The Indianapolis journal., 1902-08-03

Chautauqua Address by Judge ID. p.
Baldwin, of Logansport.


Chautauqua Assembly Herald.
Judge ID. P. Baldwin in the chapel yes
terday said:
Let US spend our ten minutes studying the
secret of Phillips Brookss power. Such
study is often as stimulating as eXhorta-
ton. An aristocrat of the aristocrats with
the best blue blood of New England in his
veins Phillips Brooks was as tender of the
rights and feelings of the submerged tenth
as of the favored four hundred. There is
no instance where he ever pandered TO
wealth or power. He recognized the rights
of the rich as well as of the poor. The
rich have just as much right to the conso-
lations of religion as the poor. Costly de-
votion is not hyprocisy. often behind mil
lionaires doors-like William K. Wander
bilt-wil be found sincere, earnest, full-cup
Christians.
Why not?
One day a charwoman in his church ap-
piled to him, saying: MY girl is to be
married next week, and, please. sir, may we
have the use of the chapel?" And why not
the church?'' said Brooks. please, sir. the
church is not for the likes Of US" Said the
great bishop. Mary. you shall have the
church and all can give you" Brooks
called the sexton and ordered him 10 open
and decorate Bostons pride for the ap-
pointed day. He also bade the organist to
select his best, and when the wedding
morning came a dozen poorly clad people
from one Of the back streets had a service
performed by the great preacher that
money could not have bought.
Phillips Brooks was a man OF vision. Here
is the line which separates the orator from
the speaker, the statesman from the poll
tician, the poet from the seer. Burke and
Lincoln were each men OF vision. Robert
Ingersoll had a marvelously acute insight,
but he had no outsght. He could see moth
ing in spirit except exquiSitely organized
matter; nothing behind the universe ex-
cept power; nothing beyond death except a
''windowleSs palace of rest" Occasionally,
as In Crossing the Bar" Tennyson rises
from poetry TO vision. and so does Brown
ing when he makes David throw away song
and harp and address King Saul in terms
OF prophesy. So with Phillips Brooks. For
thirty years each Sabbath he climbed up
into the Mount of TRANSPORTATION and stood
face TO face with the Master, and so stand
ing, his countenance became whittier than
any futlers earth could make IT,
Phillips Brooks had a message and he
made its delivery the work Of his life. One
day young minister sidled up 10 him with
1ae messsge per 70 ns to-da8S M@sSaee %st your
sage" was the reply. Il never had but one
message-Jesus Christ" And this was the
open secret Of his power. To IL he conse-
Grated his majestic body. his imperial intel
| lect, and his unmatched personality. From
| the day when he stepped out Of the school
room at Alexandria into one OF Philadel-
| phia's choice pulpits, and then TO Boston
| for over thirty years. whether before Queen
| Victoria or at some working girls half
hour Monday prayer meeting, he exerted
| all his powers equally. He was always
| dead in earnest He never delivered essays,
| but sermons He never allowed himself 10
| be made the figurehead OF some fashionable
| fad Scandal or gossip never touched him.
| He was not ruined as so many brilliant
men are by miscellany. Profoundly versed
| in theology he always preached religion.
/ There is as much difference between theolo-
| gy and religion as between a garden OF
| flowers and botany, or between a living
| child and a marble statue OF that child.
| He was always evangelical, never scholas-
| tic He never argued or ''recOnciled science
/ and religion" He believed that Christ was
| God made flesh. and that man was created
| I'm Gods image and his lifework was "a
| bring the one 10 the other. Do you want
| his creed? Turn TO the Sunday-school
| hymn, "Oh, Little Town OF Bethlehem"
/ But the best OF Phillips Brooks remains
| to be told. He was Christlike man Ar
anecdote will illustrate this far better thar
any feeble words Of nina ,Wssl candidate