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from this that there is not also in man an intuitive cognition 
of God by conscience and by faith; but that of which he * 
speaks as in itself sufficient is, undoubtedly, a logical 
process. From the principle that there can be nothing in Nature 
without an adequate cause, — a principle necessary to all 
scientific investigation, — Reason concludes that the cause 
of the phenomena and order of Nature must be the eternal 
power and infinite wisdom of God. However immediate 
the inference may appear, it is the result of a process, 
the several parts of which the logical faculty can discuss. 
And since, according to the Apostle’s teaching, the inference 
is not only legitimate, but one that man’s reason cannot 
reject without self-contradiction, the result of such dis- 
cussion ought to be to make the conclusion more apparently 
and obviously certain. 
There can be no doubt that Science has a most direct 
bearing on the several parts of this logical process. We 
have found in our brief survey that Science pours a flood of 
light, not only on the order of natural phenomena and exist- 
ences, but also on questions of causation. All the principles 
assumed by Science in Nature require that which is super- 
natural. And if the conclusion from Nature was recognised 
by the heathen world then, may it not now be made even 
more apparent to the minds of men in the far clearer light of 
modern Science ? It appears to me, I confess, that we shall 
not faithfully fulfil the trust committed to us in God’s gift of 
Science, unless we so use it as, at all events, to expose the 
folly of those who say, “ There is no God ,” and thus, by God’s 
help, save those who are being deceived by the sophistries of 
such men from sinking into the horrible pit of darkness and 
despair which Atheism has opened. 
Rev. Robinson Thornton, D.D. — I beg to move, “That our best thanks 
be presented to Bishop Cotterill for the Annual Address now delivered, and 
to those who have read Papers during the session.” — It is my very 
pleasing duty to express what I am sure is the feeling of all present, the 
great satisfaction we have experienced in listening to the very eloquent, very 
cogent, and very lucid discourse with which we have just been favoured. 
(Hear, hear.) May I say that there is another thing besides its eloquence, 
cogency, and lucidity which I strongly admire, and that is that it contains 
no little spice of the aggressive. (Hear, hear). For a long time in our con- 
flict, as we have had to struggle against the infidel tendency of the age, we 
have been apt to be too apologetic ; we allowed our opponents to maintain 
that science and common sense were mainly on their side, and that we had 
only a little bit of the two on ours. But the right rev. prelate is not con- 
