PREFACE. 



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issue in serious debute. And the Members and Associates of 

 the Institute are satisfied that much profit to sound thinking 

 has come out of the work which has been fostered by the 

 organisation since its foundation in 1865. 



The Presidency of the Institute, rendered vacant by the 

 •death of the Earl of Halsbury, has been accepted by the Very 

 Eeverend Henry Wace, D.D., Dean of Canterbury, one of the 

 old(^,st Members, and a much-honoured Vice-President and 

 Trustee. The difficulties of the times have occasioned the loss 

 of many supporters; but new helpers are being welcomed from 

 month to month. If the importance of the service rendered 

 by the Institute to the cause of progressive thought in the 

 interest of Eevealed Religion were more generally appreciated, 

 these accessions of new Members and Associates would greatly 

 increase, and prove a continual cause of encouragement to the 

 Council in its labours " to the greater Gloiy of God." 



F. A. MOLONY, 



Editor. 



.November, 1922. 



