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Metcalf, Isaac Stevens. Friends' correspondence (mostly Bowdoin college friends), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1844-1849

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Title Metcalf, Isaac Stevens. Friends' correspondence (mostly Bowdoin college friends), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1844-1849

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1844-1849

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 three months I have buried a dear a very dear brother and a mother. Our Heavenly Father has begun to cut the cords that bind me below & is fastening them above that I may be drawn thitherward. Tis sad and sore parting, but now the consolations of our faith minister balm, & drop healing into every wound. As I stood by the bedside of that brother and marked the dread struggle between death & Life, I learned to dread death less, and he no longer seems hostile and repugnant to me but lovely rather. And is it not so? He is a friend and we treat him as an enemy. Tis not in wrath & with a frowning brow that he approaches the Christian, but rather with a smile of true friendship that he approaches to lead him to his father. Do you live near the Savior my brother? Remember that he has laid down his life for you. I am glad to hear of your prosperity. You are prospered in the world, may you be prospered in your preparation for another. Tis strange is it not, that men will live as though this world was all.
[[?]]lby is gone. I bade him good bye, a few months ago, and he was full of animation and hope. But his end, was near. Azrael was even then upon his way, and

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Archival Collection Title Isaac Stevens Metcalf papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection

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Call Number Midwest MS Metcalf Box 8 Folder 207

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 3155px × 4012px 72.47 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_08_fl_207_010_002.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FKTU

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