The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1890-02-01
BROADBRIMS n. Y. LETTER


sensation than the installation Of Doctor
Abbott at Plymouth Church In Brooklyn,
and the ordination Of Mr.. Bliss, Doctor
Abbott's assistant, which took place last
week.
As was expected, the gathering was a
great one. No sectional lines hedged It In.
Stout defenders Of John CALVIN and John
Knox stood side by side With the disciples
Uf John Wesley and Summarized; admirers
of Charming and Theodore Parker found
themselves In friendly converse with the
most deYeut of Trinitarlans, while Open
Communion and Hard-Shel Baptists for
got their differences for the time, seeming
TO regard the occasion as a sort Of general
amnesty or Jubilee, where the sectarian
fences we're all broken down and every
body was privileged to room where he
pleased In everybody else's pasture.
AndoYer was out ln full force; Yale had
sent number of representatives; Harvard
was right behind her; good old Princeton
occupied foremost seat, en- the Wesleyn
University had a halfdozen graduates
among the CoSncil.
The grand old Episcopal church was re-
presented bY the towering form Of Philips
Brooks of Boston, the Rev. DIR. Donald,
and two others nearly as famous. Two
men were notably absent, DR.. Charles A.
Hull, of Holy Trinity, the Episcopal clergy
man, who was Mr.. Beecher's lifelong
friend and who preached his funeral
sermon, and DR.. Richard S. StorrsS, the
lion of the tribe of Judah, the honored
pastor Of the Church Of Pilgrims and the
greatest living Congregational clergyman.
The right hand Of the fellowship had not
been extended to him by the invitation
committee and his presence was greatly
missed. Neither death nor the grave
could condone the offence of which Ply
mouth claimed DIR. Storrs had been guilty
at the trial Of their beloved pastor decade
and half ago. Will that ill-starred ghost
never 60 downp
Everybody was eulogistic Of Mr.. Beecher.
Doctor Meredith, the Moderator, spoke Of
him in terms of the greatest affection,
and his sentiments were re-echoed by all
who followed him. They all appeared TO
have forgotten that years before bis death
he had stamped out the lines that mark
the boundaries of modern evangelical be-
lief. and that the doctrine of the Trinity
and eternal punishment had long been
eliminated from his teachings. The SEN
sation began when DR.. Abbott was called
upon for declaration Of faith. Now II
DR.. Abbott possesses one quality which ia
superior to anV other, 1t is straightforward.
ness, and as the declaration proceeded II
was evident that the bread which Mr.
Beecher had cast upon the waters when
DIR. Abbott was a neophyte beneath his
preaching, was returning after many days.
BaptistS, Nethodists and sound old
CalVinistS began to look doubtingly at each
other and shake their heads; here and
there some reverend member quietly tool
up his hat and edged towards the door
The Rev. Dr. Mcleod. Of the Clinton
Avenue Congregational Church, made q
bee-iine for the street, nor stopped till hI
reached the quiet of his own study, fol
fear the vote of endorsement might bt
called before he got out, for he was salts
fed that II man was not . Trinltarian
which he thought DR.. Abbott was not
that he must be a Unitarian, and as thert
was no provision made for eternal punish
ment in that form of faith, he did no
want, by stopping, to give 1t even = quail
fed endorsement. When DR.. Abbott wa
asked if Plymouth Church held itsel
amenable to the Congregational Council
he firmly but courteously told them tha
Plymouth Church was abundantly able h
take care Of its own affairs, and was quit
willing that every church In tie Worl'
should have the same privilege.
When Mr.. Bliss. the assistant pastor
made his declaration, he set the who'll
Council hunting their classical lexicons
When he had finished, they felt they ha,
much fine mental food for reflection ol
hand, but as 1t was not easily digested
they took the night to consider it. Ply
mouth church is perfectly satisfied will
her new pastor-Mr. Abbott is delighte
with Plymouth, and 1t was pretty eviden
to those present, that hereafter IS hereto
fore, Plymouth church iS going to be
law unto Itself.
A most interesting feature Of the council
was the presence Of the Rev. Edwar
Beecher, who preached the installation
sermon for his great brother between fort
and hftY years ago. Ripe in learning
; venerable with age, it Is only short tim
: since he lost one of his limbs in railroA
accident. The terrible operation throug
which he passed would hAYe killed many
younger man, but sustained by that in
: domitable Beecher will, he sat through tn
council, and added greatly by his prssenc
to the interest of the occasion.
At last, It seems that the Stewart vii
case Is settled, and the published report
state that Hilton has got the lions share @
the estate. At Mrs. Stewards death h
brought her in debt to himself nearly
! million of dollars; this, 1t is said, he fol
? gives the heirs, or In other words th
/ million is not to be taken out of thei
shares. Here seems to be q very clea
statement of the whole affair; A. I
. Stewart died, and left Judge Hilton wh
was his legal adviser, million of dollars /
cold cash. Mrs. Stewart NIKE Cornell
Finch, at the time Of her husbands deatt
was q weak old woman between sixty an
. seventy During her husbands life sb
( never had much intercourse with the worlC
E and knew nothing Of business. JudR
, Hilton assumed charge of her affairs, an
, taking the million that her husband ha
E given him induced her 10 deed to hil
e properties worth between thirty and fort
I millions of dollars, all irst-class paving IL
: Vestments, and then set himself IN Wort