The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-01-24
pHrnL1Ps BROOKS DEAD.
The Distinguished Diyine Passes Away
from Heart Failure,

The Distinguished DIVINE RAISES away
from Heart Failure,
Bos7oS, Jan. 2S-BishOp Phillips
Brooks died at $3.50 o'clock this morn
ingpi pneumonia,
The death was entirely unexpected.
He was i'll Thursday, but nothing
serious showed itself until last evening.
DR.. Beach, his physician, discovered
late lasteveling NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.,
and considered consultation advisable,
and called in Dr.. r. n. Fiiz, Az this
time nothing serious was anticipated,
DR., Beach was with the bishop the en-
tire night, About half past six the
patient was seized with coughing
spasm, which lasted for few moments
and his heart ceased TO beat,
DIR. Beach said this morning that
death was caused by heart failure and
not by diphtheria.
Bishop Brooks preached his last SER
mon at the Church of the Good shep'
herd, on Cortez street, last Tuesday
evening. The scene at the bishops
house this morning was one OF grief
and desolation, No crepe had at that
time been placed on the door, but
anxious friends, among whom the news
had been spread with great rapldity,
were making inquiries on the street,
and in the immediate nelghborhood, OF
everyone whom they saw.
Within the house few OF the bishops
most intimate friends, who seemed hard
ly to realize the terrible loss, We're gath
cred in groups in the different rooms,
The spirit that pervaded the assemblage
was one OF complete and overwhelming
sorrow. They could not comprehend
the fact that Bishop Brooks was dead,
and again and again the question was
asked; as tho bishop really deadT
That their beloved pastor and friend
had left them forever seemed to them
too awful, aud they were unable to grasp
the Significance OF his death.
Bishop Brooks said very little during
his illness, He apparently had no idea
his end was near and he did not leave
any last message. On account OF the
contagious character OF his disease It is
not improbable that the funeral will be
private.
Phillips Brooks was born in Boston,
December 13, 1885. His degree OF B, A,
he received in Harvard University in
1866, and subsequently that OF d. D.
He studied at tho Episcopal Theolog-
ical Seminary at Alexandria, Va, and
in 1859 was ordained. The same year
he got his first charge, becoming rector
OF the Church Of the Advent in PhiIa-
delphia, where he remained for three
years. He was then transferred to the
Church OF the Holy Trinity.
From 1870 until last year he was rec
tor OF Trinity church, Boston, charge
that allowed OF his fame US n pulpit
orator becoming world wide. He was
as we'll known and appreciated in Eng
land as hero, and such churchmen as
Canon Farrar and the late Dean Stan.
ley we're among his friends. He had
preached for the former in Westmins-
ter Abbey, and both Of these Eng
fish divines have occupied his pulpit in
Boston. Early last year he became
bishop OF Massachusetts, succeeding
the late Benjamin Henry Paddock.
Previously, in 1886, he was offered the
assistant bishopric OF Pennsylvania,
but declined.
An active philanthropist, as well as
preacher, Bishop Brooks was also an
author, and several volumes, mostly SER
mons, have come from his pen. His
fret work was Lectures on Preaching"
published in 1877; then came his "Ser-
MONS" (l87S and 1885, "The Influence
Of jesus" Bohlen Lectures, delivered in
Philadelphia in 1879, and Baptism and
Confirmation" (lSS0).
Bishop Brooks had q commanding
presence, being largo man with deep,
musical voice, and his words fell from
him with such rapidly Of utterance as
to be perfect cataract Of eloquence.