The San Francisco call., 1898-02-01
THE CALL'S' VIEW INDORSED 2 Ministers Applaud Itfor It's Stand in the Brown
 Case. The Editorial in Fridays Issue Voices Public Opinion
 They Say.
The Bay Association and Monday
 Morning Club Consolidated Yesterday.

Since the members of the churches and their leaders have had chance to think over the confession of Rev. C.. o. Brown many of the friends of that gentleman, who were once his stanch supporters, have changed their minds and are outspoken in their belief that the sentence of the Bay Conference was a merited one. <
 The attitude of The Call in laying asideall sentimentality and showing the gentleman up in his true light has been applauded by many of the brightest lights in the Congregational Church. " " After the meeting of the Monday Morning Club yesterday the: praise of The Calls editorial was heard on all sides. The editorial referred to :ap> peared in the issue of last Fridays Call, headed Concerning co. Brown" /" and the article rebukes him. for the att titude he has:taken, and expresses dis gust with the excuse for a confession the disgraced minister read.
 . The part particularly indorsed is the following:
 The :so-called confession is only an- other of the long list of Brown deceP- glorification. By implication 1t tries to convey the impression that although Brown was not wholly innocent, he had been far more sinned against than sin hing. It speaks of. "a deep and malignant conspiracy against his home." He knows that no such conspiracy ever existed; he knows that people are aware of this knowledge on his part. The charge comes with ill-grace from a man who had de- Hberately sullied that home by. installing within its walls as favorite. a creature of the streets. There is naught in the confession indicating regret; its abject- ness:has no ring of sincerity, Its promises are hollow. It Is not what it purports to be. It Is a palpable sham, a crowning infamy born of a character wholly barren of the elements tending to respond to an impulse toward reform Yet this man calmly proposes still to serve a cause to which he is more than reproach. He has become a stench in the nostrils,
 One of the ministers of this city, the Western correspondent for the large Congregational paper of the United States, edited by Lyman Abbott, called the New York Outlook, when tele- graphed to for particulars of the Brown case sent among other clippings the editorial before mentioned, writing at the same time that fit was public opin- ion. voiced in the most conservative pa per of San Francisco"
 The Bay Association Is no more, neither is the Monday Morning Club, for both consolidated yesterday. at the regular meeting of the Monday Morn ing Club into 'The Ministers Congre- gational Association of San Francisco and Vicinity"
 The cause of this change Is that neither organization could live by it. self, but joined together could become a powerful body. A new constitution was framed and the officers of the Monday Morning Club were appointed as officers of this new body until next Aprff. the time for regular election.
 According to the new constitution none but ministers will be eligible for membership, thus barring laymen. a move that has caused considerable comment, as this was not the case with either of the two associations that yes- terday met and adjourned sine die. The first meeting of the new associa- ton will take place next Monday.
 Rev. E. P. Dennett read paper be- fore the Methodist ministers, the sub feet being Spiritual Biology" and in it he criticized the teachings of the theological seminary in regard to its method of instructing the pupils to teach the gospel.
 The Presbyterian ministers were en- tertained by the reading of a paper on the -Four Gospels of St. Luke" by Rev. S. S.. Cryor of Westminster Church. A woman appeared before the ministers to tell them about the Italian mission.
 The Christian ministers met but ad- iourned at an early hour, after listen- ing to a paper by Edward Davis on "The Relation of the Holy Spirit to the Conscience"