523rd ORDmAEY GENERAL MEETING. 



MONDAY, DECEMBER 11th, 1911, 4.30 p.m. 

 James W. Thirtle, Esq., LL.D., M.R.A.S., took the Chair. 



The Minutes of the previous Meeting were read and confirmed, and 

 the following {elections were announced : — 



Members : Rev. S. H. Wilkinson (formerly an Associate) ; Mrs. Lewis 

 (Camb.). 



Associates : Mrs. Gibson (Camb.) ; Thomas G. Hughes, Esq. 



NATURAL LAW AND MIEAGLE. 

 By Dr. Ludwig von Gerdtell, Marburg a/L. 



THAT the Gospel of Jesus Christ stands or falls with a 

 belief in miracles is beyond all doubt. The Gospel is 

 essentially a matter of revelation, and revelation itself is 

 miracle. 



Modern unbelief has shown a true instinct therefore in 

 directing its criticism against the faith in the miraculous which 

 belonged to early Christianity. The two principal objections 

 of a philosophic nature which modern unbelief levels at the 

 miraculous are these : — 



1. Miracles are impossible, since they destroy the funda- 



mental principle of modern science — the absolutely 

 unalterable, the all-embracing Law of Causation. 



2. Miracles are impossible, since they contradict the 



unchangeable Laws of Nature as known to us. 



If these objections could be upheld, the Gospel would be 

 destroyed. Thenceforward culture would be linked with 

 unbelief, and the Gospel with barbarism. The Gospel could 

 then advance only amongst those classes of mankind who were 

 of deficient intelligence, and only prolong that miserable and 



