OCT 14 1913 2 ECCLESIAE ANGLICANAE RITE APUD AUSTRALIENSES CONSTITUTAE MATRIS GLORIAM PIO AMORE RECOLENTI NECDUM TOTAM SUAM HEREDITATEM AMPLEXAE SACRI MINISTERII UTROQUE SUB COELO EXPERTUS HAS CONCIONES DEDICAT AUCTOR CONDITIONS OF THE LECTURESHIP [Extract from the Minutes of the Chapter of St. Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne.] MOORHOUSE LECTURESHIP 1. THIS lectureship shall be called the Moorhouse Lectureship, in memory of the Australian episcopate of the Right Rev. James Moorhouse, D.D., St. John's College, Cambridge, Bishop of Melbourne, 1876-1886. 2. The annual income of the lectureship shall be the interest upon a sum of £20001 held in trust by the Trusts Corporation of the Diocese of Melbourne for this purpose. 3. No lecturer shall hold the office more than twice, and at least ten years shall elapse between the first and second tenure. Any one in Holy Orders in the Church of England at home or abroad, or in a Church in communion with her, shall be eligible for election. 4. The electors shall be the Bishops of the metropolitan sees of Australia and Tasmania and the Primate of New Zealand; and the Archbishop of Melbourne shall hold the office of chairman. 5. The subjects of the lecture shall be (1) the defence and confirmation of the Christian faith as declared in the Apostles' and Nicene Creeds; (2) questions bearing upon the history and authority of the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments; and (3) the social aspects of the Christian faith in their widest application. 1 A further sum of £1000 has been added to this endowment by Bishop Moorhouse, with a view to the occasional appointment of a distinguished English scholar, and to cover the cost of travelling to Australia. 6. The Lectures, not less than six in number, shall be delivered annually in St. Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne, on such days as the Archbishop of Melbourne may approve. Each lecturer shall be required to publish his lectures in a form approved by the electors at his charges within six months of their delivery, and shall retain any copyright in them. He shall present a copy to each of the electors, and to every Diocesan Library in Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand. 7. It shall be lawful for a majority of the electors to decide all questions arising out of the interpretation of these conditions. |