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Brooks is best known today as the author of "O Little Town of
Bethlehem." Former generations, however, accounted him the
greatest American preacher of the nineteenth century (and not for
lack of other candidates). His sermons are still read.
He was born in
Boston in 1835 and educated at Harvard and at Virginia Theological
Seminary. After ten years of ministry at two churches in
Philadelphia, he returned to Boston in 1869 and was rector of
Trinity Church there until 1891. He was then elected Bishop of
Massachusetts, and died two years later.
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