Meetings.

The Union held its opening meeting on Saturday, 3rd April. There were sixty present. Professor Brown delivered an address on "The Religious Ideas of the Ancient Greeks." He dealt with the Greek religion as interpreting (a) Nature, (b) Human Passions, (c) The State. The gods were personifications of the unintelligible forces of nature, or of equally mysterious qualities of man's being. Greek religion was the only expression of Greek unity : for the country was divided into many independent states. Though it had no dogma it was rich in art and ritual. Broadly speaking Greek religion was mechanical and external, unlike Christianity. Life after death meant nothing to the ordinary and little to the educated Greek.

On 24th April the delegates to the Kiama Conference. Miss B. I. L. Reeve and D. S. Smith made their report to the Union, Forty members were present. Smith sketched the doings of the conference, and both Miss Reeve and he laid stress upon various plans for advance in C.U. work.

An address was delivered before forty members of the Union on 8th may by the Rev. J. R. Glasson on "Prayer." From the universality of prayer he argued the dependence of man upon a Being higher than himself. Since our physical wants are provided for, it is natural to find that the need of spiritual communication with God is supplied with its means of satisfaction in prayer.

The Rev. J. Gibson Smith addressed the Union on 22nd May. Fifty members were present. He spoke on Agnosticism, stating the arguments of Agnostics, and carefully distinguishing Atheists. He pointed out that only in religion does the Agnostic, because he cannot know all, refuse to believe anything.