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I should hope, indeed, that its importance will be more and more 
appreciated. There is not the slightest doubt, as the mover of the 
resolution just said, that the Revelation of God and creation cannot 
and will not be found to be different: it would be absurd to 
suppose that it could be the case. The great value of this Insti- 
tute, I consider, is that it leads men of the highest position and 
knowledge in theology and science to show that they are one, and 
that there are more difficulties, in fact, in unbelief than in belief. 
I have great pleasure in seconding this resolution. (Applause.) 
The resolution was carried nem. con. 
Mr. Davip Howarp, D.L.—On behalf of the Council, I have to 
thank you for the expression of confidence in connection with the 
transactions and general business of the Institute, which has been 
passed. Their work is always interesting but always anxious. 
They have sought (however imperfectly) to ensure that the work 
done shall be sound and permanent. May I add with regard to 
the 12th section of the Report, that the Council feel strongly 
the importance of the wider circulation of certain papers which 
have been published in a “People’s Edition.” There are many 
valuable papers in the Journal which are well fitted for the 
reading of the intelligent public, and I do not say that a very 
learned paper, on Chinese Chronology for instance, would meet 
with much acceptance in a working man’s club, but there are 
twelve useful papers well suited for popular reading in our “ People’s 
Edition,” and it would be an admirable thing if we were able more 
thoroughly to circulate these. It is most important that intelli- 
gent men, of less education than ourselves, should have the 
opportunity of learning the right side of the question—as well as 
the wrong, for there is plenty of opportunity for the latter I can 
assure you from my knowledge of the Hast End. On the other 
hand, they are able and willing to receive the right side if it were 
put before them. Another thing I may remind yon of is that 
fashions travel slowly. Fashions in dress, which are pretty well 
exploded in the West End, are in great force in the Hast End, and 
exactly in the same way, exploded theories, of which even their 
‘defenders are ashamed now in the more educated world, are in full 
force, unfortunately, in the Kast End. Therefore do not think 
that because a theory has exploded in your world there is no need 
to explode it in their world. 
I havenowto move: “That this meeting authorises the President, 
