Connecticut western news., 1893-01-26

 called during the day and gave him som, medicine, advising him, more as a precau tionary measure than anything else, to re main indoors until the trouble had disap peared.
 Everything progressed well until Sunday when diphtherial symptoms set in. Dur ing Sunday evening he seemed to grow worse Dr. Beach was with him the entire night. The patient was seized with a cough ing spasm toward morning, which lasted for a few moments, when his heart ceased to beat
 Shortly before midnight the patient'i mind began to wander, although he was conscious. Looking up at his faithful and beloved servant the bishop said:
 'Katie, you can go. shall not need you any more. l am going home"
 These were the last words of the great Episcopal divine, the man who has made the diocese second only in prominence iL this country.
 The Bishops Consecration.
 The consecration of Mir Brooks as bishoI was an event of unusual interest not only to Episcopalians, but also to Christian peo pie of all shades of religious belief, for Mir Brooks had without the seeking uncon sciously become so identified with the re ligious life of Boston and become so in grafted into the hearts of the people that no single church was large enough to mo nopolize his influence. The event was sig. nificant, because of the worldwide reputa- tion of the man who was then to be made the head of the Episcopal church in this state.
 The broad and catholic spirit of Mir Brooks, his kindly, generous, philanthropiC nature, his singleminded purpose to do the will of the Divine Master and his entire ab sorption in the cause of Christianity and the uplifting of poor humanity all com. bined to give him place in the affections of the people, which is not often accorded to great men, and at the same time won for him the respect and esteem of strong de nominational men. Some of the opposition to the confirmation of Mir. Brooks was in stigated by those who thought that he was too tolerant to be at the head of so great denomination. Bishop Brooks was one of the busiest men in Boston. From early morning often till late at night his work went on, seven days in the week.
 He was a greatly overworked man, and but for his fine physique and his robust health he would long ago have succumbed to the burden which has gradually in. creased rom year to year.
 A Distinguished Career.
 Phillips Brooks was born in Boston Dec. IS, 1885. He graduated at Harvard in 1855, studied theology in the seminary at Alex. andria, Va, was ordained in 1859, and be. came rector of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Advent, Philad elphia, a comparatively obscure charge. Three years later he became rector of the Church of the Holy Trinity, one of the largest and most fashionable churches in Philadelphia He remained there seven years, in 1S69 becom- ing rector of Trinity church, Boston. About year ago he was consecrated bishop of the diocese of Massachusetts, succeeding the late Benjamin Henry Paddock
 While he was pastor of Trinity church Dr. Brooks declined many calls elsewhere, a professorship in Harvard and the office of assistant bishop of Pennsylvania, to which he was elected in 1Ss6
 In his Boston parish he exerted power ful influence for good, especially over young men.
 Bishop Brooks was one of the most bril-. liant pulpit orators of the Protestant Epis- copal church and had a more rapid de- livery probably than any clergyman in the country. He was noted for his How church" views and preached in the churches of other denominations than his own.
 Bishop Brooks published Lectures on Preaching" delivered before the Yale Di- vinity school (New York, 1S77); Sermons" QS7S and 1SSD; ''The Influence of Jesus" Bohlen lectures, delivered in Philadelphia in 1879, and Baptism and Confirmation" (1Ss0).
 Bishop Brooks was the ninth pastor set tied over Trinity parish, and he was the Al TAI. -a. crated to the highest office of the Episco- pal church