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The Spike or Victoria College Review, June 1907

Meetings

Meetings.

The opening meeting of the Union was held on April 13th, and the seating accommodation of the room used last year was tacked to the utmost. W. Gillanders was the speaker, this being his last appearance before taking up his position of Travelling Secretary for Australasia of the Y.M.C.A. The speaker outlined his conception of the ideal of the Christian student, and concluded with an earnest appeal to freshmen to join and stand by the Christian Union through thick and thin.

An address was delivered on the 27th April by the Rev. Dr. Gibb on "Bible Study." After stating his reasons for studying the Bible at all, Dr. Gibb urged that the Bible has nothing to fear from the results of present-day criticism. He was convinced, he said, that the Bible would come out of the ordeal the grand old book it has always been.

On May 11th the Rev. T. H. Sprott gave an address on "The Divinity of Christ." Mr. Sprott pointed out very clearly the dilemma with which the denial of the Divinity was faced. Having established by quotation from Christ's own teaching the fact that He laid claim to a divine nature, the lecturer asked whether it was possible to conceive so admittedly pure a character stained with what, if untrue at all, must have been the most blasphemous of impostures. Mr. Sprott urged that if for nearly 2000 years men had labored under a delusion, then that delusion had had more beneficial results than had ever been attained by truth.

On May 25th an address was delivered by G. H. Gibb, one of the delegates to the Healesville Conference. The speaker sketched the trip of the delegates, and gave an account of the most important work carried out at the Conference, laying special emphasis upon its practical nature.

H. W. Monaghan, the other delegate, was unavoidably absent owing to illness.