LYMAN B. was b. at New Haven, Conn., U. S., Oct., 1775. Ile devoted himself to theology; and after holding the pastorate of Congregationalist churches at Litchfield and at Boston, he was in 1832 appointed president of the newly founded Lane theologi cal seminary near Cincinnati.. lie died at Brooklyn in Jan., 1863. lie was a powerful preacher and platform orator.—His sou EDWARD, b. in 1804, became distinguished as a theologian.—Another son, HENRY WARD B., was b. at Litchfield, Conti., in 1813. and after graduating at Amherst college, Connecticut, studied theology under his father at Lane seminary. After ten years' pastorship of two churches in the state of Indiana, he removed to Plymouth church, Brooklyn, N. Y., " an organization of Orthodox Congre gational believers," where he still remains. He is said to have the largest congregation In the United States, and his popularity as a pulpit speaker and as a lecturer speedily.
became prodigous—owing partly to his rich fund of illustration, his dramatic manner, and his keen sense of humor. For nearly 20 years B. was editor of the .,1 ex York Inde pendent, a religious newspaper; in 1870 he became editor of the Christian Union, a similar publication. Intense interest was shown when in 1875 B. was tried for adultery. The jury were unable to agree on a verdict, the majority inclining to acquit him. B.'s. influence is said hardly to have suffered, and the fidelity of his congregation is unshaken. His sermons known as the Plymouth Pulpit, his Lectures to Young Alen. Life Thoughts, Life of Christ, and Yale Lectures in Preaching, have been largely read here and at home. He has visited Europe twice, last in 1664.