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THE EVIDENTIAL VALUE

OF THE

ACTS OF THE APOSTLES

THE EVIDENTIAL VALUE

OF THE

ACTS OF THE APOSTLES

BY THE VERY REV.

J. S. HOWSON, D.D.

DEAN OF CHESTER

Delivered in the Church of the Holy Trinity,
Philadelphia, in April, 1880

BIBLIOTHE

NOV · 80

BODLEIAD

LONDON

WM. ISBISTER, LIMITED

56, LUDGATE HILL

1880

100.

THE JOHN BOHLEN LECTURESHIP.

JOHN BOHLEN, who died in Philadelphia on the 26th day of April, 1874, bequeathed to trustees a fund of One Hundred Thousand Dollars, to be distributed to religious and charitable objects in accordance with the well-known wishes of the testator.

By a deed of trust, executed June 2, 1875, the trustees under the will of Mr. Bohlen transferred and paid over to "The Rector, Church Wardens, and Vestrymen of the Church of the Holy Trinity, Philadelphia," in trust, a sum of money for certain designated purposes, out of which fund the sum of Ten Thousand Dollars was set apart for the endowment of THE JOHN BOHLEN LECTURESHIP, upon the following terms and conditions:

The money shall be invested in good substantial and safe securities, and held in trust for a fund to be called The John Bohlen Lectureship, and the income shall be applied annually to the payment of a qualified person, whether clergyman or layman, for the delivery and publication of at least one hundred copies of two or more lecture sermons. These Lectures shall be delivered at such time and place, in the city of Philadelphia, as the persons nominated to appoint the lecturer shall from time to time determine, giving at least six months' notice to the person appointed to deliver the same, when the same may conveniently be done, and în no case selecting the same person as lecturer a second time within

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