Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations of the PCUSA

Katherine Fulton Hamilton Memorial Fund

Beneficiary location:

Louisville, KY

Account number: 203100054403

Designated Use

The allocation of the interest to another single woman engaged in evangelistic work shall be determined after conference between Mr. Joseph S. Hamilton during his lifetime [who's now deceased], the Session of the First and Central Presbyterian Church of Wilmington, Delaware, and the Board.This is the 16th day of September 1938:That the convictions and wishes of Mrs. Hamilton may, and shall be carried out, the person so selected must be one who subscribes to and follows in her teachings, the present Doctrinal Statement of the First and Central Presbyterian Church of Wilmington, Delaware, to wit:I. We believe in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments as inspired of God, and inerrant in the original writings, and that they are of supreme and final authority in faith and life.II. We believe in one God existing in three persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, co-equal and eternal.III. We believe that man was created in the image of God, that he sinned, and thereby incurred not only physical death, but also that spiritual death which is separation from God; and that all human beings are born with a sinful nature, and in the case of those who reach moral responsibility, become sinner in thought work and deed.IV. We believe that Jesus Christ was begotten by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary, and it is true God and True Man.V. We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, as a representative and substitutionary sacrifice, and that all that believe in Him are justified on the ground of His shed blood.VI. We believe in the resurrection of the crucified body of our Lord, in his ascension in the heavens and in His present life there for us as High Priest and Advocate.VII. We believe in that blessed hope, the personal and visible return of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.VIII. We believe that all who receive by faith the Lord Jesus Christ are born again of the Holy Spirit, and thereby become children of God.IX. We believe in the eternal security and everlasting blessedness of the saved, and the eternal conscious punishment of the lost.X. We believe that Christ instituted the ordinance of baptism and the Lord's Supper, to be observed until he comes.