RELIGIOUS ENCYCLOPEDIA
Brooks Brown
In 1693 he again retired to Lausanne, and was ordained there (1694). In 1695 he reentered France through Sedan, and visited most of the Reformed congregations north of the Loire, finally escaping through Franche-Comte into Switzerland. Once more, in 1697, he visited France, but was caught at Oloron, and sentenced to death by strangling. Among his works, of which a list is given in La France protestante, vol. iii., the most prominent are: Etat des reformes de France (The Hague, 1685); La Manne mystique du desert (Amsterdam, 1695); Lettres pastorales sur le cantique des cantiques (Delft, 1697).
Bibliography: A. Borrel, Biographic de C. Brousson, Nimes, 1852; H. S. Baynes, The Evangelist of the Desert. Life of C. Brousson, London, 1853.
BROWN, ARTHUR JUDSON: Presbyterian; b. at Holliston, Mass., Dec. 3, 1856. He was educated at Wabash College (B.A., 1880) and Lane Theological Seminary (1883). He was ordained to the Presbyterian ministry in 1883, and held successive pastorates at Ripon, Wis. (1883- 1884), First Presbyterian Church, Oak Park, 111. (1884-88), and First Presbyterian Church, Portland, Ore. (1888-95). Since 1895 he has been one of the secretaries of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions. In addition to numerous contributions to periodicals, he has written The New Era in the Philippines (Chicago, 1903) and New Forces in Old China (1904).
BROWN, CHARLES REYNOLDS: Congregationalist; b. at Bethany, W. Va., Oct. 1, 1862. He was graduated from the University of Iowa (B.A., 1883; M.A., 1886) and the School of Theology of Boston University (1889). He was pastor of Wesley Chapel Methodist Episcopal Church, Cincinnati, O. (1889-92); of Winthrop Congregational Church, Boston (1892-96); since 1896 he has been pastor of the First Congregational Church, Oakland, Cal. He was special lecturer on ethics in Leland Stanford University in 1900-06, Lyman Beecher lecturer at Yale in 1905-06, and lecturer on ethics in Mills College in 1906-08. In 1897 he made a tour of Egypt and Palestine, and has been president of the board of trustees of Mills College since 1902 and a director of the Oakland Associated Charities since 1899, and chairman of the committee for the reconstruction of the San Francisco churches after the earthquake of 1906. In theology he is a liberal, and in addition to pamphlets and sermons, has written Tivo Parables (Chicago, 1898); The Main Points : A Study in Christian Belief (San Francisco, 1899); and The Social Message of the Modern Pulpit (Yale lectures, New York, 1906).
BROWN, CHARLES RUFUS: Baptist; b. at East Kingston, N. H., Feb. 22, 1849. He was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy (1863-65) and the United States Naval Academy (1865-69), and attained the rank of master. He resigned hom the navy, however, and continued his studies at Newton Theological Institution (1874-75, 1877- 1878), Harvard University (B.A., 1877), Union Theotogieal Seminary (1878-79), and the universities °f Beriia (1879-80) and Leipsic (1880-81). He
was ordained to the Baptist ministry at Franklin, N. H., in 1881, and remained there as pastor until 1883. He was appointed associate professor of Biblical interpretation, Old Testament, in the Newton Theological Institution in 1883, and since 1886 has been professor of Hebrew and cognate languages there. He was also librarian of the institution in 1884-85, 1889-97, and 1900-06, secretary of the faculty in 1887-92, and registrar in 1892-95. He has been a member of the Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis since 1883, and was formerly a member of the American Oriental Society (1886), the Archeological Institute of America (1899), and the department of archeology in the University of Pennsylvania (1902). He has written An Aramaic Method (2 parts, Chicago, 1884-86); in 1893-94 edited the course of Sunday-school lessons in the Bible Study Minor Graded Lesson System, and made a critical translation of Jeremiah (Philadelphia, 1907).
BROWN, DAVID: Free Church of Scotland; b. at Aberdeen Aug. 17, 1803; d. there July 3, 1897. He studied at the University of Aberdeen (M.A., 1821); was licensed 1826, and was assistant to Edward Irving in London 1830-32; was ordained minister of a country chapel six miles southwest of Banff 1836; he went with the Free Church 1843, and the same year became minister of St. James's, Glasgow; was elected professor of apologetics, church history, and exegesis of the Gospels at the Free Church College, Aberdeen, 1857; elected principal 1876, and resigned his professorship 1887- He was a director of the National Bible Society of Scotland, one of the founders of the Evangelical Alliance, was deeply interested in the Alliance of the Reformed Churches and a member of the third General Council at Belfast, 1888. He was an opponent of Robertson Smith in the controversy which resulted in the dismissal of the latter from Aberdeen, and as a member of the New Testament revision company took a highly conservative position. He was moderator of the General Assembly of the Free Church in 1885. Besides numerous contributions to the periodicals, he published Christ's Second Coming : Will it be Premillenial f (Edinburgh, 1846; 6th ed., 1867), a classic; Crushed Hopes Crowned in Death, a memorial of his son, Alexander Brown, of the Bengal civil service, d. Jyn., 1860 (London, 1861); The Restoration of the Jews : the History, Principles, and Bearings of the Question (Edinburgh, 1861); Life of the late John Duncan (1872); The Apocalypse : its structure and primary predictions (London, 1891). He collaborated with R. Jamieson and A. R. Fausset in preparing the Commentary, Critical, Experimental, and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (6 vols., Glasgow, 1864-70), furnishing the portion devoted to the Gospels, the Acts, and the Epistle to the Romans; wrote the commentary on the Epistles to the Corinthians for Schaff's Popular Commentary on the New Testament (1882); and prepared the Epistle to the Romans for Dods and Whyte's Handbooks for Bible Classes (Edinburgh, 1883).
Bibliography: W. G. Blaikie, David Brown, A Mem-
oir, London, 1898.
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