THE PRESIDENT’S INTRODUCTORY 
AT 
THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. 


THE LATE KING EDWARD VII. 
Before commencing the business for which we are met to 
transact this evening, I would like, with your permission, to 
give expression to what is uppermost in the minds of all of 
us at the present time. We have no class or creed in our 
Society, but we yield to no one in our loyalty and attachment 
to the Throne of our country, and this loyalty and this attach- 
ment have been strengthened, if such were required, by the 
admiration we all held for His Majesty King Edward VII. 
His wise rule, his tactful judgment, and his wonderful insight 
into and in sympathy with all that was best in human nature, 
placed him on the very highest pinnacle of appreciation, by 
not only his own loyal subjects, but also by the inhabitants of 
the whole civilized world. We mourn his loss, and our full 
sympathies go out at this particular time to the Queen- 
Mother, whose practical sympathy with all good work, 
together with her wonderful charm of manner has so endeared 
her to the peoples of this realm. But in the midst of all this 
sorrow we look forward to tke future with much hope to 
seeing in King George V. a worthy son following in the 
footsteps of a worthy Father. May God bless him and his 
Consort Queen Mary is, I am sure, the sincere wish of 
everyone in this assembly. 
If it is your wish, Ladies and Gentlemen, that I, as 
President of this Society, should convey those sentiments 
to the proper quarters, I will ask you to signify the same 
by rising in your seats. 

