. Michigan historical collections . o which he gallantly replied, Thank you, but with your permissionMrs. Campau, I will leave off the berry. Mrs. Campau and were near neighbors and close friends. They often talked overtheir religious beliefs and convictions. Eiach with bible in hand lookedover and compared notes and passages of scriptures trying in a friendlyspirit, to understand more clearly and truthfully, if possible, the mean-ing of their own particular Bible as it appeared to them. But withthe ever growing thought that, in the near future, they would meetheart and soul, as lovi
. Michigan historical collections . o which he gallantly replied, Thank you, but with your permissionMrs. Campau, I will leave off the berry. Mrs. Campau and were near neighbors and close friends. They often talked overtheir religious beliefs and convictions. Eiach with bible in hand lookedover and compared notes and passages of scriptures trying in a friendlyspirit, to understand more clearly and truthfully, if possible, the mean-ing of their own particular Bible as it appeared to them. But withthe ever growing thought that, in the near future, they would meetheart and soul, as loving sisters, in the Paradise above. In later years when reverses came, they sold the East Fulton StreetJiiome, and moved into the house now owned by our Dr. Rutherford,next the Ladies Literary Olub building. Mrs. Campaus heroic andunwavering fortitude amid trying circumstances showed the true,saint-like spirit, for some did indeed call her a Saint on Earth. Aftera short illness of three weeks she passed sweetly and peacefully to her. DANIKL liALL, DANIEL BALL 69 rest, July 31st, 1869, in her sixty-second year, beloved and revered byall wlio knew Sophie de Marsac Campau. Shall we not indeed even at this late day, do honor to this brave,yet gentle woman, who seconded in every way possible her husbandsefforts by her self-sacrificing spirit, her generosity, her large-hearted-ness and simple kindness, to these people of a darker skin, who minis-tered with her own hands to their necessities and when trouble orsickness came helped to lay their little ones away when disease lessenedtheir thinning ranks. She, like the Master of old, went about doinggood. May we not by following her example and sweet spirit of charity, andby emulating her virtues, be of service in some way in this work-a-dayworld, and the effect of her influence on ourselves still be so felt asto let our world know, in a quiet way, that we women of to-day of thisValley City have not lived in vain. DANIPL BAW BY C. C. C0&g
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