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ORDINARY MEETING, March G, 187G. 
C. Brooke, Esq., F.R.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
I lie Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed, and the follow- 
ing elections were announced : — 
Members: — C. J. Bentley, Esq., F.S.A., London; Rev. G. Straton, B.A., 
Leicester. 
Associates The Hon. Id. M. Best, London ; J. A. Macdonald, Esq.> 
London ; Rev. T. A. McKee, Dublin ; Rev. Iv. M. Morrow, Shaftes- 
bury. 
Also the presentation of the following Works to the Library : — 
“ Proceedings of the Royal Society,” Part 166. From the Society- 
“ Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society,” Part 2. Ditto. 
“ Proceedings of the Smithsonian Institute, 1874.” Ditto. 
“ Proceedings of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey,’ 
Bulletin 6. From the Survey. 
“Light as a Motive Power,” Vol. II. By Lieut Arinit, R.N. The Author. 
The following paper was then read : — 
THE 110 RES MYTH IN ITS RELATION TO 
CHRISTIANITY. — By W. R. Cooper, F.R.A.S, 
M.R.A.S., Hon. Sec. Biblical Arclueology. 
T I MI ERE are few points on which the Egyptian and Christian 
JL religions so nearly analogize, and which are more striking 
in their resemblances, than that one doctrine which has always 
been regarded, and rightly so, as a special result of revelation, 
— the doctrine of a Vicarious Deliverer of mankind in the 
person of a mysterious Being, who is at once both very God 
and very man. The definite language of the Nicene Creed, and 
its commentary, the symbol of St. Athanasius, explains the 
nature and attributes of the founder of our religion, and it is 
my province, as far as I am able to do so, to show to-night in 
what degree that nature and those attributes were anticipated 
in the Egyptian dogma of Horus Nets, the only-begotten son 
of his father — the Deliverer of Mankind from the Evil One. 
Perhaps you will allow me, before I proceed to examine my 
subject, to remove a little misapprehension which may arise 
in your minds as to the manner in which I shall treat it, 
and the standpoint from which it will be viewed, since the 
topic is one to Christians of the most serious interest, and one 
which has formed the foundation of a variety of heretical exposi- 
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