country is a virtue close akin to the older loyalty to idealized personages -to kings, queens, and princes which the families connected with this church illustrated in the midst of an unsympathetic community.

Finally, the conservatism of this church makes her scattered children very tender toward her; for when they return to her at rare intervals they find her unchanged. Religious opinions and practices may have undergone rapid transformations in the outer world; we who have been separated from the old church may have changed our own views; but we come back hither to find the harbor just as we left it, and as our fathers knew it. The world could not spare its adventurers and pioneers; but for one pioneer it needs a thousand conservers, in order that all the good the past has won or the present wins may be held fast and safely transmitted. As a rule, the conserver is more lovable than the critic or the pioneer. This church is a conserver.

THE MINISTER then said: "The great communion of the Episcopal Church in America has its share in these traditions, and its members are partakers in the early memories of this Chapel. It was therefore hoped that it might have been possible for the Right Reverend Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts to be with us. to-day as its official head; have called him elsewhere. who will now speak to us, sentative of that communion, but as the minister of a church which sprang from this in the early days.”

but his official engagements The rector of Trinity Church, comes not alone as the repre

ADDRESS.

BY THE REV. PHILLIPS BROOKS, D.D.,

Rector of Trinity Church.

DURING the past seventeen years I have owed a great many of the pleasures which I have enjoyed to my connection with Trinity Church. I owe the privilege of being here to-day, and the fact that I am the rector of that church, to a certain scene which took place on a bright April morning in the year 1734, when Mr. Commissary Price, who was then rector of King's Chapel, went down to the corner of Summer Street and Bishop's Alley and laid the corner-stone of Trinity Church. One year after that time, at the same place, in the building which had been erected during the year, the services of Trinity Church were inaugurated by a service held and a sermon preached by the same Mr. Commissary Price; and the life of the new church at once began, under the rectorship of Rev. Addington Davenport, who up to that time had been in some way associated with the services in King's Chapel, but who then became the first minister of Trinity Church. And so our histories are bound together.

Mr. Davenport is now to us a very dim and misty person, but everything that we learn of him is altogether to his credit; and he gave at once to the services that were held at Trinity Church and to that new parish a very dignified and honorable position. He stands to us now mainly as a link to con

nect the lives of the two parishes, and to let us feel that we belong to the same line of succession to which the parishioners of King's Chapel belong.

When one has a happy life, he feels thankful to those who gave him a chance to live that life. And when a parish has lived the happy life which Trinity Church has lived, while trying in its way and time to do some useful work, it is thankful to those who gave it the beginning of its existence and the opportunity to do that work; and so we are thankful to those from whom you sprang, and from whom we sprang, that they founded Trinity Church in that year 1734.

We

I have tried to think what is the real relationship between the King's Chapel of to-day and the Trinity Church to which you have given your invitation. It is not easy to fasten it. It is not simply that you are the mother-church and we are the daughterchurch. It is something like the relation which has come to exist between the life of our own country and the life of the England across the seas. talk in a pleasant way about England being the mother-country and of this country of ours being the daughter-country; but when we come to examine this and to study the relationship, we find that we have not stated it exactly as it is. The England of to-day is not the mother of which the United States is the daughter. The England of to-day and the United States of America are sister nations; and the mother of us both lies two centuries back, in the rich life of the seventeenth century, out of which we and so much of the best

of English life have sprung. England is the daughter who has remained at home; we are the daughter who has gone abroad. We are not her daughter, and she is not our mother.

So it is is it not?- with reference to the relation which exists between your parish and the parish which I have the pleasure of representing. We are both the children of that peculiar English lifethe life of the English Church transported to this land and planted here which has been so felicitously described to us this afternoon. You are daughters of that history; we are daughters of that history, not of a daughter parish.

Let us look for a moment on the face of our mother. She does not shine in the history of America. The attempt to establish the English Church in the colony of Massachusetts in those older days was not a successful, happy, nor shining part of our history; and yet I am sure that there was something that passed from it into the mental, ecclesiastical, social, and perhaps even the political life of America which it would be a pity to have lost. Our mother, the English Church, trying to establish herself in the colonies, came somewhat awkwardly, as might have been expected. She tried to plant herself in the midst of an antagonism that made her awkward and ungraceful in her coming. But she did bring with her something of that profound reverence for the past, something of that deep sense of religious order, something which she had clung to as the true form of devotion, something which had all the