KT. HON. SIR K. TEMPLE, BART., ON THE UNITY OF TRUTH. 33 



the test that our Bible wiU. 1 do not pose as a man of 

 science or of learning, but as a man of some knowledge from 

 his own investigations, from his own eyesight and observation 

 of the subject of which he is talkiug, and I hope what I have 

 said may strengthen your faith. (Applause.) I recollect 

 when, by invitation, I was standing by the open grave of 

 Darwin in Westminster Abbey and the solemn anthem was 

 being sung, *' Blessed, is he who getteth knowledge." That 

 is the sum total of my address to you this afternoon. Let us 

 get that knowledge as Darwin got it, and the more we learn, 

 the more Ave study, the more we inquire, the more we know, 

 the better shall we understand the words of Scripture as the 

 one thing upon which we are to base all our happiness on 

 earth, and all our hopes in tlie life beyond the grave. 

 (Loud applause.) 



A vote of thanks to Sir Richard Temple, moved by Sir Joseph 

 Fayrer, F.R.S., and seconded by Professor Edward Hull, F.R.S , 

 was unanimously canned. 



Afterwards the following address, signed by the Lord Chancelloi', 

 was presented to the President. 



