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moral in its effects. At the present time the speaker was engaged 

 in writing an article on the attitude of the Christian nations 

 towards subject races : and the terrible fact seemed clear that, notwith- 

 standing the guarantee of the Powers at Berlin in 1885 that they 

 would aid in the moral uplifting of the natives of the Congo State, 

 its population, which in 1884 could hardly be put lower than 

 30 millions, had dwindled to 7f millions in the year before the 

 war. This showed that materialism and the worship of force 

 had been manifesting; itself in other nations as well as in 

 Germany. 



Bishop Welldon, in acknowledging the vote of thanks, said that 

 he had too much respect for Dean Wace's power in controversy to 

 have risked some of the statements he had made, if he had not 

 known that there would be no discussion. 



Professor Margoliouth moved a vote of thanks to Dean Wace, 

 and especially he would wish to voice the thankfulness of the 

 Meeting that he was able to be present with them, and again to use 

 his hand in writing. 



The Rev. John Tuckwell seconded this vote of thanks. He 

 remarked that among the previous speakers there had been four 

 clergymen of the Church of England, and he presumed that as this 

 was an undenominational Society it was because he was a minister 

 outside that Denomination that he had been asked to second this 

 vote. All regretted the absence of Lord Halsbury, but all were 

 glad to welcome and congratulate the Dean of Canterbury on his 

 recovery from his recent accident. He had the highest regard for 

 him both as a Churchman and as a Christian, and he begged to 

 commend to the cordial acceptance of the Meeting the resolution 

 which he had been asked to second. He then put the resolution to 

 the Meeting and it was carried unanimously. 



The Chairman briefly responded and the Meeting adjourned at 

 5.50 p.m. 



