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Newell Dwight Hillis was an American writer, philosopher and clergyman. He served as a pastor of the historic Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims in Brooklyn.
Background
Newell Dwight Hillis was born on September 2, 1858 at Magnolia, Iowa, United States. He was the son of Samuel Ewing and Margaret (Hester) Hillis. On his father's side he was descended from John Hillis, who settled in Chester County, Pennsylvania, about 1690, and on his mother's, from an ancestor who came to Pennsylvania from Amsterdam in 1740. When fire swept away his parents' property, the family removed to Nebraska.
Education
At Nebraska, Newell could get only a common-school education in the intervals of work on the farm. He was already an insatiable reader. He graduated at Lake Forest College, Illinois, in 1884, and in 1887, at McCormick Theological Seminary, Chicago.
Career
At the age of seventeen Hillis entered the service of the American Sunday School Union and became a successful organizer of Sunday schools and union churches in Nebraska, Utah, and Wyoming, often sleeping in dugouts and deserted log houses, sometimes in the vicinity of hostile Indians.
From 1890 to 1895 he was pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Evanston, Illinois, whence he was called, December 1894, to succeed Prof. David Swing in the pulpit of Central Church (independent), Chicago. Here he attained widening reputation as preacher and lecturer.
In 1899 he was called to Plymouth Congregational Church, Brooklyn, made famous by the pastorates of Henry Ward Beecher and Lyman Abbott, and accepted the invitation notwithstanding the strong efforts of his Chicago parishioners to retain him. The difficulties arising from changing conditions in the older part of Brooklyn he met successfully by his brilliance as a preacher and by practical contributions to social betterment. He carried to completion the Plymouth Institute, an organization for educational and recreational purposes, and secured its endowment. The stained-glass windows, which were his project, depicting great events and leaders in the history of freedom, drew weekday throngs to the church. He was greatly interested in city planning and preached a series of discourses on the duty of making cities beautiful. His illustrated lecture, "A Better America, " was used by the government during the World War and is now widely employed by patriotic agencies.
When the first Liberty Loan was announced he was selected by the group of American bankers to write the statement regarding it sent out to the American churches. In connection with each of the "drives" he toured the country, at one time being the central figure in the raising of one hundred million dollars in forty-six days, speaking three and four times a day in the cities of thirty states. The British government published one of his addresses as a war document and distributed nine million copies. A too-sanguine promotion by Hillis of investments in Canadian timber lands resulted in financial embarrassments which for several years caused him anxiety, severe criticism, and chagrin, and led to harassing lawsuits. Throughout the ordeal, however, his church stood by him loyally.
He also wrote sermons, which were reported stenographically and revised on Monday mornings. During his Plymouth pastorate of twenty-five years more than a thousand of these were printed, one each week, in the Brooklyn Eagle, a record unsurpassed except by Charles H. Spurgeon of London. Hillis delivered about a hundred lectures each year and wrote an article weekly for the press.
A cerebral hemorrhage in January 1924 terminated his active ministry; but after eight months of complete rest he was able to preach frequently and to travel somewhat extensively with his wife. He also completed a long-planned life of Christ. Among the twenty-five or more books by him, of which over a million copies have been issued, are A Man's Value to Society (1896), The Investment of Influence (1898), Great Books as Life-Teachers (1899), The Influence of Christ in Modern Life (1900), and many other works. In 1930 After Sermon Prayers of Newell Dwight Hillis was published.
Hillis felt deeply the importance of the early entrance of the United States into the war and between August 1914 and April 1917 he lectured in 250 cities on the nation's moral obligation to join the Allies, a procedure which sundered many friendships and brought him thousands of threatening letters.
Views
Hillis was a supporter of eugenics.
Quotations:
"Our world is a college, events are teachers, happiness is the graduating point, character is the diploma God gives man. "
"Only when the heart loves can the intellect do great work. "
"Friendship warms like a sunbeam; charms like a good story; inspires like a brave leader; binds like a golden chain; guides like a heavenly vision. "
"Failure is blindness to the strategic element in events; success is readiness for instant action when the opportune moment arrives. "
"Abiding happiness is not simply a possibility, but a duty all may live above the troubles of life worry is a poison and happiness is a medicine. "
"Man must make his choice between ease and wealth; either may be his, but not both. "
"Give thy mind to books and libraries, and the literature and lore of the ages will give thee the wisdom of sage and seer. "
"Self-reliance can turn a salesman into a merchant; a politician into a statesman; an attorney into a jurist; an unknown youth into a great leader. All are to be tomorrow's big leaders - those who in solitude sit above the clang and dust of time, with the world's secret trembling on their lips. "
Personality
Hillis had unusual capacity for utilizing effectively the results of wide reading. Attractive thought and kindling imagination, fused in sympathetic eloquence, combined to make him a speaker and writer of great charm.
Connections
On April 14, 1884 Hillis married Annie Louise Patrick of Marengo, Illinois, who later achieved some prominence as a writer.