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ORDINARY MEETING, May 8, 1869. 
The Rev. W. Mitchell, M.A., Vice-President, in the 
Chair. 
The Minutes of the last Meeting were confirmed, and the following 
Elections were announced : — 
Members : — The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Derry and Raphoe, The 
Palace, Derry ; W. Shepherd Allen, Esq., M.P., Reform Club ; G. M. 
Kiell, Esq., 8, Kensington Park Gardens ; Nehemiah Learoyd, Esq., 
17, Finchley Road. 
Second-class Associate : — Rev. C. F. S. Money, Lewisham. 
The Rev. H. Moule then read the following paper : — 
MORE THAN ONE UNIVERSAL DELUGE RECORDED 
IN THE SCRIPTURES. By the Rev. Henry 
Moule, M.A., Vicar of F or ding ton } Mem. Viet. Inst. 
A FEW words on tlie nature of the authority which I 
attach to Scripture in the matter before us may be 
necessary, and will not, I trust, be out of place. By one who 
for more than fifty years has believed the Canonical books 
of the Old and New Testament to have been infallibly in- 
spired by the one Eternal God, the statements contained in 
those books respecting the nature of that God, of His works, 
or of His dealings with man, can never be regarded as the 
mere opinions or theories of their several human authors. 
They are to him the revelations of God. To such a faith the 
first two chapters of Genesis, for instance, set forth not the 
Cosmogony of Moses, but the record given by Jehovah of His 
own creation and of one particular arrangement of that portion 
of Creation included in this earth. And, if thus given of God, 
such a record cannot be either trivial or without purpose. It 
cannot be mere legend, nor myth, nor conjecture. It must 
be truth — and truth which, in some way and at some period 
of his history, must to man be important and profitable. That 
Scripture was not intended to teach science or history is, in 
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