The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-01-27
PuILLIPs BHOOK-uEAD.

BosToN, Jan. 2Sd.-Bishop Phillips
Brooks died at his residence, No. 2SS
Clarendon street, at $3.50 this morning,
of heart failure, brought on by fit of
coughing. His death was entirely I'M
expected. He was taken i'll Thursday
with sore throat, bat nothing serious
showed itself until last evening DR.. II.
H. A. Beach, his physician, discovered
last evening diphtheretic symptoms and
considered consultation advisable, and
called in DR.. R. H. Fitz. At this time
nothing serious was anticipated, and DR..
Fitz renamed only short time. DR..
Beach was with the Bishop the entire
night.
About $3.50 o'clock the Bishop was
seized 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
from heart failure and not from diph-
liberia. No diphtheretic membrane was
discovered by superficial examination
this morning.
Bishop Brooks preached his last ser
mon at the Church of the Good Shepherd
on Coriez street last Tuesday evening.
The scene at the Bishops house this
morning was one of grief and desolation.
No Grape had at that time been placed on
the door, but anxious friends, among
whom the news spread with great rapid
ity, were making inquiries on the street
and on every one whom they saw coming
out of the house. Within the house a
few of the Bishops mostintimate friends,
who seemed hardly to realize the terri
BILE loss, were gathered in groups in the
different rooms. The spirit that pervad-
ed 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: us the Bishop
really deadP" That their beloved pastor
and friend had left them forever seemed
to them too awful, and they were unable
to grasp the significance of his death.
Phillips Brooks was born in Boston,
December 18th, 1885. He was graduated
at Harvard in 1855, studied theology at
the seminary at Alexandria, Va, was or
doined in 1859, and became rector of the
Church of the Advent, Philadelphia. In
1862 he took charge of the Church of the
Holy Trinity in that city, and in 1869 be-
came rector of Trinity church, Boston.
Mr.. Brooks was noted for his slow
church, views, and often preached in
the churches of other denominations
than his own. He declined many calls
elsewhere, professorship in Harvard,
and the office of Assistant Bishop of
Pennsylvania, to which he was elected
in 1886, preferring to remain in his Bos-
influence for good, especially over young
men. Trinity church in Boston, noted
for it's unique architecture and fine in
terror decorations, was built for him at a
cost of more than 100000. Phillips
Brooks was recently elected Bishop ia
the Protestant Episcopal Church. He
was most brilliant pulpit orator. and
was noted for his rapid delivery. He
has published the following works:
Lectures on Preaching" Sermons"
"The Influence of Jesus" "Bohlen Lee
cures" Baptism and Confirmation,
and Sermons Preached in English
Churches"
Bishop Brooks was one of the bust EST
men in Boston. From early morning till
late at night his work went on-seven
days in the week. He was a greatly
overworked man, and but for his fine
physique and his robust health he would
long ago have succumbed to the burden
which gradually increased from year to
year. Harvard college made heavy
draft on the time of Bishop Brooks when
he accepted the work as one of the col
lsge preachers there. During the period
allotted to him he went to the college
every morning at o'clock and remained
till noon, and ON Sunday preached in
Appleton chapel. Bishop Brooks for the
last fifteen or twenty years preached
somewhere three times every Sunday
during the winter.