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COMMEMORATION MEETING. 



thought nothing is foreign to the minds of such : everything 

 makes its contribution to the general body of ideas which tend 

 to establish the truth and add richness and strength to the 

 considered faith of a Christian believer. 



(2 ) The other general consideration which enables us to judge 

 the influence of the Institute is found in the fact that, in the 

 course of the past half-century, it has given to the world an 

 encyclopaedic body of constructive thought, on things human 

 and Divine ; on the things of nature and revelation ; on the 

 isms and sciences, ancient and modem ; and on many great 

 scenes and passages of world history. In all, upwards of 250 

 scholars — men of outstanding culture and abiiitv — have read 

 papers, 580 in number, at as many ordinary meetings of the 

 Institute. These papers have been, in fact, carefully prepared 

 essays, many of them important and original contributions to 

 human knowledge. The volumes of Transactions, giving 

 discussions as well as papers, have gone into all lands, and are 

 to-day consulted in the great libraries of the world. Moreover, 

 they are constantly being quoted and referred to by writers on 

 Christian Apologetics. 



From which impressive facts, with the other considerations 

 named, it is right to conclude that, in the breadth and depth of 

 its work, the Institute has been true to its high purpose, and 

 now enters upon its second half-century with a record of useful- 

 ness which, in a large degree, has commanded the blessing of 

 Almighty God. 



The Chairman asked the Yen. Archdeacon Beresford Potter, 

 M.A., to give an address on 



THE HE L AT IUX BETWEEN SCIENCE A XL EEZIGIOX. 



Science and religion cannot conflict, because both are spheres 

 in which the Divine Being reveals Himself The laws of 

 Xature are the laws of God ; and the unfolding of these laws 

 must make God's ways more plain. The only conflict that can 

 occur is between true science and untrue religion, or between 

 untrue science and true religion, or where the science and 

 religion are both untrue. True science reveals God, and 

 dethrones untrue religion. This is a good thing, not a bad 

 thing, for the world. The main point is that the untruth in 

 religion should yield before the truth, as Pharisaism had to 

 yield before our Lord's denunciations. 



