591st ordinary GENERAL MEETING, 



HELD IN COMMITTEE ROOM B, THE CENTTRAL HALL, 

 WESTMINSTER, ON MONDAY, MAY 21st, 1917, 



AT 4.30 P.M. 



The Very Rev. Henry Wage, D.D., Dean of Canterbury, 

 Vice-Peesident, took the Chair. 



The Minutes of the preceding Meeting were read and confirmed. 



The Secretary announced the election of Mr. Andrew Miller as an 

 Associate of the Institute. 



The Chairman then called upon the Chairman of the Council, Lieut.- 

 Colonel G. Mackinlay, to read his paper. 



THE EMPHASIS OE ST. LUKE. 

 A STUDY. 

 By Lieiit.-Colonel G. Mackinlay, late R.A. 



CONSIDERED simply as literary productions, the writings 

 of St. Luke in his Gospel, and in the Acts (Luke i, 3, 

 Acts i, 1), are very attractive. 

 The charm of his language has long been recognized ; even 

 Renaii pronounced the Third Gospel to be the most beautiful book 

 that has ever been written. His historical groupings are realistic 

 and harmonious : his style is classical, resembling that of 

 Thucydides. 



In recent years systematic and scientific archaeological research 

 by Professor Sir William Ramsay and others has produced many 

 long-buried evidences, which bear incontestable witness to our 

 author's marvellous historical accuracy in the whole of the Acts 

 and in part of his Gospel ; his smallest details have been found 

 to be true to life in all cases in which verification was possible. 



The arrangement of the central chapters of his Gospel, how- 

 ever, has long been a puzzle to the historian, and the more so 

 because of his special statement at the beginning that he writes 

 " in order " (i, 3). 



But in this study it will be shewn that these chapters 

 are arranged in a most orderly and methodical manner, 

 and that the chronology is accurate ; and as a further and 



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