ABBOTT, LYMAN: American Congregationalist;
b. at Roxbury, Mass., Dec. 18, 1835. He was
educated at New York University (B.A., 1853),
and after practising law for a time was ordained a
minister in the Congregational Church in 1860.
He was pastor in Terre Haute, Ind., from 1860
to 1865, after which he held the pastorate of the
New England Church, New York City, for four
years, resigning to devote himself to literary work.
In 1888 he succeeded Henry Ward Beecher as pastor
of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, but resigned in
1898. He was secretary of the American Union
Commission from 1865 to 1869, and later was a member
of the New York Child Labor Committee and
of the National Child Labor Committee. Among
other societies, he is a member of the Bar Association
of New York, New York State Historical
Association, National Conference of Charities and
Correction, Indian Rights Association, New York
Association for the Blind, Association for Improving
the Condition of the Poor, The Religious Education
Association, American Board of Commissioners
for Foreign Missions, American Institute of Sacred
Literature, American Peace Society, New York
State Conference of Religion, and the Universal
Peace Union. His theological position is that of a
Congregationalist of the Liberal Evangelical type.
In addition to editing the " Literary Record " of
Harper's Magazine, he
edited
The Illustrated Christian Weekly
(1871-76) and since 1876
The Christian Union
(with Henry Ward Beecher till 1881;
name changed to
The Outlook,
1893). He has
written
Jesus of Nazareth
(New York, 1869);
Old Testament Shadows of New Testament Truth
(1870);
Illustrated Commentary on the New Testament
(New
York, 1875);
Dictionary of Religious Knowledge
(Boston, 1876; in collaboration with T. J. Conant);
How to Study the Bible
(1877);
In Aid of Faith
(New York, 1886);
Evolution of Christianity
(Boston,
1896);
The Theology of an Evolutionist
(1897);
Christianity and Social Problems
(1897);
Life and
Letters of Paul
(1898);
Problems of Life
(New York,
1900);
Life and Literature of the Ancient Hebrews
(Boston, 1900);
The Rights of Man
(1901);
Henry
Ward Beecher
(1903);
The Other Room
(New York,
1903);
The Great Companion
(1904);
Christian
Ministry
(Boston, 1905);
Personality of God
(New
York, 1905); and
Industrial Problems
(Philadelphia, 1905).
ABBOTT, THOMAS KINGSMILL: Church of
Ireland, author and professor; b. at Dublin Mar.
26, 1829. He was educated at Trinity College,
Dublin (B.A., 1851; M.A., 1856; B.D., 1879),
where he was elected fellow in 1854. From 1867
to 1872 he was professor of Moral Philosophy at
Trinity College, of Biblical Greek from 1875 to
1888, and of Hebrew from 1879 to 1900, and has
also been librarian of the College since 1887. He
has been chairman of the Governors of Sir P. Dun's
Hospital since 1897. In theology he is a Broad
Churchman. His works include
Sight and Touch,
an Attempt to Disprove the Berkleyan Theory of
Vision
(Dublin, 1864);
Par palimpsestorum Dublinensium
(1880);
Elements of Logic
(1883);
Evangeliorum
versio Antihieronymiana
(2 vols., 1884);
Theory of the Tides
(1888);
Celtic Ornaments from
the Book of Kells
(1892);
Notes on St. Paul's
Epistles
(1892);
Essays, Chiefly on the Original
Texts of the Old and New Testaments
(Edinburgh,
1897 );
Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Library of
Trinity College, Dublin
(Dublin, 1900); and
Catalogue
of Incunabula in the Library of Trinity College,
Dublin (1905),
in addition to
Kant's Theory of Ethics,
a translation (1873).
