RECORD;

OR,

Eighteen Propositions for Geologists.

BY

W. B. GALLOWAY, M.A.

VICAR OF ST. MARK'S, REGENT'S PARK,

AND CHAPLAIN TO THE RIGHT HON. LORD VISCOUNT HAWARDEN.

Thy word is tried to the uttermost, and Thy servant loveth it.”—Ps. 119.

RIVINGTONS,

London, Orford, and Cambridge.

1872. ιν

TO THE RIGHT REVEREND

THE LORD BISHOP OF ELY.

MY DEAR LORD,

I ESTEEM it a high privilege to be permitted to inscribe these pages to one who, amid the occupations of an exalted and laborious office, has found leisure to stand nobly forward in the lead; to meet and answer the insidious attacks upon the Christian faith which have been so unsparingly made; and from whom the labour expended and the results obtained by others in this good cause do not pass without frank and generous appreciation. But it is with extreme diffidence that I lay before you a work in a department such as the present. It is necessary to encounter Infidel Science-no slight antagonist, but an adversary who now vaunts himself in the mature and magnificent development of his stature, and who has arrayed his ponderous frame with the most polished and massive scientific armour, as an altogether impenetrable panoply. I am conscious that the light equipment with which I enter the field may provoke confident disdain; but I enter it with a humble trust in the God of truth, the Creator and Redeemer of the world, and with a steady eye for the joints of the harness.