Brown, Charles Reynolds

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 Two 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).