The Merrick Lectures
By the gift of the late Rev. Frederick Merrick, M. D., D. D., LL. D., for fifty-one years a member of the Faculty, and for thirteen of those years President of Ohio Wesleyan University, a fund was established providing an annual income for the purpose of securing lectures within the general field of Experimental and Practical Religion. The following courses have previously been given on this foundation:
Daniel Curry, D. D.—“Christian Education.”
President James McCosh, D. D., LL. D.—“Tests of the Various Kinds of Truth.”
Bishop Randolph S. Foster, D. D., LL. D.—“The Philosophy of Christian Experience.”
Professor James Stalker, D. D.—“The Preacher and His Models.”
John W. Butler, D. D.—“Mission Work in Mexico.”
Professor George Adam Smith, D. D., LL. D.—“Christ in the Old Testament.”
Bishop James W. Bashford, Ph. D., D. D., LL. D.—“The Science of Religion.”
James M. Buckley, D. D., LL. D.—“The Natural and Spiritual Orders and Their Relations.”
John R. Mott, M. A., F. R. G. S.—“The Pastor and Modern Missions.”
Bishop Elijah E. Hoss, D. D., LL. D.; Professor Doremus A. Hayes, Ph. D., S. T. D., LL. D.; Charles E. Jefferson, D. D., LL. D.; Bishop William F. McDowell, D. D., LL. D.; President Edwin H. Hughes, D. D.—“The New Age and Its Creed.”
Robert E. Speer, M. A.—“The Marks of a Man, or The Essentials of Christian Character.”
Rev. Charles Stelzle, Miss Jane Addams, Commissioner of Labor Charles P. Neill, Ph. D., Professor Graham Taylor, and Rev. George P. Eckman, D. D.—“The Social Application of Religion.”
Rev. George Jackson, M. A.—“Some Old Testament Problems.”
Professor Walter Rauschenbusch, D. D.—“Christianizing the Social Order.”
Professor G. A. Johnston Ross, M. A.—“One Avenue of Faith.”