Phillips Brooks 1835 1893 Memories of His Life With Extracts From His Letters
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His address before the Boston Latin School had shown that he could make history as real to the imagination as the passing event of the day. He now made thorough preparation for what was to be small in its seeming result. He sought for light on the personality of every name. He studied the data in the history of each parish, scanning its reports for the symptoms of life, however feeble its outward existence. Nothing seemed small or unworthy. But he kept in full view the larger life of the time i...n order to give the true setting. There breaks forth, now and then, a sense of humor at the situation. After going through the records of the episco- pates of Bass, Parker, Griswold, and Eastburn, he sighs. "O for a touch of genius!" Mr. Brooks had been requested by his brother to make some inquiries while in England in regard to clergy who were said to have accomplished successful results in holding missions. In carrying out the request he had become interested in the subject for himself. But it was with hesitation, and only after misgiv- ings overcome, that he committed himself to approving the idea which the mission involved.
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