Word: offing
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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Dr. G. A. Gordon of Boston, said that it seemed strange to call the attention of any Harvard man to the great figure of Phillips Brooks. In speaking of the man as a preacher, it is worthy of note that Bishop Brooks was disappointing to one who heard him for...
Rev. Endicott Peabody spoke of Phillips Brooks as a friend. His simplicity invited people, who might have felt a certain reticence in going to other great men, to seek him as a friend. Bishop Brooks was not interested in talking about himself, but he poured out his whole soul in...
Dr. Hall, the next speaker, said that one of the problems Phillips Brooks had to face was the unnatural relationship of religion to morals,--the relationship of speculative to practical religion. This same relationship between speculative religion and the simple way of living had existed for ages, and it was...
Phillips Brooks was essentially human in his character. He was easily provoked to righteous anger; but at the bottom of his character there was an infinite sweetness. It was in the great prayer in July, 1865, in commemoration and thanksgiving for those Harvard men, who had taken part in the...
Dr. F. G. Peabody, the last speaker, said that our purpose in religious meetings was religious unity and a continuance of religious unity. In this movement the first step is easy, the second difficult. What we want to do is to keep a movement on foot, and establish a tendency...