Phillips Brooks: the man, the preacher, and the authorBased on the "Estimate" . PHILLIPS BROOKS. to be told against him, if, classicalscholar as he was, he had not beentemporarily oblivious of the para-doxical case, upwards of two thou-sand years ago, of a certainsomewhat famous man in Athens,named Demosthenes. The wreck ofhis prophecy only furnishes onemore proof, what unforeseen andwonderful things a great personality,in dead earnest, unaccountablymanages to achieve. In spite of the well-meant ad-vice of the sagacious but humanPresident, the future preacher de-cided to make the ministry his
Phillips Brooks: the man, the preacher, and the authorBased on the "Estimate" . PHILLIPS BROOKS. to be told against him, if, classicalscholar as he was, he had not beentemporarily oblivious of the para-doxical case, upwards of two thou-sand years ago, of a certainsomewhat famous man in Athens,named Demosthenes. The wreck ofhis prophecy only furnishes onemore proof, what unforeseen andwonderful things a great personality,in dead earnest, unaccountablymanages to achieve. In spite of the well-meant ad-vice of the sagacious but humanPresident, the future preacher de-cided to make the ministry his life-calling ; and, in order to preparehimself for it, betook himself to theEpiscopal Divinity School a\. 11. Phillips Brooks as a Harvard Student.
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