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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 the praise for any good which this hour has wrought. The bible seems more than ever beautiful to me. My father aid me to labor for the conversion of my dear scholars more ardently this week. What is then to prevent my laboring for Christ? Even though I can do but a little, that little I ought to perform. I know it - I hope I feel it in some measure.Dear mother's health is very feeble. O that it may be God's will to restore her. How happy it would make me to be with her always and minister to her wants. God will direct me and I will trust in him.June 23 - Enjoyed meeting pretty well today- this heart of mine is hard, O very hard. I yield very, very gradually to the Savior. I do hope there is a little progress, as weeks glide on. Have been thinking today of the influence having of words of imagination on my mind and I decide that I ought to do nothing wh. will have a tendency to make so evil a heart even worse. I think I will avoid stories, as a general

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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 3343px × 4064px 77.77 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_05_fl_128_019_070.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FI0K

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