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but instead of that you got some mysterious radiation from end to 

 end of the tube, surely propagated by this mysterious ether. 



Mr. S. CoLLETT suggested that the paper should have beeit 

 entitled " Science and Revelation " instead of " Science and 

 Religion," because Revelation implies a revealing God, whereas 

 there are many religions which have no relation to God. What is 

 meant by " Science," very few people know ; we really mean what 

 man knows of Science, and as we know only in part, our knowledge 

 is very limited and imperfect. Should we speak, however, of 

 Science and Revelation agreeing, that is impossible, because Science 

 is subject to change, whereas Divine Revelation cannot change. 



Professor Langhorne Orchard, M.A., B.Sc. : The Institute is 

 under great obligation for the paper to which we have had the privilege 

 of listening. We have been taken over a most interesting and com- 

 prehensive survey of the battlefield during the last fifty years, nob onh^- 

 between God's Written Word and Science, but between God^s Written 

 Word and certain scientific conjectures. The pleasure and satis- 

 faction which we have experienced has been the greater in that our 

 guide and conductor in this survey has been one who has worthily 

 borne his part as champion of the truth. We congratulate him and 

 ourselves on seeing what has been called " the reconciliation," in 

 other words, the acknowledged accuracy of God's Word, *' the 

 Bible." We hope that the Dean may yet be spared for many years 

 to see the crown put upon the victory of the truth. 



I must say that the expression " reconciliation " of Science and 

 Religion does not attract me as a happy one. Science means 

 knowledge ; it does not mean guesswork. Professor Tyndall, when 

 he stated that certain phenomena, which he could not bring under 

 the ordinary Laws of Nature, were attributable to physical processes, 

 was disguising himself as a scientist. Science says you have no 

 right to make such assumptions. Professor Tyndall said he saw no 

 connection between the two, although he says there must be a 

 connection. That was almost the statement of a prejudiced 

 partisan. Law is uniformity of force, which, so far as we can trace 

 it, is the action of spirit ; in other words, the action of will. 

 Natural phenomena always attend the laws of nature. There can 

 be no reconciliation between the Word of God and Science, because 

 the Word of God is truth and true Science is knowledge and there- 



