643rd ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING, 



Held in Committee Koom B, 



THE CENTRAL HALL, WESTMINSTEE, S.W., on Monday 

 May 15th, 1922, at 4.3C p.m. 



Lieut. -Colonel F. A. Molony, O.B.E., in the Chaie. 



The ifinutes of the previous Meeting were read, confirmed and signed and 

 the Hon. Secretary announced the Election of the following : As Member, from 

 Associate, Major H. Pelham Burn, and as Ass^ociates, the Eev. Tydeman 

 Chilvers, and the Honourable Mrs. Francis Bridgeman. 



The Chairman then introduced the Eev. E. L. Langston, M.A., and 

 invited him to read his paper on " The Times of the Gentiles in relation to i,he 

 End of the Age." 



THE TIMES OF THE GENTILES. 

 IN RELATION TO THE END OF THE AGE. 

 By the rev. E. L. LANGSTON, M.A. 



** The times uf the Gentiles " is a definite period in the history 

 of the world, and to understand its main features we must for 

 a moment see it in its right setting. God has a plan for the 

 world, and that plan is world redemption; therefore, when writing 

 a paper on " the times of the Gentiles in relation to the End 

 of the Age," we must first briefly see it in relation to other Ages. 



The history of the world may be broken up into seven distinct 

 Ages, and it must be remembered that the immediate purpose 

 and calling of God is not the same in all ages. He has not dealt 

 with men on one line alone, but in various methods and manners 

 has He tested man, and each dispensation is characteristic, being 

 the special dealing of God in that age, and a change in the mode 

 of God's dealing makes change in the dispensation, and this 

 fact, if lost sight of, will make many words in Scripture seem 

 contradictory; but, to use the words of St. Augustine, ** distin- 

 guish the dispensations and the words will agree." 



The First Age 



being the period when Adam and Eve, our first parents, were 

 created, and lived in the Garden of Eden, they were not sinful, 

 neither were they holy, for they had not the knowledge of sin 

 and evil, but they were innocent. In the form of a serpent i3 



