529TII ORDINAEY GENERAL MEETING. 



HELD IN THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF ARTS LECTURE HALL 

 (BY KIND PERMISSION) ON MONDAY, MARCH 18th, 1912. 



James W. Thirtle, LL.D., M.R.A.S., in the Chaik. 



The Minutes of the previous Meeting were read and confirmed, and 

 the following elections were announced : — 



Members : Frank W. Challis, Esq., M.A. ; R. Maconachie, Esq., B.A. 

 Associate : Mrs. G. Barbour. 



SOME LUC AN PROBLEMS. 



By Lieut.-Col. G. Mackixlay, late R.A. 



THE publication of the Oxford Studies in the Synoptic 

 Prohlem last year, edited by Canon Sanday, had long been 

 looked forward to, and the volume is a very valuable one, 

 because it embodies the carefully considered results of several 

 years of study by leading scholars, with the added advantage 

 that they had continuously conferred together on the topics 

 with which they dealt. 



Kone of the Problems which they considered are more 

 interesting than those which are to be found in St. Luke's 

 Gospel. This Evangelist plainly states in his opening sentences 

 that he writes " having traced the course of all things accurately 

 from the first ... in order."* Nevertheless, his central 

 chapters seem to be arranged in a manner which has long 

 defied explanation. 



These problems attract very considerable attention among 

 thoughtful Christian people at the present time, and they may 

 profitably be discussed at the Victoria Institute. 



We begin our investigation by considering the sources from 

 which the inspired Evangelist may have derived his information. 

 We must confess that we have no means of knowing with 

 certainty what they are ; many different theories of the depen- 

 dence of the three synoptics on each other, and on other sources 



* Luke i, 3. 



