5:J5th OEDINARY GENERAL MEETING. 



HELD (BY KIND PERMISSION) IN THE ROOMS OF THE 

 ROYAL SOCIETY OF ARTS, ON MONDAY, 

 JUNE 17th, 1912, AT 4.30 p.m. 



In the Absence of the PiiEsmsNT, who was unavoidably 



DETAINED IN THE HoUSE OF LORDS, COLONEL MaCKINLAY 



Presided. 



The Minutes of the preceding Meeting were read and signed, and the 

 following elections were announced : — 



Associates : The Hon. Granville G. Waldegrave, B.A., Charles 

 Edward Caesar, Esq., F.S.I. , Rev. J. A. Douglas, B.A., B.D., Miss 

 Marian Barker, Frederick R. S. Balfour, Esq., M.A., William Henry 

 Plaister, Esq., M.R.C.S. 



The Secretary announced that the Gunning Prize for 1912 had been 

 awarded by the Council to the Rev. Parke Poindexter Flournoy, D.D., 

 Bethesda, Maryland, U.S.A. 



ANNUAL ADDRESS. 



''MODERN UNREST AND THE BIBLE!' 

 By Sir Andrew Wingate, K.C.I.E. 



THE windows of a church in Brittany show the writers of the 

 four Gospels being borne on the shoulders of the four 

 great Prophets. The fact thus quaintly exhibited is that the 

 New Testament rests upon the Old Testament. 



The mosaics of St. Mark's teach the same lesson from a 

 different standpoint. The catechumen is not expected to lift up 

 his eyes to the interiors of the domes, whence pour down upon 

 him the Gospel narrative, until he has mastered the history of 

 the Old Testament depicted on the outer vestibules and 

 colonnades. 



Those old artists sought to impress on the imagination of 

 successive generations of worshippers that faith does not rest 

 only upon the New Testament, and that no one can fully 

 appreciate the crucifixion until he has confessed that Jesus is 

 "the Christ." Peter, for all men, Martha, for all women, 

 confessed : " Thou art the Christ." This confession is the Eock 

 on which the Church is built. The Eock, Jehovah, of the Song 

 of Moses ; the Eock, the God of Israel, of the last words of 

 David. To enable this confession to be made the Old Testament 

 was written. All the teaching of J esus led up to this confession. 



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