300 Memorial window to dr hardY 



Thorburn, Lumsdaine; Mr Jolin Ferguson, F.S.A. (Scot.), the 

 Hermitage, Duns ; Miss Fender, Law House ; Mr and Mrs 

 Gunn, Berwick ; Mr Wm. Hardy, Harpertown ; Rev. H. M. 

 Lamont, Coldingham ; Mr Lindores ; Mr James S. Mack, 

 Goveyheugh ; Mr Joseph Mack, Berrybank ; the Misses 

 Munro (2); Mr Macvie ; Rev. T, Marjoribanks, Houndwood ; 

 the Misses Mair (2), Bunkle Manse; Dr Macdougall, 

 Coldingham ; Rev. David Paul, LL.D., Edinburgh ; Mr J. 

 Robertson, Coldingham ; Rev. Evan Rutter, Spittal ; Mrs 

 Rule ; Dr Stuart, Chirnside ; Mr James Somervail, Broom- 

 dykes ; Miss J. Thorburn, Burnhall ; Mr Joseph Wilson, 

 Duns ; Mrs Wright, Ecclaw ; Mrs Wood, Galashiels. 

 ■ Apologies for absence were received from Colonel Hope of 

 Cowdenknowee ; the Rev. J. J. M. L. Aitken, Established 

 Church, Ayton ; Captain Norman, R.N., Berwick ; Captain 

 Carr Ellison, Hedgeley ; and Mr J. Smail, 7 Bruntsfield 

 Crescent, Edinburgh. 



The preliminary portion of the service was conducted by 

 the Rev. H. M. Lamont, who, after engaging in prayer, 

 read Isaiah, chapter 54, from the 11th verse. Then followed 

 the singing of the prose psalm 84, reading Revelation, 

 chapter 7, from 9th verse, and the singing of hynm 308, 

 " Still on the homeward journey." 



The Rev. Dr. Paul preached from Psalm 119, verse 18: — 

 " Open Thou mine eyes that I may behold wondrous things 

 out of Thy law." It was, he said, the prayer of one whose 

 interest and study were the law of God. It was the prayer 

 of one who was seeking for light in the interpretation of 

 that law. He had been attempting to understand it, and 

 had become convinced that h« needed divine illumination. 



Having pointed out that the scientific study of Nature was 

 almost dissociated from the thought of God, and that it was 

 possible to be deeply versed in the wonders of creation without 

 being led thereby to praise God, Dr Paul said: — Now, what 

 we recognise in James Hardy, in connection with whose 

 memory we are assembled here to-day, is, that he was a 

 reverent, devout student of Nature, who did not set the Deity 

 aside as an unnecessary, or merely hypothetical factor in 

 creation, but in whose view the works of Nature — which he 

 loved and studied all his life — were the works of God. If 



