THE BISHOP PADDOCK LECTURES 



In the summer of the year 1880, George A. Jarvis, 

 of Brooklyn, New York, moved by his sense of the 

 great good which might thereby accrue to the cause 

 of Christ, and to the Church of which he was an ever- 

 grateful member, gave to the General Theological 

 Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church certain 

 securities, exceeding in value eleven thousand dollars, 

 for the foundation and maintenance of a lectureship 

 in said seminary. 



Out of love to a former pastor and enduring friend, 

 the Right Reverend Benjamin Henry Paddock, D.D., 

 Bishop of Massachusetts, he named the foundation 

 ''The Bishop Paddock Lectureship." 



The deed of trust declares that — 



" The subjects of the lectures shall be such as appertain to 

 the defence of the religion of Jesus Christ, as revealed in the 

 Holy Bible, and illustrated in the Book of Common Prayer j 

 against the varying errors of the day, whether materialistic, 

 rationalistic, or professedly religious, and also to its defence 

 and confirmation in respect of such central truths as the 

 Trinity, the Atonement, Justification, and the Inspiration of 

 the Word of God ; and of such central facts as the Church's 

 Divine Order and Sacraments, her historical Reformation, and 

 her rights and powers as a pure and national Church. And 

 other subjects may be chosen if unanimously approved by the 

 Board of Appointment as being both timely and also within 

 the true intent of this Lectureship." 



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