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Antoinette Brigham Putnam Metcalf scrapbook, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1838

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Open book Metcalf, Antoinette Brigham Putnam Metcalf scrapbook (wife). Scrapbook, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1838

Title Antoinette Brigham Putnam Metcalf scrapbook, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1838

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1838

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 Sept. 29 O that I could always feel the value of time - how infinitely precious it is. How strange it is that it must take one the whole of life to learn how to live. Why can I not see & feel the duty that rests on me as clearly as I shall when death comes. I must try to think more of dying. this will aid me to live more soberly & to improve the present time in more active and zealous labors for Christ. -- This wicked heart! When 'ere I think a victory gained over some sinful habit, I make some new discovery. I feel more and more that my heart is deceitful above all things & desperately wicked - none but God can cleanse me - nothing but the blood of Christ can make me pure, and like my savior.Oct. 13- How grateful I ought to be to my God for my Sabbath privileges. It is terrible to think that there is a possibility that they may make my condemnation greater. O that I could be more like Christ more meek & lowly - less irritable - it seems sometimes as if I made a little progress - God can help me

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Archival Collection Title Isaac Stevens Metcalf papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection

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Call Number Midwest MS Metcalf Box 5 Folder 128

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 3306px × 4027px 76.21 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_05_fl_128_019_085.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FI12

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