Hulsean Lectures for 1820 Author:Christopher Benson General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1820 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: APPENDIX. As I have been induced to publish these Introductory Discourses, before the remainder of the series to which they belong, principally by a desire of directing the attention of those, who are officially or personally interested in Mr. Hulse's Will, to a consideration of the provisions in which he requires the printing of the whole of the Sermons delivered annually by the Christian Preacher or Lecturer, I have taken the liberty of inserting in this Appendix a few additional remarks upon that subject. I have no desire whatever of shrinking from the duties attached to the situation I hold, should it be deemed adviseable, after mature deliberation, to continue them in their present form and extent. My only anxiety is, that it should be carefully examined and decided, whether some alteration, either in their form or extent, may not be judicious and possible ; and what the nature of that alteration ought properly to be, in order topreserve, if not increase, the advantages of the office in a religious and literary point of view There appear to be three different methods of modifying the provisions of Mr. Hulse. First, it may be done by absolutely reducing the number of Sermons, to be both preached and printed, from twenty down to twelve or ten'; in which case the Lecturer would be able to devote a greater portion of his time and attention to their composition, and by labour in writing and condensation of thought, be enabled to render his ideas at once more clear and forcible. A second method which suggests itself, is, that of leaving the number of Sermons to be preached unaltered, and making a chan...« less