Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-01-24
BISHOP BROOKS DEATH
General Outpouring of Grief for s.es- the Great Divine.
FUNERAL TO BE HELD THURSDAY.

expected-His Career.
 BOSTON, Jan. 24.-The death of Bishop Brooks, which came as a shock to his multitude of friends and admirers, has called forth expressions of deep personal sorrow from clergymcn of all denomina- tions and people in all walks of life, to whom the Bishop was an ideal man and preacher. So sudden came the announce ment of his death that those who were nearest to him and who knew him best were completely dazed and unable to give full verbal expression to their sorrow.
 At the meeting of Congregational ministers resolutions were passed as fol- lows:
 'The Congregational ministers of Bos- ton and vicinity, assembled in their usual gathering, have heard with pro- found sorrow of the decease of Right Rev. Phillips Brooks, and desire to testify their sense of the great loss which has been experienced, not only by the com munity in which he held so nobly the of flee of Bishop, but by the Church catho- lie, wherein he was so useful and so hon ored. But they desire to express their own nigh regard for one whom they had learned to love and admire for his distin- guished abilities, his exemplary Chris tian character, his broad and generous spirit, and his untiring readiness in every good work. While reverently lowing before the unsearchable providences of God, they mourn with all others the loss of such q man to the visible Church of our Lord Jesus Christ"
 Joseph Cook, Rev. G eorge A. Gordon and others present paid eloquent tri butes to the dead preacher. At the meeting of Universalist Ministers these resolutions were adopted:
 ''Resolvcd, That in the death of this peerless preacher and great-hearted hu- manitarian philanthropist and reformer the Church of Christ sustains an un- spea kable if rot an irreparable loss.
 ''R esolved, That by the warmth of his sympathy and the breadth of his charity, he had won the hearts of iberal-minded men of all denominations of Christians, and that we looked confidently to him as the leader who, by his personal influence, his administ strative wisdom and powerful personality, should secure a more cordial fellowship and cooperation among the many members of one church Which Is Christ's body"
 The Baptist and Methodist Ministers I also held meetings and appointed com mites to prepare appropriate resolutions. Up to last Thursday the Bishop was in the best of spirits. Thursday morning he contracted d slight cold, which, however, | caused him no alarm. Dr. Beach, the family physician called during the day
 and gave him some medicine, advising him, more as precautionary measure than anything else, to remain indoors
 until the trouble had disappeared. Everything progressed well until Sum- day when diphtheretical symptoms neces- si:aCed the calling in of Doctor Beach. | The latter even then found no cause for serious alarm and left promising to call | later in the night.
 During Sunday evening ho seemed to grow worse and as the evening wore on the nurse, Katie Hogan, who has been in | the bishops family over 9 years and who was especially devoted to him, noticed | that he was not so well as earlier in the day
 When Dr. Beach came at something | after II o'clock the Bishops disease had taken very serious turn, and the at | tending physician becoming alarmed, | sent for Dr. titz for consultation. Shortly before midnight, while the | doctors were both in attendance, the pa | tient's mind began to wander, although l he was still conscious. Looking up at
 his faithful and beloved servant, Katie l Hogan, who had been in the family 25 l years, the Bishop said:
 l katie, you can go. I shall not need you any more. am gong nome, These were the last words of the great | divine.
 After that he lay quietly, was appar- ently not suffering to any extent, but was 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 gradually weakening. | A. GoI, ,1 F., barely alive, and stimulants had been ad-
 ministered to keep up his fast-ebbing | strength.
 l At 6:30 it was decided to administer l hypodermic injection of brandy. The | doctors raised his arm to insert the tube | under it, but before the contents could be
 injected the Bishop was dead.
 Phillips Brooks was long known as the l best pulpit orator of the Low Church | Episcopalians in America. He was born
 in Boston on Dec. 13, 1885, of an old New
 England family. He attended the Boston Latin School when very young boy, and
 subsequently entered Harvard College.
 From that institution he graduated in l 1855. For a short time, like many an- l other bishop, he was an assistant teacher l in the Latin school which he had attend | ed when boy.
 After a brief experience in that position | he decided to enter the mlnlStry. In | preparation for that he pursued course
 of study at the Episcopal Divinity School
 of Alexandria, Va. He graduated there | there in 1859.
 He began first rector of the Church
 of the Advent in Philadelphia, and sub-
 sequently went to the Church of the Holy
 Trinity in the same city. In 1869 he l returned to Boston, to become rector of | Trinity Church in Boston.
 During his vacations he visited Eng
 land. He preached in St. Booholts
 Church, and by invitation of Dean Stan
 ley in the Chapel Royal at the Savoy,
 London. He also preached in Westmin-
 ster Abbey, St. Margaret's Church, Vest
 minister; St. Marks Church, Kensington;
 Christ Church, Lancastergate; Temple | Church and Christ Church.
 He was listened to by thousands in Eng
 land, his success there being fully as
 great as it was at home While in Eng
 land he received honorary grees from
 both Oxford and Cambridge Universities.
 Dr. Brooks was elected Bishop of Mas
 sachusetts to succeed Bishop Paddock,