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COMMEMORATION MEETING. 



try to draw from the scientific facts which they laid before 

 you. 



There are two errors against which we should be on our 

 guard. We may misuse God's revelation to us in Holy 

 Scripture, which was given for our instruction in righteousness, 

 by using it as if it were for our instruction in the physical 

 sciences. We may misuse the book of nature which was given 

 us for our enquiry, for our intellectual development and our 

 material help and comfort, and may use it as if it were a key 

 to that knowledge of God which is everlasting life, which lies 

 only in Himself and in Jesus Christ, Whom He hath sent. 

 The first school would render to God the things which are 

 Caesar's ; the second to Caesar the things which are God's. Be 

 it in the future, as in the past, the work of the Victoria 

 Institute to insist that we render to Caesar the things that be 

 Caesar's, and to God the things that be God's. 



The Chairman then called upon the Eev. H. J. K. Marston, 

 M.A., to deliver an address upon 



THE ADVANCE IN THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE 

 GREEK TESTAMENT, MADE IN THE LAST 

 FIFTY YEARS 



About three years before the inception of the Victoria 

 Institute, J. B. Lightfoot published his famous edition of 

 St. Paul's Epistle to the Galatians. B. F. Westcott had already 

 some years earlier published writings on the Bible. Henry 

 Alford finished his valuable career of honest and faithful work 

 on the elucidation of the Xew Testament a few years after 

 the Institute began its career. F. J. A. Hort was occupied 

 with similar tasks during the years which mark our era. 

 Dr. Moulton was a contemporary scholar ; and later the names 

 of Sanday, Headlam and Meyer became famous. Meyer 

 among the Germans, and Godet in Switzerland, must be 

 mentioned as illustrating how wide an interest was spread over 

 the Christian Church in the work of exact scholarship in the 

 department of the Greek Testament. The principle which 

 governed the investigations and researches of these eminent 

 men was that of a belief in the sacred force of words. The 

 splendid Cambridge triad in particular had learned from their 

 great teacher, Prince Lee, the value of language when employed 

 by a master mind with honesty and sincerity. They had been 



