The Brass Foundation vii 



1902 for the best book fulfilling the conditions of 

 the deed of gift, the competing manuscripts to 

 be presented on or before June 1, 1905. The 

 prize was awarded to the Reverend James Orr, 

 D.D., Professor of Apologetics and Systematic 

 Theology in the United Free Church College, 

 Glasgow, for his treatise on "The Problem of the 

 Old Testament," which was published in 1906 

 as Volume III of the Bross Library. The next 

 decennial prize will be awarded about 1915, and 

 will be announced in due time. 



2. The Trustees were also empowered to "se- 

 lect and designate any particular scientific man or 

 Christian philosopher and the subject on which he 

 shall write," and to "agree with him as to the sum 

 he shall receive for the book or treatise to be writ- 

 ten." Under this provision the Trustees have, 

 from time to time, invited eminent scholars to de- 

 liver courses of lectures before Lake Forest Col- 

 lege, such courses to be subsequently published as 

 volumes in the Bross Library. The first course of 

 lectures, on " Obligatory Morality," was delivered 

 in May, 1903, by the Reverend Francis Landey 

 Patton, D.D., LL.D., President of Princeton 

 Theological Seminary. The copyright of these 

 lectures is now the property of the Trustees of the 

 Bross Fund. The second course of lectures, on 

 "The Bible: Its Origin and Nature," was deliv- 

 ered in May, 1904, by the Reverend Marcus 



