Whiton, James Morris

Ph.D. (Yale College, New Haven, Conn., 1861), Congregationalist; b. in Boston, Ma ., April 11, 1833; educated in Boston Latin School, and graduated at Yale College 1853; was rector of Hopkins Grammar School, New Haven, Conn., 1854-64; pastor of the First Congregational Church, Lynn, Ma ., 1865-69; of the North Congregational Church, Lynn, 1869-75; principal of Will is ton Seminary, East hampton, Ma ., 1876-78; pastor of First Congregational Church, Newark, N.J., 1879-85; acting pastor of the Trinity Congregational Church, 'Fremont, New-York City, 1886. His theological standpoint is that of a Trinitarian Christian evolutionist; regarding the Trinity, interpreted through the principle of the Divine immanency as the biblical symbol which sets forth the being and the relation of God to the world, as the fundamental and comprehensive article of faith. Creation, revelation, and judgment are eternal Divine pro present, and future. Redemption is e entially a constructive rather than a reconstructive proce . Atonement is the Divine proce of the reconciliation of man to God, by an expiatory satisfaction — mediated through the historical experience of the Christ, producing an adequate repentance— to that which is of God in conscience. The norm of conscience for faith, duty, and hope, is in the Holy Scriptures, whose authority as a divine revelation centres in the living Word of God, the Christ, speaking therein. The promised advent of the Christ is now being progre ively realized in the life of the world that now is, and the resurrection likewise in the life of the world to come. He is the author of Latin Le ons, Boston, 1860 Greek Le ons, New York, 1861; Select Orations of Lysias, Boston, 1875, 2d ed. 1881; " Is Eternal Punishment, Endle ? " 1876, 2d ed. 1877 (maintaining that endle punishment is not decisively revealed in the New Testament: it raised a question as to his further fellowship in the Congregational body, which was decided in his favor by a council at Newark, 1879, — twenty-eight to three, cf. stenographic report in The Congregationalist, April 12, 1879); Six Weeks' Preparation for Reading Casar, 1877. 3d ed. 1886; Auxilia Vergilidna (pamphlet), 1878, 2d ed. 1886; E ay on the Gospel according to Matthew, 1880; The Gospel of the Resurrection, 1881, reprinted in London, Eng., under title Beyond the Shadoiu, 1884; Early Pupils of the Spirit (pamphlet), Lond., 1884; Three Months' Preparation for Reading Xenophon (published in conjunction with his daughter Mary B. Whiton), N. Y., 1885; The Evolution of Revelation (pamphlet), 1885; The Divine Satisfaction, London, 1886 frequent contributions to the religious journals, occasional articles in The New-Enqlander, etc.