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The Journal. 
9. The Seventeenth Volume of the Journal of Transactions 
has been issued. It contains many papers and communi- 
cations from those whose names and scientific researches 
are a sure guarantee for the “full and impartial” character 
of their investigations (object 1). They have sought to carry 
on their investigations strictly on the lines of the Institute ; 
searching for the actual philosophical or scientific truth on 
all questions; and where any question bearing on Holy 
Scripture, and which had been turned against it, has been 
examined, the opponents of Revelation have often been dis- 
armed by impartial inquiry, which has proved the baseless- 
ness of the alleged facts which were relied on to support 
erroneous theories.* : 
It has been gratifying to note the value placed upon the 
Journal as evidenced by Public Libraries in various parts of 
the world subscribing for the whole of the Institute’s 
volumes.t+ 
Lectures. 
At home and abroad the Journal is increasingly used by 
Members and others to lecture from. The Institute is thus 
mmade more widely known, and its high objects carried out. 
Translations. 
The translation of portions of the Journal into foreign 
languages has long been a fact. Summaries of the Institute’s 
* The mention of this subject induces a reference to a statement which has 
often been made of late by the opponents of all religious teaching, namely, 
that the progress of Science has given a death-blow to all belief in the truth 
of the Bible, and that men of science no longer regard that book or the 
religious belief it inculcates. So false a statement might not be worthy of 
notice, but that it has been credited even by some charged with the regula- 
tion of education both at home and in our colonies, and is due only to 
ignorance of the tendency of true scientific inquiry. That men of the highest 
scientific attainments do not support such an idea has been amply shown not 
only in the important paper by Professor G. G. Stokes, F.R.S., already referred 
to, “On the Absence of Real Opposition between Science and Revelation,” 
but by the utterances of men who are often claimed by the Secularists 
themselves as supporting their views, ¢.g., M. Pasteur, one of the Insti- 
tute’s warmest friends and supporters, Professors Huxley, Tyndall, Sir 
O. Lyell, and others : their words upon the subject are given in the Preface 
to Vol. XVII. 
+ Many correspondents at home and abroad constantly testify to the great 
value of the Papers and Discussions in the Institute’s Journal, on account 
of their careful and impartial character; and also by reason of their 
taking up those questions of Philosophy and Science said (notably by 
enemies) to militate against the truth of Revelation. 
