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BROOKS, PHILLIPS. 



versities of Cambridge and Oxford, arid at the 

 latter received the degree of doctor of divinity. 

 In 1886 he made the trip across the continent 

 to San Francisco, and in 1889 visited Japan. In 

 1890 and 1892 he again visited England, where 

 he was received with enthusiasm by a host of 

 friends and listened to by large congregations, 

 and also extended his trips to the Continent of 

 Europe for rest and recreation. 



In October, 1869, Mr. Brooks removed from 

 Philadelphia to his native city, and became the 

 rector of Trinity Church. Here his close rela- 

 tion with the thought and interests of the com- 

 munity, his remarkable ability as a preacher, his 

 breadth of conception of the power and char- 

 acter of Christianity, his intense earnestness, his 

 faithfulness to all parish duties, his wide sympa- 

 thy with rich and poor, his large cultivation and 

 charming personality, won for him the affection 

 of the whole community, and steadily, until the 

 time of his death, his influence increased until 

 he became the representative man in the city of 

 Boston. His connection with Harvard College, 

 of which he was an alumnus, was very close. 

 Immediately on his removal to Boston he was 

 elected in 1870 an overseer, an office which he 

 held for two successive terms, retiring in 1882, 

 when he received the degree of doctor of di- 

 vinity from the college. He was again elected 



TRINITY CHURCH, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS. 



overseer in 1883, and served until 1889. In 1881 

 he was invited to become Preacher to the Uni- 

 versity and Plummer Professor of Christian 

 Morals an invitation which he declined after 

 long and serious consideration. In 1886, on the 

 establishment of a body of preachers to the uni- 

 versity, he was one of the first number appoint- 

 ed, and he continued in this relation to the col- 

 lege until he was elected bishop in 1891. Dr. 

 Brooks again received the degree of doctor of 

 divinity in 1887 from Columbia College at its 

 centennial anniversary. On Oct. 10, 1872, Trinity 

 Church was destroyed in the great Boston fire. 

 Before that event plans had been made for the 

 removal of the church to a new part of the city 

 and its construction on an enlarged scale. The 

 destruction of the old building caused the un- 

 dertaking to be pressed more vigorously, and the 

 new Trinity Church, at the corner of Hunting- 

 ton Avenue and Clarendon Street, was conse- 

 crated on Feb. 9, 1877. Meantime the congre- 



gation had worshiped in the hall of the Techno- 

 logical Institute, which was near the site of the 

 new building. The construction of this building 

 is a permanent memorial of the ministry of Dr. 

 Brooks. In many features it marks an era in 

 the church building of this country. Its archi- 

 tect, Henry H. Richardson, and its decorator, 

 John La Farge, here first showed the full scope 

 of their genius. 



In 1877 Dr. Brooks delivered for the Divinity 

 School of Yale College the Lectures on Preach- 

 ing on the foundation established in 1871 by 

 Henry N. Sage. These lectures, in accordance 

 with the custom of the lectureship, were pub- 

 lished, and immediately attracted wide attention, 

 and in 1893 the sale of the American editions 

 has reached 7,500. In 1883 they were translated 

 into French, and in 1885 into Dutch. The de- 

 mand for them overcame, to a certain extent, 

 Dr. Brooks's reluctance to publish his sermons, 

 and in 1878 his first volume of sermons ap- 

 peared. In 1879 he delivered the Bohlen Lec- 

 tures in Philadelphia, and in the same year they 

 were published under the title ' The Influence 

 of Jesus." In answer to an increasing demand, 

 other volumes of sermons were given to the pub- 

 lic. In 1881 appeared ' The Candle of the Lord, 

 and other Sermons " ; in 1883, ' Sermons preached 

 in English Churches " ; in 1887, " Twenty Ser- 

 mons " ; and in 1890, " The Light of the World, 

 and other Sermons." In 1893, after his death, a 

 volume of his sermons appeared, selected and ar- 

 ranged by his brother William G. Brooks. All 

 these volumes have also been published in Eng- 

 land. Other volumes of published sermons are 

 in contemplation, the demand for which is in- 

 dicated by the fact that of all the volumes of 

 his sermons the total number issued in the 

 United States up to December, 1893, has been 

 60,000. 



On April 23, 1885, Dr. Brooks delivered an 

 oration on the occasion of the two hundred and 

 fiftieth anniversary of the Public Latin School of 

 Boston, which was published in the same year un- 

 der the title " The Oldest School in America." 

 In 1887 he delivered two lectures in New York 

 before the students of the General Seminary of 

 the Protestant Episcopal Church, which have 

 been published under the title of " Tolerance." 

 Other publications of his include various occa- 

 sional sermons and magazine articles, among 

 which may be mentioned one on " The Pulpit 

 and Popular Skepticism," published in the 

 " Princeton Review " in March, 1879, and one 

 on his friend Dean Stanley, published in the 

 " Atlantic Monthly " in October, 1881. He was 

 frequently a speaker and writer at the sessions 

 of the Church Congress of the Protestant Epis- 

 copal Church, and he also contributed to the 

 " Memorial History of Boston " a paper on " The 

 Episcopal Church in Boston," which was after- 

 ward published, with but few changes, in ' The 

 Centennial History of the American Episcopal 

 Church," under the title " A Century of Church 

 Growth in Boston." One of a series of lectures 

 before Phillips Exeter Academy was delivered 

 by him in 1886, and has been published in sepa- 

 rate form for educational uses under the title 

 "Biography." Dr. Brooks wrote several Christ- 

 mas and Easter carols, one of which, " Little 

 Town of Bethlehem ! " has found a place in the 



