. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . career: He wasborn in Boston, , 1835, the son ofWilliam Gray a n dMary Ann (Phillips)Brooks. On boththe ]jaternal and thematernal side he isdescended fromPuritan clergvme n,on his fathers sidefrom Re\. John Cot-ton, and on his moth-ers side from t h ePhillips family whichfounded the twofamous Ihiilipsacademies. Hisfather was for fort\-years a hardwaremerchant in Boston,and Bishop Brooksis one of four broth-ers ordained to theEpiscopal was
. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . career: He wasborn in Boston, , 1835, the son ofWilliam Gray a n dMary Ann (Phillips)Brooks. On boththe ]jaternal and thematernal side he isdescended fromPuritan clergvme n,on his fathers sidefrom Re\. John Cot-ton, and on his moth-ers side from t h ePhillips family whichfounded the twofamous Ihiilipsacademies. Hisfather was for fort\-years a hardwaremerchant in Boston,and Bishop Brooksis one of four broth-ers ordained to theEpiscopal was educated atthe Boston LatinSchool and at Har-vard College, which he entered at the age of sixteen. After graduation, in1855, he taught a year, and then entered the ProtestantF^piscopal Theological Seminary at Alexandria, Va.,being ordained in 1859. Becoming rector of theChurch of the Advent in Philadelphia, and three yearslater going to the Church of the Holy Trinity in thesame city, he remained there until i86g, when he wascalled to Trinity Church, Boston. For twenty-two yearshe was rector of Trinity, and in i8gi was elected bishop. PHILLIPS BROOKS. of the diocese of Massachusetts. He had declinedmany calls while at Trinity — in 1881 to the Plummerprofessorship in Har\ard College, and later the office ofassistant bishop of Pennsylvania. In 1880, in 1882-83,and again in 1892, he was in England, where his poi)u-larity is as great as in America. He has also extendedhis travels to India, China, and Japan. Of BishopBrookss characteristics as a preacher, the first qualitythat strikes a hearer is his copiousness. He is like a colossal reservoirthat seems full almostto bursting. Theparting of his lips islike the breakingopen of a safety\alve by the seethingthoughts and wordsbehind, and out theyrush, so hot in theirchase the one of theother, that at timesthey appear to bealmost side by the abrupt be-ginning to the abruptend he simply poursout his words. Greattorrents and wa
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