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Full listing > Accession BC2015/8| Accession # | BC2015/8 | | Topic | Missionary Prayer Chain | | Title | Prayer for Missionaries | | Size | 1 Postcard | | Location | COBGeneral File: Missionary Prayer | | Citation | Prayer for Missionaries, BC2015/8, Archives and Brethren Historical Collection, Funderburg Library, Manchester University, North Manchester, Indiana. | | Access | Researchers are responsible for determining copyright status of archived materials where this is relevant to their intended use of the materials. | | Provenance | Collection of the Archives | | Scope and Content | A chain-letter postcard (1906) from Lydia Metzger of Cerro Gordo, Illinois, to Miss Effie Montel, of North Manchester, Indiana, requesting prayer for missionaries. | | Date of Accession | 14 July 2015 | | Bio History Note | It is not clear whether Leydia Metzger or Effie Montel belong to the Church of the Brethren - but they probably do, considering their location and the name of "Metzger," and that the card was in the MC Archives. "I have been requested to ask 10 Christians to join in prayer that God would bless the Missionaries in (there) work and raise up young men to go forth with the tidings of salvation. This is a link in a thousand links. (Pary) that this chain may not be broken until the whole world is reached. Please send without delay 10 cards the --- ollowing this one --- thousand. If you can not do this, return the card that the link has been broken." Leydia Metzger, Cerro Gordo, Ill. | | Archivist Note | Description prepared 14 July 2015 by Jeanine M. Wine. |
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