The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1922-10-23
LYMAN ABBOTT,
WIDELY KNOWN
EDITOR, DIES
Head of Outlook Also Known
AS Clergyman, Author
And Preacher
WAS 81 YEARS OLD
Never Fully Recovered From
Severe Attack of Bronchitis
Suffered in Summer
WAS. 81 YEARS OLD

New York, Oct 2.--Dr. Lyman, edi-
tor-in-chief Of the Outlook, with
which he had been associated nearly
40 years; clergyman, lawyer, author
and successor to Henry Ward Beech
er as pastor of the Plymouth church,
died yesterday. He would have been
81 years old in December.
Dr.. Abbott suffered severe at
tack of bronchitis last summer from
which he never fully recovered.
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 theolo-
gan he exhibited quality of the
character which impressed itself on
all who came in contact with him, a
singular poise and serenity of spirit.
In his early youth, after gradual
tion from the University of the city
Of New York, he studied law and was
admitted to the bar, and afterwards
practised 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 ordain-
ed at Pennington, Me-, in 1860. His
first charge was in Terre Haute, Ind,
where he remained 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 man of
great promise and one who saw re-
ligion, not too narrowly convention
allied, but overlapping and spirit
ualizing many of the social and civil
problems of the time.
s Pastor of Plymouth Church.
After the death Of Mr.. Beecher, Dr..
Abbott became pastor of Plymouth
church, in Brooklyn, where his pred
ecessor had earned fame as one Of
the foremost pulpit orators in Amer
lea. He was installed in Plymouth
church January 16, 1890, and remain
ed in charge until 1899, when he re-
signed. He published a life of Henry
Ward Beecher and volume of his
sermons.
In Dr.. Abbott's work as editor Of
the Outlook, in which he was asso-
ciated in his long career with many
famous men, including Theodore
Roosevelt, he sought to interpret the
different orders Of political organi-
cations from the Christian viewpoint.
Those who were near him during
this part Of his lifr say that extra
ordinary working power was one of
his chief characteristics. Modera-
ton and sanity were the chief notes
of his temperament and attitude. He
commanded attention by his trans
parent sincerity and by gift of
clear persuasive statement.
The range of DR.. Abbott's connec-
ton with civic enterrises was very
wide; he had intimate association
with betterment work in many fields.
He held Office in at least score of
organizations for city, state and ma
tional, and even international re-
form, and was actively interested In
many others, including societies for
child, civil and prison reform, char
ity organizations, forestry associa-
tions and the American Red Cross
Society.
Rational Optimist.
DR.. Abbott was known not only to
his friends and co-workers but to the
public as we'll, as rational optimist;
one who sees clearly present obsta-
cles and evils, but is confident that
the creative forcek in society are
making for the freedom and happi-
ness Of man, and must prevail.
The ardor for spiritual achieve
ment kept him always at high points
of observation and explains in a
measure the harmony he was able to
establish between himself and his
work, which was prodigious for a
man of slight physique and small
muscular strength.
Before starting on what might be
called his ministerial career, he, in
collaboration with his brother, wrote
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