OEDINARY GENERAL MEETING.^ 



Eev. Canox Girdlestone, M.A., in the Chaik. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 

 The following- paper was then read by the Author : — 



TWO PATHS, ONE GOAL : Being an ExawAnation of Bishop 

 Temples Bampfon Lectures for 1884. By Walter Aubrey 

 KiDD, Esq., M.D., M.R.C.S., F.Z.S. 



Illustration. 



THE course of the Ganges-Brahmapootra is without parallel 

 among the rivers of the earth. Rising by two heads from 

 a limited region of the Himalayas it pursues at first two opposite 

 directions. The northern branch flows for 1,800 miles throuo-h 

 Tibet, the southern through the great plain of Hindostan on its 

 fertilising course for 1,500 miles, and this greatest oi' Asia's 

 twin-streams unites to form the Ganges delta and flows intO' 

 the Indian Ocean. A common origin, a parallel course, and a 

 common destination may fitly illustrate the still more remark- 

 able origin, course, and destination of Eeligion and Science as 

 forces in human history. The parallel may be further pursued. 

 How well does the long winding course, much of which is still 

 unknown, of the Brahmapootra, resemble that of Science, and 

 the open, long-known course of the Ganges, so important to 

 Northern India that its work as water-carrier and fertiliser 

 entitles it to rank as the foremost river of the globe, that of 

 Eeligion ? 



With this illustration in view we may proceed to examine 

 the Bampton Lectures of Bishop Temple on " The Eelations 

 between Eeligion and Science," which represent two paths of 

 human progress with one common goal. 



* Monday, January 25th, 1904. 



