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Theophilus said ...
From F. F. Bruce's 'In Retrospect':
“One ministering brother to whom I frequently listened with appreciation—though not always with agreement—was John Brown (1846–1938), who spent the last thirty-odd years of his life in Edinburgh, but had lived for forty years before that in Greenock, in the west of Scotland. In his prime he had been one of the leaders of the Needed Truth secession in Scotland (1892)—‘we expected’, he once remarked, ‘to carry the whole of Scotland’—but later he returned to the fellowship of the churches which he had left. Some other brethren who did the same reacted vigorously against the Needed Truth position and became more ‘open’ than they had been before (I think, for example, of L. W. G. Alexander), but John Brown retained many Needed Truth principles, restricting the designation ‘church of God’, for instance, to a local company of Christians canonically ‘gathered together into the name of the Lord.’ By calling John Brown was a master baker, but had taught himself a little Greek and rather less Hebrew. He was wholeheartedly devoted to the Revised New Testament of 1881 and its underlying text, declaring that ‘where Lachmann, Tregelles, Tischendorf, and Westcott and Hort agree, you have verily what the Spirit saith’, and that ‘it is impossible to know the mind of God if you depend on the Authorized Version’. ‘Will any one tell me’, he would challenge us from the platform, ‘that the last twelve verses of Mark’s Gospel are the Word of God?’ No one, naturally, would have dared to tell him any such thing.”
Sunday, Jul 5, 2020 : 22:59
Marty said ...

John Brown - 1848 ~ 24th December 1938, age 92.
   Dates of Birth: Grave-1846. Ancestry-1848- all.
   Birth: Glasgow, Scotland.
   Occupation: Baker and one of the Editors of Needed Truth.
   Death: 27 Merchiston Crescent, Edinburgh.
   Burial: Greenock Cemetery, Greenock, Scotland.
Wife: Helen Cowan Bryce Sloane - 27th Apr. 1844 ~ 2nd Mar. 1905.
   Married on 29th October 1869 at Ayr, Scotland.
Children:
   John Sloane Brown (J.I. Russell) - 6th Sept. 1872 ~ 1950.
   William Brown (J.K.M. Meikle) - 3rd Apr. 1874 ~ 24th Sept. 1923.
   Janet Guthrie Brown (H.W. Hancock) - 11th May 1876 ~ 15th Mar. 1959.
   Margaret McLay Stewart Brown - 16th May 1881 ~ 27th Sept. 1943.
2nd Wife: Ann Helen Munro -
   Married on 17th March 1910 at Edinburgh.
Father: Archibald Brown - 31st Dec. 1812 ~ 24th December 1891.
   Married on 25th May 1840 at Glasgow.
Mother: Margaret McLay - 16th April 1819 ~ 25th July 1865.
   Died in childbirth.
Siblings:
   Hugh Brown - 23rd May 1836 ~
   Robert Brown - 17th May 1840 ~ 28th June 1906.
   William Brown (M.G. Graham) - 1841 ~
   Agnes Brown - c1843 ~
   Mary Brown (A. Tyrie) - 1843 ~ 1878.
   Janet Brown - 1845 ~
   Elizabeth McLay Brown (A. Howell) - 1845 ~ 21st June 1907.
   Archibald (Archie) Brown (A. Herbert) - 1851 ~
   James Brown - 1854 ~
   Niven Brown (S.A. Blake) - 25th Sept. 1856 ~ 1944.
   Margaret Brown - 1861 ~
   Unknown – 1865 ~ (Mother died giving birth)

http://www.the-malvern-hills.uk/family_history_brown.htm

JOHN BROWN, Edinburgh (formerly of Greenock).
Our veteran brother passed home to be with the
Lord on December 24th [1938] after a very short illness.
He had reached the advanced age of 92 years, and
kept very active right on to the end. His last words
were, "I am going Home." Mr. Brown was saved
in the Old Wooden Kirk, Ayr, 72 years ago. On
account of this important experience in that old town
and possibly because of early business relationships as
well, he ever manifested a great interest there and
gave help when free. Mr. Brown spent many years
of his earlier Christian life in Greenock. He was a
devout student of Scripture and held very pronounced
views on certain lines of truth. In connection with
his business, he had to get about a lot and travelled
widely. On these trips he devoted all his spare time
to meetings for ministry wherever there were openings.
He was laid to rest at Greenock and devout men
carried him to his burial.
“The Believer’s Magazine” 1939

Sunday, Nov 23, 2025 : 07:19


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