HUGH STOWELL BROWN

A MEMORIAL VOLUME

EDITED BY HIS SON-IN-LAW

W. S. CAINE, M.P.

LONDON

GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS BROADWAY, LUDGATE HILL
GLASGOW AND NEW YORK

1888

Notes of my Life

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	INTRODUCTORY PREFACE	v
Chapter
I.	MY BIRTHPLACE	1
II.	I AM CHRISTENED	9
III.	REMOVAL TO KIRK BRADDAN	.
IV.	MY SCHOOLS AND SCHOOLMASTERS	16
V.	MY BEST SCHOOL	22
VI.	I GO TO ENGLAND TO SEEK MY FORTUNE	25
VII.	MY LIFE AS A LAND-SURVEYOR'S APPRENTICE	29
VIII.	I GO TO WOLVERTON	38
IX.	RAILWAYS IN 1840	42
X.	MY MATES AT WOLVERTON	51
XI.	I BECOME A TEETOTALER AND SUNDAY SCHOOLTEACHER	55
XII.	I DECIDE TO BECOME A MINISTER OF RELIGION	58
XIII.	I BECOME A DISSENTER	62
XIV.	I AM INVITED TO LIVERPOOL	69
XV.	MY CHURCH	80
XVI.	MY SUNDAY AFTERNOON LECTURES	86
XVII.	THE WORKMAN'S BANK	91
XVIII.	GENERAL PROGRESS OF THE CHURCH	93
XIX.	MY VISIT TO AMERICA	100
XX.	MY COLLEAGUE	122
XXI.	THE RECORD OF MY CHURCH	127

Extracts from H. S. Brown's Commonplace Book.

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SUNDRY SHORT AND PITHY NOTES	135
OUR WORKMEN'S DWELLINGS	199
" TOO FAR EAST IS WEST"	204
A LECTURER'S EXPERIENCE	210
ON MAKING RELIGIOUS SERVICES ATTRACTIVE	220
THE IMPUDENCE OF DISSENTERS	229
" THE SUN IS NOT TO BE SET BY DIALS, BUT DIALS BY THE SUN "	230
DEXTEROUS BENEFACTORS	231
"SET THE SADDLE ON THE RIGHT HORSE"	234
"HE, WAS SCANT OF NEWS WHO TOLD THAT HIS FATHER WAS HANGED"	236
A WORD FOR TURNCOATS	237
"LET WELL ALONE"	239
"IT IS FINISHED"	240
LET THE SHOEMAKER STICK TO HIS LAST	241
HAVING AN EYE TO BUSINESS	246
AN OLD "BRADSHAW"	247
GAME TO THE LAST	251
DISSENT AND DISSENTERS	252
WILL A MAN ROB GOD?	253
GREAT WAS THE COMPANY OF THE PREACHERS	253
HERESY	254
SHABBY PEOPLE	257


		see comments by S.K.Broadbent

Any comments, errors or omissions gratefully received The Editor HTML Transcription © F.Coakley , 2001

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