Brown , Rev. Charles Crisp

- bn London? 1849? d. Auckland 6 January 1926. Pastor. Trained at Pastors' College, London. Churches: Lincoln 1884-85; Timaru 1885-95. Brown was a missionary in Bengal prior to coming to N.Z.. He played an active role in N.Z.B.M.S. affairs. His views on conditional immortality led to a controversy, conducted vigorously through the pages of NZB and resulting in his effective expulsion from the Union. Brown's cause and that of his Church at Timaru were taken up by other Canterbury Churches and became a focus of Canterbury's dispute with the Union. Refs: Obituary: Bible Standard, February 1926, 24; Martin Sutherland, "Downgrade Down Under: Conflict and Cohesion Among New Zealand Baptists", Baptist Quarterly Vol. XXXVII, No.7, July 1998.