The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-02-08
i.LIURNS TO CHICAGO.
Rev. c. o. Brown Repeats Ills
Confession in the Pulpit.
breaches AT HIS OLD CHURCH.

Congregational Pastor and HIS Address
Touches the Hearts of the Charitable and
Likewise Moves the stoics-Overman
Charges He Declares to Have All Been
True Subjects of His Discourses-
Chicago. Feb. 8.-With confession
OF wrong doing still on his lips, the Rev.
c. o. Brown greeted his former conf
dantes and close adherents and heard
scores of them profess themselves still
his friends, willing to stand by him to
the end Of all his troubles. The pretty
residence occupied by the pastor of the
Green Street Congregational church
was crowded from the moment of DR..
Browns return until he quietly wended
his way. accompanied by his interesting
family to the place of worship, where
the man who admits he has violated
his promise TO his people and broken
the commandments handed down to
Moses on Mount Sinai, was wont tc
preach. And he was going there to
preach-to preach two Sunday sermons,
morning and evening.
Touches the Hearts of His Audience.
Those who expected breaking down
and giving way to grief with bitter
| lamentations were disappointed. True,
| tears Of penitence lit up the blue-gray
| eyes which ever sparkled with kindly
| light, and there was a gentle modula-
| tion in his voice which touched all who
heard it. melting the hearts of the char
liable and moving those of the stoics.
| who said: He hath sinned, let him
| abide by the law of God"
Il Axry1 hot paf
| ed the man who had dumbfounded the
people of continent. He had said: Il
am innocent; had said: Il am perse-
| cuted," and the ears of the multitude
listening and hearing had answered.:
What manner of old man is this that
can be so strong in his own defense
and call God as his witness, II he be
not innocent?' And he won them, held
them under his standard. He had van
quished his accusers to that extent that
the high tribunal OF the church, after
sitting the charges of immortality and
after weighing ali the evidence. had
said: mot proven"
/ Rehearsed His Confession.
The verdict was too much Of the
I Scotch order to suit the preacher. and
he pressed the Inquiry He called for
( the pulpit, making new and strong
friends, and Just at the dawn OF COM
! plete victory he broke the bonds OF
falsehood and said:
WOE is me! My guilt 1 now con-
fess"
The man again rehearsed his confes-
sion; told how the charges made by
Miss Matte Overman of San Francisco
that he had sustained guilty relations,
J were true in all particulars. And as he
! talked 1t was noticed how many were
| the gray hairs on his temples, how nu-
! merous the lines of care upon his fore
| head.
HE has aged years in these few
weeks" said one, and all assented as
with a single voice.
DIR. Brown Says It's All True.
J "It is all true" said DR.. Brown
J what more can add? I am broken
} but / will look the world in the face
keep my faith in God and do my utmost
[ to repair the many sins done. 1 fee
stronger now than before my confes'
sion, and 1 look to prayer for more
strength. I have sent my resignation
| to my people. The acceptance rest:
! with them. Many have written beg
ging me to remain with the Greer
: street church, but that is to be decided
I, by a higher power"
] The preachers assertion that hi
: friends were still strong in their faitl
: in him was demonstrated as true. Gray
| haired men and women, youths ant
j | maidens crowded round him, claspet
: his hands and mingled their tears will
e | his. Every word he uttered was drunl
= in as by famishing travellers In the des
h ert. And again, further back, wer
d those on whose brows rested a scowl
i He was looked upon with eyes whicl
said: Eye deceiver! You took our con
!. fidence and broke our gods. Iconoclas'
e BECOME"
4 Himself as an Object Lesson.
r The subject OF the preachers mornin
h discourse was: God Is Our Refuge,
o while that of the evening sermon was
s ''The Wages Of Sin Is Death" Th
s | story of a man who had fallen wa
graphically told. The grief concomitan
with the deception practiced upon one
friends and loved ones. the duplicit
!. and its punishment hurled before tn
eyes Of the Almighty were not left un
| described, and all knew that the grea
object lesson held UP before the as
semblage was the speaker himself. An
l. when the morning discourse was ende
5. again the throng surrounded the minis
1t ter. Wrongs seemed forgotten and
"a the eyes Of the congratulants and o
their tongues were the soothing words
= PAX vobiscum."
p Reporters Are Avoided.
e The Rev. Brown returned over III
Northwestern railroad. Tired from tn
y long Journey, he did not wish to So
Al reporters and friends. He no long'
. expected Kisses. as was the case whe
ie he stood up before the multitude In II
~ Metropolitan temple. San Francisc
y but their assurances of faith al
N friendship he feared to receive after Il
~ great strain he had undergone. ]
elude the public he left train at
suburban station and made his way
his home on Fisty-fourth court by we
lr, and south side cars. 1T was late
ch the day before my return became ge
H. orally heralded." said the preache
es Some OF my friends came In durii
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