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the science of the Higher Criticism of the Old Testament was becoming 

 better known and theological students were keenly interested in its 

 results which, however, required for their effective presentation a 

 broader training, greater imaginative power and a more consistently 

 held point of view than could be justly expected of a teacher trained 

 in earlier conditions. Accordingly Professor Young's position at 

 Harvard soon became exceptionally difficult and in 1880 he resigned 

 his chair and returned to the life of a parish minister. On November 

 14, 1880, he was installed pastor of the Unitarian Church in Waltham 

 which he served until October 30, 1892, but continued to reside in 

 Waltham until his death in 1906. 



Dr. Young (the degree of S.T.D. was conferred upon him by Tufts 

 in 1887) was an active member of many learned and religious societies 

 to most of which he also rendered valuable official service. He was 

 recording secretary of the Massachusetts Historical Society from 

 1883 to 1906; secretary of the Ministers' Club from 1874 to 1899; 

 president of the Society for the Promotion of Theological Education 

 from 1894 to 1906. As a teacher, he is reported to have been didactic 

 rather than stimulating, more apt to catalogue the opinions of others 

 than to state his own conclusions. His publications consist of Memoirs 

 prepared for the Massachusetts Historical Society and published in 

 its Proceedings (February 1881, J. L. Diman; December 1895, O. B. 

 Frothingham; Jan. 1896, A. P. Peabody), essays and occasional 

 sermons and addresses, the most important of which were: Oration 

 at the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the battle of Green Hill, Sud- 

 bury, Boston, 1876. The Value of the study of Hebrew for a Minister 

 (Unitarian Review, May 1879); Subjects for Master's degree in 

 Harvard 1655-1791 (Proceedings of Massachusetts Historical Society, 

 June 1880) ; Early Religious Customs of New England, Cambridge, 

 1882. He also wrote a memoir of the life of Samuel Abbot Smith 

 contained in a volume of the latter's sermons, Christian Lessons and a 

 Christian Life, Boston, 1866. 



William W. Fenn. 



