Rev. Loren G. Brown (1833-1895)

BROWN, EVANS, GARDNER

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 10/1/2012 at 20:01:20

From Ames Times July 11, 1895

In Memorium.

Rev. L. G. Brown is dead. This does not startle us. We expected it. His disease was potentially fatal from the first. He was ripe for the Lords harvest and was ready to set the truth of the great doctrine which he had presented so acceptably to so many thousand so many years. The great loving heart seased to beat at 4:20 p. m. last Saturday, July 6, 1895, and the grand and stately soul whose inspirations had fen and nurtured into higher and better living, such a multitude of his fellows, ascended the highway of holiness to the Kings palace. He was willing to stay. He wished to go. At one time he remarked: "I want to live for myh work and my boys, but I would rather be in heaven than here."

He was practically a stranger among us. His wide field of labor extending from Mormon to Kansas, was constantly growing on his hands.

As a pastor the people began to learn the value of the services of the sweet spirited servant of God, they demanded more of his time and when his call came from labor rest, there was a years engagements to be cancelled. His work notified us of his presence most of the time.

He removed his family from Adams, N. Y. to Ames in the spring of 1891. Here he had established his peaceful homecomings. Here his very brief vacations were quietly occupied in the rest of mind and body that very soon resulted in the restlessness of the warrior to be again in the battle front antagonithe warfare against Satan's kingdom. His great specialty was helping the pastor and the members of the church. Get the church right and the world will come to Christ was one of his mottoes. He labored with singal success as a pastor for 12 years before entering the field as an evangelist.

A volume could be filed with the unmistakable evidences of Divine approval of his word. Numberless incidents of remarkable conversions under peculiar and startling circumstances of aged men, hardened in sin, breaking down under the power of God, conviction through the wonderful influence of this godly man's prayers. No one except those and him with his work have any conception of his combination of humility and psychological power as a leader of men and leader to Christ. His work was of the type of no other man. He possessed the spirit of Wesley, the sacrasity of Finney, the force of Knapp, the grace and dignity of Faith and the power to command men of Modity. Devoid of ambition only to save them without suspicion of jealousy loyal to truth and absolutely ---less in its presentation. He swayed his ---- at will, to tears or smiles, and only desired to achieve victory for Christ.

----. Becoming an evangelist in about 1876 and closing them in 18-- show a record of thirty year of well rounded and fruitful labor for the salvation of his fellow men.

His father was a farmer, preacher, a graduate of ---ison, a sturdy and able examinder of the truth who reared his son of follow the ---- and cultivate the mind on the principle that following, privity and ---------- no journey. The deceased leaves four brothers and two sisters: B. F. Brown, Watertown, N. Y.; F. M. Brown, Big Rapids, Michigan; K. W. Brown, Ames, Ia.; O. B. Brown, Philadelphia, N. Y. and P. S. Evans, Big Rapids, Michigan; Mrs. Delia Gardner, ----- Mills, N. Y. His wife and five sons Rev. D. P. Brown, [Borton?], Mass.; Rev. Charles S. Brown, pastor of Baptist church Iowa City; V. C. Brown of Ames, Iowa; C. -- Brown, Ames, Iowa and Rolla E. Brown, Iowa City, who survives him.

The funeral services were dconducted by Dr. E. W. W[hite?] of Milwaukee (with him the de--- had held four s---self meetings in three states) assisted by Rev. -- N. Call, Webster City, Rev. W. ------all, Boone and Rev. W. H. Witt-----, Des Moines.

---- ----- of the remarks of the eleventh chapter of Acts and twenty fourth verse was chosen. ---- as follows: "---- was good ---- full of the holy ghost and of -------." The services were peculiarly impressive. There was no sermon. It was a time for exultation, ------- and tears; tears of joy, as well as sympathy. It was the [celebra]tion of the gateway of heaven and ------- -- ----- and cheer to ----- ------- ------ed that the ------ of the believers ------- should -- ----- -- ------ thousands in its -------.

SUBMITTER'S NOTE: This was transcribed from a scratched microfilm with lines through the text and took hours to try decipher. I did my best and guessed in places.