Summary of recent scientific conclusions with which religious thought is to be harmonized -- Religious conceptions as to divine interposition, in their relation to fixed law -- MIRACLE -- Its place as evidence for the Messiahship of Jesus Christ -- Credibility of miracles -- Our Saviour's miracles -- Their benevolent purpose as bearing on their evidential value -- How related to the laws of nature -- Incapable of explanation by these laws -- They do not conflict with these laws in any intelligible sense -- Meaning of the old formula, "a violation of the laws of nature" -- Importance of the scientific position that violation of natural law is inconsistent with our knowledge of the government of the world -- Method and result in miracle-working, as related to natural law -- Explanation of the antagonism of scientific thought to the conception of miracle -- PRAYER -- How its answer stands related to natural law -- The cruder thoughts concerning the province of prayer -- All law, fixed law, whether physical, intellectual, or moral -- These laws a harmony -- It is in recognition of this, with subordination of physical to moral, that the spirit of prayer lives -- Fixed law is concerned with varying conditions, and with varying results -- Interpretation of "fixed law" -- Dependence of physical results on moral action -- That there are two spheres is no help out of difficulty -- Nothing in scientific teaching to warrant denial of the doctrine that God interposes for moral ends -- Warrant for prayer rests on a divine promise, involving moral conditions -- To ask evidence of its answer, irrespective of these conditions, is to seek evidence in neglect of that which is essential for the result -- The answer of prayer must be in all cases more an evidence of divine righteousness than it is of divine power 275 APPENDIX. I. Relations of Science and Religion 313 II. Spontaneous Generation 313 III. Energy and Force 314 IV. All Organized Existence is Constructed on a Common Plan 314 V. Embryology 316 VI. Non-advancement of Lower Orders 319 VII. Protoplasm 319 VIII. Number of Species of Insects 320 IX. Fertilization of Flowers by Insects 320 X. Ants 320 XI. Likeness of the Ape's Brain to the Human Brain 321 XII. The Large Sized or Multipolar Cells 322 XIII. The Conception of Duty 323 RELATIONS OF SCIENCE AND RELIGION. LECTURE I. CONDITIONS OF THE INQUIRY.