Morning journal and courier., 1893-02-20
IN MEMORIAM.

tween the Career of Archbishop
 Tillotson and Bishop Brooks.
 Rev. Dr. Harwood, rector of Trinity l church, preached an eloquent sermon yes- terday morning on the life and character of the late Bishop Phillips Brooks to an immense audience who had assembled to do honor to their great fellow-churchman. In his discourse Dr. Harwood said: There is no connection between genius and great ness When we speak of him as genius we do not mean @ great man. Worth Is one thing and the man another. Life and work are not one. The oratorical temper ament rarely coincides with greatness of character. Eloquence moro often is con- nected with weaknesses and vanity. The more we observe his character the more we wonder at it's greatness.
 To, day ask you to do homage with me to man of great gifts whose character is quite difficult to disentangle from his work. His being and his work were so welded into one that whatsoever noble thing he did or said was noble because it was in marvellous harmony with the nobility of his own being.
 After brief sketch of his career he said:
 He was man who had vocation rather than profession. His career eliminated in 1891 in his election and consecration to the Episcopalian church. Hs was the un- mistakable choice of the clergy and people of Massachusetts. He vas the pride and joy of Boston, without regard to creed or party His blsmeless life, his spositive vir- tues, the eminence of his services to the as proper person to be chosen to the highest office known to our church, but it seemed incongruous to many that anyone else should be thought of.
 No sooner had he been elected, how ever, than tue voice of calumny and doubts of his fitness for the cffice began to be heard. In little while determined and bitter opposition to his conservation took on definite folm. will not speak of the futile ard pitiful efforts of certain persons to prevent his consecratiou. He at last discovered that his life could not be sll sunshine. Flsttery had not spoiled him; :; the applause of great people had not left 8 stain or spot upon his heart and now for the first time in his life hs heard the voica of depreciation and claims that he was un- fit to be bishop in the church of God.
 Of the motives and methods of sll who have sought to thwart the will of the church in Massachusetts I will say noth- ing. I might not have referred to the sub
 ject at all had 1t been 8 secret or forgot
 ten episode; but it was very public and has
 already passed into the history of the
 church, There it will remain.
 In ths continuation of his career I cannot
 refrain from bringing to your notice the strange parallel between the experience of Phillip Brooks and that of Archbishop Tillotson, dean of Canterbury, dean of St. Paups, and finally archbishop of Csnter-
 bury, was esteemed generally as the great est preacher of his time He cut himself loose from the pedantries fashionable in English pulpits and adopted style which delighted the public of London.
 It was simple, direct, literary, and ths preacher dealt with topics which wers much in the public mind and soon reached | the public heart His career as preacher | lasted about thirty years, and general ad | miration of him never diminished. Londo1 l did more than listen to him. London wal { won back to the Church of England. N l praise seemed too extrevsgsnt. It wa l claimed that he was without peer in thu | annals Of sacred eloqueuco. His commsnt of the English language was so great tha l Dryden Frequently owned with pleasur, l that if he had any talent for Englisi prose, which must be allowed to hay, l been great ore, i5 was owing to his ofter having read his grsco's writings. x l MT. Addison considered his writings g. tbs chief standard Of our language, ant
 accordingly marked the particular phrases
 in the sermon published during his grace lifetime as grand work of all Englisl
 dictionary.
 Now as scon as this distinguished ant
 noble man was made archbishop of Canter
 bury an attack was begun upon him whicl l ceased only when he ceased to breathe. l was said of him that he had never ever
 been baptiz5d. It was said of Phillip
 Brooks that his baptism YVES of doubtful
 validity. It was said of Tillotson that H.
 was socinian at heart; it was said 0
 Phillips Brooks that he was inclined to b.
 8 socinian and pelagian,
 It was said of Tillotson that he was read,
 to destroy the Episcopate; it was said 0
 Phillips Brooks that he had no respect fo ! Episcopal order and office. Phillips Brook
 was urged to Iuake eome plantations abou his belief, even, I believe, in respect to th
 Trinity. He refused absolutely. Nothing
 could move him. His bsliefs aud teach ings were tu b3 learEed in his printed 1 book. The church knew his record, anc l by that record he must stand or fall Say ! Tillotson's bicgrapher, "his tender method | of teratipg with dissenters and his en deavors to unite all Protestants among l themselves were represented as want O. zsal in the cause of ths church, and al l inclination towards those who departed
 from it. But how unhappily successful
 soever they might be in infusing these jealousies of him into some warm aud un
 wary men, he still peraevered in his owr way"
 He would neither depart from his mo iteration nor take pains to cover himself | from so false all imputstion. He thous hi the openness of his temper, the course o1 l his life, his sincerity aud visible efforts o1
 his labors which had contributed so much
 to turn the greater part of the city to hearty love of the church an firm ad- no man was ever more eminently dis tinguiehed than he was, he thought that constant zeal with which he always served such as come to labor in the city, and by which he had been 50 singulsrly useful to tkem, he thought the great charge that had been made in bringing mems minds off from many wild opinions to sober and steady principles. x All
 these reasons he thought would prevent
 his conduct from needing any apology" Surely he must be very dull who does not see that all this might have been writ ten of Phillips Brooks. Then, again, the Episcopal rule WAS very brief. Tillotson ! was consecrated archbishop of Canter bury
 May 31, 1891. On November IS, 1894, on Sunday, he was stricken with apoplexy in the chapel at Whitehall, the following Thursday he died, in the sixty fifth year of his age. Phillips Brooks was conse-
 crated bishop of the diocese of Massachu- setts October IA, 1891. Thursday, Janu- ary 19, 1893, he fell i'll and the following Monday morning he was taken by the ordering of Almighty God in the fifty eighth year of his sge
 The sorrow for the death of Tillotson,
 we are told, was mora universal than vas ever known for subject, And when his funeral was appointed there was numer- ous train of coaches filled with persons of rank and condition who came voluntarily to assist at that ceremony from Lambeth to the church of s. Lawrence Jewry. His death was felt to be national loss. At his burial people wept and sighed. King VII liam said of him he was the best man he ever knew and the best friend he ever had And in our own time it has been said that he was the best and wisest man that ever occupied the chair of Canterbury.
 I need tax your patience no longer. The great bishop of Massachusetts sleeps these