The Drew Lectures on Immortality were delivered at Oxford University in 1912 by R. H. Charles.
The Christian Evidence Society maintained a course of lectures for several years.
II. American The Ely Lectures were founded in 1865 by Mr. Zebulon Stiles Ely of New York, and are delivered at inter vals under the auspices of Union Theological Seminary in New York. The subjects are all within the range of apologetics.
The Yale Lectures on preaching on the Lyman Beecher foundation were inaugurated in 1872 when Henry Ward Beecher gave the first course before the Yale Divinity School.
The Stone Lectures of Princeton Theolog ical Seminary were founded by Mr. Levi P. Stone of Orange, N. J., in 1871. The first lecture was delivered in 1883 by Mark Hopkins. The subjects are theological.
The bequest of John Bohlen of Philadel phia in 1874 established the John Bohlen Lec tureship in connection with Holy Trinity Church, Philadelphia. The lecturers are to confine themselves to the subjects discussed by the Bampton lecturers.
The Lowell Lectures are given from time to time under the auspices of the Lowell Insti tute of Boston, Mass. A course was given by Francis Bowen as far back as the winter of 184849. The foundation dates from the be quest of John Lowell in 1836. The subjects in clude psychology, anthropology, natural theol ogy and apologetics.
The Mendenhall Lectures are given at De Pauw University, Greencastle, Ind., and deal with some phase of the °Divine origin, inspira tion and authority of the Bible.° They were founded by the bequest of Marmaduke H. Mendenhall, D.D., and were inaugurated in 1915.
The Louis Clark Vanuxem Foundation of Princeton University was named after its donor after the receipt of his bequest in 1879. The lectures are to be on subjects of current scientific interest.
The Bishop Paddock Lectureship was founded in 1880 by Mr. George A. Jarvis of Brooklyn, N. Y., in loving memory of his former. pastor and friend, Rt. Rev. Benjamin Henry Paddock, bishop of Massachusetts. They are delivered at the General Theological Seminary in New York city. Their aim is, °to defend the religion of Jesus Christ as revealed in the Holy Bible and illustrated in the Book of Common Prayer against the vary ing,erfors of the day.° Frederick Merrick, for 51 years a member of the faculty of Ohio Wesleyan University, founded the Merrick Lectureship in that insti tution in 1889. The lectures cover the °gen eral field of experimental and practical reli gion.° In 1892 a committee of representatives of several of the leading universities organized The American Lectureship on the History of Religions) for °the purpose of encouraging the intelligent study of religion.° The first lecture was delivered in 1895.
The Ingersoll Lectureship, on the immor tality of man, was founded at Harvard Uni versity in 1893 by the bequest of Mrs. Caroline Haskell of Keene, N. H.
The Barrows Lectures on Christianity are given under the auspices of the University of Chicago and delivered in the Far East. They were founded by Mrs. Caroline Haskell in 1894 as the result of the World Parliament of Religions held in Chicago in 1893. The first
course was given in 1895-96 by John Henry Barrows, after whom they are named. In the year 1894 Mrs. Haskell also gave the Univer sity of Chicago the Haskell Lectureship on Comparative Religion.
Mr. William Belden Noble of Washington, D. C., founded the William Belden Noble Lec tures at Harvard University in 1898. The sub jects are to be within the °large interpretation of the influence of Jesus as given by the late Phillips Brooks .° The Cole Lectures were founded by Col. E. W. Cole and wife of Nashville, Tenn. They are delivered in connection with the Biblical department of Vanderbilt University, and are restricted to ea defense and advocacy of the Christian religion .° The lecturer is nominated by the theological faculty and confirmed by the College of Bishops of the Methodist Epis copal Church, South.
Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, Ill., re ceived from the late lieutenant-governor of Illinois, William Bross (1866-70), funds for the endowment of the Bross Foundation in honor of his son, Nathaniel Bross, who died in 1856. The funds had accumulated so that the first course of lectures was possible in 1903. The subjects are within the range of Christian evidences. The same fund also provides for a prize to be given to the writer of the most Important book in a given period, in the same field.
The Hale Lectures were founded in 1900 in connection with Western Theological Seminary of Chicago, Ill., by the bequest of Rt. Rev. Charles Reuben Hale, bishop coadjutor of Springfield. The subjects specified are: °litur gies and liturgics; church hymns and church music; the history of the Eastern churches; the history of the national churches; contem poraneous church history.° The Nathaniel William Taylor Lectures are given annually before the Divinity School of Yale University and had their beginning in 1903. They deal with the evidences of the Christian religion.
The Norman W. Harris Lectures were founded by the late Norman Waite Harris, a banker of Chicago, Ill. They are delivered at Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill. They were founded °to stimulate scientific re search of the highest type .° The first lectures were given by Prof. Borden P. Bowne of Bos ton University in 1907.
In 1905 Mrs. Caroline E. Haskell of Chi cago, Ill., established a lectureship at Oberlin College on °Oriental literature and its relation to the Bible and Christian teaching? The first lecture was given in 1907.
The George Shepherd Lectures on Preach ing are delivered under the auspices of Bangor Theological Seminary, Bangor, Me. The first lectures were delivered in 1904.
There are other courses of endowed lec tures in connection with various institutions and societies which do not publish their lec tures. All the foundations represented above have published most of the lectures given on the foundation. There are also lectures covering one or more years which we have not In cluded, like the Saint Giles Lectures on Com parative Religion, the Saint Margaret's Lec tures and the Ingham Lectures.