The San Francisco call., 1896-02-02
FAC SMILE OF MRS. BROWNS BRIEF NOTE

degrading drama, .sThere is God in Israel!p'
Three hundred thousand people in this City
and State are looking to you to vindicate its
honor, the honor of the church and the honor
OF pure womanhood, and applauding your
May God give you continued courage and
strength to pursue your noble course to the
end.
{ You occupy too high place in the esteem of
the honest element of the State and Nation to
be daunted by an unworthy verdict of
innocence.
wish our board of officers could have little
OF your courage and sense OF honor.
The following is from renowned physi-
clan WHO is spending the winter in San
Diego
SAN DIEGO, Cal, Jan. 80, 1896.
Mrs. Sarah b. Cooper. San Francisco, CAL
DEAR MADAM: I inclose herewith the dispatch
published in this mornings Union, relative to
the Pastor Brown difficulty. / have been
greatly interested in the great question of the
from a scientific standpoint, as we'll as on ac-
count of the scriptural teachings, and believe
that Chrisrs injunction, "Be ye pure even as
am pure" is but imperfectly understood by
the very great proportion of the people.
spent the summer season of 1894 in San
Francisco, and although on account of my
condition OF health, have usually refrained
from going out evenings, yet on one Sabbath
morning, seeing In "a daily paper notice
that DR.. c. Q. Brown was going to lee
took 1t upon myself to attend to hear his dis
course upon the subject; and although l did
not consider 1t my place to make remarks upon
his Lecture, yet privately came to the conclu-
sion that he did not understand the subject,
andI must say that was not as much sur
prised at his getting into difficulty in such
matters as / should have been had it been
some other members of the ministry. True
Christianity will not permit of DR.. Brown be-
ing whitewashed, but demands thoroughin-
vestlgat1on, that the skirts of the church may
be cleared of the charge of hypocrisy, and an
exhibit made that Christ's service is not COM
patible with double life / am very much
pleased with the firmness which you exhibited
at the meeting. l hope that the right may
prevail in this important matter, which is be-
ing so generally discussed by the secular press
OF the state, and also probably more or less in
other States
The letter which follows came from a
prominent resident of an adjacent city:
I am SO sorry that this awful trouble has had
to come to you personally. We would shield
you from everything SO trying as last nights
experience must have been IL we could, but
one who has the courage of conviction and
stands Tor truth, always meets the cruel side
OF human nature as our Savior did-and
would to.day-were he. to come personally
upon earth.
From the president of one of the largest
phllanthropic and literary organizations
on the Pacific Coast, who lives in another
city, comes the following:
/ extend to you my sympathy in this
hard trial. / admire your courage 1t was a
hard thing to do. The attitude of that com
mlttee which exonerated DR.. Brown, confess
1 ing a. the same time that they had not investi-
gated, is very wrong. Take heart. The right
VIII come uppermost and blessings will come
to those who help to turn it fright side up"
AS Mrs. Cooper handed the reporter the
following letter the tears almost welled
over her eyes, as she remarked: "I wish
could see the writer of the letter and trv
to help her. If her eye should fall upon
this paragraph hope She will let me come
10 her. l long to help her, There was
no date and no address upon the letter:
Mrs. Sarah B. Cooper: Pardon NV liberty. T
do not know you, but / have often Thought
what pleasure it would give me to be able to
meet ,'; yoa. But dare not. as have been such
d aWicKed girl, yet in the midst OF my sinful
lie please do not be disgusted. / have read
your lectures and loved your face, us it has
tnink TN that you, my ideal of good, pure, true,
Chrlstlan woman, should be insulted in the
cnurcn that you have labored SO long in, and
Tnese were Mere gentlemen present, they say They
not deserve the name of pastor. much less the
name OF man, to sit calmly by and permit you
70 pe SO lnsulted. am little and young, but
would u like to ask: Why has he so much to do
Win sucn lot of crooked persons2 Think of
lne one ne Keeps in his house--an insult to any
seltrespecting wife. Nol.he has not the excuse
oI youth, with its passions and weakness,
ana impulses as had when / fell. And he
SINS 81. knoW1ngly; he is a husband and a father.
Al ne ls waiting for is for time, and in the end
ne VIII pe Whltewashed, not by you, because
you are TOO good, but by others. But what an
example he will be to the young. Would they
De as good to me think you? Oil do take care
ners than all pastors; it is not so much what
one says as the example; that is what the sinful
need. ns 10 see more of practice in religion,
Fiease excuse this. A SINFUL GIRL.
This was all that Mrs. Cooper cared to
make public. She added the following
significant words. however:
nave many other letters of more grave i'm
port tnat must withhold until the trial oc-
ours, give these 10 the public because the
pupnc mas a right to them. They are from
leaders In public opinion, and also from the
people who are the bone and sinew of the
community. The last letter is full of pathos
May tne erring one come to Him whose pardon