BROOKS, PHILLIPS. 



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October the Hon. Mackenzie Bowell, Minister of 

 Tnuli 1 ami Commerce, went on a mission to Aus- 

 tralia to negotiate special tarilTs with reference 

 in tins new trade mute. Recently the new 

 Meamship line between Sydney, New South 

 Wales, and Victoria, British Columbia, entered 

 into a ten years' defensive and exclusive work- 

 ing arrangement with the Canadian Pacific 

 Kailway. 



A little earlier in the season Sandford Flem- 

 ing, C. M. G., a noted Canadian surveyor and 

 engineer, visited Australia in the interests of a 

 project to establish telegraphic communication 

 between that continent ana British Columbia ; 

 but as to the success of his mission, nothing can 

 with certainty be affirmed. 



BROOKS," PHILLIPS, fifth bishop of the 

 Protestant. Kpiscopal Church in the diocese of 

 Massachusetts; born in High Street, Boston, 

 Ma-s., Dec. 13, 1835; died in that city, at No. 

 j:;:i Clarendon Street, Jan. 23, 1893. His par- 

 ents, William Gray Brooks and Mary Ann Phil- 

 lips, were descended from the early founders 

 of New England, and among his maternal an- 

 cetors there was a long succession of Congre- 

 gational clergymen. Thomas Brooks, his pater- 

 nal ancestor, came to this country about 1630, 

 and settled in Watertown, in the same town in 

 which the Rev. George Phillips, his maternal 

 ancestor, who had come from England in 1630, 

 in company with Governor Winthrop, was the 

 first pastor. Phillips Brooks was the second 

 of six sons, four of whom became Episcopal 

 clergymen, and one of whom died of disease in 

 the civil war. At the time of his birth the 

 parents of Phillips Brooks were connected with 

 the First Church of Boston, and he was baptized 

 nn May 1, 1836, by the Rev. Nathanael L. Froth- 

 ingham, a Unitarian minister of eminence, who 

 was then pastor in that church, and who had 

 married a cousin of both Mr. and Mrs. Brooks. 

 In 1839 the family formed its connection with 

 the Episcopal Church by the confirmation of 

 Mrs. Brooks in St. Paul's Church, Boston, which 

 shortly afterward came under the rectorship of 

 t he Ke.v. Alexander H. Vinton, D. D., with whom, 

 until the time of his death, in 1881, Phillips 

 Brooks was closely connected by ties of admira- 

 tion and friendship. 



Phillips Brooks was educated in the public 

 schools of Boston, being graduated at the Latin 

 School in 1851, when he entered Harvard Col- 

 lege. There he attained high rank, and was 

 graduated twelfth in the class of 1855. He re- 

 ceived in his junior year, the Bowdoin prize for 

 an Knglish essay, and his course was marked by 

 an unusual degree of popularity among his fel- 

 low-students. After his graduation he taught 

 in the Public Latin school of Boston from Sep- 

 tember, 1855, to February, 1856, and in October, 

 l s ">i'i. he entered the Theological Seminary in 

 Alexandria, Va, He had been confirmed by 

 Bishop Eastburn in St. Mary's Church, Dor- 

 chester, Mass., on July 2, 1856, and he was or- 

 dained deacon at the Theological Seminary on 

 July 1, 1859, by Bishop Meade, of Virginia, and 

 delivered his first sermon in St. George's Church, 

 l-'n "lericksburg, Va., on July 3. Previous to his 

 graduation at the seminary Mr. Brooks had 

 consented to serve for three months as tempo- 

 rary supply at the Church of the Advent, Phila- 



delphia, where he entered upon his duties on 

 July 10, 1859, and on Oct. 1(5 of the same year 

 lie assumed the place of rector, which he had 

 accepted on the termination of the three months 

 of trial. He was ordained priest by Bishop Alonzo 

 Potter on May 81, 1800. 



Mr. Brooks s rectorate of the Church of the 

 Advent continued until January, 1862, when he 

 became rector of the Church of the Holy Trinitv 

 in the same city, which place he occupied until 

 he assumed the rectorship of Trinity Church., 

 Boston, in October, 1869. During these ten years 

 of residence in Philadelphia his reputation as a 

 preacher became thoroughly established and was 

 recognized throughout the country. In the civil 

 war his patriotic efforts in behalf not only of 

 union but also of freedom called wide atten- 

 tion to his ability as a thinker and an orator. 

 His sermon entitled "Our Mercies of Reoccupa- 

 tion," on Thanksgiving Day, 1863. and the one 

 on April 23, 1865, in memory of Abraham Lin- 

 coln, were widely circulated, and had a deep 

 effect upon public opinion throughout the coun- 

 try. He was not only largely influential in in- 

 creasing moral enthusiasm for the prosecution of 

 the war, but also advocated boldly and ably the 

 cause of the negro, claiming for him equal po- 

 litical rights with white men, and interesting 

 himself in manv projects for his education and 

 improvement. His pulpit and parish work were 

 noted for their thoroughness and earnestness, 

 and he identified himself with the interests of 

 the evangelical societies in the Protestant Epis- 

 copal Church, and was constant in his labors in 

 their behalf. His wide interest in missionary 

 and philanthropic projects brought him into 

 connection with all who were active in the chari- 

 ties cf the country, and his advocacy was relied 

 upon for all good causes. 



In July, 1865, after the close of the war, Mr. 

 Brooks offered the prayer at the commemora- 

 tion services at Harvard College, and imme- 

 diately afterward he sailed for Europe on leave 

 of absence from his church for a year. He 

 visited Ireland, England, and the Continent of 

 Europe, and Palestine and Egypt, and returned 

 to the United States in September, 1866. This 

 was the first of a series of journeys which con- 

 tinued through all his life, and which not only 

 rendered him a traveler of large experience, but 

 also furnished the opportunity for the spread of 

 his reputation as a preacher and for the cultiva- 

 tion of acquaintance with men of letters in 

 Europe. In 1870 he visited Switzerland and the 

 Tyrol, and on his return he was in Paris at the 

 time of the overthrow of the Government of 

 Louis Napoleon. In 1872 he visited Norway. 

 Sweden, and Russia, traveling as far as Nizhni 

 Novgovod. In 1874 he visited France, and on this 

 trip he preached in Westminster Abbey, being 

 the first American clergyman to receive an invi- 

 tation to do so. In 1877 and 1880 he revisited 

 familiar ground, and in July, 1880, preached 

 at Windsor Castle before Queen Victoria. In 

 1882-'88 he was absent from home for more 

 than a year, spending several months in study 

 in Germany, and visiting India, and on his re- 

 turn passing several months in England, the 

 memory of which is embodied in his published 

 volume, "Sermons preached in English 

 Churches." In 1885 he preached at the Urn- 



