The true northerner., 1900-08-03

OF AN EvENTFUL CAREER COMPLETED BY
ELDER r. BROOKS.


Friday last was the S0th birthday an
niversary of Elder Il. Brooks, and his
hospitable home was opened To his
friends, a large company of whom were
entertained at dinner. Congratulatory
talks were made by Hon. and Mrs. j. j.
Woodman, Miss Hattie Cooley and
others. j. III. Reese of Bangor was
among the guests, and gave the follow
ing beautiful tribute to the worth and
useful life of the host:
1870. BROOKS BIRTHDAY. 1900
T. Brooks was born Thursday, July 27,
in the latter half of the last year of the
first score of this century. His birth
was propitious, in the galaxy of Herbert
Spencer, Florence Nightingale, Mathilde
Bonaparte, Susan b. Anthony George
" began to reign January 30, Just six
months before his birth, and "the old
man eloquent" was nearing the close of
his first term of presidential honors.
He was born in the east-born in the
light amid fairy network of auroral
pencilings. All light is generated from
the orient. "Wise men came from the
east" He is no exceptions; all wise men
do.
His name, "the gift of God" was
prophecy. His parents knew the quail
tiles of the precious packet, one that
could convulse the world by painting
Gods inestimable gift
His culture was of the painstaking,
puritanic character, laying the founda-
tion for Presbyterian minister. AS
student he readily absorbed the contents
of an author, and swept over and far be-
yond, securing the logical field TILL he
lost sight of the original. He soon out
grew the DEGREES of Calvin and his insti-
tutes of fatalism. His heredity waxed
broader than ancestral design. A few
others do. He cleaned from the worlds
harvest-field the brightest suggestions,
deposited them in the store house of
memory, where, with herculean effort
and consummate skill he polished and
sharpened, and gave elegance to every
thing that was worth the sacrifice. He
was chained to no rhetorical car: he
never dreamed of inventing a distinct
character of expression. He was obliv-
ius to any disposition, elocution or deliv-
cry of style or utterance. Spontaneity
is the only word at my command, with
which to describe it. His logic was stern;
his analysis was simple; his method was
inductive; having sufficient authorita-
tive facts he reached his conclusion. His
logical thoughts were all seed thoughts,
selected with all the solictous regard of
the shrewd agriculturist. He dropped
them into a soil of rarest culture and
richest fertility. He watched the slim
ulants of heart-forces. The seeds germ
mated and bore a strong and vigorous
plant which broke the crust and was
clothed with foliage. Art came to the
rescue, with its blending delicacies of
every thought-petal. Such word dpaint-
ing shaded off into the divine majesty,
beauty, and glory of the Son of Man.
By distribution of the pollen of the living
spirit, all his pleasing flowers of rhetoric
were transformed into abundantly fruit
full clusters TO bless mankind. He de-
spised shams; fruitless trees and flowers
he abhorred as nature abhors a vacuum.
He had rare faculty of painting the
most fragrant flowers on the easel of
human hearts. He detected with ease
fallacies of every KIND and placed his
obiector in an inextricable dilemma. He
seemed to erect his invulnerable strong
holds almost by intuition. His deli
cately sensitive nature was touched by
Eolian strains and became enraptured
and soul-thrilled with the rythmical
harmonleS of the SDheres.
Forever singing as they shine,
The hand that made them is divine"
The very chords of his being were
tuned to the "harp of thousand
strings" His ears caught concordant
strains in the alto of the whispering
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