Additional information can be found in Brown’s Wikipedia page; an article on the website of the Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections; David Elliott’s “Biographical Sketch”, published in Joseph Smith, History of Jefferson College (Pittsburgh: J. T. Shryock, 1857); Volume 4 of William Buell Sprague, Annals of the American Pulpit (New York, Robert Carter & Brothers, 1858); and Chapters IV and V of Helen Turnbull Waite Coleman, Banners in the Wilderness: Early Years of Washington and Jefferson College (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1956).
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Matthew Brown Fellowship Brochure
Matthew Brown
In the early 2000s, the First Presbyterian Church of Washington, Pennsylvania established the Matthew Brown Fellowship. In the words of this informational brochure, the Fellowship is a "college-aged ministry program" that seeks to "increase this church's involvement with its oldest friend, the College, and to extend its ministry...to meet the growing needs throughout the greater Washington Community."
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Brown User Guide
Robert H. Ellison
The User Guide for the Library of Appalachian Preaching is a Google Sheet that can be searched, sorted, and downloaded for offline use.
This part of the Guide provides information about Brown's sermons. It includes the title, scripture text, date and place the sermon was preached (if known), and so on. This information is available in the master list of sermons as well.
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Address Delivered in the Chapel of Jefferson College, Canonsburgh, PA., on the Fourth of July, 1839
Matthew Brown
Brown delivered this address while he was serving as president of Jefferson College. It is not a sermon; it is included in the Library to help paint a complete picture of his oratory.
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Address to the Graduates in Jefferson College: Delivered on the Day of Commencement, September 27th, 1838
Matthew Brown
Brown delivered this address while he was serving as president of Jefferson College. It is not a sermon; it is included in the Library to help paint a complete picture of his oratory.
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Dignity and Duties of the Ministry
Matthew Brown
This sermon, on Romans 11:13, was “Delivered in the Third Presbyterian Church, in Pittsburgh, at the installation of the Rev. David H. Riddle, pastor” (p. 345). It appeared in the March 1834 issue of the Pittsburgh-based Presbyterian Preacher; at the time of its publication, Brown was president of Jefferson College in Canonsburg.
