ABBOTT, EDWARD: Protestant Episcopalian;
b. at Farmington, Me., July 15, 1841. He was
educated at the University of the City of New York
(B.A., 1860) and at Andover Theological Seminary
(1860-62; did not graduate). In 1862-63 he was an
agent of the United States Sanitary Commission,
and in the latter year was ordained to the Congregational
ministry. Two years later he founded
the Stearns Chapel Congregational Church (now
the Pilgrim Church) at Cambridge, Mass., of which
he was pastor four years. In 1872-73 he was chaplain
of the Massachusetts Senate. In 1879 he was
ordered deacon in the Protestant Episcopal Church,
and priested in 1880, his parish being that of St.
James, Cambridge, which he still holds. He refused
the proffered missionary bishopric of Japan in 1889.
At various times he has been a member of the
Board of Visitors of Wellesley College, trustee of
the Society for the Relief of the Widows and Orphans
of Clergymen of the Protestant Episcopal
Church, director and president of the Associated
Charities of Cambridge, vice-dean and dean of the
Eastern Convocation of the Diocese of Massachusetts,
president of the Cambridge Branch of the
Indian Rights Association, member of the Missionary
Council of the Protestant Episcopal Church,
secretary of the Standing Committee of the Diocese
of Massachusetts, member of the Provisional
Committee on Church Work in Mexico, president
of the Indian Industries League, president of the
Cambridge City Mission, and has been active in
other religious and philanthropic movements. His
theological position is that of the Broad Church,
sympathizing neither with the extreme of medievalism
nor higher criticism. In 1869-78 he was
associate editor of the Boston
Congregationalist,
and was joint proprietor and editor of the
Boston Literary World
from 1877 to 1888, again editing it
in 1895-1903. His principal works are
The Baby's
Things : A Story in Verse
(New York, 1871);
Paragraph History of the United States
(Boston, 1875);
Paragraph History of the American Revolution
(1876);
Revolutionary Times
(1876);
History of
Cambridge
(1880);
Phillips Brooks
(Cambridge,
1900); and
Meet for the Master's Use : An Allegory (1900).
ABBOTT, EDWIN ABBOTT: Church of England,
author and educator, b. in London Dec. 20,
1838. He studied at St. John's College, Cambridge
(B.A., 1861), where he was elected fellow in 1862.
He was assistant master at King Edward's School,
Birmingham, in 1862-64, and at Clifton College in
the following year, while from 1865 to 1889 he was
headmaster at City of London School. He was
Hulsean lecturer at Cambridge in 1876 and select
preacher at Oxford in the succeeding year. His
works include
Bible Lessons
(London, 1872);
Cambridge Sermons
(1875);
Through Nature to
Christ
(1877);
Oxford Sermons
(1879); the article
Gospels
in the 9th ed. of the
Encyclopadia Britannica; The Common Tradition of the Synoptic
Gospels
(1884; in collaboration with W. G. Rushbrooke);
The Good Voices, or A Child's Guide to
the Bible, and Parables for Children
(1875);
Bacon
and Essex
(1877);
Philochristus
(1878);
Onesimus
(1882);
Flatland, or A Romance of Many Dimensions
(1884);
Francis Bacon, an Account of his Life and
Works
(1885);
The Kernel and the Husk
(1886);
The Anglican Career of Cardinal Newman
(1892);
The Spirit on the Waters
(1897);
St. Thomas of
Canterbury
(Edinburgh, 1898);
Corrections of Mark
Adopted by Matthew and Luke
(1901) ;
From Letter
to Spirit
(1903) ;
Paradosis
(1904) ;
Johannine
Vocabulary, A Comparison of the Words of
the Fourth
Gospel with Those of the Three
(1905); and
Silanus
the Christian
(1906).
