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obliged to omit much. Thus he had touched very lightly on the question of the 
uniformity of God’s mode of action in this world, and the efficacy of prayer. 
With reference to the suggestion of Mr. Baxter that, on the publication of the 
paper, Mr. Warington should enter more minutely into the subject and 
argue* out the various questions to which he referred, it appears to me that it 
unobjectionable, principally on the ground that it is c ' ea ^“ p0 ®n e ; 
What did Mr. Baxter want? Was it the answers which the essayist 
considered satisfactory? If so, I think Mr. Warington t0 
point them out. Was it, then, the answers which the Council might 
aider satisfactory, or the members? I think that, among the Counci, Mn 
Baxter would find the representatives of the three great classes of replicants 
fo whih Mr. Warington referred; and that, if they undertook to point 
out the- answers which ought to he given to the scientffic objectmns^d 
against the Scriptures, it would result m an iiiternecme war My friend, 
Mr Reddie, has also expressed a wish that the author . . 
objections and replies shoffid be named. I confess tha * ^ .^"pt 
Mr. Warington for having omitted all names. I am afraid 1 
in this world to be led by public opinion and the weight ofgrea" , 
I think, therefore, that, with respect to the objections Sonpture, and 
the replies which they had received, it is far better in this Institute to 
have ! little to do whh names as possible. I think it is suffiemn^ for 
us that the objections have been raised ; and it will be our du y, 
arriving the names of the authors, to show that they have no solid foundation 
Allusion has been made by Mr. Reddie to the Serpent. I 
believe I could convince him that there is a little more written about the 
Serpent than he seemed to think. While Mr. Reddie was speaking upon 
the Subject there was recalled to my mind a picture which I have at home of 
grciT dragon which walked the earth at first-on four feet ; a second view o 
fshowed that it had dropped its two front legs; mid m a third view it 
appeared as crawling on its belly along the ground. (Laughter.) 
tZ. Reddie. — I should be inclined to ask who was the author ot that 
was a man very eminent in science in his time and 
he Uved about one hundred and fifty years ago. (Hear, hear.) It is not, how^ 
rinks a large number of men distinguished in theology and hterature, who 
would especially attend to the exegetical part of the work, and to the m 
pretation of the various passages of Scripture which were 
into collision with the discoveries of Science. I do not look with any doubt 
as to the result ; for I am convinced that the Word of God will continue to 
show itself impregnable, by withstanding every attack that may be ma 
UP rJ: d£S Heath.-As I am not a member of the Institute, I feel 
