Legacy of controversy
Hugh Dunlop Brown’s (1858–1918) friendship with C.H. Spurgeon through the desperate days of the Downgrade Controversy over the Scriptures in the 1880s made him a witness to the toll that this controversy took on the London Baptist minister.
History Professor Michael Haykin
The Downgrade Controversy was when Spurgeon aired concerns about the Baptist Union in relation to Scripture, the atonement, hell and universalism. He withdrew from the denomination in 1887 as a result.
