Word: heartly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...preacher Phillips Brooks was most conspicuous, for here he was unique. He did not copy, he could not be copied. He entered little into questions of doctrine; his aim was to open the windows of man's heart, and leave it better than he found it. Though not pretending to the art of elocution, he held all men's attention, and for that all elocution strives. He could preach because he liked to preach. Whenever he spoke, whether to high or low, he always ennobled his hearers. He cared not for creed or doctrinal controversy so long as he could...
...erection and maintenance of a Phillips Brooks House, which is carefully explained in the letter from Mr. Abbott, published in another column should commend itself to everyone as an excellent opportunity to complete a work in which Dr. Brooks himself was so much interested, and for which he was, heart and soul, ready to do anything that he could. The few extracts from letters of his sufficiently show the warm interest he had in the matter. It is especially appropriate that active work in such a memorial should begin with his classmates and their generous subscription of ten thousand dollars...
...work made us feel free to call upon him at all times, though this did not lesson the sense of our indebtedness to him. We have told before how opposed he was at first to the system of voluntary worship, and of how on more mature thought he turned heart and soul toward securing us our present method. When we consider all this and begin to realize how enwrapped he was in all that tended to our good, we cannot think of a more fitting tribute than to erect the new religious building to testify the deep love we have...
...Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, died at his home on Clarendon Street, Boston, yesterday morning. His death was caused by heart failure...
...that he graduated in '55, that class which contains such other names as Alexander Agassiz, Robert Treat Paine and Theodore Lyman. His interest in his university did not end at graduation, but ever since, he has not only kept a warm place for his Alma Mater in his great heart, but by his efforts has contributed, and contributed largely to the advancement of Harvard manliness. His affection for his class and college is shown in this short extract from a characteristic note written to his class secretary, " I shall certainly be at commencement, and shall not miss the dinner...