John Cotton BrooksUniversity Press, 1909 - 187 Seiten |
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Alexander H Andover Theological Seminary assistant attend Bishop Boston bring Brooks family brother Phillips called cause wherefore ye chancel CHAPTER Christ Church Christian confirmation consecration Daniel Dulany Addison dear death debt devoted Diocese Episcopal Church faith father feel felt Friendly Society friendship gave girls God's graduation Harvard College hearts humor influence inspiration interest Jesus Christ John Brooks John Cotton Brooks Judge Phillips knew later letter lives Mary Ann Phillips Massachusetts Medford meetings minister ministry Miss Brooks months mother needed never once parish house parishioners pastoral Paul's Church Phillips Brooks Phoebe Foxcroft preached rector rector of St sermons showed sorrow spent spirit Springfield strong Sunday school talk tell things thought thousand dollars tion to-day Trinity Church Union Relief Association Vinton Watertown William Gray Brooks words wrote young
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Seite 134 - Then Peter went down to the men which were sent unto him from Cornelius ; and said, Behold, I am he whom ye seek : what is the cause wherefore ye are come?
Seite 187 - There the tears of earth are dried ; There its hidden things are clear ; There the work of life is tried By a juster Judge than here. Father, in Thy gracious keeping Leave we now Thy servant sleeping.
Seite 139 - Immediately therefore I sent to thee ; and thou hast well done that thou art come. Now therefore are we all here present before God, to hear all things that are commanded thee of God.
Seite 55 - ... it was pleasant to learn all about Commencement up among these wretches who never heard of Harvard. In London everything was pleasant. Stanley was very devoted, and put us in the way of seeing lots of pleasant sights. I preached for him in the Abbey on the 4th of July, and was quite shamed with the way in which Farrar in the afternoon outsaid everything that I possibly could have said about America. Then I went down to Windsor and preached for Mrs. Victoria and her queer company in the castle,...
Seite 54 - From Scotland he wrote of his intimate friend Dean Stanley and of his experience in preaching to the Queen. Scotland, 1890 Your letter reached me a day or two ago, and it was pleasant to learn all about Commencement up among these wretches who never heard of Harvard. In London everything was pleasant. Stanley was very devoted, and put us in the way of seeing lots of pleasant sights. I preached for him in the Abbey on the 4th of July, and was quite shamed with the way in which Farrar in the afternoon...
Seite 129 - Thus the earnestness of my life ought to consist in this, that I do my duty, and not only do it, but in my sentiments become like the law. I am not only to do good, but myself to be good. I am to follow
Seite iv - God had called him. For nearly a quarter of a century he labored to remove the debt. Meanwhile he succeeded in building up Christ Church, until it became at the time of his death the second largest Episcopal parish in New England. The secret of his success was his pastoral love. He knew his people, and...
Seite 54 - Here are John and I, way up in the Highlands, with everything redolent of heather and broom and gillies and pibrochs and burns and tarns and the " Princess of Thule,
Seite 21 - ... Mr. Phillips was married to Hannah White of Haverhill, January 7, 171'2. She died January 11, 1773, in the eighty-second year of her age. They had five children — three sons and two daughters. The eldest son, Samuel, was born February 13, 1715, and was graduated at Harvard College in 1734. He was a member of the House of Representatives, and of the Council of the Commonwealth, and the founder, in connection with one of his brothers, of the Academy at Andover which bears his name. He was married...