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Brooks (PHILLIPS an American clergyman)

PHILLIPS, an American clergyman of the Episcopal Church, born in Boston, Dec. 13, 1835. He was rector of Protestant Episcopal churches successively in Philadelphia and in Boston, and was made Bishop of Massachusetts in 1891. He was an impressive pulpit orator. He wrote "Letters of Travel"; "Lectures on Preaching" (1887); and "Essays and Addresses" (1894). He died in Boston, Jan. 23, 1893.

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