575th ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING, 



HELD IN COMMITTEE EOOM B, THE CENTRAL HALL, 

 WESTMINSTER, ON MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7th, 1916, 



AT 4.30 P.M. 



The Rev. Prebendary H. E. Fox, M.A., took the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



The Secretary announced the election of Sir T. Victor Buxton, Bart., 

 M.A., and the Rev. Herbert Parry Thornton, M.A., as Members of the 

 Institute, and of Miss K. M. Bond, Mr. W. J. Canter, C.I.M., R.N., and 

 of the Rev. R. Wright Hay as Associates. 



The Chairman regretted to have to announce that Chancellor Lias 

 would not be able to be present in person. In view of the inclemency 

 of the season, and of his advanced age and delicate health, it would 

 certainly have been unwise for the venerable Lecturer to have undertaken 

 the journey. But he had sent his paper, and he would ask the Secretary 

 to read it. 



THE UNITY OF ISAIAH* By the Rev. J. J. Lias, M.A., 

 Chancellor of Llandaff Cathedral. 



Grounds whereon the Unity of the Book has been 

 Challenged. 



THE Germanic schools of criticism of the Scriptures which 

 have met with so much acceptance here in England have 

 owed their influence to many causes, of which I consider the 

 principal to be the unwillingness of believers in the authority 

 and inspiration of Scripture to discuss minute details of evidence 

 when they base their belief in revealed religion upon arguments 

 of a much higher order and wider range. It seems to such 

 persons a waste of time to enquire whether the fact of revelation 



* For a much fuller treatment of this subject, see my paper in the 

 number for October, 1915, of Bibliotheca Sacra, published quarterly at 

 Oberlin, Ohio, U.S.A. 



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