Excerpt from In a Day of Social Rebuilding: Lectures on the Ministry of the Church The Lyman Beecher Fund in the School of Religion, Yale Uni versity, was established May 2, 1872, by a gift of ten thousand dollars from Henry W. Sage, Esq., then of Brooklyn, New York, in memory of Lyman Beecher, of the Class of 1797, Yale College, who died January 10, 1863. In accordance with the wishes of the donor, this gift was devoted by the Yale Corporation to the establishment of a Foundation to be designated as 'the Lyman Beecher Lectureship on Preaching, ' to be filled from time to time, upon the appointment of the Corporation, by a minister of the Gospel, of any evangelical denomination, who has been markedly successful in the special work of the Christian ministry. With the authorization of the donor, the Corporation, in May, 1882, voted. That henceforth the Lyman Beecher Lecturer shall be invited-to lecture on a branch of pastoral theology or on any other topic appropriate to the work of the Christian ministry. In December, 1893, the donor authorized the Corporation if at any time they should deem it desirable to do so, to appoint a layman instead of a minister to deliver the course of lectures on the Lyman Beecher Foundation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.