o92nd ordinary GENERAL MEETING, 



HELD IN COMMITTEE ROOM B, THE CENTRAL HALL, 

 WESTMINSTER, ON MONDAY, JUNE 4th, 1917, 



AT 4.30 P.M. 



LlEUT.-COLOXEL G. MaCKINLAY, CHAIRMAN OF COUNCIL, 

 IN THE ChAIE. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and signed. 



The Chairman : I am sure we are very happy in the subject of the 

 paper chosen this afternoon, and more happy still in the one who is to 

 deliver it. He himself is one who has greatly shaped the course of 

 modern thought during the years under review, and the Victoria Institute 

 is most fortunate in having a paper from him on this subject. I have 

 great pleasure in asking Dean Wace to read his paper. 



SOME OF THE RELATIONS BETWEEN SCIENCE AND 

 RELICION AS AFFECTED BY THE WORK OF THE 

 LAST FIFTY YEARS By the Very Rev. H. Wage, 

 D.D., Dean of Canterbury. 



I AM very sensible of the imperfection of my equipment 

 for venturing to offer the Society some reflections on tliis 

 subject, but I possess at least one qualification which, I 

 hope, may excuse my presumption. I have lived through those 

 fifty years, and I was thirty years old when they began. I had 

 been seven years in Holy Orders when tliey opened, and it was 

 not long after their commencement that, as Boyle Lecturer, it 

 was my duty to consider as thoroughly as possible the position 

 of Theology in relation to the Science then prevalent. In those 

 fifty years I have seen many movements and influences come 

 and go. At their commencement Tyndall and Huxley were the 

 reigning authorities in Science ; W. K. Greg and Matthew Arnold 

 were the most popular influences in Criticism and Keligious 

 Speculation ; Colenso had startled the religious world by his 

 popularization of Dutch Criticism of the Old Testament ; and 

 the Cambridge School of New Testament Criticism, led by Light- 

 foot and Westcott, were successfully upholding the authenticity 

 of the Gospels and Epistles against the School of Baur and his 



