577th ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING, 



HELD IN COMMITTEE EOOM B, THE CENTRAL HALL, 

 WESTMINSTER, ON MONDAY, MARCH 6th, 1916, 



AT 4.30 P.M. 



The Very Rev. Henry Wace, D.D., Dean of Canterbury, 

 Vice-President, took the Chair. 



The Minutes of the preceding Meeting were read and confirmed. 



The Secretary announced the election of Mr. F. T. Lewis as an 

 Associate of the Institute. 



The Chairman said that the Rev. H. J. R. Marston, to whose 

 thoughtful and eloquent addresses they had had the privilege of listening 

 on previous occasions, needed no introduction to that Meeting. He 

 would therefore, without further preliminary, ask him to give his 

 address on "The Psychology of St. Paul." 



THE PSYCHOLOGY OF ST. PAUL. By the Rev. H. J. R. 

 Marston, ALA., Rector of Lydford-on-Fosse, Somerset. 



I DEFINE psychology to be the science of the soul ; or the 

 ordered and ascertained knowledge of the facts of human 

 consciousness. Perception, imagination, memory, appear 

 to be the principal exertions of the faculties which we have 

 within. Of these, imagination alone is not much noticed by 

 St. Paul ; indeed, there is perhaps only one passage in his 

 recorded utterances which can be directly referred to this superb 

 faculty. 



Christianity is. not a school of psychology, yet it cannot fail 

 to give a powerful impulse to that study. I may even hazard 

 the opinion that Christianity created the atmosphere in which 

 psychology breathes its most spontaneous and deepest inspira- 

 tions. St. Paul was not a psychologist in the technical sense of 

 that term ; but his sympathy with the human frame in its 

 mysterious inward working can be proved to have been profound 

 and comprehensive. His handling of the problems of the soul 

 can be proved to have been eminently sane, competent and 

 masterly. To exhibit the method of St. Paul's psychology is 

 the first object of this lecture. To argue from what we shall 



