Brooks, Phillips
clergyman, bishop, author, was born Dec. 13, 1835, in Boston, Mass. He was the sixth protestant episcopal bishop of Massachusetts. He was rector of Holy Trinity church at Philadelphia in 1862- 69; and of Trinity church, Boston, from 1869 until his consecration as bishop in 1891. He was a leader of broad church opinion, but had no hostility towards forms of thought opposed to his. For many years before his death he had been accounted the foremost preacher in America. He was the author of The Influence of Jesus; Lectures on Preaching; The Candle of the Lord and Other Sermons; The Light of the World and Other Sermons; Sermons in English Churches; Twenty Sermons; Sermons for the Principal Festivals and Fasts; Tolerance; A Century of Church Growth in Boston; Essays and Addresses; Letters of Travel; and The Oldest School in America. O Little Town of Bethlehem is a popular poem by him. He died Jan. 23, 1893, in Boston, Mass.