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if people could not be found to league together for God. (Cheers.) Why 
Sir, it is my own belief, and I know it is the belief of everybody here, that 
we Englishmen have risen to our present proud pre-emmence-for a proud 
pre-eminence it is-because of our attachment to true religion and the Word 
of God. (Cheers.) I believe that the prosperity of England is linked, wit 
her religion, and that if that religion fail, her prosperity must also fad. (Hear, 
hear.) I know that these sentiments are not very palatable with some of the 
world without; but I hold them, nevertheless, and unhesitatingly reiterate 
them. Well, Sir, we league together for God— we league together to . endea- 
vour to support His Word— to endeavour to show scientific infidels that 
science upon which they rely is a reed which will run into their hand and 
pierce them. (Hear, hear.) No one could have listened to the eloquent 
address with which we were favoured a few hours ago at a ™ ual mee *“ g 
without feeling that those who on scientific grounds assail the W ord oi God, . 
do indeed take up a weapon which will eventually run into their han s. e 
were shown, from the design apparent in the human eye and m the bee-cell, 
that it is impossible to resist the fact that there is a creative in e lgenc 
presiding over creation, which we with our puny intellects cannot approach, 
except by the method of adoration. But scientific infidels tell us the reverse. 
They speak of the dignity of the human intellect, they tell us of the greatness 
of man, and of the exalted place which he is soon about to assume in the 
universe, when the trilobite will be metamorphosed into an angel. (Laughter.) 
I do not believe such nonsense myself ; no more does the Victoria Institute. 
(Hear, hear.) We look upon ourselves as the humble servants of a Superior 
Intelligence, bound to use the wondrous intellect which He has bestowed 
upon us in His service and to His glory. Our scientific opponents are con- 
tinually laying their fingers on what they suppose to be the weak points m 
our case. They reiterate their objections agam and again, and when 
have refuted them once, they come back to the same charge again. ey are 
not honest enough to take a point as being proved or disproved, but after 
each defeat they hark back again to the point on which they have bee 
beaten. But, Sir, we are ready for them : we have met them once and w 
will meet them again. It is perhaps a matter of regret among 
are members of this Institute that we do not find upon our list as many 
titled names as we could wish. We ask in vain, “ Where are the bishops . 
where are many of those who make such strong public profession of then- 
attachment to our principles ? ” In that word, which it is our business to de- 
fend, I find some allusion to such a shortcoming, for it says that not many 
wise after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, axe called ; but God ha h 
chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and God hath 
chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty. 
Therefore I congratulate myself on the fact that this Institute is making 
some way-that, humble as each of us may be, we are doing some work t a 
may tell in the great battle that must eventually be fought between truth and 
falsehood, between right and error. (Hear, hear.) There is one c . her thing I 
can congratulate myself and the Institute upon, and that is, the harmony 
