New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-12-28
IS LYMAN ABBOTT 4 UNITARIAN'
TIE REV. JOHN ". CHADWICK COMMENTS o.
THE PLYMOUTH PAsTOR'S RECENT
I.TuERANCES.

THE REV. JOHN ". CHADWICK COMMENTS on
THE PLYMOUTH PAsToRs RECENT
UTTERANCES.
The recent address Of DR.. Lyman Abbott before the
Unitarian Club in Boston. which unsupported 50
that he made o. say that he did not believe IN the
divinity Of Christ formed the theme Of the Rev.
John W. Chadwick's discourse In the Second Unitarian
Church, Brooklyn, yesterday morning. Mr. Chnd-
vick's subject was Progress In Theology He said
that there had not been before any such simple,
frank straightforward statement Of the progressive
orthodox POSITION that made by Or. Abbott, Whose
address vas published I'm null In The Christian Reg
stor7 OF December L. and ought 10 be read 10y every
earnest and intelligent Unitarian. After giving a fil
summary Of DR.. AbLott's address. Mr. Chadwick said
in substance:
For those ~ you who haze clear conception q "a"
old theology there it'll need tha should uIi-si" how
widely Dr. Abbott has swung lice tccuu. Whenever he
saw. eve do believe 9ad s" 10 make, Tie df'T-
.nce clear 'or thing beloved H.. IN almost every
case. doctrine OF The old theology. Ih' arbitrary
sovereignty Of tod the demand, - htniir justice IN The
punishment OF eternal hcl Of suffering for sn 4:
the imputation ~ Adams ~" lnhlHuiltV of thr
Bible The deity christ the VcaFious stOncment
Of oes-aI t-.e swept away as frankly and ~
unr,seryedy by Uu1-an Of the present uneuurh
more FRANKLY unresofycfy than BY ne rnafian> Of
former generation. IL would think Dc ~ eNageefaon
10 sav that the present orthodoxy 81 Dr. Abbott II u D..
crhOoNy j. - per cent none progressive and more radical
Than the UnarlaulSiu ~ the majority q u"-c who b"r
u the great controversy ia Amtf'a RON l-l'
Ia 1880 They much ardent So, I'urai't' Than
he. they believed In tie irnirniy 81 The B.he; ucy
would have thought b., dotunc u The a'on"m'nt IN
,crpturs. no" about BIZ doctrine 81 ia" divinity ~
Jesus Christ-for v' perceive that 10 III divinity
onG not deity that ~ Abbott ar-l IL would havt
been esteemed entirely iIshclcnt and hcf9tcI ~ the
great III lority Of easiy American ULUta". thr'' Wa
for them n supefang.lic beng. d. AAbotts Doctrine
hat he Wa a pcricc. whom OTHER nay become
like wa stan far below the horizon u their thought It
WIS Unitarian hctesy II lroa ned In Francis
W Newran, Phase, Of FI,h" he dc,'rbcs A. "a ncw
doct,ncn among Unitarian. (ths about MY years
ago what va, precisely the doctrine which DR.. Abbott
the orthodoxy OF hin OH and ohcfs
This nay help Dr. NVbott discover whether ha 5, =
Unitarian or His leading doctrine radical I'm,
taran'm thirty to NIFTY years ago It l. conservative
Jnithriini-n nov.
Mr. Chadwick also referred Ia tho address Of DR..
A. p Peabody, Il conservative or ouhod1X Unitarian.
who followed Dr. Abbott at the Unitarian Club IN Dos
ton and gave general assent 10 DR.. Abbotrs expOi
ton in doing sO Dr. Peabody said "CDn,t seems 10
me the representative 81 all the divine that be rep
resented in man. Dissenting from this, Mr. Chad
wick soid
Dut how much there is Of God that cannot De repre-.
sented In man M your and the stars Of
night looS upon The wonders u the Timing world
consider great system Of relations that brings oil times
aud spaces into harmonious unity all, IN short TINT
science end d'scOursing With the Dauty Of the
world have uade known Of outward things. and H.
becomes Of inldou, TO think sp"nk of God
az p.fccty manifested IN perfect man who came and
went knowledge OF all the swarming millions
Of mankind except d Jew who knew him for A few short
year, I'm Galcr Jud"a. / lave thought that some
thing Of the divine represented in The genius of the
great ntrs and poet aud musicians and inventors and
aygycrs discovers have thought that something
~ IT, WAS r resented ~ parental by which Jesus
named the Eternal Goodnss, but which he dd no. mani
fe,. in III. own b,autifu and iy he. have even
thought that all the and the goodness Of man
Mind rcprs ntanvc OF the Infinite Goodne-, Of God
ard hat when all q this added the Of the
outward world must sin 10, thc>" part, Of
III, wa,s bqt how little is yet known OF Him"