522nd ORDINAEY GP^NERAL MEETING. 



HELD IN THE EOOMS OF THE INSTITUTE ON MONDAY 

 DECEMBER 4th, 1911, AT 4.30 p.m. 



The Ven. Archdeacon Beresford Potter in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and signed. 

 The Secretary announced that the following had been elected 

 Members since the last meeting : — 



Rev. W. C. Minifie, D.D. ; Charles Phillips, Esq. ; Rev. A. M. 

 Niblock ; and the Bishop of Llandaff, 



and the following twenty Associates :— 



Rev. W. Banham ; Rev. E. Blackburn ; Rev. H. Howson ; Rev. 

 Gilford H. Johnson ; Peter Whitfield, Esq. ; Rev. J. C. Mansel- 

 Pleydell ; Rev. J. C. Fussell : Dr. Philip Rice ; C. H. Wingfield, 

 Esq. ; Miss E. M. Baumer ; Miss M. R. Strange ; John Graham, 

 Esq. ; Lord Balfour of Burleigh ; Rev. W. B. Norris ; Rev. A. 

 Cochrane ; Sir Charles Bruce, G.C.M.G. ; W. C. C. Hawtayne, 

 Esq. ; Rev. J. W. fF. Sheppard ; Mrs. Holmes ; and Miss Manson 

 (Life Associate). 



The following paper was then read : — 



THE GENEALOGIES OF OUR LORD. 

 By Mrs. A. S. Lewis. 



rp^HE Gospels occupy a central point in the citadel of Divine 

 JL revelation. If their authority could be refuted, or even 

 seriously doubted, the interdependence of the books which 

 comprise the Old and Kew Testaments would become a thing of 

 nought. The Bible would be like a splendid Gothic arch from 

 which the top stones have fallen, or like a bridge without a key 

 stone, by which we could never cross any stream. 



It is not therefore surprising that the strongest battering 

 rams of rationalistic criticism and the artillery of those who are 

 trying to eliminate the supernatural from the region of possi- 

 bility should be unceasingly directed against them. 



Where were all our pleasures? 



Where our hearts' deep love 1 

 If the herald angels 



Ne'er had sung above 1 

 If in Bethlehem's manger 



Christ had never lain, 

 Joy were but a phantom, 



Life a sob of pain. 



At the beginning of the Gospels we meet with difficulties 

 which seem almost incapable of solution and have given rise to 

 discussions which would be interminable, were it not for the 



