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Archibald G. Brown Spurgeon's successor Iain H. Murray.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Edinburgh Banner of Truth Trust c2011Description: xiii, 405 pages illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9781848711396
  • 1848711395
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 286.0924 MURR
LOC classification:
  • BX6495.B76 M87 2011
Contents:
Browns, Browns, Browns -- A new college and new churches -- An awakening in Stepney Green -- Converts and the evangel -- Family partings -- In the midst of sorrows -- 'Over the water to Charlie' -- Can faith fail? -- The closing years in East London -- Visits to America and Palestine -- In South London again -- The unexpected at the Metropolitan Tabernacle -- being faithful without revival -- Apostasy and Calvinism -- World traveller -- The man and the preacher.
Summary: Archibald G.Brown (1844-1922), instead of following his father to wealth in commerce and banking, built a church to hold 3,000 in the East End of London while still in his twenties. Five thousand eight hundred were to join in 30 years. Almost simultaneously he led mission work among the poor, being described by The Daily Telegraph newspaper as possessing 'a larger practical acquaintance with the homes, and the social horrors of the foulest corners of the East of London than anyone who could well be cited.' -- Google Books
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Browns, Browns, Browns -- A new college and new churches -- An awakening in Stepney Green -- Converts and the evangel -- Family partings -- In the midst of sorrows -- 'Over the water to Charlie' -- Can faith fail? -- The closing years in East London -- Visits to America and Palestine -- In South London again -- The unexpected at the Metropolitan Tabernacle -- being faithful without revival -- Apostasy and Calvinism -- World traveller -- The man and the preacher.

Archibald G.Brown (1844-1922), instead of following his father to wealth in commerce and banking, built a church to hold 3,000 in the East End of London while still in his twenties. Five thousand eight hundred were to join in 30 years. Almost simultaneously he led mission work among the poor, being described by The Daily Telegraph newspaper as possessing 'a larger practical acquaintance with the homes, and the social horrors of the foulest corners of the East of London than anyone who could well be cited.' -- Google Books

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