Editing Lyman Abbott (section)

===Death and legacy===
Lyman Abbott died on October 22, 1922, and was [[burial|buried]] in [[Woodlawn Cemetery (New Windsor, New York)|Woodlawn Cemetery]] at [[New Windsor, New York]].

The editors of ''[[The Outlook (New York)|The Outlook]]'' kept their normal routine, publishing without "departure from the normal course of publication" since that was what their departed colleague would have wanted.  The issue asked readers for understanding as the paper "wait[ed] until [the] next week to give to his friends, known and unknown, a record of his life and of the tributes which marked his passing."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=Eem9pK5oIhsC&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&authuser=0&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA360 |title=Outlook 132, no. 9 (November 1, 1922): 360 |access-date=18 December 2012}}</ref>  A brief tribute appeared in that issue, but the November 8th edition contained the official remembrance and tributes.  Fifteen pages in that issue dealt with Abbott, and the publishers included "several long essays in Abbott's honor from close relatives, shorter tributes from friends and past associates, and blurbs from many American press companies."<ref>{{cite web | url=https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6575677/CHAPLAIN%20OF%20PROGRESS-%20%20THE%20ROLE%20OF%20PROGRESS%20AND%20EVOLUTION%20IN%20LYMAN%20ABBOTT%E2%80%99S%20JUSTIFICATION%20FOR%20AMERICAN%20EXPANSION%20IN%201898-1900%20-%20Caleb%20Lagerwey.pdf | title=Chaplain of Progress: The Role of Progress and Evolution in Lyman Abbott's Justification for American Expansion in 1898–1900 | author=Caleb Lagerwey | year=2012 | publisher=Calvin College | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303201920/https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6575677/CHAPLAIN%20OF%20PROGRESS-%20%20THE%20ROLE%20OF%20PROGRESS%20AND%20EVOLUTION%20IN%20LYMAN%20ABBOTT%E2%80%99S%20JUSTIFICATION%20FOR%20AMERICAN%20EXPANSION%20IN%201898-1900%20-%20Caleb%20Lagerwey.pdf | archive-date=March 3, 2016 | df=mdy-all }}, p. 8</ref>

The many diverse and prominent author who contributed tributes "demonstrated the scope and magnitude of Lyman Abbott's influence within American religious and intellectual culture during his long career."<ref>Lagerwey, "Chaplain," 8.</ref>   Prominent examples include a re-published 1915 tribute from former United States president [[Theodore Roosevelt]] and articles from prestigious newspapers such as ''[[The New York Times]]'' and the ''[[New York Herald]]''.  Roosevelt praised Abbott for being "one of those men whose work and life give strength to all who believe in this country," and the New York Herald recalled Abbott's ability to "convey his valuable opinions to the entire intellectual public."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=Eem9pK5oIhsC&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&authuser=0&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA415 |title=Outlook 132, no. 10 (November 8, 1922): 415|access-date=18 December 2012}}</ref> Dr. [[Henry Sloane Coffin]] noted at a later memorial service, "Measured by the number of people he reached, Dr. Abbott was unquestionably the greatest teacher of religion of this generation."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1922/11/01/99092841.pdf |title=Many Honor Memory of Lyman Abbott |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |page=19 |date=November 1, 1922 |access-date=2021-04-27 |archive-date=September 27, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210927125114/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1922/11/01/99092841.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>Lagerwey, "Chaplain," 7–8.</ref>

Abbott's lasting influence and widespread appeal is readily apparent in later evaluations of his life.  Abbott's one biographer, Ira V. Brown, confirmed Abbott's importance via "testimonials by the dozen," and added that Abbott "directly reached several hundred thousands of people" through his work as a "minister, lecturer, author, and editor."<ref name="Brown 240, 2">{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=67HRAAAAMAAJ |title=Lyman Abbott, Christian evolutionist: A Study in Religious Liberalism | author=Ira V. Brown | year=1953 | publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=9780837128290 }} p. 240, 2.</ref> Abbott was "something of a national patriarch" by the time of his death, and according to Brown, he was "no less than a modern oracle" to thousands of followers.<ref name="Brown 240, 2"/>  Abbott influenced hundreds every week through his sermons at the prestigious Plymouth Avenue Congregationalist Church.  He also gave speeches at many American colleges, published several books that sold between five and ten thousand copies, and edited the Outlook that, at its peak, sold "about 125,000 copies a week."<ref>Brown, ''Lyman Abbott'', 117–119, 140.</ref> The magazine "was a prominent news source for Protestant ministers and laypeople all over the United States, demonstrating Abbott's lasting influence."<ref>Lagerwey, "Chaplain," 9.</ref>