Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1898 — BROWN ADMITS GUILT. [ARTICLE]

BROWN ADMITS GUILT.

Preacher Confesses Immoral Conduct to the Bay Conference. Bay conference, the ruling body of the Congregational Church in San Francisco, met and expelled Rev. Charles O. Brown, the unfrocked minister, who was afterward given a church iu Chicago. A sensation was caused by a confession and a plea for mercy from Rev. Mr. Brown. He was present and said the accusation against him was true. He said he had turned utterly and with abhorrence from his sins long before he was publicly accused. Brown says he was overcome with remorse on his way East to accept

the Chicago pulpit, snd then wrote out a confession, but after being kindly received in Chicago he reconsidered this determination. The committee considered the confession and reported unanimously in favor of dropping Brown from the roll. Brown still hns friends in the conference and they were in favor of treating him leniently in view of his repentance. Brown sent his resignation to his Chicago church. It is his intention, so he declares, to preach upon street corners and in the slums.