The sun., 1908-03-26
DEATH Or DR.. CUTHDERT HALL
AFTER 4 SEVERE OPERATION
DONE WITH LITTLE NOPE,

President OF Onion Theological Seminary
, Contracted In India q Tropical Fever
With Assesses OF the Lyer-Distln'
EulShed as Pastor. Lecturer and AutnOr
The Rev. DR.. Charles Cuthbert Hall,
president Of Union Theological Seminary,
| died at his home. 40 Fast Seventieth street
early yesterday morning. He. had been
operated upon on Tuesday afternoon-the
last OF several operations and the severest --
for an abscess on the back Of the liver He
recovered consciousness after the operation.
, but no hope was held out for his life, Dr..
! Hall had been In poor health since his re-
! turn from India. where he had been on
lectunng tour as BarTows professor OF the
University Of Chicago. The abscess from
which he died is characteristic Of tropical
! fever,
Charles Cuthbert Hall was born IN this
! city September 3, 1852. the son Of a druggist.
! In 1868 he entered Williams College, from
which he was graduated in 1872. He entered
Union Theological Seminary that year, and
I after taking his junior and middle years
/ there was licensed to preach.
In the autumn OF 1874 he went abroad,
attending lectures at the Presbyterian Col
| lege in London and the Free Church College
| in Edinburgh. He returned TO this country
! in the summer Of 1875 and accepted a call
| to the Union Presbyterian Church in New
! burgh as the successor to the Rev. Wendell
Prime who had resigned TO cooperate with
! his father. DR., lrenaeus Prime, as editor
! Of the Neu York Obserrer.
/ DR.. Hall was ordained and installed at
Newburgh in December. 1875. He remained
| there until 1871, when he went 10 the First
! Presbyterian Church Of Brooklyn There
he served for twenty years, establishing
a high reputation as theologsn and
| preacher He wss next called To the pTesi-
! dency Of Union Theological Seminary he
succeeded the Rev. Or. Thomas 5. Hastings
as head Of that institution.
Or. Hall, in the controversies which
/ beset the church in the days of the famous
| Briggs heresy trial and later in the case
Of Prof. Arthur c. McGihert Of Union Thco-
! logical Seminary, maintained a neutral
! attitude or At least refused to no drawn
! into tho controversies. Dr. Briggs re-
| mained as professor Of Biblical theology
| under DR.. Halls administration even after
| he had been ordained into the Episcopal
ministry. DR. Hall wrote at that time:
THE constitution Of the seminary con-
! tains nothing which Ia infringed by the
| action which DR.. Briggs is about TO lake
and his tenure Of tho chair of Biblical iheol-
! ogy Ia in no wise affected by his entrance
into another branch Of the Christian COM
/ munion.
| Dr. Hall was attacked hy Or. John Fox
| at a meeting Of the Brooklyn Prest yteTy
/ when his acceptance Of tho presidency Of
! Union was announced. DR.. Fox, who was
one Of the most extreme opponents Of DR..
! Briggs, wanted the PresbyteTy to mako a
! critical examination Of Two Of Dr. Halls
! books He regarded them as in some
/ respects nnorthodoX in their tendencies.
! He moved the appointment Of a committee
/ To consider the books but the motion vas
/ tabled by large majority.
! Dr. Hall received his first degree Of doc
! tor Of divinity from New York University
| in 1890 Degrees we're conferred upon him
! hy Harvard Ia 1897, Vale in 1871 and Union
! College In 1905. lie got a LID from
! Union.
Dr.. Hall made two lecture tours in India
| for the University Of Chicago. the first
one being in i9O?-03. He was also a regu-
! lar lecturer al Vanderbilt and Harvard
| universities He is the author OF a number
! Of works, including -Unristap Belief In
terpreted by Christian Experience RE
| deemed Life After Death Universal FL
ments of the Christian Religion Christ
! and the Human Race, The Witness Of
| the Oriental Consciousness Of Jesus Christ. "
! Dr. Hall married Jeanie Stewart Boyd
on August ?, 1871 he is survived by his
! wife and two sons and two daughters.