Word: devout
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...enthusiastic work among the colored people, for whom he built St. Augustine's Chapel. In 1901 at the General Episcopal Convention he was elected first, bishop of the Philippine Islands, and was consecrated in January, 1902. His work in the Philippines has been marked by the same simple, devout earnestness that had been shown in his stay in Boston, and he has been instrumental in building up the church among the natives and foreigners of the islands to a high point of efficiency...
...with one talent, in Christ's parable, was perhaps devout enough in thought, but he did nothing; if he had any religion he kept it to himself, and made it useless. Full and complete religion is the realization that one has his mission of work to do for God, and the determination to do it earnestly, hopefully and with consecrated spirit...
Close consideration of the matter shows that the good man and the devout man are the same in many particulars. We may even say with much reason that the whole substance of morality is religion; yet it is easier to see the truth of this than the cause of it. The secret is this: moral obligations, unlike others, are universal and unlimited; and hence we cannot help feeling the close connection, almost the coincidence, of our moral selves with a higher being that oversees these obligations...
...interests. His note-books show that he was a much deeper man than even his most intimate friends realized. Without any of the eccentricities of genius, Phillips Brooks stood out as the great normal man, beside whom others seemed small. He was always an optimist, because he was a devout Christian, and he was always ready to pour this spirit into men who were lacking in religion. Though successful in influencing many people, it was his great regret that he could not reach the hearts of all Harvard men with the Gospel...