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Be zealous : Manuscript sermon, 1855 Feb. 18.

BIB_ID
348406
Accession number
MA 370.27
Creator
Bowman, Samuel, 1800-1861.
Display Date
1855 Feb. 18.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (24 p.) ; 20.4 cm
Notes
Part of a 12-volume collection of Autographs and Manuscripts of Bishops of The Protestant Episcopal Church (MA 364-375). The arrangement of the collection is by Bishops in the order of their consecration and chronological within their portion of the collection. Letters in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
The sermon is dated February 18, 1855 with a notation that it was delivered in Lancaster at St. James; an additional note indicates it was delivered again at "St. John, July 29, 1860."
The sermon is written in a form of shorthand.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Being a sermon based on Revelations 3.19.