Putnam patriot., 1911-08-04
Rev. Charles s. Brooks

lFrom "The Townsman,n Wellesley, | Mass, July 2l, l9ll.1
 Funeral services for Rev. Charles S. | Brooks were held at the home on Sat urday last at two ?. m. A large mum Der of clergymen, neighbofs, friends and representatives from various churches over which MT. Brooks had
 presided were present, some of them coming from far away to show the es- teem in which the deceased was held. Two of MT. Brooks favorite hymns,
 'Lead Kindly Light and "Rock of
 Ages, were sung by Dr. Charles F..
 Taylor. Rev. Lewis w, Hicks, of
 Wellesley, read the following bio
 graphical sketch.
 Charles Sylvester Brooks WAS born
 in New Braintree, Mass, January l9,
 lSI0, which place was his home up to,
 and during his college days. His prep
 aration for college was completed at WilIistou Seminary, Easthampton, Mass. He entered Williams College
 with the class of 1863, but remained there only two years, owing to cer- | tain unsoug for advantage which was offered him provided he would consent 10 complete his college course | at Amherst, He was duly graduated | from the latter college, and from 1864 | to 1866 was principal of high and grammar school at Rockland, in this state. He then spent three years al | Andover Theological Seminary, grad uaLing there in l>69. His ordination | to the Christian ministry and first in. l stallation over a church occurred in | ryngs sboro, Mass, the fifteenth Of sep temoer, IS69, when he became pastor l Of the Evangelical Congregational | Church of that place, where he remain | ed for nearly three years. In 1878 he accepted call to the Congregational Church in South Deertield, in the same stale, whose pastorate he filled until 1877. From 1877 to 1887 he was pastor of the large and influential church of Putnam, Conn, and from 1887 to 1896 filled the pastorate of the Rollstone | Congregational Church at Fiichburg, Mass. While in the latter place he
 was instrumental in adding nearly three hundred members to the church,
 leaving il with membership of five hundred and forty seven. The benev- | olent contributions during those years
 of faithful service, including legacies
 and the home expenses, aggregating
 nearly s9O, ,o00. l well recall the trio
 ute which a member of that titchburg | Church paid Mr. Brooks two or three | years ago, when l was entertained for
 Sunday al his house, telling me of | the wonderful way in which for nine years his former pastor maintained,
 without al once letting himself down,
 high standard of servIce in behalf of that tiourishing church. IL seemed to
 him narpei that one could thus have | always lived up 10 so high mark. In 1898 MT. Brooks was called to the
 pastorste of the First Congregational | Church of Mount Vernon, New York. He accepted the call and moved thith- CT; but owing to i'll health was able to serve the church for only short time.
 After a period of nearly two years o. invalidism he was enabled 10 resume pulpit work, but never thereafter felt equal to the full duties of & settled pas torate. But though debarred from the full work of settled minister, he was
 enabled to supply various prominent palpits for longer or shorter periods up
 % nearly two years ago; to the great
 satisfaction of those who were privi-
 ledged 10 hear him, and to evident joy,
 on his part, that be could hold forth