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PREFACE. 



and phrases of that great prophecy ; and an analysis of " The 

 Psychology of St. Paul " has shown him to be a trustworthy 

 witness to the event which he recorded as having taken place on his 

 journey to Damascus. " Inscriptions and Drawings from Eoman 

 Catacombs " illustrate the faith and hope of Christians in the first 

 four centuries of our era ; and in its Twentieth Century our own 

 faith and hope are stirred up anew by the study of " The Fulfilment 

 of Prophecy." 



Two papers were directly concerned with the Great War : the 

 one looked backward, to ascertain, if possible, what perversion of 

 right principles had brought the conflict about ; the other looked 

 forward, to forecast whether we might hope that the War would 

 issue in the return of men to the true principles from which they 

 had wandered. 



The past year, the second of the Great War, has been also the 

 Jubilee year of the Victoria Institute ; and on May 24th last, it 

 celebrated the Fiftieth Anniversary of its first General Meeting. A 

 short Thanksgiving Service was then held, in which the Members 

 of the Institute gathered together to worship God, and especially to 

 acknowledge His goodness for the light which He has caused to be 

 thrown upon Holy Scripture in these our days. At the Meeting 

 which followed, several speakers expounded the principles and 

 objects of the Institute — faith in One Eternal God Who created all 

 things very good, and the investigation in a reverent spirit of 

 questions of Philosophy and Science, especially those bearing upon 

 Holy Scripture. 



October, 1916. 



E. Walter Maunder, Editor. 



