Robert Freeman was a Scottish-American clergy

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man.

After engaging in mission work in Pennsylvania

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 and New York

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 for four years, he was ordained in the Baptist

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 ministry in 1900; thereafter he held various pastorates until 1910. He was moderator of the Synod

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 of California

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 in 1920-21.

During the War

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 he directed the first expeditionary division of the Y.M.C.A.

YMCA

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 and in 1917-18 was director of religious work in France

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Other offices which he filled are director of the San Francisco Theological Seminary

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 and trustee of Occidental College

Occidental College

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He is the author of The Hour of Prayer (1914) and The Land I Live In (1921).

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