VICTORIA INSTITUTE. 



EEPORT OF THE COUNCIL FOR THE YEAR 1918. 

 Read at the Annual General Meeting, March 17th, 1919. 



1. Progress of the Institute, 



In presenting to the Members of the Victoria Institute the 

 Fiftieth Annual Report, the Council desire to thank Almighty 

 God for having carried them through the long period of war, 

 now happily terminated by the Armistice, and soon to be followed, 

 they trust, by a permanent world peace. 



The numbers attending the meetings of the Institute have been 

 well maintained, and the papers read have attracted good attend- 

 ances ; this is the more remarkable because the long continued 

 war strain has been very widely felt. The quahty of the papers 

 has been well sustained during the past year, in fact, many, well 

 qualified to express an opinion, have declared that those of the 

 last two or three years are better than those before that time. 

 Having weathered the war the Council looks forward to a bright 

 prospect of usefulness in the immediate future ; but steadfast 

 purpose and effort are needed in the days to come. 



2. Meetings. 



Eight ordinary meetings, and two special ones, were held 

 during the year 1918. The papers read were the following : — 



" The Church and the Army." By the Rev. Canon James O. 

 Hannay, M.A. 



" Sunspots and some of their Pecuharities." By E. Walter 

 Maunder, Esq., F.R.A.S. (Illustrated by lantern slides.) 



" The Reserved Rights of God." By the Rev. H. J. R. Marston, 

 M.A. 



Why we die." By Major W. McAdam Eccles, M.S., M.B., F.R.C.S., 

 R.A.M.C. 



'* The Gnostic Conception of the Cross." By the Rev. Canon J. A. 

 MacCulloch, D.D. 



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