Rev. James Baldwin Brown, originally minister of Clayland’s Chapel, Clapham Road, was later first pastor at the Brixton Independent Church, Brixton Road. He changed the old ‘hard and fast lines of Puritanic teaching’ within the Non-conformist church, ‘breathing into it the finer spirit of Christianity’ and inspiring his congregation with his missionary zeal to help the poor in the community. This later resulted in the establishment of The Moffat Institute, Vauxhall. Photograph of portrait by unknown artist, c.1880Ref: LBL\/DAS\/RL\/1\/3\/1\/p.1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Rev. James Baldwin Brown, originally minister of Clayland’s Chapel, Clapham Road, was later first pastor at the Brixton Independent Church, Brixton Road. He changed the old ‘hard and fast lines of Puritanic teaching’ within the Non-conformist church, ‘breathing into it the finer spirit of Christianity’ and inspiring his congregation with his missionary zeal to help […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,137,270,50,30,19,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1901-1925","category-brown-rev-james-baldwin","category-south_london_news_cuttings_vols","category-painting","category-people","category-religion","category-welfare-and-social-institutions"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n