the War was declared he threw himself passionately into the cause
of the Union. Yet his affection for his Southern classmates, men from
whom he so widely differed, broadened that charity that was one of his
finest characteristics, a charity that respected conviction
wherever found.

No man, in truth, ever did so much to remove prejudice against a Church
that had never been popular in New England. To the old Puritan dislike
of Episcopacy and distrust of the English Church as that of the
oppressors of the colony, was added a sense of resentment toward its
sacerdotal claims and its assumption of ecclesiastical supremacy. But he
nevertheless protested against the claim by his own communion to the
title of "The American Church," he preached occasionally in other
pulpits, he even had among his audiences clergymen of other
denominations, and he was able to reconcile men of different creeds into
concord on what is essential in all. The breadth and depth of his
teaching attracted so large a following that he increased the strength
of the Episcopal Church in America far more than he could have done by
carrying on an active propaganda in its behalf. Under his pastorate
Trinity Church, Boston, became the centre of some of the most vigorous
Christian activity in America.

His first charge was the Church of the Advent, in Philadelphia; in two
years he became rector of Holy Trinity Church in the same city. In 1869
he was called to Trinity Church, Boston, of which he was rector until
his election as bishop of Massachusetts in 1891.

It is impossible to give an idea of Phillips Brooks without a word about
his personality, which was almost contradictory. His commanding figure,
his wit, the charm of his conversation, and a certain boyish gayety and
naturalness, drew people to him as to a powerful magnet. He was one of
the best known men in America; people pointed him out to strangers in
his own city as they pointed out the Common and the Bunker Hill
monument. When he went to England, where he preached before the Queen,
men and women of all classes greeted him as a friend. They thronged the
churches where he preached, not only to hear him but to see him. Many
stories are told of him; some true, some more or less apocryphal, all
proving the affectionate sympathy existing between him and his kind. It
was said of him that as soon as he entered a pulpit he was absolutely
impersonal. There was no trace of individual experience or theological