An unusually large audience assembled in Sever 11 last evening to listen to Professor Joseph Henry Thayer's remarks on the changes in the attitude towards the Bible. Like all the conference meetings, this was very informal and the latter part of the hour was devoted to asking and answering questions. Professor Thayer said that there were two distinct opinions about the Bible, one, that everything in the book must be taken as gospel truth, and that deviation from this would be heresy; the other that part of the Bible may be accepted and part rejected. The Reformation with Luther at its head was an instance of a radical change in popular opinion about the Bible. Science, too, has brought material changes; for example, the principles of geology have established the fact that the word "day," used in the description of the Creation, must be interpreted to mean an indefinite period of time. This is but one of the numerous changes in conception which science has necessitated.

Several questions of particular interest to those present were asked and answered, and Professor Thayer personally thanked those who had interrogated him.