New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-07-03
SERVICES BY THE LAKE.
TALKING TO CHAUTAUQUANS ABOUT PHIL
LIPS BROOKS.
PRESIDENTS BAsHFORDS TRIBUTE TO TIKI
GREAT MASSACHUSETTS CHURCHMAN-
PROFESSOR DRUMM0ND
THE ANGELCS.'
tBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE

Chauauqul. July 2.-Ibc first sunday OF the
Chautauqua is the Of day when one almost
listens the pcryadng quiet which at times Sinks mo
silence broken again by the chlrpingS and songs OF
birds Looking out upon the fresh green lawn reach
ing to the lake, the still water, transparent at
osphere and In an especial sense the trees all con
tribute to the sense OF calm and rest The tan,
straight gray columns of the forest trees have pc
culiar rcfrcshmcnt Of their which set and trimmed
shade trees fail TO give. Philips Brooks kecnly
interested In the Chautauqua plan, on one occasion
Joining in Recognition Day procession, and when
here some years ago looked closely into the many
departments OF the system. Characteristic expires
sion In his the sentence, Mans character
1, like checker board but it is black checkered on
white not white black" This morning President
j. w. Bashfort Of he Wesleyan University, Delaware
Ohio spoke to an audience of 500 persons on
phillips Brooks, th" Prince Of Preachers me
speaker quoted the great preachers statement OF the
law Of influence that every mans power Is his ldca
multiplied by and projected through his person
ality and said that In his lectures upon preaching
Phillips Brooks held that preachers power consists
in the truth which he gives TO the world. III inc arr
with which he adapts that truth TO the audience
and to age IN which he lives, and III the person
aliy which lies back Of his truth and wings 1t with
a power Of conviction. lie said that the Inspiring
thought Of Phillips Erooks's life was. In his own
words, the ialcrliood Of God and the childhood OF
every man to him." The speaker said this truth,
for which both Robertson and Brooks stood, contains
marc than the essence Of the evangelical teaching Of
the eighteenth century, when man was thought oil pre-
,mincntly as 4 sinner and Christ prc-emnently rs
sayicr.
Mans sonshp to God was the Idea which inspired
hillp, Brookss ntterances aud made him the prophet
NJ a new humanity His idea that man Is by
nature and grace Il child Of God, embodied In his I'M
selfish lie and presented with his intense love OF
other, made Mr.. Brooks the prince of preachers lie
va, an omnivOrou5 reader His clear ana 1hclSiVe |
writing Willie yet IN college showed that his thinking
was 1T that early date equal TO his reading. Ills !
Latter preaching showed that his thinking was far IN
cess OF his reading. In maturer life 1t was his |
habit to gather materials for his thinking from lille
at first hand rather than from books
Mr. Ea.hford spoke OF Phillips Brooks's limitations
I'm modern church activity, due to want Of knowledge
Of practical affairs lie believed so strongly III
character and 50 in environment that he thought
tn. former would always shape the latter Ills
conception Of the divine message was not the remodel
ling of Institutions but the change OF character not
hc suppression Of vices but the destruction of sin.
lie hal not the talent for organization nor, perhaps
In large degree, intuitive power Of reading human
nature and of adaI ting means to ends; nor did ne
feel a strong interest IN public problems 1t Is
fos,il le that he was b. nature "A preacher rather
han a teacher imparing truth, but bringing lie
md inspiration dead souls. Professionalism II. It's
-.voit from an cXteriI. spiritual authority lost the
n sion Of a Kin gGOm OF heaven on earth, ana -
u,t f,ganlng this truth I'm the crude attempts at
applied Christianity. Phillips Brooks the spiritual
product Of lrotcauutism. lie furnished the mspira-
inn and b,.I. for indi>ilmls rather than the
-. nd ,l, I,. fr Tin. ,i,rd,m ~
h''H'"' "l i'4"'" anu INV i"' ava ' "7 -
leayrn upon earth. BE saw the glory oil man
rood rather than the suumc, ana cNcu upon tHe
iuil"gra IL sol-hip more unn upon Ils duties.
H. illustrated most beautifully his own iavoriic maxim
which b." ,nuucatcd in his sermon on Abraham
ucoln thai an real goodness Is greatness, and that
Il real greatness l. eVodncss. III lOncius"n the