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Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, to Antoinette Brigham Putnam Metcalf (wife), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1866

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Open book Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, to Antoinette Brigham Putnam Metcalf (wife), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1866

Title Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, to Antoinette Brigham Putnam Metcalf (wife), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1866

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1850-1866

Place United States

Subjects Bowdoin College, Brothers and sisters, DuQuoin Coal Company, Illinois Central Railroad Company

Format Business records, Correspondence, Diaries, Genealogies, Invoices, Manuscripts, Personal narratives, Records

User-Contributed Transcription attended each.Those Methodist Meetings were interesting indeed, full of zeal & love. My prejudices had all been the other way; but I did love those Methodists. I left Brownville early in the Spring, and spent the Summer in Exeter Maine. There was then no Congregational Church in Exeter. Mr. Cutler, John Cutler, with whom I lived, an hereditary friend of our family, from Royalston Mass. and a noble specimen of a man, was a Methodist, a real old fashioned Wesleyan Methodist. Exeter was a great stronghold of the Methodists. Their preachers there, I remember with admiration. They were Mighty Men, men of strong frames and strong minds, with great warm hearts, bold and full of zeal. I certainly came very near being a Methodist. Le me do the Methodists Justice. I did not perceive there among them, not have I elsewhere or since, perceived among them as I certainly think I have among Baptists an unworthy spirit of proselytism {if it is a proper word} from other denominations. Their proselyting is from the ranks of sin & sinners, from the camps of the enemy not from those of their Allies. That, would at that time I believe have most effectually turned me from them. I remember, when, my Congregational friends I suppose thinking I was about to become a Methodist, a certain Cong. Minister took me in hand in a proselyting spirit to argue certain doctrines etc. I know he almost made me a Methodist at once!I became a Congregationalist I believe simply and solely upon the question of Church Government. I should perhaps as readily have become a Methodist as even a Presbyterian. I certainly did not then, perhaps do hardly still, though my Metaphysical perceptions on those points have been very much strengthened & enforced, & my own opinions

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Archival Collection Title Isaac Stevens Metcalf papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection

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Call Number Midwest MS Metcalf Box 7 Folder 175

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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