Phillips Brooks' Addresses: With Introduction (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Phillips Brooks' Addresses: With IntroductionPhillips brooks never Spoke on public occa sions without saying something notable. His Lenten addresses at Trinity Church were so good that people hung upon his lips for the simplest word that he uttered. When he went to New York to give addresses in the venerable old Trinity Church at the head of Wall Street, it seemed as if the whole financial world was eager to crowd into that ancient edifice and hear of its duties and have pointed out its way to the king dom of heaven by this greatest of modern evan gelists. Phillips Brooks had the rare faculty of never speaking nonsense: he never gushed in religion; he always respected the inborn nobil ity of men and addressed himself to a sinner as if he were a child of God. This accounts for.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.