The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-05-25
FREEMAN STILL FULL OF FAITH.
The Mother Of the Slain Child Writes
Letter About It.
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The following letter was received recently
from Mrs Charles p. Freeman by her sisters
in-law in Natick, where Freeman formerly
"BARNsTABLE, Mass, May 10, 1879.
"Dear Sisters-We have received your let
ters | had looked for one for long time. |
never thought it would find us here. Am glad
to know you are all we'll. We are In need OF
nothing, but we thank you for your kind
thoughts for our comfort | have no doubt
you suffer for US. | cannot tell you how 1t all
came to be. You know how dearly we both
loved our precious little one. We have tried
for more than year to live entirely devoted to
Cod and to the good OF others. We had given
no dress, the desire for money, and every
thing that was not pure In purpose. You
would hardly have believed it was Charlie.
He never was profane, had not drank since
/ knew him, and was one OF the best OF hus-
life Of prayer and faith in God, and /
with him. He read his Bible every spare mo-
ment, and his whole life was spent Id Chris
| tian, earnest work for good: and his whole
aim mot neglectlng other duties) was to win
souls to Christ, and seek himself eternal life.
One trial of our faith came after another, and
| God blessed us very much the more we trust
ed him. By and by there came week and
| more of great and new trials. Charlie did
not sleep nor eat, scarcely for b Two weeks
God required him to have the faith Of Abra
ham. You know what that was In regard to
Isaac2 He could not get away from it; the
more he tried the more 1t came home
he would be willing to bear the test; he
thought that would be all God would ask
That seemed to end for the day. That night
| it came to him more powerfully; he could not
helpit. Oh! God alone knows how suffered
He would stop him just as He did Abraham
| that it was only trial of faith-knowing, as
I did Charles life and love, his fear to dis
obey God, and that he had Abraham's faith,
could not hinder him; But neither It Of us
ffail to come. We thought God would
our faith and wgg give bes Us nd
any harm should come to our darling; but
when I found my precious Edie gone, Oh,
Father, how / felt! But comfort seemed to
come again. Abraham believed God would
plan to take her, SO as to raise her from the
dead, and thus show His mighty power and
love- We did believe He would do this, In
order to show the world that the God Of
Abraham, Of Isaac and Of Jacob still lives;
and 50 wake up the frozen Church Of God to
world that there is scarcely any difference
between the two. We believed this was to be,
and that Ede would yet go with Charlie
% preach poT ee gospel would Of th 5e fnE2h wat
glory to his cause! Elijah, Elisha, Christ
and the Apostles raised the dead, and why
should not God do it now as then? We be-
lieved he would But the time has so far
passed, and we are here. God knows we are
innocent of any crime. Charlie still thinks
God is going to manifest his power and
glory, and himself be justified in the eyes Of
the world. God grant it may be SO.
"Oh, you cannot know my sorrowl It al.
most breaks my heart! My dear, dear Edie!
Charlie is innocent, oh! he is, of any crime;
but am afraid it was mistaken faith in
God. Dear Lord, help us in our need.
aH ATTTE