Identifier: masterbuilderb00bren (find matches)
Title: A master builder, being the life and letters of Henry Yates Satterlee, first bishop of Washington
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Brent, Charles Henry, Bp., 1862-1929
Subjects: Satterlee, Henry Yates, Bp., 1843-1908
Publisher: New York, London (etc.) Longmans, Green and Co.
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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e rules which you have so wisely made for your-self in writing it. I am not clear in my own mind about this, and I simplythrow it out as a suggestion. What do you think? Regarding this aftermath, in considering it, and looking atit out of the eyes of a young student, I feel that this might alsomake an impression. A young man would be very apt to sayto himself, if this is the way in which a young clergyman whois unknown to the world, is living most earnestly, and attract-ing the attention of Bishops and others, I might gain the samekind of recognition in my future work. I think, however, that if the aftermath is published at all,it ought to be distindtly separate and appear in smaller type. It was wisely decided to let the book go forth withoutemploying the doubtful expedient of a preface from an-other hand. To his daughter-in-law the Bishop said: TO MRS. CHURCHILL SATTERLEE Dear Lellie: Let us try all that we can to perfedl thisbiography. I echo Schuylers words since my visit South, I
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THE REV. CHURCHILL SATTERLEEAND HIS SON iQos) CHIAROSCURO 281 have come to realize Churchills greatness in a way I, his ownfather, had never known. I feel as though I know Churchillnow, better than I ever did in his life time. Long after the book had vi^on its way into the lives ofits readers, Bishop Satterlee, on his last Christmas Eveon earth, wrote to the author: TO THE REV. H. SCHUYLER Dec. 24, 1907. — I will not take the bloom off your peach,especially at this Xmas time, though I am sorely tempted todo so. I never gave a second thought to what I advanced for thebook, I only thought of my deep gratitude for you for writingit, and whatever royalty came back, I feel ought to go to you.But after your letter (returning me the cheque), with youraffedlionate delicacy, I cannot return it a second time. Andon this Christmas Eve, I am writing with a very full heart toyou, my dear boy. You have enriched my life by your life of Churchill, by whichhe, being dead, yet speaketh. Every now and

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