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she could hear every move he made. She
noticed he was restless, and when Dr.
Beacn came about III o'clock, the Bishops
disease had taken a very serious turn, and
the attending ply sician, becoming alarmed.
sent Tor DIR. Fitz for consultation. Shortly
before midnight. while the doctors were
both In attendance. the patients mind be-
gan TO wander, although he was still con-
scious. Looking up at his faithful and be-
loved servant. the Bishop SAID:
Katie. you can CO. / shall not need you
any more. / am gong home"
These were the last words of the great
Episcopal divine-the man who has made
the diocese second In prominence in this
country. After that he lay quietly, ap-
parentiy not suffering to any extent, and
not entirely UNCONSCIOUS His tremendous
vitality seemed to be giving way to the
influence of the disease as the night hours
passed, and the two doctors In attendance
could see that he was grad ually weakening.
Az o'clock this morning he was barely
alive and stimulants had to be admins
tered TO keep up the fast-ebbing life AT
$50 1t was decided to administer hyp0-
dermic injection of brandy. They raised
his arm to insert the tube under 1T. but be-
fore the contents could be injected the
Bishop was dead.
The funeral arrangements have not yet
been decided upon. The death of Bishop
Brooks, which came as shock To his mui.
tltude OF friends and admirers, has called
from clergy men of all denominations and
people in all walks of life, TO whom the
Bishop was an ideal man and preacher SO
sudden came the announcement OF his
death that those who were nearest to HIM,
and who knew him best. were daZed and
unable to give full verbal expression to
their sorrow. At the meetings of CODgre-
gational, Universalist. Methodist and Bap.
tist ministers. to-day, resolutions were
passed expressing sorrow and euloglzlng
the dead prelate.
LIFE WELL SPENT.
For twenty-five years the Rt Rev.
Phillips Brooks, S. I. d., Episcopal Bishop
OF Massachusetts, preached at the Boston
Trinity Church, aud for fifteen years,
since 1877, he occupied the pulpit in q mill
dollar edifice, which is to-day one Of
the sights of Boston. He was born in B0s-
ton. Dec. Is. 1885. and twenty years later
graduated from Harvard. On leaving col
lege he taught at the Boston Latin School
for ayesr. Then he went to the Divinity
graduated in 1859. Here he wrote his first
sermon on "The Simplicity That Is In
Christ"
Rev. Alexander H. Vintou. of the Church
of the Advent in Philadelphia. had the
young minister appointed as his assistant
IN that wealthy parish. but his powers weIe
soon recognized, aud the next year. 1860,
he was installed as rector of Holy Trinity,
on Rittenhouse square. Here be renamed
ten years. Then it was that Trinity
Church at Boston called him to take charge
Of that parish.
AS q clergymen Of the Episcopal Church
he is perhaps more widely known and more
widely celebrated than any other: not only
at home. but in England. where he has ex-
perlenced courresles and received distinc-
tions never before vOuchsated an American
clergy man who mas not yet reached the
rochet and lawn. He was mOrbidly
reticent concerning his past and present.
To the breathIess multitude who came
and went under the spell of his unique elo-
auence as certainly as the tides. he stood
All insoluble puzzle and wonder. No
one could make him out. No one
could question the genuineness of his elo-
quence or resist it's witchery, and yet no
one could touch the secret of its power
Here we're thousands crowding the pews
and standing room OF the Trinity Church
Sunday afte: Sunday. and year after year,
with growing enthusiasm toward q
preacher who himself never seemed
enthused. Where most young preachers
begin with ill-judged vigor or lively
defamation. with significant gesture and
: thsChole gamut OF vehement intonation.
Z F1shJps Brooks stood impassive. almost
Btatuesque. In imperturbable tranquility,
rattling OF, In a monotone. SO swiftly as to
tease and naif battle the most watchful ear,
swallow flights of thought, feeling. poetry,
philosophy, piety, biblical learning, socio-
logical wisdom. trenchent crlticism-in no
syllOgistic order or sequence, but plainly
the legitimate fruitiOn of his theme, held
together by blood-tie of spiritual kinship,
striding lifting along through the spaces
and reaches of the inner world, until the
great thrOngs in painful, half breathed,
eager silence, seemed beside themselves
with q preternaturai ecstasy.
In 1866 Phillips Brooks was elected as
slstant bishop of Pennsylvania, but de-
clined il. He also declined professOrship
at Harvard University. On the death of
Bishop Paddock, in 1891. Phillips Brooks
was almost unanimously elected Bishop OF
Massachusetts,, the election causing rath-
er unhappy controversy, owing to Bishop
BroOks's well-knOwn breadth and cath
oliclty of views. which made him distrut.
ed. especially by the high church party.
DIR. Brooks was an extensive traveller,
having visited England number of times.
and preaching with great acceptance at
Westminster Abbey. as both Oxford and
Cam mbridge. and before Queen Victoria. He
has also extended his travels to India. Pal
estine and Japan. Bishop Brooks was never
married.
The standing committee of the Episcopal
Diocese of Massachusetts met this evening.
The duties of the Bishop now devOlve upon
this committee, which now becomes the
ecclesiastical counsel. and which has full
authority in clerical matters. 1t was de-
oided that the funeral of the late Bishop
should be held on Thursday. Jan. 26, in
lie. 1t is possible that Bishop Potter OF
New York. will oficlate. though that matte
has not been decided. lnterment will be at
MOunt Aubnrn