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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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a man of mind, intelledlual doubt waswell known to him. As he fought for the mastery of hisphysical powers, so he fought for his intellecftual freedom.There was a stage in his development when poets ap-pealed to his imaginative nature as his principal precep-tors. Tennyson helped him to weather one storm in hisearlier life. Such poems as the Two Voices, theHigher Pantheism, and In Memoriam left anabiding mark upon his character. Later it was Brown-ing, who always speaks to men who have tried to livebreast forward, eyes upward, thought outward, whohelped to arm him for his campaigns. He was also astudent of Dante. With all his seriousness he did not lack in playfulness.Of few men can it be said more truly that he had Godin all his thoughts. But the result was not to alienatehim from the world about him. Indeed it was quite thereverse. It quickened his sympathies and enabled himto find recreation in everything he undertook. He wasnever given to athletics, partly by accident, partly for
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THE REV. HENRY YATES SATTERLEE, D.D. Redor of Zion Church, Wappingers Falls 1875) MINISTRY AT WAPPINGERS FALLS 27 the very reason just mentioned. He was neither a goodwalker nor a good climber, though he loved to ramble withhis son looking for botanical specimens. Music was littleshort of a passion with him. The reason why chessattradled him was because he could wholly lose himselfin it, and furthermore because he was keenly interestedin strategy. Then, too, chess is much like work. He had natural piety. God as the moral governor ofthe universe brought him in adoration and homage tohis knees. He frequently found Gods voice where otherscould hear only confused noises or echoes. The secretof his life was that habit of prayer, formed in boyhood,to which he solemnly committed himself at ordinationuntil, in a true sense, he prayed without ceasing. Noth-ing was too small or unimportant, nothing too extensiveor unwieldy, to talk to God about — the weather, apossible reunion with a friend,

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