304 MEMORIAL WINDOW TO DR HARDY 



science; hut, with all the enlightened and liberal views 

 which such a man could not fail to hold, we are assured 

 by those who knew him best that he regarded Nature as 

 part of God's great revelation to man, to be studied with 

 all the reverence that befits the creature exploring the 

 works of the Creator. With a modesty and a reticence which 

 belonged to him partly as a characteristic of his Scottish 

 countrymen, and partly as peculiar to himself, he did not 

 bring his theistic and Christian views of Nature into the 

 foreground ; but none the less did they permeate all his 

 thinking, and all his work. 



As has been well said of him already by one who knew 

 him well: — In the great verities of the Christian revelation 

 he was a convinced believer on independent grounds, and 

 he was content to wait with confidence until fuller light 

 should dispel the apparent contradictions between the 

 manifestations of the Divine in external Nature and in 

 man's history. He was free from the common conceit of 

 helieving that the two things which we have not yet found 

 a method of reconciling are therefore irreconcilable. He 

 discerned the finger of God both in Nature and in Revelation, 

 and he approached each of them in the spirit of the 

 Psalmist's prayer: — "Open thou mine eyes that I may behold 

 the wondrous things out of Thy law." That a window 

 then, in this ancient house of prayer, should be erected to 

 his memory, and called by his name, is not only excusable ; 

 it is appropriate and befitting. Gratefully placed here by 

 the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, and willingly accepted 

 by those who have the charge of this building, we trust it 

 may stand here for many generations as a memorial both 

 of the man and of his work. Glory be to the Father, and 

 and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost, as it was in the 

 beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end. 

 Amen. 



The Rev. H. M. Lament said their purpose was to unveil 

 a window in stained glass to the memory of the late Dr 

 James Hardy, which had been given by the members of 

 the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, with which he was so 

 long and intimately connected. It had been with very 

 great willingness and gratitude received by the heritors of 



