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BROOKS, PHILLIPS (1835-1893)

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BROOKS, See also:PHILLIPS (1835-1893) , See also:American clergyman and author, was See also:born in See also:Boston, See also:Mass., on the 13th of See also:December 1835. Through his See also:father, See also:William See also:Gray Brooks, he was descended from the Rev. See also:John See also:Cotton; through his See also:mother, See also:Mary See also:Ann Phillips, a woman of rare force of See also:character and religious faith, he was a See also:great-See also:grandson of the founder of Phillips See also:Academy, See also:Andover, ' Mass. Of the six sons, four—Phillips, See also:Frederic, See also:Arthur and John Cotton—entered the See also:ministry of the See also:Protestant Episcopal See also:Church. Phillips Brooks prepared for See also:college at the Boston Latin school and graduated at Harvard in 1855. After a See also:short and unsuccessful experience as a teacherin the Boston Latin school, he began in 1856 to study for the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the theological See also:seminary at See also:Alexandria, See also:Virginia. In 1859 he graduated, was ordained See also:deacon by See also:Bishop William See also:Meade of Virginia, and became See also:rector of the church of the See also:Advent, See also:Philadelphia. In 186o he was ordained See also:priest, and in 1862 became rector of the church of the See also:Holy Trinity, Philadelphia, where he remained seven years, gaining an increasing name as preacher and patriot. Endowed by See also:inheritance with a See also:rich religious character, evangelical traditions, ethical See also:temper and strong See also:intellect, he See also:developed, by wide See also:reading in See also:ancient and See also:modern literature, a See also:personality and attitude of mind which appealed to the characteristic thought and See also:life of the See also:period. With See also:Tennyson, See also:Coleridge, Frederic D. See also:Maurice and F. W.

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Robertson he was in strong sympathy. During the See also:Civil See also:War he upheld with See also:power the cause of the See also:North and the See also:negro, and his See also:sermon on the See also:death of See also:President See also:Lincoln was an eloquent expression of the character of both men. In 1869 he became rector of Trinity church, Boston. In 1877 the See also:present church was finished, the architect being his friend H H. See also:Richardson. Here Phillips Brooks preached See also:Sunday after Sunday to great congregations, until he was consecrated bishop of See also:Massachusetts in 1891. In 1886 he declined an See also:election as assistant bishop of See also:Pennsylvania. He was for many years an overseer and preacher of Harvard University, his See also:influence upon the religious life of the university being deep and wide. In 1881 he declined an invitation to be the See also:sole preacher to the university and See also:professor of See also:Christian See also:ethics. On the 3oth of See also:April 1891 he was elected See also:sixth bishop of Massachusetts, and on the 14th of See also:October was consecrated to that See also:office in Trinity church, Boston. After a brief but great episcopate of fifteen months, he died, unmarried, on the 23rd of See also:January 1893. Phillips Brooks was a tall, well-proportioned See also:man of See also:fine physique, his height being six feet four inches.

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simple, endowed with excellent See also:judgment and a keen sense of See also:humour, and See also:quick to See also:respond to any See also:call for sympathy. When kindled by his subject it seemed to take See also:possession of him and pour itself out with overwhelming See also:speed of utterance, with See also:heat and power. His sympathy with men of other ways and thought, and with the truth in other ecclesiastical systems gained for him the confidence and See also:affection of men of varied habits of mind and religious traditions, and was thus a great See also:factor in gaining increasing support for the Episcopal Church. As years went by his influence as a religious See also:leader became unique. The degree of S.T.D. had been conferred upon him by the See also:universities of Harvard (1877), and of See also:Columbia (1887), and the degree of D.D. by the university of See also:Oxford, See also:England (1885). In 1877 he published a course of lectures upon See also:preaching, which he had delivered at the theological school of Yale University, and which are an expression of his own experience. In 1879 appeared the Bohlen Lectures on " The Influence of Jesus." In 1878 he published his first See also:volume of sermons, and from See also:time to time issued other volumes, including Sermons Preached in See also:English Churches (1883). In 1901, at New See also:York, was published, in two volumes, Phillips Brooks, Life and Letters, by the Rev. A. V. G. See also:Allen, D.

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history, Episcopal Theological school, See also:Cam-See also:bridge, Mass., who in 1907 published at New York, in a sinifle volume, Phillips Brooks, an See also:abbreviation and revision of the earlier See also:biography (W. L.) BROOKS'S, a See also:London See also:club in St See also:James's See also:Street. It was founded in 1764 by the See also:dukes of See also:Roxburghe and See also:Portland. The See also:building had been previously opened as a gaming-See also:house by William Macall (Almack), and afterwards by Brooks, a See also:wine See also:merchant and See also:money-lender, whose name it retained.

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