Excerpt from The Church and the Plain Man
1. This lectureship shall be called the Moorhouse Lectureship, in memory of the Australian episcopate of the Right Rev. James Moorhouse, D.D., St. John"s College, Cambridge, Bishop of Melbourne, 1876-1886.
2. The annual income of the lectureship shall be the interest upon a sum of ?2,000 held in trust by the Trusts Corporation of the Diocese of Melbourne for this purpose.
3. No lecturer shall hold the office more than twice, and at least ten years shall elapse between the first and second tenure. Any one in Holy Orders in the Church of England at home or abroad, or in a Church in communion with her, shall be eligible for election.
4. The electors shall be the Bishops of the metropolitan sees of Australia and Tasmania and the Primate of New Zealand; and the Archbishop of Melbourne shall hold the office of chairman.
5. The subjects of the lecture shall be (1) the defence and confirmation of the Christian faith as declared in the Apostles" and Nicene Creeds; (2) questions bearing upon the history and authority of the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments; and (3) the social aspects of the Christian faith in their widest application.
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