have any such conceptions, whether God is under any or what limitations, and so on, as I am persuaded that nothing lectures. but good can result from free discussion. Sixth, The lectures Lectures shall be public and popular, that is, open not only to to be popustudents of the Universities, but to the whole community lar, &c. without matriculation, as I think that the subject should be studied and known by all whether receiving University instruction or not. I think such knowledge, if real, lies at the root of all wellbeing. I suggest that the fee should be as small as is consistent with the due management of the lectureships, and the due appreciation of the lectures. Besides a general and popular audience, I advise that the lecturers also have a special class of students conducted in the usual way, and instructed by examination and thesis, written and oral. Seventh, As to the number of the lectures, Number of much must be left to the discretion of the lecturer, I should lectures. think the subject cannot be treated even in abstract in less than twenty lectures, and they may be many times that number. Eighth, The 'patrons' if and when they see fit Publicamay make grants from the free income of the endowments tion of for or towards the publication in a cheap form of any of the lectures, or any part thereof, or abstracts thereof, which they may think likely to be useful. Ninth, The 'patrons' re- Accounts spectively shall all annually submit their accounts to some one chartered accountant in Edinburgh, to be named from annually. time to time by the Lord Ordinary on the Bills, whom failing, to the Accountant of the Court of Session, who shall prepare and certify a short abstract of the accounts and investments, to be recorded in the Books of Council and Session, or elsewhere, for preservation. And my desire and hope is that these lectureships and lectures may promote and advance among all classes of the community the true knowledge of Him Who is, and there is none and nothing besides Him, in Whom we live and move and have our being, and in Whom all things consist, and of man's real relationship to Him Whom truly to know is life everlasting. If the residue of my estate, in the sense before defined, should turn out insufficient to pay the whole sums above provided for the four lectureships (of which shortcoming, however, I trust there is no danger), then each lectureship shall suffer a propor to be audited entire. Patrons institu tion of chair, &c. for two years. Capital invested securely upon or in the pure' tions of lecturers. 1 " If surplus after pay One half liferent. Other half to nieces. tional diminution; and if, on the other hand, there is any Gifford in previous to the date hereof if this receives effect, providing James Foulis, M.D., Heriot Row, Edinburgh, witness. John Campbell, cab driver, 5 Mackenzie Place, witness. AD. GIFFORD. Definition of religion, why wanted.-Great differences in defining religion.-Is Buddhism a religion?-Definition of definition.-Etymological definition.-Historical definition.— Dogmatic definition.-Etymological definition of religio.-His- torical definition of religio.—Later meanings of religio.—Dogmatic definitions.-Religion and theology.-Dogmatic and practical religion. Comparative theology.-Schleiermacher's definition of religion.-Religion, either belief or body of doctrines . . 27-50 Natural and revealed religions.-Comparative theology.- |