A Phillips Brooks Anecdote

At tbe dinner given in his honor in Fhiíadelphia Dr. McVickar, the bishop coadjutor of Rhode Island, told this charaoteristic anecdote of the late Phillips Brooks: "I reniember a few years ago I was traveling with one of the grandest bishops and one of the grandest men of the century. I was saunter ing with him f rom chnrch in Lucerna, in Switzerland, and he said something so boyish and fresh, just as he was ever wout to do. I stopped and looked at hirn and said, 'Brooks, it seenis so strange that you should be a bishop. ' He looked at me with almost a startled expression, and he.said, 'McVickar, it seems so strange to me that sometimes, when I am putting on my clothes, I have to stop and laugh. ' It was just the freshness of that man which always kept him yoüng, and which, I am sure, you will understand as I give it, for I venture to say there has never been such a bishop in ouror any other church. "