Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1897-05-05
BROWN,
He of Matte 0yerman Fame
AcesOts a Call to Green Street Con-
grsgssIOnal Church, Chicago.

Attbe semi-annual meeting Of the
! Dubuque Congregational Association
OF Ministers and Lsymen, held at Del
/ Ievue. Iowa. the case Of Rev. c. o.
Brown. late of San Francisco, was dis
posed Of. Six months ago at Straw
berry Point. Iowa. the above named
association, after a stormy session
voted 70 receive Rev. Brown into this
association. and some time afterwards
the Bay state association ofSsn Fran
cisco made request through a reso-
tuition that this association rescind its
action.
At the Bellevue meeting this reso-
luton was brought up and discussed
and finally put to vote, which re-
suited in its being tabled BY vote Of
Ia to3. Rev. c. o. Brown was present
and made a request for dismissal and
recommendation 70 the Green Street
Congregational church, Of Chicago,
where he has received a call to preacn.
He received fourteen votes for dismis-
sal and recommendation, several
present not voting.
This probably ends the case 50 far
as Dubuque, Ia, ,Congregstioualists are
concerned, and the reverend gentle
man, VINO has been a central figure in
scandals in San Francisco which are
still fresh in the minds Of the public,
will now become the pastor Of what is
known as the Green Street Congerga-
tional church in Chicago, in which
city he has resided since leaving San
Francisco last fall. The church is a
small one in the outer part Of the
city.
Rev. Brown returned from Bellevue
with the Dubuque delegation, and
after spending a few days here will
return to Chicago. He has passed
through a trying ordeal the past year,
during the progress Of his long trial
in San Francisco and as result he
has grown quite gray, besides show
ing other signs Of the physical strain
upon him.
a Bellevue special says:
BY unanimous consent DR.. Brown
occupied the first hour of its afternoon
session speaking to a question Of priv
ilege. He reviewed the circumstances
under which evil reports against him
gained currency on the Pacific coast,
showing that several powerful classes
Of senemies, whose malice he had
aroused in the discharge OF his duty,
including the saloon element aud an
archists, were ready at any expense to
he lp in the work or running him. He
showed that the man who led the op-
position in the Bay conference was
notoriously his enemy in an entirely
different matter before he entered the
council OF took the matter into the
/ conference.
/ He reviewed the offer of fellowship
from Dubuque association and the
efforts OF those who have sought TO
stultify Dubuque association by at
tempting to lead it TO withdraw their
offer affirming that such course
would be Infamous between indiyid-
uals, and declared that his removal
from the Pacific coast had been in
fuenced by this proffer. He closed by
thanking the association that by an
almost unanimous vote il had refused
such a course and stood Loyalty by its
first action. DIR. John Blanchard, Of
Chicago, also spoke, referring to re.
cent correspondence with the CON-
mittee OF Bay conference.
Portland Welcome: The ROSeburg
Plaindealer, ex-and-maybe-is-yet Rail
road Commissioner Eddy's paper, says
Prosperity is coming; there is nc
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