oo6tii OEDINAEY GENEKAL MEETING, 



HELD IN THE EOOMS OF THE INSTITUTE ON MONDAY, 

 MAY 4th, 1914, AT 4.30 p.m. 



The Eev. H. J. E. Makston, M.A., took the Chaik. 



The Minutes of the preceding Meeting were read and confirmed. 



The Secretary announced the election of the two following Asso- 

 ciates: — Mr. John Wood and Mr. Francis Chatillon Danson. 



The Chairman then introduced Prof. F. F. Roget, Lecturer on English 

 Language and Literature in the University of Geneva, and called upon 

 him to deliver his Address on " Frederic Godet, the greatest of Swiss 

 theologians after Calvin." 



FREDERIC GODET, SJFISS DIVINE, AND TUTOR 

 TO FREDERICK THE NOBLE. By Prof. E. E. 



EOGET. 



IT^EEDEEIC GODET was born in 1812, and died in 1900, 

 _ when eighty-eight years old. 



The length of his life, and the period of the nineteenth 

 century over which it extended, made him throughout the s[)an 

 of those years a contemporary of Ernest Naville, the " spiritual- 

 istic " philosopher and divine of Geneva, whose portrait, course 

 of life, and doctrine, we brought before the Victoria Institute, 

 two years ago in the same month of May. 



A complete picture of the philosophic thought, emanating, 

 in conjunction with theology, irom the French-speaking parts 

 of Switzerland in the nineteenth century, would demand that 

 we should add to jSTaville and Godet their compeers Alex. A^inet, 

 Charles Secretan, Francois Eoget and F'rederic Amiel. This we 

 hope to do wit] I the help of time. We believe that there is in 

 London an editor who understands the importance of the 

 contribution to philosophy and theology of the Protestant 

 Churches in Eoniance Switzerland, and is pre])ared to publish, 

 for the benefit of the English-reading public, such accounts as 

 those which are now being placed before you. 



I wish particularly to thank the Victoria Institute for the 

 facility thus given me, "^.vhich I am confident they will have 

 no occasion to regret. 



The Protestants of Eomance Switzerland are in every way 

 akin to the English and Scotch I*rotestants. The national 



