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 Daily Baptist Encyclopedia – Post by William Cathcart

Brown, J. Newton, D.D., was born in New London, Conn., in June, 1803; was baptized in Hudson, N. Y., in 1817; graduated from Hamilton, N. Y., in 1823; ordained in Buffalo in 1824; pas- tor in Malden, Mass., in 1827; in 1829 pastor of a church in Exeter, N. H.; in 1838 Professor of The- ology and Pastoral Relations in the New Hampton Institution, N. H.; in 1845 pastor of the church of Lexington, Va. ; in 1849 editorial secretary of the Baptist Publication Society. He was the author of the little creed so commonly adopted in newly organized Baptist churches, and known as ‘‘ The New Hampshire Confession.”” Like the mild Dr. Brown, it is gently Calvinistical. He edited the “Encyclopaedia of Religious Knowledge,” one of the valuable works of modern times. Dr. Brown had poor health most-of his life, but it was the only poor thing about him; he had great faith ; he was never angry; he loved every one; he was the meekest man the writer ever knew; he walked very closely with God. He fell asleep in Jesus May 14, 1868, in Germantown, Pa.