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Bishop Brooks was born in Boston in 1835, and was a graduate of the Boston Latin School, of Harvard College, and of the Episcopal Theological Seminary at Alexandria, Virginia. In 1859 he became rector of the Church of the Advent in Philadelphia, and in 1862 of the Church of the Holy Trinity, also in Philadelphia. He came to Boston in 1869 as rector of Trinity Church, and continued there until his death in 1893. For the last two years of that period he had the additional office of Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church of Massachusetts...
...accordance with the principles of the Divinity School the Review will be unsectarian in doctrine. It will seek to maintain a spirit at once catholic and scientific in sympathy with the aims and activities of the church as well as with scholarly investigation. It will aim to be of interest not only to clergymen and professional scholars, but also to all who are interested in religious thought...
...will be open to the public, will be: greeting on behalf of the Harvard Divinity Faculty, by Dean W. W. Fenn '84; response by some member of the Council; annual business meeting of the Council, consisting of a discussion on two questions: "Our State Campaign, with the motto, 'Some Church Responsible for Each Square Mile,'" and "The Readjustment of Missionary Work--How Far Necessary and Possible?" The afternoon meeting will close with an address by the Rev. R. G. Boville, national director of Vacation Bible Schools, on "A New and Needed Line of Co-operation...
...evening session of the Federation will be held in the Shepard Congregational Church, Cambridge. The following addresses will be given: "The Hague-Tribunal of the Churches," by Rev. G. E. Hall, D.D., president of the New Hampshire Interdenominational Commission: "The Chamber of Churches--a Business Proposition," by Rev. Edward Holyoke, D.D., and "A Poet's Vision," by Rev. O. P. Gifford, D.D., pastor of the Brookline Baptist Church...
Bishop Brent, who has been chosen to deliver this important series of lectures, was born in 1862, and was graduated from Trinity College of the University of Toronto. He was ordained a deacon in the Protestant Episcopal Church in 1886, and a priest in 1887. During 1887 he was assistant minister of St. Paul's Cathedral, Buffalo, and in the following year he came to Boston and entered the clergy-house of St. John the Evangelist, which was in charge of the Cowley Fathers. In 1891, on the dissolution of this order, he was taken into the mission church...