558th OEDINARY GENERAL MEETING, 



HELD (BY KIND PERMISSION) IN THE ROOMS OF THE 

 ROYAL SOCIETY OF ARTS, ON MONDAY, 

 JUNE 8th, 1914, AT 4.30 r.M. 



The Rev. Prebendary H. E. Fox took the Chair. 



The Minutes of the preceding Meeting were read and confirmed. 



The Secretary announced the election of the Rev. Albert J. Nast 

 (Editor, Ber Cknstliche Apologete,) and the Rev. Arthur Louis Breslich, 

 B.A., B.D., President of the Baldwin- Wallace College, Berea, Ohio, as 

 Associates of the Institute. 



The Chairman, in introducing the Right Rev. Dr. J. E. C. 

 Welldon, Dean of Manchester, to the Meeting, said that he felt 

 great pleasure in presiding on this occasion, the more so that he 

 was himself an old Harrow boy, and, as all there knew. Bishop 

 Welldon had been Headmaster of Harrow. The Bishop had asked 

 him to apologize to the meeting on his behalf, since he would have 

 to leave early in order to catch the express train to Manchester, 

 where on the morrow he would be taking part in the memorial 

 service for those who had lost their lives in the terrible disaster to 

 the Empress of Ireland." He would, therefore, not take up any 

 more time of the meeting, but would at once invite Dr. Welldon to 

 give them his address. 



THE SUPREMACY OF CHBISTIANITY. By The P^ght 

 Rev. J. E. C. Welldon, D.D., Dean of Manchester. 



Summary. 



CHRISTIANITY claims to be the one ultimate universal 

 religion among mankind. But the spirit of Christian mission- 

 aries towards other religions than their own should, as far 

 as possible, be one of sympathy. Such was St. Paul's spirit when 

 at Athens he took the inscription ' Ay vcoaro) Oew on an altar in 

 the city as the basis of his appeal for faith in Jesus Christ and 

 His Resurrection. I have often regretted that there is no 

 epistle to the Athenians among St. Paul's extant writings. 



The universality of the religious instinct is recognized by 

 anthropologists of the highest distinction, such as Tiele and 



