OEDINAEY GENERAL MEETING* 



David Howard, Esq., in the Chair. 



DEATH OF THE PRESIDENT, SIR GEORGE GABRIEL 

 STOKES, BART. 



The Chairman. — I am sure all of you who have read your news- 

 papers this morning will join with me in the profound regret with 

 which we have heard of the death of our revered President. (Hear, 

 hear.) He was one of those who might, if any man might, have 

 been proud of himself. A man of the prof oundest intellect and widest 

 knowledge, he was yet one of the humblest men that ever lived. 



I cannot help thinking that those who, even from a distance, 

 have watched his life, may learn a lesson of the true proportion of 

 things. He was profoundly humble, because all his great intellect 

 was brought to bear upon deep studies, made in the face of, 

 and in the consciousness of, deeper and profounder realities — the 

 realities of eternity. Great as he was in science, his Christian 

 faith was even greater than his human knowledge. He was one 

 who has served God in his day and generation, and he has now 

 fallen asleep — or rather he has awakened to the realities of the 

 beatific vision which is the true knowledge which even his great 

 intellect could only grasp or discern as in a " glass darkly " — the 

 eternal verities ! It has been our privilege to know him. God 

 grant that we may follow in his steps. 



I will now ask the Secretary to read the Resolution of 

 condolence. 



The Secretary. — 



" It is with the greatest regret that the Council have heard 

 this morning of the death of their revered President, 



Monday, February 2nd, 1903. 



