Show THE BROWN CASE SAN FRANCISCO April 29The members of the First Congregational church mat tonight to consider the action ac-tion o JtlhS Bay conference in suspending their pastor Rev C O Brown The meeting was secret only members of the church being admitted D Brown offered his resignation as pastor and by a vote of 194 to 174 the congrega itioiii refused to accept ft Dr Brown was not satisfied with the votij and urged his congregation to reconsider re-consider Another vote was taken vVhjcfti resulted 174 in favor of accepting accept-ing the resignation to 173 against it Dr Brown state that he had re I ceived a call from a church ait Dubuque Du-buque Iow which he desired to accept ac-cept After his resignation Had been accepted the congregation adopted resolutions res-olutions condemning the action of the Bay conference in suspending Dr Brown |