| Show IATMUTIIIUUUOOKS II i SCHOLARLY POIBST AND A LOVABLC MAN Ifl rr nr III life ea loll by IhcTlllngt Mtl1 1 ml 1 Ihu b the lltrrlle no I KlMm Ttirnoglinut Two CunlliirnH ItohMXl In Ibolua 1 Reproduced from Mar a Weekly fey ptrmlsulnn Oopyi IsN bilK Harper At Ilrotnera IlrotneraUK late Arthiit Ilrooks had been Jc r long 1 Known us one t of the most scholarly I JL scholar-ly and effective pulpit 0 pul-pit orators of AmerIca + Amer-ica and one of Inn lI moat successful fifes c priests of the Kpls Vet 1 copal Church He elJI had been a rector at Vllllnniiport In tenns hauls at Chicago and for twen ly years ho was the rector of the Chimh of the Incarnation In Now York city He was known not only In the cities where ho administered his prleMly office of-fice and In Holloa and Cambridge where he WM born and educated but I throughout the ecclesiastical world and on both tides of the ocean i Doctor Hrooks WM born in flow I street lloaton July 12 m He wai the son of William O and Mary Ann Phillip Ilroohs Atttr being graduated grad-uated nt the n eton Latin School < < In usa he entered Harvard Cottage and = = i woe graduated In tho class of 1SC7 After this ho studied for a ear at Andover An-dover Theological Seminary Then he went to the Hplscopal Theological Krmlnory In Philadelphia being grad iinted In 1S70 In the same year ho was ordained n deacon at old 1 Trinity Summer Sum-mer street Iloiton ot which hit brother Phllllpi Ilrooks wni then tha rector 110 was presented by another brother Frederick Ilrooks Ho nt onco took charge of Trinity Church Wll llamtport Pa and was there In October Oc-tober 1870 ordained as priest It was TUB LATE AllTHLTl IIIIOOKS there also that he married Mlia Illta beth W Wlllnrd After three years service In Wllllamiport ho was coiled to St James Church Chicago under circumstances of peculiar nrmculty The city had been swept by Its great fire and upon Dr Ilrooks fell the labor of rebuilding the church After this work had been successfully accomplished In 1370 he was called to succeed tbo Ilsv Henry 1 Montgomery I I In the rectorhip of the Church of the Incarnation Incar-nation In Now York city Ho found I the church perplexed by debts but It was not long before they were paid There were elements In tho character j of Arthur Ilrooks that peculiarly filled him for Ibo charge which he had undertaken un-dertaken and which brought to the church tho congregation that relieved I the parish of Its dlfflcultleK In the first place he was a great preacher I not a popular preacher In the common acceptation of that phrase but one whit 1 appealed to strong and trained mind The men of his own and other learned professions loved to listen to him They admired his ripe scholarship and hls remarkable power ot analyst and synthesis As a friend remarked ot him He tore apart nd put toether with a kill that 1 have never known equaled Ills preaching power had apparently not reached Ita fall development develop-ment when he died for during the taut year It was more effective I and appareni than It had ever been before As the head of n parish Doctor llreoks dUplnynd great nilmlnlHrntUo ability and n wonderful care and latent for detail Scholarly tastes oratorical power and business capacity have seldom been combined aa they were In Doctor freaks and the condition In which he left his own and his churchs affair bears I testimony to a painstaking painstak-ing skill thai would do crttlll to n trained man of business He was nn oldfashioned 1 churchman More iHYbaps than al any other church I In New York the l tll < < pal service WHS read and aung at the Church of the In I carnation after a fashion that WM dls I tlnct from modern eccleilaitlelstn It I was comlneud as loctor tlrooke himself I him-self I MW soil heard It lit bis boyhood In old I Ht fouls I In lloaton I and M many I of the elders of his congregation remember re-member Its ministration In the days when HI Georges WM In lleektnim I street and when a noble simplicity reigned |
