VICTORIA INSTITUTE. 



REPORT OF THE COUNCIL FOR THE YEAR 1917. 

 Read at the Annual General Meeting, March 18th, 1918. 



1. Progress of the Institute. 



In presenting to the Victoria Institute the Forty-ninth Annual 

 Report, the Council feel themselves called upon to renew and 

 repeat their expression of thankfulness to God that, in all the 

 strain and pressure of this third year of War, there has been no 

 cessation or weakening of the work of the Institute. The number 

 of meetings has been twelve, one more than last year; and whether 

 the value and importance of the papers read be considered, or 

 the interest shown in them, as tested by the attendance when 

 they were read or the discussions which followed ^em, there 

 has been no indication of decline. 



This is the more remarkable, since it has been found by many 

 Societies that the difficulties of transit, the darkened streets and 

 the danger from air-raids, have rendered their meetings difficult 

 or even impossible. 



2. Meetings. 



Twelve ordinary meetings were held during the year 1917. 

 The papers read were : — 



" Christian Mysticism." By the Very Rev. W. R. Inge, M.A., D.D. , 



Dean of St. Paul's. 

 " Islam and Animism." By the Rev. S. M. Zwemer, M.A., D.D. 

 "From World Dominion to Subjection; the Story of the Fall of 



Babylon." By T. G. Pinches, LL.D., M.R.A.S., Lecturer in 



Assyrian at University College, London. 

 *' The Conscience." By Clement C. L. Webb, M.A., Fellow of 



Magdalen College, Oxford. 



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