Description

Life membership certificate containing a vignette contrasting scenes of apocalyptic doom and religious salvation. Shows to the right an angel trumpeting salvation and wielding the Bible above a missionary preaching to a large group of Native Americans and a converted black African family kneeling and reaching toward the heavens. To the left, a cross rises from the ground, bringing forth a river of redemption too late for the lost souls of a bejewelled "heathen" woman and a skull-headed man entangled by serpents. Behind the doomed figures, a temple collapses to the ground. The Evangelical Association, a Methodist ministry, worked first to convert Native Americans and slaves before extending their missions to the black inhabitants of Liberia in the 1820s.; Engraved by John Sartain.; Issued to Peter H. Cage of Catasauqua, Pa. on February 24, 1870. Signed by Thomas Bowman, Secretary; Francis Hoffman, President; and Isacc Hess, Treasurer.

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The Library Company of Philadelphia

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PA Digital