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Antoinette Brigham Putnam Metcalf scrapbook pages, 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 pages, 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 might as well talk to the tides as to address listless hours?. 6. It must be accompanied by a holy example. The fruits of the gospel should be manifest in daily life We learn from the subject the immense responsibility of the ambassadors of christ. Afternoon - John 19. 30 - "It is finished". Nothing is so solemn - so awe-striking as the contemplation of death - The last words spoken - breathed when the departing soul is just on the verge of eternity - are invested with the peculiar cornerstones of the force - "It is finished - were the last words of the most wonderful personage who every appeared on our earth. The dying words of the Savior of the world. They are full of meaning, - we may well consider their import. Christ was dying to redeem a lost world . Two great ideas we should ever bear in mind. 1. Mankind have sinned and are lost - 2 There is full redemption in Christ = Ruin - Redemption are the two great ideas. 1- Consider the work of preparation for the appearance of the Messiah on Earth - (Here was a brief sketch of the worlds history designed to show that all the great events were preparatory to this one - the coming of Christ =) To show his abhorrence of sin God sent is judgements - He destroyed all the cities of the plain. he deluged the whole earth. Then he made a covenat with the faithful Abraham, making him the father of a new nation and establishing a law by which they should be governed. But still they sinned. Then these ceremonial observances were done away and Christ came - God's well-beloved Son, and gave himself "as ransom". I, consider what was finished - the toils and labors, the trials and suffering of the Savior - The great work

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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 2280px × 3582px 46.77 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_05_fl_128_012_006.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FHNT

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