5. Council and Officers.

The following is the list of the Council and Officers for the year 1913:—

President.

The Right Honourable The Earl of Halsbury, M.A., D.C.L., F.R.S.

Vice-Presidents.

Sir T. Fowell Buxton, Bart., K.C.M.G.

David Howard, Esq., D.L., F.C.S. (Trustee).

Right Hon. Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal, G.C.M.G., LL.D.
Lieut.-Gen. Sir H. L. Geary, R.A., K.C.B.

Professor Edward Hull, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., F.G.S.
Rev. Canon R. B. Girdlestone, M. A.
General Halliday.

6. Election of Council and Officers.

In accordance with the rules the following members of the Council retire by rotation, but offer themselves, and are nominated by the Council, for re-election :—

Lieut.-Colonel G. Mackinlay.

Professor H. Langhorne Orchard, M.A., B.Sc.
Sydney T. Klein, Esq., F.L.S., F.R.A.S., M.R.I:
William J. Horner, Esq.

A. T. Schofield, Esq., M.D.

Heywood Smith, Esq., M.A., M.D.

The Council nominate also Lieut.-Colonel M. A. Alves, R.E., and Alfred William Oke, Esq., B.A., LL.M., for election on the Council.

7. Obituary.

The Council regret to announce the deaths of the following Members and Associates during the year :

R. Bruce Foote, Esq., J. R. Hershensohnn, Esq., Rev. F. Ashwin, Rt. Hon. Earl Nelson, J. T. Matthews, Esq., W. Drake-Brockman, Esq., G. W. Munt, Esq., Frederic S. Bishop, Esq., M.A., J.P., our late Secretary, S. Joshua Cooper, Esq., Member of Council, the Ven. Archdeacon W. F. J. Kaye, M.A., Rev. G. H. W. L. Ross, the Rev. G. Stringer Rowe, Francis G. Smart, Esq., M.B., J.P., Miss G. Crewdson, M.A., Prof. J. Logan Lobley, F.G.S., Martin J. Sutton, Esq., J.P., F.L.S., Rev. C. Godfrey Ashwin, Sir Robert Ball, F.R.S., The Rev. J. C. Walter B.A.

8. New Members and Associates.

The following are the names of new Members and Associates elected up to the end of the year 1913 :—

MEMBERS.--Miss F. Cruddas, The Rev. C. G. Monro, M.A., M.B., Williamson Lamplough, Esq., the Ven. Archdeacon Beresford Potter, Mrs. Bishop, John T. Burton, Esq.

ASSOCIATES.-Colonel G. J. van Someren, Dr. Eugene Stock, the Rev. L. G. Buchanan, M.A., the Rev. W. Hervey Woods, the Rev. W. Laporte Payne, Miss J. E. Williams, the Rev. George Denyer, Ronald MacGregor, Esq., Robert Gladstone, Esq., E. A. Benjamin, Esq., Prof. Theodore Flournoy (Life), the Rev. W. H. Saulez, B.D., Prof. J. Logan Lobley, F.G.S. (since deceased), Mrs. A. H. Pelly, Captain M. McNeile, R.N., T. Isaac Tambyah, Esq., Harry G. Munt, Esq., John B. Martin, Esq., Miss J. Winstone, Miss M. Vickers, B.Sc., Miss Edith Grindley, Ivan Panin, Esq., Miss Selina F. Fox, M.D., B.S., the Rev. W. J. Heaton, B.D., J. E. Solade-Solomon, Esq., the Rev. G. H. Lancaster, M.A., F.R.A.S., Miss F. Wolsey, Mrs. Maunder (Life), W. H. S. Monck, Esq., W. St. G. Grantham-Hill, Esq., M.D., M.R.C.S., Rev. W. H. Murray Walton, B.A., Robert Kerr, Esq.

9. Numbers of Members and Associates.

The following statement shows the number of supporters of the Institute at the end of December, 1913:

showing a net decrease, after allowing for deaths and retirements, of 5 on last year's return.

10. Finance.

The statement of Receipts and Expenditure attached hereto compares not unfavourably on the whole with that of the preceding year. The total expenditure in 1913 exceeded that in 1912 by £1 11s. 7d., but certain items, amounting in the whole to £16 16s., will not recur in the year on which we have just entered. The unpaid bills also, carried forward to 1914, are £31 17s. 9d. lower than those brought forward from 1912. But on the other hand, the receipts in 1913 have only sufficed to meet the expenditure through the donations received for the Special Fund, viz., £52 16s. 3d. The prospect for the coming year is satisfactory so far that the ordinary income may be expected to meet the ordinary expenditure.

11. Special Fund.

The Special Fund, above alluded to, was inaugurated by the Council at their Meeting on December 9th, 1913, in order to secure funds to enable them to place the finances of the Institute upon a more satisfactory basis, and to make provision for larger audiences than can at present be suitably accommodated in its rooms. It will be noticed that in the current Session arrangements have been made that six of the Meetings shall be held in the Hall of the Royal Society of Arts. A prompt response was made to this Appeal, by several Members and Associates, and the total amount received when the Annual Account was made up on December 31st, 1913, was £52 16s. 3d.,

the subscriptions in detail received up to that date being as follows:

Miss E. H. Bolton, £5; the late S. Joshua Cooper, Esq., £5 188.; Miss Florence Cruddas, £5; J. F. W. Deacon, Esq., £1; Mrs. Farquharson, 58.; Dr. J. C. M. Given, £1 18.; George A. Gutch, Esq., £1; William J. Horner, Esq., £2 28.; David Howard, Esq., £10; Joseph Howard, Esq., £1 1s.; Prof. Edward Hull, F.R.S., £1; the Rev. Canon Knowling, £1 10s. ; Lt.-Colonel G. Mackinlay, £2; Miss Amy Manson, £1; Prof. H. Langhorne Orchard, M.A., £1 1s. ; the Ven. Archdeacon Beresford Potter, £5; the Rev. W. Percy Schuster, £1; Sir Alexander R. Simpson, M.D., £1; Arthur W. Sutton, Esq., £6 18s. 3d.

The Council trust that the Fund, which has thus opened so satisfactorily, will continue to be liberally supported.

12. Auditors.

The Council desire again most cordially to thank Messrs. Sewell and Lance Gray for their kind services as Auditors.

13. Conclusion.

As time goes on, the Council feel that the work of the Institute has necessarily undergone some change of character. In days gone by, the forces of unbelief were militant and aggressive, striving to detach professing believers from their faith. Now the chief influences hostile to faith are indifferentism, and complete preoccupation in material interests: a materialism, that is to say, which is practical rather than intellectual. In the intellectual field, aggressive unbelief has been succeeded by a vague, patronizing assumption that Progress has left behind, as an outworn, old-time superstition, the belief in a direct Revelation from God to man. To combat this requires more faith, more patience, more effort and devotion, than were called for by the earlier phases of the struggle. In view of this necessity the Council would ask that every subscriber, whether Member or Associate, would do his or her best to gain more adherents, more workers for the Institute. In particular, the Council would invite those who sympathize with the objects of the Institute to join it as Members, for the very condition that Membership is confined to professing Christians, offers to such the opportunity and privilege of a practical declaration that their faith in the Divine Revelation is a reality, and enables them to bear a quiet but significant testimony.

Signed on behalf of the Council,
HALSBURY.

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