134 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS. 
IN DEFENCE OF LATE ASSERTIONS. 
IBY (Obs (se Cs GVA, 
Read before the Geological Section of the Hamilton Scientific 
Association, January 30, 1903. 
Divines may say what they themselves believe, 
Strong proof they have, but not demonstrative ; 
For were all sure, then all minds would agree, 
And faith itself be lost in certainty.—R. CaRr.isup. 
For modes of faith let graceless zealots fright, 
His can’t be wrong whose life is in the right. —Popn. 
The writer understands Geologists have been recently 
preached at, and a certain congregation warned against the 
false scientific teaching of such men as Huxley, Darwin, ete. 
Nothing is more calculated to bring religion under the ban of 
intelligence and the church into disrepute as ill-advised attacks 
on men who were looked up to and held in reverence by every 
civilized country on earth. Well was it said in substance by 
President McCosh, of Princeton University, remarks A. D. 
White (United States Minister to Germany), that no more 
sure way of making unbelievers could be devised than preach- 
ing that the doctrines arrived at by the great scientific thinkers 
oi this period are opposed to religion. One would not have 
expected to find in an Anglican church an imitator of the de- 
parted sensational preacher, who was indignantly denounced 
by the daily press for executing a war dance, in the Indian 
fashion, on the grave of the venerated scientist, Darwin. ‘ 
Perhaps many Canadians are not aware of the fact that 
His Gracious Majesty, when Prince of Wales, honored these 
great Englishmen by publicly unveiling their statues at the 
Museum of Natural History, London. In life they cared little 
for the abuse and vilification of the ignorant cleric or layman. 
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