Newberry Library - Hall, Grace Ethel Metcalf (daughter), to family, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1883-1896

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Open book Hall, Grace Ethel Metcalf (daughter), to family, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1883-1896

Title Hall, Grace Ethel Metcalf (daughter), to family, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1883-1896

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1883-1896

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 6.but it was oh so deeply impressive - all from the Bible. It was just a summary of what he had found in studying that up for his own conviction. Then this morning he talked at eleven with those who has applied to C.I.M or were very interested in it. And in that he just talked conversationally answering questions about the C.I.M. and their Missionaries. (They have a little over 600 in China now Dr. Taylor said - have been running 27 yrs.) The Mission runs on money the Lord sends, without asking anybody or talking collections in Churches because it is unndenominational and can't rightly ask of churches. But they have never been in debt and never will. If prayer should stop, the C.I.M. would be dissolved - just burst, - for it lives only on prayer from one day to the next and one year to the next. And for 27 yrs not a missionary had starved nor anybody else. The Lord gives people the very best, and "the trial of

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Archival Collection Title Isaac Stevens Metcalf papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection

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Call Number Midwest MS Metcalf Box 3 Folder 67

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2372px × 3618px 49.14 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_03_fl_67_011_012.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FF3G

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