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611th ordinary MEETING. 



HELD IN COMMITTEE ROOM B, THE CENTRAL HALL, 

 WESTMINSTER, ON MONDAY, JUNE 16th, 1919, 



AT 4.30 P.M. 



The Rev. Prebend aky H. E. Fox, M.A., m the Chair. 



The Minutes of the preceding Meeting were read, confirmed and signed. 



The Chairman read a letter from the President, Lord Halsbury, who 

 was to have given the Annual Address, explaining the cause of his absence, 

 due to Lady Halsbury's serious illness. 



The Chairman expressed his own sympathy and regret, and that of the 

 Meeting, at the President's absence, but they rejoiced to hear that Lady 

 Halsbury's health was improving. 



Prebendary Fox referred briefly to the objects of the Institute, and 

 called on Col. Mackinlay to read his valuable paper. 



THE LITERAKY MARVELS OF ST. LUKE. 



THE ANNUAL ADDRESS DELIVERED AT THE VICTORIA 

 INSTITUTE, JUNE 16th, 1919, 



By Lt.-Col. G. Mackinlay, late R.A. 

 PART L 



THERE is full proof that the same author wrote both the 

 third Gospel and the book of Acts. We shall accept the 

 unanimous tradition that he was St. Luke ; this is quite in 

 accord with various indirect Scriptural statements. It is not a 

 matter of importance for the purposes of our investigation to know 

 the actual name of the author, but it is convenient to adopt one. 



The study of the methods of expression of the Scriptural 

 writers is worthy of our earnest attention ; this is specially true 

 with regard to the works of St. Luke, whose beauties of diction 

 are very striking. His style is said to resemble that of 

 Thucydides, and Renan has pronounced the third Gospel to 

 be the most beautiful book ever written. St. Luke's inspired 

 writings have been examined with minute care by many modern 

 scholars, and they have afforded a rich mine for research, which 

 is by no means exhausted. We shall confine ourselves in the 

 following pages to the consideration of a few of his hterary 

 arrangements. The hne of investigation which we shall take 

 has the advantage that it can be followed by anyone of ordinary 

 intelhgence : technical training is not a necessity. 



