THE Fitness of Christianity to Man BY F. D. HUNTINGTON, S.T.D., BISHOP OF CENTRAL NEW YORK, Author of Grahame and Lowell Lectures on the "Divine Aspects of PRINTED FOR THE RECTOR, CHURCH WARDENS, AND VESTRYMEN OF THE CHURCH It was required that the matter contained in this small volume should be delivered in a church to an audience not differing much from the congregations that generally gather in cities for worship, except as it might happen to include a larger proportion of educated minds. It was also demanded by the terms of the lectureship that the lectures, having been so delivered, should be forthwith issued in print as a treatise. To almost any student this twofold necessity must be somewhat embarrassing, as involving a certain literary incompatibility. It will appear that I chose to keep before me in writing the assembly of hearers, and have not thought it worth while to take pains to strike out some forms of expression and some illustrative passages belonging to a public address. I had contemplated the use of a considerable array of references to authorities, and to agreeing or differing authors. But on the whole I see no worthy occasion for it, and therefore present only a few marginal acknowledgments to writers to whom I am conscious of being indebted. F. D. II. SYRACUSE, Easter-Tuesday, 1878. COPYRIGHT, 1878, ey T. WhiTTAKER. THE JOHN BOHLEN LECTURESHIP. JOHN BOHLEN, who died in this city on the 26th day of April, 1874, bequeathed to trustees a fund of One Hundred Thousand Dollars, to be distributed to religious and charitable objects in accordance with the well-known wishes of the testator. By a deed of trust, executed June 2, 1875, the trustees, under the will of Mr. BOHLEN, transferred and paid over to "The Rector, Church Wardens, and Vestrymen of the Church of the Holy Trinity, Philadelphia," in trust, a sum of money for certain designated purposes, out of which fund the sum of Ten Thousand Dollars was set apart for the endowment of THE JOHN BOHLEN LECTURESHIP, upon the following terms and conditions: 'The money shall be invested in good substantial and safe securities, and held in trust for a fund to be called The John Bohlen Lectureship, and the income shall be applied annually to the payment of a qualified person, whether clergyman or layman, for the delivery and publication of at least one hundred copies of two or more lecture sermons. These lectures shall be delivered at such time and place, in the city of Philadelphia, as the persons nominated to appoint the lecturer shall from time to time determine, giving at least six months' notice to the person appointed to deliver the same, when the same may conveniently be done, and in no case selecting the same person as lecturer a second time within a period of five years. The payment shall be made to said lecturer, after the lectures have been printed and received by the trustees, of all the income for the year derived from said fund, after defraying the expense of printing the lectures and the other incidental expenses attending the same. "The subject of such lectures shall be such as is within the terms set forth in the will of the Rev. John Bampton, for the delivery of what are known as the 'Bampton Lectures,' at Oxford, or any other subject distinctively connected with or relating to the Christian Religion. "The lecturer shall be appointed annually in the month of May, or as soon thereafter as can conveniently be done, by the persons who for the time being shall hold the offices of Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Diocese in which is the Church of the Holy Trinity; the Rector of said Church; the Professor of Biblical Learning, the Professor of Systematic Divinity, and the Professor of Ecclesiastical History, in the Divinity School of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Philadelphia. "In case either of said offices are vacant, the others may nominate the lecturer." Under this trust, the Right Rev. F. D. HUNTINGTON, S.T.D., Bishop of the Diocese of Central New York, was appointed to deliver the lectures for the year 1878. PHILADELPHIA, EASTER, 1878. |