626th ordinary GENERAL MEETING, 



HELD IN COMMITTEE ROOM B, THE CENTRAL HALL, 

 WESTMINSTER, S.W., ON MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21st, 1921, 



AT 4.30 P.M. 



William Hoste, Esq., B.A., in the Chair. 



The Chaikman called on Lieut.-Colonel Hope Biddulph, the acting 

 Secretary, to read the JMinutes of the previous meeting, which were con- 

 firmed and signed. 



The election of Lieut.-Colonel A. H. D. Riach, R.E., as an Associate, 

 was announced. 



The Chairman then called on Lieut.-Colonel F. A. Molony, O.B.E., 

 to read his paper on *' Prophecy." 



PREDICTIONS AND EXPECTATION OF THE FIRST 

 COMING OF CHRIST. By Lieut.-Col. F. A. Molony, 

 O.B.E., late R.E. 



IN the days of our fathers the pendulum of thought swung 

 strongly towards the predictive element in prophecy. 

 Now that element is minimized, and sometimes its 

 existence is denied altogether. The question before us is, whether 

 the second swing of the pendulum has not taken it too far, and 

 whether we have not, in Messianic Prophecy at least, very real 

 prediction duly fulfilled. 



After being cut down some trees sprout again from the roots. 

 It would seem that Isaiah had this fact in mind when he wrote 

 (Chapter xi) : " And there shall come forth a shoot out of the 

 stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots shall bear fruit." 

 This was surely a prediction that, after the house of Jesse or 

 David was cut down and apparently ruined, a movement 

 should spring from it that should grow with amazing vitality 

 because of the strength of the old root below it. 



And Isaiah represented the movement as centring in a 

 person, because he continued, " And the spirit of the Lord shall 

 rest upon Him J' It was on Scriptures like this that the Jews 



