A Memorial of Phillips Brooks From the City of Boston
A Memorial of Phillips Brooks From the City of Boston
Boston (Mass.). City Council
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" The great man," says Emerson, and it is not in contradiction to Phillips Brooks' definition already given, while quite apposite to the individuality we are attempting to describe, — " the great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the serenity of solitude," That he of whom we are now speaking should have kept the serenity of solitude, was not in the least inconsistent with his service to society. On the contrary, he could not have served those around him as h...e did, but for the command of his resources which solitude, or shall we say self-possession, gave him. He insists, in his "Lectures on Preaching," on the paramount impor- tance of personality. " Suppose," he says, " Truth written in the sky, suppose it embodied in a book which has been so long held in reserve as the di- rect utterance of God that the vivid personality of the men who wrote its pages has well nigh faded out of it;" and then he declares, there can be no preaching. " Truth must come really through the Digitized by Google THE EULOGY.
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