576th ordinary general meeting, 



HELD IN COMMITTEE ROOM B, THE CENTRAL HALL, 

 WESTMINSTER, ON MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21st, 1916, 



AT 4.30 P.M. 



The Venerable Archdeacon Beresford Potter, M.A., 

 took the Chair. 



The Minutes of the preceding Meeting were read and confirmed. 



The Secretary announced the election of Sir Charles Thomas Dyke 

 Acland, Bart., M.A., M.P., and Mrs. Adelaide E. Piesse as Associates of 

 the Institute. 



The Chairman introduced the Rev. A. H. T. Clarke, M.A., and 

 invited him to address the Meeting on " The Fulfilment of Prophecy." 



THE FULFILMENT OF PROPHECY. By the Rev. 

 A. H. T. Clarke, M.A. 



(Abstract.) 



"\T7 HAT is Prophecy ? How is it Fulfilled ? 



T V 1. It is essentially insight into God's dealings with 

 mankind and therefore issues in foresight as to their natural 

 outcome. God is always the same : " I am, Who am " ; " I am 

 the Lord, I change not." And man is always the same. His 

 " history," therefore, " is ever repeating itself." The first Man 

 was a type and prophecy of all men. The Jewish Church was a 

 type (two?, I Cor. x, 11) and prophecy of the Christian Church 

 of all time (" the Israel of God," Gal. vi. 16). And the special 

 gift of prophecy lies in declaring the issues of God's eternal 

 counsels as they appear in the midst of time. It is the result 

 of the illumination of the spirit of man by the Spirit of God 

 (I Cor. ii, 9-12 ; n Pet. i, 20, 21). " He spake by the Prophets." 

 " When He is come . . . He will shew you things to come," cp. 

 Rev. i, 1-3. 



2. As every nation has its special gift of law, science, art, 

 rulership, poetry or philosophy, held in trust for the world, so 

 God chose the J ews for the special gift of Revelation. " Salva- 

 tion is of the Jews." " Unto them were committed the oracles 

 of God." Their whole race and fortunes were a prophecy of 



