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Eaton County Michigan EATON COUNTY
MEMORIAL REPORT
The quarterly conference licensed him to
exhort and afterwards to preach. He was
recommended to the annual conference, was
duly received, was ordained deacon by Bishop
Janes, and for several years was an efficient
and useful itinerant, filling quite a number
of important appointments in the conference,
among them the Indian mission, which was
formerly a part of this district. In all
departments of church work involving
its spiritual interests Brother Freeman has
been known as a brave, earnest, faithful, and
successful worker. Whether in the Sunday-
school, class or prayer meeting, in the
pulpit, or in pointing penitents to the lamb
slain for sinners, he has
been equally efficient. Brother and Sister
Freeman have had six children, five of whom,
with their bereaved mother, are here to-day
as mourners, and one is with the father on
the other side of the river.
Mr. Freeman has been called upon at various
times to serve his fellow citizens in
positions of official responsibility, and he
has been equally acceptable as a public
officer as in affairs connected with the
church. As a citizen, this whole community
will bear me out in saying, that in all
matters involving the moral, religious,
educational or intellectual interests of the
community, our departed friend was always
found on the side of right and condemning the
wrong, and his voice gave no uncertain sound.
He was not afraid to rebuke evil or condemn
sin, no matter who the sinner, or how popular
the evil might be. If the population of this
goodly city was made up entirely of just such
men as our departed brother, there would be
no need of police, magistrates, or jails.
Michigan 1883
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