Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1893-01-24
HE Is SILENT NOW
Pneumonia Carries Of Bishop
Phillips Brooks.
HIS DISTINGUISHED CAREER
The Mans Wondrous Command of
Osasory Fascinated and Enthrailsd
His Eager Hearers.

BosToS, Jan. 23.-Bishop Phillips
died st isresidence, No. 2S3 Clarendon
street, at $50 this morning of heart
failure. brought on by fit Of cough
,ng. He was taken i'll Thursday with
sore throat, but nothing serious showed
itself until last evening. DIR. ii. A.
Beach, his physician. discovered last
evening diphtheria symptoms and con-
sidersd . consolidation advisable aud
called in DIR. X. IL. Fitx. Al tins time
nothing serious Was anticipated aud
DR.. Fitz remained only . short time.
DR.. Beach was with the Bishop the On.
tire night. At $50 the patient Wae
seized with y coughing spasm which
lasted for few moments and his heart
ceased TO beat. DIR. Beach said thu
morning that death was caused from
heart failure and not from diphtheria.
No diphthertlc symptoms were discov-
cred by . superficial examination thin
morning.
His Life.
Phillips Brooks was born in Boston
December Is. 1885. and graduated from
Harvard twenty years later. HE the.
illogical education was secured at the
seminary at Alexandria, Va. and in
1859 he was ordained, his frs: charge
being the Church of the Advent, IN
Philadelphia. In 1862 he took the
Church of the Holy Trinity in the
same city, and in 1869 came to Trinity
church in Boston. Mr.. Brooks was
noted for his low church views, his
commanding physical presence, his
power tor good especially among younG
men, ana for the extraordinarily rapid
delivery of his speech when preach.
ing. He declined many calls, inclnd-
ing q profeseorshlp nj Harvard aud the
office of assistant bishop OF Pennsyl.
vania, and until his appointment n
the bishop of Massachusetts, he pre-.
ferred to remain with his Boston par,
ish.
His sensisiveness.
His church edifice. built for him at q
cost of over 81 600. 900, is noted for 1T
unique architecture and fine decora
tionp. Mr.. Brooks was regarded as one
of the most brilliant orators of the Pro
testant Episcopal church, and also az q
writer of many religious works. He
published "Lectures on Preaching
"Sermons," "Thc Influence Of Jesus
and Baptism and Confirmation"
As q clergyman Of tho Episcopa
church Phillips Brooks was perhaps
more widely known and more widely
celebrated than any other; not only q
home. but in England, where he hac
experienced courtesies and received
distinctions never before vouchsafet
an American clergyman who had no
yet reached the rochet and lawn.
He Was morbidly reticent concerning
his past and present, and vlsibly ex
perienced such pain, under the mos
consderate inquiries, that 1t mus
suffice to mention that when his minis
|, try began in Philadelphia the costl,
and spacious church of the Holy Tr,ni
! ty in Rittenhouse square twas built TO
him." as the saying goee; that Is, HI
reputation. suddenly risen freshet-like
compelled roomy and spacious plan
from the architect. And the churcl
was always filled, crowded in al
weathers whenever il was known tha
the young stalwsrt was to preach.
Wonderful Power.
And vet to the breathless multitude
who came and went under the spell o
his unique eloquence as certainly q
the tides, ne stood an insoiuble puzzl
and wonder. No one could MAKE hin
out. No one could question the genu
mess of his eloqurnce or resist IT
witchery, and yet nc one could touc
the secret of its power. Perhaps ther
never was developed in any pulpit
parallel experience. Here were thou
sands crowding the pews and standin
room of the Holy Trinity church Sun
day after Sunday, and year after yeaI
with growing enthusiasm toward
preacher who himself never seeme
enthused.
Where most young preachers begi
| with ili-judged vIgor or lively declan
alton, with significant gesture and Tn
whole gamut Of vehement lntonat.or
Phillips Br.o oks stood impassive, almo'
statueeque, an inperturpablc TRANQUIL
| ity, rafting of, IN . monotone .
swiftly as to tease and half bailie tn
most watchful ear. swallow flights c
thought, feeling, poetry, philosoph,
| piety, biblical learning. sociologic;
wisdom, trenchant criticism--in no sy
logistic order of sequence. but plaini
tho legitimate fruition OF his then,'
held together bv n blood-tlo OF spl
ituai kingship, striding, fitting alon
through the spaces and reaches of n
inner world. until the great throngs ]
painful, half .breathed. eager siiene
seemed beside themselves with . pr
ternatural ecstscy.
Mastery EIoqucnce.
Il Was something like the glamor {
fiying panorama hour after hour
railroad travel; or deep reveric ov,
the Divipa Commedia or IN the gran
Duomo itself: and yet unlike anytblr
else bearing the touch of human art
f;cer. IL was not the hsif-meemef
spell of the mystic and pletst. nor Il
fsscination of an artist with an irresss
lbe technique and magnetic individ'
ality. There were no lightning stroke
no stimulating climacierics, no passat
OF stirring discords into harmonic res
luton of transcendent loveliness
grandeur; and vet there was neve
for a minute, any iet-up or raiiyn
place found for the strained and eae
,ensibilites until the lac; page vs.
turned and the bepediction sal
Thousands would recognize tue trut
. fuluess of this reminiscs nee, stretChiI
through nearly thirty years. and recs
and identify this early mvs.iiicatis
and wllderment which hsif-hld q
young preacher from the people.
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