New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-01-20
4 NEW BROOKLYN PASTOR.
The Ret. c. S. S. Dutton To Be In
stalled in Second Unitarian Church.

The Rev Caleb Samuel s. Dutton win be In
stalled as minister OF the Second Unitarian
Church. AZ Clinton and Congress streets Brook
lyn. Thursday evening. January "a. at 8
o'clock. The services Will include an invoca-
titon by the Rev. Bernard J. Newman. OF the
Willow Place Chapel; Scripture reading by the
Rev. DR.. William n. Brundage. OF Unity Church;
sermon by the Rev. Thomas r, slicer. OF All
Souls Church. New York: prayer Of installa-
ton by the Rev. Merle 81. Croix Wright, Of thu
Lenox Avenue Unitarian Church: charge 70 the
minister by the Rev. William C. Gannett, Of
Rochester; charge 70 the people by the Rev
Robert Collyer; the right hand Of fellowship
will be given By the Rev. John p Forbes. Of
the Church OF the Saviour. Brooklyn. and the
benedicton VIII be pronounced by Mr.. Dutton-
Two OF the hymns 70 be sung were written by
former ministers of the church. Samuel Long
fellow and John White Chadwick, and q third
has been written for the occasion by A Elmer
son Palmer one Of the trustees OF the church.
Mr.. Dutton was born In Chester England. In
1877. and is now in his thirtieth year. Living
almost in the shadow OF Chester Cathedral he
was for seven years a pupil In Kings School.
and lived at the cathedral He was apparently
destined for the Church. and IN the natural
course OF events would have gone 20 Oxford or
Cambridge. and then taken orders. He came TO
lhis country for the first time with his parents
in the fall Of 1892. and here for a year and
a half. seeing the Columbian Exposition at Chit
cago, and something Of the country. After
turning 10 England he spent two years at the
British Museum, studying Anglo-Saxon Htera-
ture the first year. and EgyptolOgy the second.
In 1897 he again came TO this country, and spent
a year in study in Cambridge and Boston and
In the fall of 1898 he entered the MeadvilIe
Theological School Meadville Penn. While
studying at the British Museum he found his
ties with the Church OF England, IN which he
was reared. weakening. and later he decided to
become Unitarian minister After two years
in Meadville he went again to his native coun-
try. and spent still another year In studying
Egyptology at the British Museum.
In 1901 Mr.. Dutton returned to Meadville and
practically completed the course of study. In
that year he began to preach in Salem. Ohio.
and in the following year settled there min
lister of the church which he had established.
and which was known as Unity Church. He
remained there until last fall. when he accepted
a call to Brooklyn. having received at the same
time two other calls. one from the West and one
from New England.
Mr. Dutton has had considerable experience
in Settlement work. having been actively con-
Nected with Hull House, In Chicago. during the
time he was a student at Meadville and after
going to Salem. At one period he spent six
months at Hull House, for whose headworke-
Miss Jane Adams, he has the highest admira-
ton. In this work he particularly inter
ested in Camp Good Will, a summer camp for
mothers and children, first conducted in the
suburb known as Oak Park and later in Evans
ton. Mr. Dutton was one OF the superintendents
OF this useful fresh air work.
Mr.. Dutton is a man OF pleasing appearance
and attractive and impressive manner Of speech,
ana is student with unusual maturity Of mind.
He has read much and widely, and has fertile
pen While in London he was an occasional
contributor to 1.-THE Saturday Review" He
preached his first sermon as minister OF the
Second Church in Brooklyn on November IS
Shortly before that he married Miss Helen
Wright daughter of professor in Oberlin Col
lege. His own father was long connected, as
was also his grandfather, with the Great West
ern Railway as superintendent and IN other
capacities Mr.. buttons father and mother now
live near Doncaster in Yorkshire, his father
having retired from active business affairs
Mr.. Dutton succeeds IN the passionate OF the
Second Unitarian Church the Rev John White
Chadwick. who In the course Of his long SER
vice with the church was the author Of many
volumes OF prose and poetry. The first meeting
Of the Second Unitarian Society was held at the
Brooklyn Female Academy on April 90, 1851.
The church building was dedicated on March .,
1853. The first minister was the Rev. Samuel
Longfellow, brother OF the poet who was In
stalled on October %. 1858. and resigned on July
l. 1860. His successor was the Rev. Major
Augustus Staples, who was installed ON No
vember 6. 1861. and died on February g. 1864.
The Rev. John White Chadwick. then a student
In the Divinity School at Cambridge, In
1864 invited 70 preach at the church for three
months; before the three months expireF he re-
ceved a regular call. He installed on De-
cenlber II. 1864. and was within ten days OF
his fortieth anniversary when his death occurred.
December IL. l00A