Lyman Abbott | The Nation

It is a not infrequent remark in Washington that the city has seen little recently of Dr. Lyman Abbott, Christian missionary, who used to put in an appearance whenever public affairs had taken any particularly striking turn. Dr. Abbott began life as a lawyer, he was soon graduated from the bar into the pulpit, taking for his initial charge a Congregational church in a small Indiana town, just as his fellow, New Englander, Lyman Beecher's most famous son, had done before him. May be, the view he obtained in that profession of the moral weaknesses of mankind turned his face towards the ministry.