LYMAN

ABBOTT (1835- )  , American divine and author, was born at Roxbury, Massachusetts, on the 18th of December 1835, the son of Jacob Abbott . He graduated at the University of New York in 1853, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1856; but soon abandoned the legal profession, and, after studying theology with his uncle, J . S . C . Abbott, was ordained a minister of the Congregational Church in 186o . He was pastor of a church in Terre Haute, Indiana, in 186o-1865, and of the New England Church in New York City in 1865-1869 . From 1865 to 1868 he was secretary of the American Union (Freedman's) Commission . In 1869 he resigned his pastorate to devote him-self to literature . He was an associate editor of Harper's Magazine, was editor of the Illustrated Christian Weekly, and was co-editor (1876-1881) of The Christian Union with Henry Ward Beecher, whom he succeeded in 1888 as pastor of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn . From this pastorate he resigned ten years later . From 1881 he was editor-in-chief of The Christian Union, renamed The Outlook in 1893; this periodical reflected his efforts toward social reform, and, in theology, a liberality, humanitarian and nearly unitarian . The latter characteristics marked his published works also .

His works include Jesus of

Nazareth (1869) ; Illustrated Commentary on the New Testament (4 vols., 1875) ; A Study in Human Nature (1885); Life of Christ (1894); Evolution of Christianity (Lowell Lectures, 1896) ; The Theology of an Evolutionist (1897) ; Christianity and Social Problems (1897) ; Life and Letters of Paul (1898) ; B.D.S.M . Bene de se merenti . B.F . Bona femina, Bona fides, Bona fortuna, Bonum factum . B.F . Bona femina, Bona filia . B.H . Bona hereditaria, Bonorum heres . B.I . Bonum judicium . B.I.I . Boni judicis judicium .

B.M . Beatae memoriae, Bene merenti . B.N . Bona nostra, Bonum nomen . BN.H.I . Bona hic invenies . B.P . Bona paterna, Bonorum potestas, Bonum publicum . B.Q . Bene quiescat, Bona quaesita . B.RP.N . Bono reipublicae natus .