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Title: Life and letters of Phillips Brooks
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Allen, Alexander V. G. (Alexander Viets Griswold), 1841-1908
Subjects: Brooks, Phillips, 1835-1893
Publisher: New York, Dutton
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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help sending you thislittle word of gratitude at once. I hope that you are very well and very happy, as you ought tobe. Pray let me count myself, Ever sincerely your friend, Phillips Brooks. The inscription beneath the bust was written by the lateMr. Eobert C. Winthrop. There was a memorial window to Frederick Brooks, erectedby the generous kindness of Mr. C. J. Morrill, between whomand Phillips Brooks was a beautiful friendship, dating fromthe early years of his ministry. Another historical feature added to Trinity Church in 1890were the stones from St. Botolphs Church in the EnglishBoston, which now form an arched opening in the side of thecloister leading from the eastern entrance of the church toClarendon Street. It had been the original intention to sendthe stones from the central doorway in the great tower. Hadthis plan been carried out, it would have perpetuated an in-teresting memorial of Rev. John Cotton, for beneath thosestones he had gone in and out twenty years while vicar
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H c/) 5/3 In jet. 23-57) PARISH MINISTRY 795 of St. Botolphs, and a minister of the Church of Eng-land. At this point we pause for a moment to call attention to animportant feature of the parish ministry. Enough has alreadybeen said regarding the primary conviction of Phillips Brooks,which underlay his life and preaching, that all men were bynature and by grace the children of God. He held that thistruth found emphatic expression in the Book of CommonPrayer, that it was not hidden in a corner, but assigned aplace of honor and prominence in the Church Catechism, tobe taught to every child. It constituted the fundamental dif-ference between the Anglican and the Roman communions, —a truth from which the Puritan churches of the seventeenthcentury had departed, — the sonship of all humanity and theuniversal redemption. Phillips Brooks gave to this convictionsuch prominence, such force, as to make it seem like some newdiscovery. To him also it seemed an inevitable inference fromthe trut

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