The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-10-23

New York, October 22.-Dr. Lyman Abbott, editor in chief of the Out look. with which he had been associ- ated nearly 40 years, clergyman lawyer, author and successor to Henry Ward-Beecher as pastor Of Plymouth church. Brooklyn. died to- day. He would have been s7 next December. When the end came his four sons and two daughters were at the bedside.
 pr. Abbott suffered a severe attack of bronchitis at his country home in Cornwall-on-the- Hudson. last sum mer, from which he never fully re- covered. He returned to his city home two weeks ago.
 The Rev. Lyman Abbott. D. D. was one of the most active leaders in many avenues of religious and civic thought in the United States. As preacher editor, author and theologian he exhibited quality of character which impressed itself on all who came in contact with him, singular boise and serenity of spirit.
 In his early youth. after gradua- tion from the Uniyehsity of the City of New York, he studied law and was admitted to the bar, and after wards practiced in partnership with his brothers. Benjamin V. and Austin Abbott. Giving up the law for the- ology. he studied for the ministry of the Congregational church, with his uncle, s. c. Abbott. and was ordained at Pennington, Me, in 1860. His first charge was in Terre Haute, Ind, where he reamined five years.
 As editor of the Christian Union, which was later to be known as The Outlook. his work, in association with that of the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, marked him as a man of great prom ise and one who saw religion, not too narrowly eonventionalized, but overlapping and spiritualizing many of the social and civil problems of the time.
 After the death of Mir. Beeeher. pr. Abbott became pastor of Plymouth church, in Brooklyn, where his pre- decessor had earned fame as one of the foremost pulpit orators In. Amer ica. He was installed in Plymouth church January 16. 1890, and re- mained in charge until 1899, when he resigned. He published a life of Henry Ward Beecher and volume of his sermons.
 Associated With Roosevelt
 In pr. Abbott's work as editor Of the Outlook, in which he was associ- ated in his long career with many famous men, including Theodore Roosevelt, he sought to interpret the different orders of political organiza- tions from the Christian viewpoint.
 Those who were near him during this part of his life say that ex- traordinary working power was one of his chief characteristics. Moder- ation and sanity were the chief notes of his temperament and attitude. He commanded attention by his trans parent sincereity and by gift of clear persuasive statement
 The range of Dr. Abbott's connec- tion with civic enterprise was very wide; he had intimate association with betterment work in many fields. He held office in at least a score of organizations for city, state and na- tional, and even international reform, and was actively interested in many others, including societies for child, civil and prison reform. charity or ganizations forestry associations and the American Red Cross society.
 Dr. Abbott was known not only to his friends and co-workers but to the public IS well, as rational optimist; one who sees clearly present obsta- cles and evils, but is confident that the creative forces in society are making for the freedom and happi- ness of man, and must prevail.
 Wrote Novels
 The ardor for spiritual achieve ment kept him always at high points