Journal of the ..Illinois Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church . where he remaineduntil he was called hence. Brother Reat possessed a genial disposition that made him the friendof all classes. He was a faithful, earnest preacher of a gospel that couldsave, and preached it out of his own rich experience, and that one fact addedlargely to his success in the charges he so faithfully served. Austin Reat was in everything a good man. He was true to his friends,true to his church, and true to his Master whom he loved and served, andwill be remembered, not only by his friends and his B
Journal of the ..Illinois Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church . where he remaineduntil he was called hence. Brother Reat possessed a genial disposition that made him the friendof all classes. He was a faithful, earnest preacher of a gospel that couldsave, and preached it out of his own rich experience, and that one fact addedlargely to his success in the charges he so faithfully served. Austin Reat was in everything a good man. He was true to his friends,true to his church, and true to his Master whom he loved and served, andwill be remembered, not only by his friends and his Brothers of the Con-ference, but remembered by what he has done. He lived in that atmosphere of which some one has said: . Above the surge and din of life, Above the sorrow and the strife. From out the blissful realms above, I feel the broodings of Gods love. Where eer I go, where eer to me Life opens its great destiny,Like soft white wings of some sweet dove, I feel the broodings of Gods love. —S. H. Whitlock. 140 ILLINOIS ANNUAL CONFERENCE 1911 REV. MARCELLUS M. DAVIDSON. <QeV. MARCELLUS M. DAVIDSON, chap-j2fi lain at the Soldiers Home for the pastfifteen years and in the effective ministry of theMethodist Episcopal church for over half a cen-tury, passed to his reward at the Home hospitalat 3 oclock Sunday afternoon, February 26, atthe ripe old age of 72 years. Dr. Davidson was born in Clermont county,Ohio, February 5, 1839, and there spent his boy-hood days and attended school. In 1854, whenhe was fifteen years old, the family came westto Illinois and located in Richfield township, thiscounty. Four years later the deceased joined the Illinois Conference of the Methodist Church—in ?~.», September, 1858. Fifty-two years later, in Sep- \^ tember, 1910, at Jacksonville, he requested that /\ he be placed on the superannuated list and his • :vi request was granted, regretfully. At that time and for several years prib?--thereto he had been in impaired health and it was on
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