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EXTRACT FROM THE TRUST DEED OF THE "DAVIES LECTURE"

Thomas Davies, of Bootle near Liverpool, being interested in the success and prosperity of the religious denomination known as the

Welsh Calvinistic Methodists,

and being actuated by a desire to perpetuate the memory of his late father

David Davies,

who was for many years a faithful and consistent member of the said denomination, lately resolved to found and endow a Lectureship, to be called

The Davies Lecture,

in connection with the said denomination; and for that purpose, in June, 1893, paid to Trustees, appointed by the General Assembly, the sum of £2,000, to produce annually the sum of £50.

The Lecturer shall be a fully ordained Minister of the Welsh Calvinistic Methodists.

The subject of the Lecture shall be Religion.

The Lecturer shall be allowed considerable latitude in the treatment of his subject. While special attention should be given to the Christian Religion, it is not intended to exclude the subject of other religions.

Such topics as the following may be taken up by the successive Lecturers:

The Definition of Religion.
The Origin, Growth, and Development, together with the Universality of Religion.
The Philosophy of Religion.
The Science of Comparative Religion.
The Jewish Religion in its various Stages.
The Christian Religion in its Developments and Corruptions, in its Doctrines and Practices.
The Relation of Science to Religion.
The Relation of Morality to Religion.
All topics fairly connected with Religion in any of its aspects, whether Theological, Philosophical, or Historical.

The Lecture shall be delivered in each year during the sittings of the General Assembly of the Welsh Calvinistic Methodists, at one of their chapels in the place or town where such sittings shall be held, and on some evenings before the day devoted by the said Assembly to preaching; and the Moderator of the Assembly, or, in his absence, the Acting Moderator, shall preside at the meeting at which the Lecture shall be delivered.

Each Lecturer must, within twelve calendar months after delivering his Lecture, publish at his own expense, in crown 8vo., the Lecture, to take not less than 150 pages, and to be preceded by extracts from this Deed, explaining the foundation and purpose of the Lecture.