Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Phillips Brooks House was formally dedicated and transferred to the University yesterday afternoon. The exercises took place in Peabody Hall, and opened with a prayer by Mr. R. T. Paine '55. Bishop Lawrence then spoke on what the building stood for. He said that it stood for the power of Phillips Brooks. In his early life Phillips Brooks was not a leader, and he failed completely as a teacher, so that his later power seems almost a gift from the Almighty. This power had its source in his knowledge, love and worship of God. The power became his, because...
Phillips Brooks was, first of all, a preacher; and then a poet. If he had lived he might have been an administrator. One of his greatest powers was that of spontaneous prayer. With bowed head he would rapidly repeat some favorite passage; and then, throwing back his head, burst into thanksgiving, glowing and unbounded. His influence on undergraduates resulted from his diverse interests and his power to apply himself to little things. Not one of the officers of the University failed to feel the man's force and personality...
Among the passages quoted in illustration and explanation of the topic were Henry's stirring speech to his soldiers on the eve of the battle of Agincourt, and his prayer and exhortation the next morning, just before opening the battle with the French...
Vesper service will be held this afternoon at five o'clock in Appleton Chapel. The musical programme will be as follows: "Give Unto the Lord," by H. W. Parker; "Blessed are They," and "Prayer" by Torti...