513th OKDINARY GENERAL MEETING. 



MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20th, 1911. 

 The Eev. Prebendary Fox in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the preceding Meeting were read and confirmed. 



The following elections were announced : — 



Members : The Rev. The Lord Blythswood, M.A., and J. B, Braddon, 

 Esq. 



Associate : The Rev. J. A. Lightfoot, M.A. 



Missionary Associates : The Rev. A. R. Cavalier and the Rev. Wm. 

 Fisher, M.A. 



The Chairman introduced Mr. Baylis as one whose academic and 

 clerical experience had given him the advantage, not common in his 

 profession, of being qualified to form a well-trained and balanced judg- 

 ment in regard to the mutual relations of religion and science. 



As a graduate at Oxford in Natural Science, Yice-Principal of WyclifFe 

 Hall, in charge of a large town parish in the north, and for the last 

 eighteen years a secretary of the Church Missionary Society, he was 

 exceptionally competent to deal with the subject before the meeting of 

 the Institute. 



THE RELATION OF SCIEXCE TO CHRISTIAN 

 MISSIONS. By Rev. F. Baylis, M.A. 



THE relation between Science and Christian Missions would 

 seem to be small if we were to judge by business 

 discussions in a Missionary Committee Room. 



Had there been, during the last eighteen years, any serious 

 discussion involving this relation in the Committee Room of a 

 certain Missionary Society, which is one of the largest in the 

 world, the writer of this paper could hardly have failed to know 

 of it. Yet, so far as his memory serves, there has been none 

 such. 



There may be gathered, from this absence of discussion, 

 a strong presumption that science is in no serious way a 

 difficulty to Christian missions. But it w^ould be a mistake 

 to infer that the inter-relations are beneath notice, or of less 

 than vast importance. 



At least we are dealing with two of the great contemporary 

 living forces of the world, and it would be strange to find they 

 had no bearing on one another. 



