Life and Letters of Phillips Brooks, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)

The year 1865 was memorable in tlie history of the republic, memorable also in the experience of Phillips Brooks. In connection with the closing scenes of the war, its victories and its tragedies alike, his personal power reached the climax of its influence and eloquent expression. He had become so identified with the national life that other interests, his family, his parish, might seem to be in the backgroimd of his consciousness. But the home correspondence went on undiminished in frequency and interest. Incidents also were occurring of no slight importance in his successful career as a parish minister. First among these was the completion of his scheme for endowing a professorship in the Divinity School. The contributors to the fund had met, and given to Mr. Brooks the power to nominate the incumbent of the position. On Epiphany Day, he sent to the trustees the name of Rev. D. L. Goodwin, then provost of the University of Pennsylvania, and a few days later he waited on Dr. Goodwin in company with Mr. John Bohlen and the Rev. Dr. Howe, to inform him of his election. On that piece of work he felicitated himself, then and afterwards, as something good to have done. Early in the year there came to him two urgent calls from parishes in San Francisco, one to a church with fine prospects, but still in its beginnings, and another from Grace Church, whose rectorship, made vacant by the resignation of Bishop Kip, was offered to him, with the inducements of the finest church building on the Pacific coast or west of the VOL.
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