Phillips Brooks: L'uomo, il predicatore, e l'autore inseguito sulla 'Stima'. Umbly de-pendent sulla rivelazione del theighest dentro. Molto caratteristico dell'uomo wasa piccola scena che lo scrittore ricorda hanno testimoniato, una sera all'inizio dell'estate, sul centro commerciale Commonricco Avenue a Boston. Il greatpreacher era sauntering giù thewalk nel conversare serio con afriend, o almeno conoscente. 14 PHILLIPS BROOKS, la cui mano teneva nella sua, e aleggiava con affetto mentre parlava, così come i bambini oscillano le mani e parlano. Il suo compagno, che era noto allo scrittore come un uomo noto, non molto

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Phillips Brooks: the man, the preacher, and the authorBased on the "Estimate" . umbly de-pendent upon the revelation of thehighest within. Very characteristic of the man wasa little scene the writer remembersto have witnessed, one evening inearly summer, on the CommonwealthAvenue mall in Boston. The greatpreacher was sauntering down thewalk in earnest converse with afriend, or at least acquaintance. 14 PHILLIPS BROOKS. whose hand he held in his, and wasaffectionately swinging as he talked— just as children swing hands andtalk. His companion, who wasknown to the writer as a man noto-riously not all unworldly and a saint, though of average size, looked a mereboy beside his own heroic proportions.Brooks was expostulating with himin regard to some point on which heevidently wished to change him, andhis big, convincing, zvinuing, Non-sense — nonsense, Edward — put itaside — you know it is not so, sounded very hard to resist. It isnot always argument with him, butoftentimes the pressure brought tobear of a well-nigh irresistible mag-netism and potent personality.. WILLIAM GRA-i BROOKS- FATHER OF PHILLIPS FROOKS. PHILLIPS BROOKS. 15 It is amusingly told of -him (andit illustrates the modesty of the man)by one of his clergy, who is rectorof a suburban Boston parish, and inwhose church he frequently preaches— on which occasions the pews over-flow, settees are placed in the aisles, and all the available interstices areoccupied by people standing — thatalways, after the service, he says, with the utmost good faith, Grey, what a splendid congregation youhave ! It apparently never entershis head to imagine that that is notthe usual condition of things in thatchurch, when preachings are afoot. Another story told of him by hisfriend Archdeacon Farrar illustratesthe same trait. When wonder was

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