o46th ORDINAEY GENERAL MEETING, 



HELD IN THE ROOMS OF THE INSTITUTE ON THURSDAY, 

 JUNE 5th, 1913, AT 4.30 p.m. 



The Hon. Treasurer, Mr. Arthur W. Sutton, Presided. 



The Minutes of the preceding Meeting were read and signed. 

 The Secretary announced the election of three Associates : — 



Associate : The Rev. W. H. Saulez, M.A., B.D. ; Professor J. Logan 

 Lobley, F.G.S. ; Mrs. Agnes H. Pelly. 



The Chairman then called upon the Dean of Canterbury to read 

 his paper. 



THE POSITION AND PRINCIPLES OF THE CRITICISM 

 OF THE OLD TESTAMENT. By H. Wage, D.D., 

 Dean of Canterbury. 



rp^HE criticism of the old Testament is at this moment in a 

 _L very interesting situation, both in ICngland and in Germany. 

 As usual, the movement of German thought on the subject is 

 ahead of that of England. The leading English scholars appear 

 perfectly contented with what they have for some time designated 

 the assured results " of the criticism of the last half of the 

 nineteenth century, and have created a new conservatism in the 

 recognition, as a hnal achievement, of the documents into 

 which the Pentateuch has been dissected out. At Oxford and 

 Cambridge, manuals are published, like those of the Cambridge 

 Bible for Schools and Colleges, which treat the Jehovist, the 

 Elohist, the Deuteronomist and the Priestly Code as settled 

 realities, as much as the books of the Pentateuch themselves 

 were to our fathers ; and Dr. McNeile in defending the critical 

 theory of Deuteronomy against the able essay of Mr. Griffiths, 

 lately published by the S.P.C.K., expresses a condescending regret 

 that so "great and useful a Society" should have been betrayed 

 into countenancing such a critical heresy. There are indeed 

 some important exceptions among us to this attitude. Canon 



