 
contradict Himself, and if we believe, as I trust we all do, that 
each of these Books—the Book of Creation, and the Book of 
Redemption proceed from Him as the one Author, we must feel 
that there can be no contradiction between them. I have very | 
great pleasure in moving the adoption of this Report. (Cheers.) | 
Mr. J. R. Mossa.—The objects of this Iustitute appear to me to 
be most valuable. In the first place it is impossible in the present 
day to ignore the fact that sundry difficulties in respect to the 
relations of religion and science do present themselves to the 
minds of men, and therefore a society that considers those diffi- 
culties must be of great advantage to inquirers. I hold it to bea — 
very sad thing that so many people pooh-pooh, if I may use a 
common expression, those difficulties. So many think that 
because a man has difficulties he must be an unbeliever, I do not 
think that that is at all the case. These difficulties do present 
themselves, and a society of clergymen and of scientific men who 
are also believers in the Revelation of God, is of most signal 
benefit to all such inquirers, and ought to be supported by every- 
body who values science, and who values also the Revelation of 
God. I am exceedingly glad to find from this Report that the 
Institute is progressing and that it is doing such good work, not 
only in England, butalso abroad. And I am often surprised that it 
is not more generally supported. A subscription list of only £1,000 
a year seems to me to be very small for a society of such value, and 
