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movement, believing that promoting social reform through political efforts was essentially valueless: "Among the working classes what is known as the Social Gospel has done as much harm as anything. I hate the expression Social Gospel. Sometimes I think it must have been invented by the devil." In
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and collected money for the relief of the poor. "Much of this came in penny coins from those whose own means were very limited." In 1880 Brown established his own mission and employed two missionaries, later increased to nine, who visited thousands of houses, including some in which the occupants
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rejected his offer to teach at Sunday school, Brown rousted up his own group of boys and began holding a Bible class. He was soon encouraged by the minister to speak at
Saturday evening prayer meetings. In 1862 Spurgeon accepted him as a student in his
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to burn for warmth and had sold their cast iron stoves for food. After calling on a dying widow oppressed by the fear that her infant would be taken to the
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