The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-01-31
BosToN's BEREAVEMENT.
Bishop Phillips Brooks, the
Eminent Pulpit Orator.
Joins the Silent Ma.
jority.

Members Of the Anglican Comm,
-11ion throughout the world will rea
this heading in to-dayis evening p,
pens with sad surprise. Phillips Brook
was the Chrysostom of the Episcops
Church in America. By many b
has been regarded as the creates
preacher of the age. 1t has beel
frequently remarked, BY those VIII
knew how unsparingly he was de
voting himself to the exacting dutie
Of his Episcopate that nature woul,
not long stand the great strain {.
which he was subjecting its forces
The last record We have of his work
is that on the fourteenth of January
less than ten days ago-he conse
Grated the Free Church of St. MARY
for Salons" at East Boston, when, the
NARRATOR adds, Bishop Brooks
preached one of his wonderfully elo-
1uent sermons on the text And as We
20 preach, saying the Kingdom Of
Heaven is at hand In his case the
text was a prophecy even now full
filed.
The loss to Christianity is incalcr-
liable. 1t is as a great preacher that
his name will go down to the ages to
come. Wherever he preached multi
fudes thronged to listen to his torrent
Of matchless eloquence. Like the
poetry of Browning, his preaching and
thought were always richly colored
with the hopefnlness in humanity
which had its wellspring in the great
TACT Of the Incarnation. This human
tartan element in his thought was
some times 30 extremely en-
phasized as to subject him to
the criticism of theologians. Yet
IN the tolerant communion whose
ministry he adorned they who knew
him best, the clergy and laity of his
own diocese, in the year 1891 elected
HIM bishop by an overwhelming ma
Jority and on October 18th of the same |
year he was consecrated IN the church |
over whose destinies he had presided |
through long term of years with
singular success. His parish. his city,
his state, his church, his country have
all delighted to honor him. Ministers
OF every religious body are indebted
to him for many of the richest thoughts
which have graced their noblest peri
DDS. The vast possibilities of man
raised to heavenly places in Christ
freedom Of the lifein God
this was his constant theme.
When a few years ago he 1
preached at MONDAY to the business {
men Of Wall street in old Trinity
church, long before the hour of service !
seats and aisles were thronged by the I
business men of New
7 ork to listen spellbound to the in
'piring words Of the prophet from !
Boston. The exacting duties of the l
Episcopate, the care in detail of all his b
'hurches, in addition to his ever n
'eady response to calls upon him for l
'ddresses, have worn out his robust t
.ody. He knew not self-he gave his II
lfe willing sacrifice for man. il
Physically he was a superb specimen p
+ manhood. He was six feet four J
inches in height. of massive build, blue C,
yed, genial and frank in manner. al.
rays approachable, and with the at d
ractive simplicity of a child. in
For several years he was rector Of H
rlnity church, Philadelphia, where, OF
pom his removal to Boston, he was re
'cceeded by Bishop Jaggar, after pt
ards by his friend DR.. Mac Vickar. sh
is not disparaging to either him or to hs
r. Donald, the incumbent of
rlnity church, Boston, to say, that tn
either can ever accomplish that pecu- W.
n work, which the great ability, the \
fly enthusiasm, the magnetic power H
Phillips Brooks did for both cities. be
1t is with great pleasure that the We
AGO writes these words of common xii
tion Of this noble American chris thu
IN character who has left behind Ch
m an example whose lnstre the ages wa
nnOt dim, and whose life has con- to
buted so largely to our national .
me His name will always shine bal
e star in the armament of our an,
tional glory. ag:
vas
Field Arrested. ON,