The Hartley Lectures
| Year | LECTURER | SUBJECT |
|---|---|---|
| 1897 | J. Ferguson, D.D. | "The Holy Spirit in the Salvation of Men" (delivered, but not published). |
| 1898 | J. Watson, D.D. | "The Fatherhood of God." |
| 1899 | Robert Bryant | "Inspiration and Revelation." |
| 1900 | J. Smith | "Christ and Missions." |
| 1901 | Holliday Bickerstaffe Kendall B.A. | "Christ's Kingdom and Church in the Nineteenth Century." |
| 1902 | R. G. Graham | "The Sabbath : its Grounds, Obligations and Benefits." |
| 1903 | Joseph Odell | "Evangelism as found in the New Testament and in the Present Time." |
| 1904 | Prof. A. S. Peake, M.A. | "The Problem of Suffering in the Old Testament." |
| 1905 | Thomas Mitchell | "Christian Beneficence : its Special Relation to Systematic Giving." |
| 1906 | Henry Yooll | "The Ethics of Evangelicalism." |
| 1907 | J. Day Thompson | "The Doctrine of Immortality in its Present-day Aspects." |
| 1908 | G. Parkin, B.D. | "The New Testament Portrait of Jesus." |
| 1909 | Joseph Ritson | "Romance of Primitive Methodism." |
| 1910 | Robert Hind | "Sin and the Preacher" (Not delivered or published). |
| 1911 | J. Dodd Jackson | "The Message and the Man : a Lecture on Preaching." |
| 1912 | A. L. Humphries, M.A. | "The Holy Spirit in Faith and Experience." |
| 1913 | James Pickett | "The Modern Missionary Crisis." |
| 1914 | F. N. Shimmin | "Permanent Values in Religion." |
| 1915 | J. P. Langham | "The Supreme Quest": or, The Nature and Practice of Mystical Religion." |
| 1916 | No Lecture given owing to the Great War. | |
| 1917 | No Lecture given owing to the Great War. | |
| 1918 | No Lecture given owing to the Great War. |
In 1932 with the amalgamation of the Methodist Churches, the Primitive Methodist Hartley Lecture was combined with the Wesleyan Methodist Fernley Lecture to form the modern day Fernley-Hartley Lectures, which still continue today.
In 1906 the Manchester theological college for training Primitive Methodist ministers was renamed Hartley College, Manchester (later Hartley Victoria College), in recognition of his benefactions. He propagated his ideas in his only published work, The Use of Wealth (n.d.). Uniquely for a layman, he was elected president of the Primitive Methodist conference in 1909. His relative Cephas Hartley was instrumental in reviving Elmfield, the Primitive Methodist college in 1906 (see picture in Booth 1990: 52C).
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