and when the whole town was stirred as never before. Many
hardened sinners were brought to Christ in the meeting.
Several of the converts are now actively engaged in the
ministry. Mr. Brown's acceptance as a preacher made it
possible for him to spend the entire vacations of his last
years at college in supplying the pulpits of his
denomination in different parts of the South.

He graduated from the college course of Fisk University in
1885, and took the degree of A. M. in 1891. He is also a
graduate from the Oberlin Theological Seminary with the
degree of B. D. He was called, June 1, 1885, to the Mount
Zion Congregational Church, Cleveland, Ohio, and was by that
Church ordained to the gospel ministry. This church was
composed of a few faithful but discouraged members. They
worshipped in a small frame chapel without either attraction
or convenience.

Soon the membership was increased, the church took new
courage and a great ingathering came, the old building was
torn away and in its place a beautiful and convenient house
of worship was erected. Mr. Brown served Mt. Zion for nearly
four years when he accepted a call from the Plymouth
Congregational Church, Washington, D. C., April 1, 1889.
This church, under his pastorate for eight years, had a
steady and most healthful growth. In January, 1897, he
gathered about him a few leading men and women of the race
and organized a church in Northwest Washington, in the midst
of a large unchurched population. Park Temple, the name of
the new church, at once took an important place in the
community and its influence for good was felt far and near.
For five years the work grew and throbbed with life. Its
lines of work, so practical and successful, awakened such
interest in an older sister church nearby that overtures
were made for a union, and so, October 1, 1901, the Lincoln
Church and Park Temple were merged into a new organization
to be known as Lincoln Temple, with the Rev. Mr. Brown as
pastor. The new Institutional Church with a large main
building and a branch work gives promise of an unusual
church movement. The pastor of this church is one of the
hardest worked men in the city. He was for three years a
most active and influential member of the Washington Board
of Educati