The 636th ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING 



Held in Committee Eoom B, 



THE CENTRAL HALL, WESTMINSTER, S.W.I, on Monday, 

 January 9fch, 1922, at 4.30 p.m. 



Lieut, -Colonel Hope Biddulph, D.S.O., in the Chair. 



Hejfore opening the general business of the meeting the Chairman called 

 on Lieut. -Colonel G. Mackinlay and Dr. A. T. Schofield to make announce- 

 ments. The former referred to the great loss the Institute had sustained 

 in the passing away of our honoured President, the Earl of Halsbury, 

 in December last, after occupying the post with great wisdom and 

 distinction for more than eighteen years. Colonel Mackinlay showed by 

 instance how close Lord Halsbury's interest had been in the cause for 

 which the Institute stands. An expression of sympathy with the 

 Countess was put to the vote and carried unanimously. All in the meet- 

 ing stood during the statement as a token of respect to the memory of 

 our late President. 



Dr. Schofield spoke with regret of the loss of one of our Vice- 

 Presidents, Profesor H. Langhorne Orchard, who had constancy been 

 with us and given great help to the Institute in many ways, both as a 

 Member of Council and also as a speaker in our meetings. 



Lieut. -CoLoxEL Mackinlay, acting Secretary for meeting, then read the 

 Minutes of the last meeting, which were confirmed and signed. 



The Chairman then introduced Miss Constance M. Maynard, First Prin- 

 cipal of Westfield College, to read her paper on " The Bible in the 

 Twentieth Century." 



THE BIBLE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. By 

 Constance L. Maynard. Mor. Sci. Tripos, Cambridge, and 

 First Principal of Westfield College, University of London. 



IT is nearly fifty years ago that I entered Girton College, Cam- 

 bridge, as a new student. To be permitted to enter the 

 world of learning was dehghtful, my companions were 

 friendly, and all was bright, save for one aspect, and" that was 

 the attitude toward religion. Brought up in a sincerely Christian 

 home, already having seen the work of the Spirit of God in some 

 of the village people, the change of atmosphere was almost inde- 

 scribable. Doctrines I had supposed fixed and settled for ever 

 by Divine authority were thrown into the melting-pot, and even 

 the most elementary positions, such as the existence of a life 

 beyond the grave, were questioned. Let me say in passing that 

 with increasing numbers the tone has become very different. In 

 every College, whether for men or women, there is an Agnostic 

 body, but (thanks chiefly to the Student Christian Movement) 

 there is also an organized Christian society, for anyone to join 

 who will. 



