Life and letters of Phillips Brooks . epleased him, and even cheap woodcuts were better than no-thing. In the midst of the changes and improvements hewrites, How I wish we had taken hold of it and made thesechanges ten years ago, while Father and Mother and theAunts could have got the enjoyment of them. With the exception of a few weeks at Sharon Springs hewas in his place at Trinity Church for the summer, preach-ing on Sundays, visiting the sick and the poor during theweek, anxious that they should not feel forsaken. The careof the mission chapel of Trinity, then situated on CharlesStreet, ha
Life and letters of Phillips Brooks . epleased him, and even cheap woodcuts were better than no-thing. In the midst of the changes and improvements hewrites, How I wish we had taken hold of it and made thesechanges ten years ago, while Father and Mother and theAunts could have got the enjoyment of them. With the exception of a few weeks at Sharon Springs hewas in his place at Trinity Church for the summer, preach-ing on Sundays, visiting the sick and the poor during theweek, anxious that they should not feel forsaken. The careof the mission chapel of Trinity, then situated on CharlesStreet, had for a time been assumed by him. It was one ofthe anecdotes told of Mr. Brooks that in urging upon Kidner to come to Boston and take up this work,he mentioned as an inducement the crowded congregationswhich awaited him in this wayside chapel; this had been hisown experience on the Sunday evenings when he had preachedthere. Plans were now talked of for enlarging the workunder Mr. Kidners direction, and of building a larger. X V. o V. < Idto iBT. 48] EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS 553 chapel in some better situation. lie speaks of Lis interestin the mission in a letter to Miss Derby: — Boston, July 26, 1884. I am very glad indeed to hear you speak as you do of the newchapel work. I have great hopes of it, and that first eveningseemed to me to be full of promise. I mean to try to be of moreuse there next winter than I have been of late years. Along with your note came that of Mr. N , suggesting so kindly that some overworked clergyman should come and enjoyCampobello for a while at his house. It is very good of himindeed. I am not able to claim that I am overworked, and yetI was much tempted to suggest myself. But I must look aboutand see if there is not somebody that needs it more. If you seeme arriving in the character of an exhausted and destitute minis-ter, you must not expose me. But I am afraid that I must stayat home and look after Trinity, for we have just met with
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