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Eaton County Michigan EATON COUNTY
MEMORIAL REPORT
Taken all together he was such a man as
neither the church or the community can
afford to spare. I am of the opinion that all
the money in the United States treasury,
together with the highest honors within
mortal reach, would not have tempted him to
deviate a hair's breadth from what he
considered right.
We must not suppose that if our brother has
not left his heirs a large estate in lands,
bonds and mortgages, stocks, or cash in bank,
that, therefore, his life has been a failure.
He has left a richer legacy, and one on which
Ms surrounding friends may look with far
greater satisfaction, a good name. No doubt,
had he bent his energies to the accumulation
of wealth, he might have amassed worldly
treasures, but I think, if we could be
permitted to-day to draw aside the veil that
separates us from the invisible world, and
looking through the open door, should see
brother Freeman in his new home, occupying
the mansion prepared for him in his Father's
house, and get a view of the company that
surrounds him, see the wonderful purity and
brightness of their apparel, and, above all,
listen to the anthem song by the redeemed of
all ages, nations, kindreds, which he has, I
doubt not, learned to sing; if we could have
ever so brief a view of the glorious career
upon which he has entered, the veriest
worldling in all the land would
unhesitatingly say that Brother Freeman has
been a very wise and successful man; that he
had a goodly treasure laid up where it was
perfectly safe, and that he has entered upon
the enjoyment of it. To the young men and
women of this generation, the life of our
brother may seem to have been somewhat
rugged.
Michigan 1883
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