1851-02-25
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GUSN-250607
Certificate from the American and Foreign Christian Union granting Rev. Samuel B. Swaim membership due to his contribution of thirty dollars "by the Baptist Churches in Worcester, Mass."
The top half of the certificate has an engraved scene of missionaries sharing the Bible with various different groups of people, including Native American, Asian and African individuals. Underneath this scene it reads, "Whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming."
missionaries
societies
members
religious (people)
clergy
certificates
prints (visual works)
engravings (prints)
1 certificate
GC002
Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s
1942-09-26
GC002.02.294
Estate
14.75 x 11.5 (HxW)(inches)
Gift of the Estate of Miss Elizabeth Swaim, 1942
Worcester (Worcester county, Massachusetts)
New York City (New York state)
Muller, G. (Artist)
Bonar & Cumming (Lithographer)
certificates
prints (visual works)
engravings (prints)
Swaim, Samuel B. (Samuel Budd), 1809-1865
American and Foreign Christian Union
Item
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