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ation, and let them examine ours in the same way, and then we should arrive 
at the truth as to whether they are facts or not. Revelation has no more to fear 
from science and fact than the moon has to fear from my throwing a stone at it. 
All I want and ask for is “ fact,” and the only complaint I have to make is that 
many people, eager to assail revelation, seize hold of something that is held to 
he a fact directly it is discovered, and direct it like an Armstrong gun against 
Revelation, until it is found to be no better than a pop-gun. But what does 
it do ? It shakes the faith of many people who never see the refutation and 
never know better. I was reading a paper the other day by a French author, 
M.Pouchaud, who makes this statement, “that since 1806 eighty-six distinct 
theories, all hostile to revelation, have been constructed upon geology, but that 
in 1863, when his paper was written, not one of them remained.” Yet pro- 
bably each of those theories made several infidels, who fell into doubt and 
difficulty from which they never recovered, through not hearing the refutation. 
Our great object, I repeat, is “ fact.” I would examine the most telling 
facts against the revealed word of God with the utmost minuteness and fair- 
ness, and take great care not to throw crude theories to the world, before we 
ascertained whether there is a foundation for them or not. I cannot agree 
with what fell from my admirable friend Mr. Row, who says that these things 
are human developments of similar thoughts in different parts of the world. 
It is true that there are developments of opinion in the mind ; but I never 
heard of similar developments of facts through which a simultaneous belief 
arose all of a sudden, and in all parts of the world, that there was a deluge, 
that eight persons were saved from it, and that such and such other things 
occurred, all going into minute details. Such things, I say, appear to have 
the character of truth. 
Mr. Row. — Take the monasteries that exist on the largest scale in Thibet, 
and other things that show a similarity to the observances of the Romish 
Church. Those are matters which I referred to. 
The Chairman. — But I do not altogether rely on Hue. I think we must 
see that all this concurrent testimony from so many parts of the world, all 
bearing on those points contained in the first eleven chapters of Genesis, 
make us believe that they proceeded from a common origin, and could not 
have been the simultaneous and independent growth of many different nations 
at different periods. 
The Meeting was then adjourned. 
