Eaton, Rev. Edwin

EATON

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 12/18/2007 at 20:46:44

Historical Sketches of Iowa Baptists, 1886.

REV. EDWIN EATON, D.D., died at Lagrange, Mo., May 10, 1872, aged 54 years. He had been pastor of the Baptist Church at Muscatine, president of the Iowa Baptist state Convention and of the Union of Ministerial Education for the first three years of its existence. “When choosing his life work, under clear and forcible convictions of duty, he abandoned the study of law and the prospects of worldly position and fame, for the ministry,” He spent 28 years in his chosen pursuit. In consequence of failing health he resigned the care of the church at Muscatine, hoping that rest and the genial influence of a milder climate might restore his exhausted energies. But soon the Master’s voice was heard saying, “Come up higher.” “He was extensively known in Ohio, Michigan and Iowa as an able and successful minister, a faithful pastor, a thorough scholar and an earnest advocate for an enlightened ministry.” “As a man and a citizen he commanded, in an eminent degree, the confidence and respect of the community in which he lived.”