The report was accepted and ,approved. The Meeting proceeded to consider Causes of Fasting and Thanksgiving. While these were considering, Mr. Robert Alexander appeared. Recess was taken to allow him to take some refreshments. The meeting having come to order, resumed the consideration of said Causes.
Atheism still prevails among all classes of society.
Agnosticism, which asserts that God s existence and man s relation to him are subjects too high for the human understanding, and professes, as the word implies, to know nothing about these things, is, we believe, at the present time, the most dangerous form of speculative atheism. Its advocates claim great scientific knowledge. Another prevalent form of atheism consists in the denial of some of the attributes of the Divine nature. No being can exist without all its essential attributes. Whoever, therefore, denies the wisdom or righteousness of God, denies his existence.