PREFACE. 



noted in recent years has been well sustained. With the valued 

 co-operation of Members and Associates, the Council trust that 

 the Institute will continue to advance, and thus prove instru- 

 mental in strengthening the cause of Godiand Truth throughout 

 the wide area of its influence. 



During the year the Institute has been deprived of a 

 number of valued supporters through death. Among those 

 whose help is thus lost, are : The Earl N'elson, the Yen. 

 Archdeacon Kaye, Mr. E. Bruce Foote, Mr. S. Joshua Cooper, 

 Member of Council, and Mr. F. S. Bishop, Member of Council 

 and Secretary. The last-named died suddenly in July last, 

 after long years of practical interest in the work of the 

 Institute and three years of unremitting labour as Secretary. 

 He was a man of strong faith, abounding in good works ; and 

 the Institute is at the present time exerting an enlarged 

 influence as the outcome of his work — wherein sound judgment 

 and patient application were combined in the cheerful discharge 

 of the known will of God. 



I responded without hesitation to the call- of the Committee 

 to edit the present volume, relying upon; the co-operation of 

 the Assistant Secretary, Mr. A. E. Montague, which has made 

 mj work comparatively light. 



J. W. Thirtle, 



Member of Council. 



