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ANNUAL EEPOET. 



the subscriptions in detail received up to that date being as 

 follows : — 



Miss E. H. Bolton, £5 ; the late S. Joshua Cooper, Esq., £5 I85. ; Miss 

 Florence Cruddas, £5 ; J. F. W. Deacon, Esq., £1 ; Mrs. Farquharson, 5s. ; 

 Dr. J. C. M. Given, £l Is. ; Georc^e A. Gutch, Elsq., £1 ; William J. Horner, 

 Esq., £2 i'6'. ; David Howard, Esq., £lO ; Joseph Howard, Esq., £l Is. ; 

 Prof. Edward Hull, F.R.S., £1 ; the Eev. Canon Knowling, £1 lOs. ; 

 Lt. -Colonel G. Mackinlay, £2 ; Miss Amy Manson, £l ; Prof. H. 

 Langhorne Orolmrd, M.A., £1 Is. ; the Ven. Archdeacon Beresford 

 Potter, £5 ; the Rev. W. Percy Schuster, £1 ; Sir Alexander R. Simpson, 

 M.D., £1 ; Arthur W. Sutton, Esq., £6 18s. M. 



The Council trust that the Fund, which has thus opened so 

 satisfactorily, will continue to be liberally supported. 



12. Auditor!^. 



The Council desire again most cordially to thank Messrs. 

 Sewell and Lance Gray for their kind services as Auditors. 



13. Conclusion. 



As time goes on, the Council leel that the work of the 

 Institute has necessarily undergone some change of charactei'. 

 In days gone by, the forces of unbelief were militant and 

 aggressive, striving to detach professing believers from their 

 faith. Now the chief influences hostile to faith are in- 

 differentism, and complete preoccupation in material interests : 

 a materialism, that is to say, wdiich is practical ratlier than 

 intellectual. In the intellectual field, aggressive unbelief has 

 been succeeded by a vague, patronizing assumption that Progress 

 has left behind, as an outworn, old-time superstition, the belief 

 in a direct Revelation from God to man. To combat this 

 requires more faith, more patience, more effort and devotion, 

 than were called for by the earlier phases of the struggle. In 

 view of this necessity the Council would ask that every 

 subscriber, whether Member or Associate, would do his or her 

 best to gain more adherents, more workers for the Institute. 

 In particular, the Council would invite those who sympathize 

 with the objects of the Institute to join it as Members, for the 

 very condition that Membersliip is confined to professing 

 Christians, offers to such the opportunity and privilege of a 

 practical declaration that their faith in the Divine Revelation is 

 a reality, and enables them to bear a quiet but significant 

 testimony. 



Signed on Ijehalf of the Council, 

 HALSBUEY. 



