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Eaton County Michigan EATON COUNTY
MEMORIAL REPORT
Mr. Covert has spent his life in three
localities: Fourteen years on his farm in
Novi, fourteen years in the village of
Northville, and twenty years in this city.
In the spring of '38 he united with the
Presbyterian church at Northville. although
he believed that he had experienced the love
of God shed abroad in his heart seven years
before.
As a member of the church he has, until
growing years and the infirmities of age
disabled him, been an active worker. He was
for many years a ruling elder in the church
at Northville, and for twenty years
superintendent of the Sabbath-school and a
leader in every church enterprise. His old
pastor always looked to him for wise counsel
and ready assistance in every good word and
work. He was ever a constant attendant until
the day of his death of all meetings of the
church, and ready to perform his part of the
public service. It was no self-denial for him
to perform his Christian duties—he loved the
name of the Lord, and could say with the
psalmist, "How amiable are thy tabernacles, O
Lord of Hosts. " It was a great deprivation
for him to be unable to be in his accustomed
place in the sanctuary on the Lord's day. He
loved the gospel, pure and simple. He hated
heresies, and abhorred false dogmas, and was
indignant when such lying vanities were
preached from the sacred desk, and so made
palatable by sophistries and human eloquence
as to be mistaken for truth and received as
the word of God. But while he hated false
doctrines, no man was more fond of "the truth
as it is in Jesus, " or was willing to
receive it, no matter how plain or pointed.
Michigan 1883
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