Identifier: reminiscencesofb00pott (find matches)
Title: Reminiscences of bishops and archbishops
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Potter, Henry Codman, 1834-1908
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Publisher: New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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y of Virginia in the autumn of 1856.At that time the seminary was overcrowded,not only the main building (of which there isan admirable picture in the Rev. Dr. A. V. G.Allens Life and Letters of Phillips Brooks,and which has, long since, disappeared) butanother called St. Johns in the Wilderness,occupied by the students, and buried amongthe trees that, before the Civil War, crownedthe seminary hill, being filled to the top.It was to the top that young Brooks, whoseheight approximated to six feet and four inches,was relegated; and, when I found him there,he could not stand up straight. Nearly thirtyyears after, when I had become Bishop of NewYork, at an alumni dinner of the VirginiaSeminary, Dr. Brooks told the story of hisextrication from that dilemma, and concludedwith expressing the hope that Henry Potterwould continue to help men to stand upstraight; as, he might have added, St. Paul The Right Reverend Doctor PhilHps Brooks,Bishop of Massachusetts. From the engraving by A. B. Hall.
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3Bisbop Broofts 145 had done at Lystra (Acts xiv., 10). In theImpressions of Phillips Brooks^hy Dr. Richards,to which I have already referred, the writertells the story of that somewhat monasticlife to which a young school-teacher who hadnot found it his vocation to govern unrulyboys turned, when he recognised his call tothe ministry. It cannot be pretended that hefound in the Virginia Seminary a congenialintellectual atmosphere. By a fortunate coin-cidence, he enjoyed, there, the friendship oftwo men,—Charles A, L. Richards and GeorgeA. Strong, who were, all his life long, perhapshis closest friends, and whose wide culture andscholarly tastes were to him like a draught ofcool water to parched lips. But, otherwise, theatmosphere in which he found himself inVirginia was quite unlike that which he hadleft behind him in Massachusetts; and thegreat majority of his fellow-students in theseminary, instead of admiring, or appreciat-ing, his varied reading and classical culture,accounted bo

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