582nd ORDINAKY GENERAL MEETING. 



HELD IN COMMITTEE ROOM B, THE CENTRAL HALL, 

 WESTMINSTER, ON TUESDAY, JULY 11th, 1916, 

 AT 4.30 p.m. 



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



YlCK- PRESIDENT, TOOK THE GlIAIR. 



The Minutes of tlie preceding Meeting were read and confirmed. 



Also the Minutes of the Meeting held on May 24th, 1916, in Com- 

 memoration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the First Ordinary General 

 Meeting of the Victoria Institute, which had been held on May 24th, 

 1866 ; exactly one year after the publication of the circular suggesting 

 the founding of such a Society. 



The Secretary announced the election of Sir Henry H. Howorth, 

 K.C.I. E., D.C.L., F.R.S., as a Vice-President of the Victoria Institute, 

 and of Mr. C. E. Miller as an Associate. 



The Secretary also announced that a Committee of three judges had 

 been appointed to consider the essays sent in for the Gunning Com- 

 petition, and that they had unanimously selected as the best in scholar- 

 ship and research the one bearing a motto which afterwards proved to 

 have been that adopted by the Rev. W. St. Clair Tisdall, M.A., D.D. 

 The Council had therefore awarded to Dr. Tisdall the prize of £40. 



The Chairman said that he was glad to see that the winner of the 

 Gunning Prize was a man of such ripe scholarship as Dr. Tisdall. It 

 was an honour to the Victoria Institute that a man of such learning 

 should have taken part in the competition established under the bequest 

 of the late Dr. Gunning. He had great pleasure in handing the sum of 

 £40 to the Secretary for transmission to Dr. Tisdall with their congratu- 

 lations. 



The Chairman said they were honoured by the presence with them 

 that afternoon of the Right Rev. Bishop Welldon, Dean of Manchester, 

 who had kindly promised to address them on " The Influence of the War 

 on Religious Life in Great Britain." 



ANNUAL ADDRESS. 



THE INFLUENCE OF THE WAR ON RELIGIOUS 

 LIFE IN GREAT BRITAIN By the Eight Bev. 

 Bishop J. E. C. Welldon, D.D., Dean of Manchester. 



rriHE Christian view of human history is not the same as the 

 JL secular view. It does not accept or expect, as an historical 

 law, the continuous evolution of humanity from a lower to a 



