A Bap­tist min­is­ter, Brown pas­tored church­es in South Fram­ing­ham and Can­ton, Mass­a­chu­setts (1859-70). Re­tir­ing from pas­tor­al work due to vo­cal dis­a­bil­i­ty, he was a con­trib­u­tor and ed­it­or of the Youth’s Com­pan­ion for more than 40 years, and a mem­ber of the of­fice staff for the last 20. Be­tween 1880 and 1890, he con­trib­ut­ed hymns more or less re­gu­lar­ly to the quar­tet and an­ti­phon­al chor­us ser­vice at the Rug­gles Street Church in Bos­ton, Mass­a­chu­setts. His works in­clude:

• The Blount Fam­i­ly
• Nameless Wo­men of the Bi­ble
• Life Songs
• The Sto­ry of the Hymns and Tunes, with He­ze­ki­ah But­ter­worth (New York: Amer­i­can Tract So­ci­e­ty, 1906)

• Brown, pp. 188, 476, 480

1. Banner of Im­man­u­el
2. Go On, Go On, My Bro­ther!
3. Harvest Home
4. He Rose! O Morn of Won­der!
5. Life’s An­nu­al Twelve O’clock
6. Like Stars That Hide at Morn­ing
7. O Short Was His Slum­ber
8. Ring Out Your Pure Ho­san­nas
9. What Tho’ I’m but a Child
10. Ye Winds That Once by Che­bar’s Flood