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the greatest pleasure that I second this resolution, and the more so in con- 
sequence of a remark made by his Lordship on a recent occasion, when he 
stated that we need not be so much disquieted at the scientific facts which were 
supposed to contradict the Scriptures, because, in the first place, it very often 
happened that what was considered one day to be a fact was known the next day 
not to be a fact, and that very few so-called facts which were thought to upset 
the Scriptures, stood the test of many months, much less years. (Cheers.) He 
added, further, that when certain matters are brought forward that are really 
facts they are found not to contradict the Scriptures at all. (Cheers.) Now we 
find that all the way through. When the fact was discovered that the earth 
positively went round the sun, and not the sun round the earth, it was at 
first thought to upset the Scriptures altogether. But now we have learned 
to understand that it does nothing of the kind. Then we come to the dis- 
coveries of geologists. Certain facts have been made known which are facts, 
but a good many theories which have been put forward as facts have been 
proved to be but theories. (Hear, hear.) The consequence is, that we do not 
find the slightest part of the truth of Scripture upset by anything the geolo- 
gists have discovered. Just now the question seems to be with anthropology. 
I had a letter addressed to me a short time ago, in which the writer, quoting 
certain words from the Prayer Book, begged leave to be delivered from the 
J ews, Turks, and Anthropologists. (Laughter.) I think I rather alarmed him 
by stating that I was an Anthropologist myself, that I thought all the clergy 
ought to be Anthropologists, and-that they would not do their duty unless 
they were. We never find any real fact that can upset Scripture, and it is 
impossible that it could do so. Every fact when it is first brought forward is 
called a phenomenon, and it is called so more truly than people think. It is 
rightly a phenomenon, because it shows forth and makes plain something that 
was hitherto obscure, or something of whose very existence we were not aware. 
Remember it is not the discovery that makes the fact, but the discoverer has 
been enabled by the Divine Spirit to show forth something that was there from 
the first. And there is not a fact in nature that has not some deep reason for it. 
There is not a pore in a blade of grass, not a scale on the wing of a moth, 
that the Maker had not some good reason for making in the particular shape 
and colour in which He has made it. I am perfectly certain of this also, that 
whatever our Maker takes the trouble to make, we His creatures may take the 
trouble to examine ; and the more we do so the more we shall find that not 
only are Scripture and Science not opposed to each other, but that they are 
one and the same — the two books of God. (Cheers.) I have great pleasure 
in seconding the resolution, thanking Lord Shaftesbury for taking the chair on 
the present occasion. (Cheers.) 
The resolution was passed with acclamation. 
The President. — Ladies and Gentlemen : It can only be in conformity 
with long-established rule that I am entitled to a vote of thanks this evening. 
I have discharged but very little duty, and with respect to the Institute 
itself, I understand almost less ; not from any want of interest in its pro- 
ceedings, but simply because I have not had adequate leisure. When I was 
