BY THE SAME AUTHOR THE GOSPEL AND HUMAN NEEDS: being the Hulsean Lectures, delivered before the University of Cambridge, 1908-9, with additions. Sixth Impression. Crown 8vo, $1.25 net. (Popular Edition. Crown 8vo, paper covers, 20 cents net.) RELIGION AND ENGLISH SOCIETY. Two Addresses, delivered at a Conference in London, 1910. Fourth Impression. 8vo, cloth, 70 cents net. LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. NEW YORK, LONDON, BOMBAY, & CALCUTTA AT THE CROSS ROADS FOUR LECTURES DELIVERED BEFORE HARVARD UNIVERSITY ON THE WILLIAM BELDEN NOBLE FOUNDATION BY JOHN NEVILLE FIGGIS, LITT.D. OF THE COMMUNITY OF THE RESURRECTION LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. FOURTH AVENUE & 30TH STREET, NEW YORK 1912 All rights reserved THE WILLIAM BELDEN NOBLE LECTURES This Lectureship was constituted a perpetual foundation in Harvard University in 1898, as a memorial to the late William Belden Noble of Washington, D. C. (Harvard, 1885). The terms as revised by the founder and accepted by the President and Fellows of Harvard College, November 26, 1906, provided that the lectures shall be delivered annually, and, if convenient, in the Phillips Brooks House during the season of Advent. It is left with the Corporation to determine the number of lectures. Each lecturer shall have ample notice of his appointment, and the publication of each course of lectures is required. The purpose of the Lectureship will be further seen in the following citation from the deed of gift by which it was established: "The object of the founder of the Lectures is to continue the mission of William Belden Noble, whose supreme desire it was to extend the influence of Jesus as the way, the truth, and the life; to make known the meaning of the words of Jesus, ‘I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.' In accordance with the large interpretation of the Influence of Jesus by the late Phillips Brooks, with whose religious teaching he in whose memory the Lectures are established and also the founder of the Lectures were in deep sympathy, it is intended that the scope of the Lectures shall be as wide as the highest interests of humanity. With this end in view, the perfection of the spiritual man and the consecration by the spirit of Jesus of every department of human character, thought, and activity, the Lectures may include philosophy, literature, art, poetry, the natural sciences, political economy, sociology, ethics, history, both civil and ecclesiastical, as well as theology and the more direct interests of the religious life. Beyond a sympathy with the purpose of the Lectures, as thus defined, no restriction is placed upon the lecturer.” |