ORDINARY MEETING.* 



David Howard, Esq., D.L., F.C.S., i\ the Chair. 



Tlie Minutes of the last Meeting were rea<l and confirmed, and the 

 following election took ])lace : — 



Associate :— Rev. W. C. Penn, M.A., Noble College, Masiilipatam. 



The following paper was read by the author : — 



MODIFICATIONS IN THE IDEA OF GOD, 

 PRODUCED BY MODERN THOUGHT AND 

 SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY. By Rev. Cliancellor 

 Lias, M.A. 



IT is more than a quarter of a century ago since I first 

 was honoured by a request to read a paper before this 

 Institute, and in about a week it will be a quarter of a 

 century since I read it. I am thankful to be honoured once 

 more with such a request. The current of thought changes 

 swiftly in our time, and it is pleasing to be able to note a 

 great change for the better since I first addressed this 

 assembly. Then we constantly heard of the opposition 

 between religion and science. jVow it cannot fairly be said 

 that there is any opposition at all between religion and 

 science. Such misunderstandings as still remain are rather 

 of the nature of the around swell which witnesses to a storm 



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that is past, than evidences that the storm is still raging. 

 Then the tendency was to a blank materialism, such as was 

 openly expressed by Tyndall in his celebrated Belfast 

 address. In these days a great many men of science — 

 perhaps T might say the majority of men of science — are 

 beginning to realize that for causes we must go behind the 

 material universe and its laws and processes — that there are 



* Monday, January 6th, 1902. 



