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ANNUAL REPORT. 



12. Conclusion. 



The year 1917 has been one of veiy exceptional character. 

 The mind and will of the country have been more and more 

 directed to the sole object of the maintenance of our forces in 

 the field, and the conduct of the War so as to obtain as its 

 result a righteous and permanent peace. But, at the same 

 time; the change in the attitude of the English people towards 

 many of the questions which have in the past been allowed 

 to divide them has been very great, and few can doubt that 

 the future will bring with it still greater changes — poUtical, 

 social, and religious. 



In the discussion and carrying out of these changes it is of vital 

 importance that we should all learn to distinguish the things 

 which can be shaken and removed from those which cannot be 

 shaken and must remain. The establishment of this distinction 

 in accordance with its guiding principles is the main object of 

 the Victoria Institute, so that we may look forward to its 

 influence and importance in the future as being not at all less 

 th^n in the past. The Council trust this will prove to be 

 the case, and that their friends and supporters will rally round 

 them and enable them, under God, to bring so desirable a result 

 to pass. 



Signed on behalf of the Council, 



HALSBURY. 



