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the greatest pleasure that I second this resohition, and the more so in con- 

 sequence of a remark made by his Lordship on a recent occasion, when he 

 stated that we need not be so much disquieted at the scientific fects which were 

 supposed to contradict the Scriptures, because, in the first place, it very often 

 happened that what was considered one day to be a fact was known the next day 

 not to be a fact, and that very few so-called facts which were thought to upset 

 the Scriptures, stood the test of many months, much less years. (Cheers.) He 

 added, further, that when certain matters are brought forward that are really 

 facts they are found not to contradict the Scriptures at all. (Cheers.) Now we 

 find that all the way through. When the fact was discovered that the earth 

 positively went round the sun, and not the sun round the earth, it was at 

 first thought to upset the Scriptures altogether. But now we have learned 

 to understand that it does nothing of the kind. Then we come to the dis- 

 coveries of geologists. Certain facts have been made known which are facts, 

 but a good many theories which have been put forward as facts have been 

 proved to be but theories. (Hear, hear.) The consequence is, that we do not 

 find the slightest part of the truth of Scripture upset by anything the geolo- 

 gists have discovered. Just now the question seems to be with anthropology. 

 I had a letter addressed to me a short time ago, in which the writer, quoting 

 certain words from the Prayer Book, begged leave to be delivered from the 

 Jews, Turks, and Anthropologists. (Laughter.) I think I rather alarmed him 

 by stating that I was an Anthropologist myself, that I thought all the clergy 

 ought to be Anthropologists, and that they would not do their duty unless 

 they were. We never find any real fact that can upset Scripture, and it is 

 impossible that it could do so. Every fiict when it is first brought forward is 

 called a phenomenon, and it is called so more truly than people think. It is 

 rightly a phenomenon, because it shows forth and makes plain something that 

 was hitherto obscure, or something of whose very existence we were not aware. 

 Remember it is not the discovery that makes the fact, but the discoverer has 

 been enabled by the Divine Spirit to show forth soinething that was there from 

 the first. And there is not a fact in nature that has not some deep reason for it. 

 There is not a pore in a blade of grass, not a scale on the wing of a moth, 

 that the Maker had not some good reason for making in the particular shape 

 and colour in which He has made it. I am perfectly certain of this also, that 

 whatever our Maker takes the trouble to make, we His creatures may take the 

 trouble to examine ; and the more we do so the more we shall find that not 

 only are Scripture and Science not opposed to each other, but that they are 

 one and the same — the two books of God. (Cheers.) I have great pleasure 

 in seconding the resolution, thanking Lord Shaftesbury for taking the chair on 

 the present occasion. (Cheers.) 



The resolution was passed with acclamation. 



The President. — Ladies and Gentlemen : It can only be in conformity 

 with long-established rule that I am entitled to a vote of thanks this evening. 

 I have discharged but very little duty, and with respect to the Institute 

 itself, I understand almost less ; not from any want of interest in its pro- 

 ceedings, but simply because I have not had adequate leisure. When I was 



