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OEDINAEY GENEEAL MEETING* 



Theophilus G. Pjnches, Esq., LL.D., in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the previous Meeting were read and confirmed. 

 The following paper was read by the author : 



THE MORNING STAR IN THE GOSPELS. 

 By Lieut.-Colonel George Mackinlay, E.A. (Eet.) 

 IHE sun, and specially the rising sun, was an object of 



J interest and admiration to all the great nations of 

 antiquity : the records of Scripture as well as those of Babylon^ 

 Assyria, Egypt and Greece all bear witness to this fact. — 2 

 These same ancient record sf also testify to the habit of early 

 rising, which is still prevalent in the modern East, where artifi- 

 cial lights are not nearly so good or so general as with us ; thus- 

 we read at the present time " at the earliest signs of dawn all 

 India is awake and stirring long before sunrise.''^ 



Consequently we can well understand that the herald of 

 dawn, the planet Venus, the morning star, was eagerly looked for 

 and was readily recognised by the Hebrews and ancient Easterns 

 in general, as they were unprovided with the time-keepers of 



* Monday, May 21st, 1906. 



t (ien. xHv, 3 ; 1 Sam. ix, 26, xxix, 10 ; Ps. cxix, 147 ; Prov. xxxi, 15 ; 

 Mark i, 35 ; Luke xxii, 06 ; John xx, 1 ; Acts v, 21 ; see also Martial 

 ix, 68, xii, 57 ; Juvenal vii, 222-6. 



\ Indian IJfe in Toam and Countri/, p. 95. H. Compton. 



Uses of the Morning Star. 



