New-York tribune., 1906-07-29

Filgrlm father removed to Windsor in Connecti
cut and the most famous of his posteritv was
ooIh at IorrlngtOn, Connecticut, Nav o. 1900 His
I4UheT, cordwalner and tanner migrated to Hud-
son Ohlo' IN 1905, and there John was bred amid
pioneers and Indians, and intended bv Owen
Brown, the deacon, for minister His fathers
cousin, the Rev. Heman Humphrey was president
OF Amherst College and John returned to New
England at the age of eighteen fit for that college
otudy caused such weakness of sight that he gave
up MS nope OF that education, went back to Hudson
set up tannery of his own in 1870 and in Tune
1920, married Dianthe Lusk a descendant of the
Adams family of Massachusetts, Owen Brown had
brought up his fifteen children in the fear of God
ana the ta1th OF Augustine and Calvin; at the age
OF elghty-hve he still living a prosperous old
man, at Hudson, and wrote January 20. 1856) thus
to his son John in Kansas:
From the Father of John Brown
DEAR SON JoHN OTHERs.-Your letters have come
to hand very regularly in about twelve davs and are
received with great satisfaction They were looked for
with great anxiety your fears health and lives
are very much nv mind the voice of health IS
very general and Gods merces are proportoned
to our wants but spiritual blessings seem to be with
holden and the wicked walk every side Ny is
very Gear on most OF my transactions, from child
hood and my sins before me- which NAV God
pardon through the merits of Christ have great anxiety
for my children, TO the fourth generation
was once conversation with old Deacon Wright about
our children when he told he had comfortable hope
Tor all his children. Is there great guilt living on
L.
Wrghts, follow most of nv numerous family
through most of their changes in life think had nv life
been different, theirs would, most likely but I can
do but little than commit them care of ner-
cltul God Our fears OF savsh tyranny rather sub
siding It IS always safe 10 put confidence IN God.
This tone of religious responsibility was inherited
by John Brown, who in all his activities looked
toward God and the Bible for guidance. This
strIkingly appears by his letter of September 25
1913. announcing to his John the loss of four
children OF the second marriage Ito Mary Ann Day
in 1882, The afflicted father wrote from Richfeld
Akron:
God has fit visit with the pestience, and
four of number sleep the dust four of that
still living have been less unwell. On the 4th
Sept Charles taken and died the nth
time Sarah Peter and Austin taken with the
complaint. They died the 22nd. and 23rd, and
all buried together in grave This has been
all bitter cup indeed and have drunk deeply: but
still the Lord regneth and blessed be His great and holy
fOrever
like your mother during her sickness discovered
great coposure OF mind and patience together with strong
assurance at times. Of meeting God in Paradise. She
seemed TO have idea Of recovering from the first,
did she express the least that she might but
rather the We fOndlv hope that she dsap-
pointed. They all children towards whom perhaps,
might have felt little partial; but they all lie
IN little together vet feeble from the same
disorder which may account for Of my blunders.