New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-11-23
=, sroRRs AND DIR. TAYLOR IGNORED.
~Hr CHURCHES AND cLERGYMEN TO BE IN
yITED TO THE INSTALLATION OF
ND VIVIAN ABBOTT

DR. LYMAN ABBOTT.
Plymouth Church took a decided step forward last
coming IN the matter Of calling the Congrc gatonal
oouncil 10 install Dr. Lyman Abbott and his as
sstant tho Rev Mr.. Bliss by deciding upon the list
AZ churches and ministers to be invited. AS was gen.
orally expected Dr. Storrs, Of Brooklyn, and DR.
Taylor of this city, and their respective churches
were quietly ignored Nearly all the other leadinI
Congregational churches Of the two cities and those
Of BOSTON Cambridge Hartford Worcester and New
Haven were included in the list selected, toeepei
with number OF eminent clereymcn In choosiis
tho latter, UNCONVENTIONAL lines werc ignored anu
presbyerians, Baptsts Protestant Epscopahahs an.
Methodist Ep'scopalians. well as Cons'es'''OH"i
lists. were included, giving the council fcpio''"'"
tive character 49,. u,
The meeting was presided by Stephen V
vh,,o -rhornes q sherman presented the unani
,rous rcnor, Of the committee Of eleven entrusted
with the matter saying that they had uhanlmousiS
agcod ur,on the list Of churches ana ministers 10 Ok
Invited b,+ recommended that smauer committee
dra4, the l.t,ermissive and complete the arrange
.,o,ts Gov holding the council in conjunction with
like committee from the society' Inc lono"ins Oon
.caeonal churches and pastors are included in The
lst reported
In prookIvn Rochester Avenue. DR.. J. b. Roberts
ror,nhns Avenue. Or. r. r. Meredith Park, the
Raw J W. Malcolm; Central, DR.. A. j. f. Behrends
New.England, the Rev. E. P. Thomas Clinton Avenue
the Rev. T. Il. Mcleod; Tabernacle tho Rev. s. b.
Halliday Puritan, DR.. Z. P. Ingsrsol; and the East,
without a pastor. In New-YOrk Trinity. Dr. "A NJ.
Wilton; and Central the Rev. WIN am Lloyd. Also
the First Church of jersey City the Rev John Scudder
The Montclar y. j., Church. the Rev. A. II. Bradford
the stamford. Conn., Church, the Rev Samuel ScOvilBs
The United Church of New-Haven. the Rev 7. T
Murger. In Hartford, the Asylum Hill Church, the
Rev Joseph H. Twichell: and the First Church. the
Rev George L. Walker The NV Britain. Conn.
Church, the Rev. W. p. Wright the First Church o.
Boston. the Rev. Georg, Gordon the First Church. o.
Cambridge Mass, the Rev. Alexander Mckenzie; the
ri dmont Church. of Worcester. Mass, the Rev. D.
Mesrs
The following individual ministers: Dr. Edward
Beecher of Brooklyn President Timothy Dwight eN
President Noah Porter, and Professor George 2. sher
Of Yale University Professor W. J. Tucker. o
Andover Seminary DR.. Henry NJ. solrs, 0
Orange n. j.; Or. c. f. Robinson. OF scran
S. Hastings, of Union Theological Seminary; d.
Charles II. Parkhurst, OF New-Yorh and the Rev
Charles Cuthbet Hall, of Brooklyn, Presbyteiians
Or. Thomas Armitago, OF New-York. Baptist; ID
Charles Horny Hall, OF Brooklyn, and DR.. f. VIII
chester Donald, OF New York, Episcopallans, and ID
George E. Reed president Of Dickinson College,
Carlisle, Penn, Methodist
posely gone outside of COngregauonalism because IN
spirit OF Plymouth Church was not bounded by d'
nominatona lines. The report was adopted wiihOu
nittec of three composed of T. c. Sherman, T. !
Tilney and a. D. WheeOck, was appointed 10 TAX
the further steps I'm calling the council, he cato
which is not yet fixed.