Susan Barbara Tallmon Sargent

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Title Christian pamphlets owned by Susan Tallmon, 1890s
Alternate Title I appear to be useless; Walking with the world; The missionary potato patch; Only a dime; Looking unto Jesus; A Christian woman: an object lesson
Scanning Technician Jake Trauscht
Collection Number and Name Accn1107 bx 5 fd 4
Description Six tracts owned by Susan Tallmon; one has written on cover: "Aunt Maggie to Susie"; (1) I appear to be useless / by Rev. James Smith (4 pages); (2) Walking with the world / by Mrs. Matilda C. Edwards (4 pages); (3) The missionary potato patch / by William H. Rice (6 pages); (4) Only a dime (7 pages); (5) Looking unto Jesus (4 pages); (6) A Christian woman: an object lesson / Della Sloan (8 pages)
Creator Smith, James (Reverend).; Edwards, Matilda C.; Rice, William H.; Sloan, Della
Subject Missions; Home missions; Tracts; Sargent, Susan Barbara Tallmon, 1872-1950--Souvenirs (Keepsakes)
Digitization Specifications Original scanned on Epson Expression 10000 XL and saved as 400 ppi TIFF. Display image generated in CONTENTdm
Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Date 1890; 1891; 1892; 1893; 1894; 1895; 1896; 1897; 1898; 1899; 1900
Format application/pdf
Type Text
Identifier 1107-05-04 (Memorabilia, 1890s)
Language eng
Rights Management This material may be protected by copyright. Permission required for use in any form. For further information please contact the Manuscripts Division, Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah.
ARK ark:/87278/s6542p9h
Setname uum_sbts
ID 1014112
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6542p9h

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OCR Text A CHRISTIAN WOMAN.' AN OBJECT LESSON. It is but a short distance from the blue-grass country to the eastern mountains, but in travers­ing it you detach yourself from all that you have ever experienced, and take up the history of English-speaking men and women at the point it had reached a hundred and fifty or two hundred years ago. As a rule they are abjectly poor, are ignorant and primitive to an astonishing degree, have a low standard of morals and a slight estimate of the value of human life, and are strongly opposed to education, especially for women and ministers. They are bitterly sectarian, have a superstitious regard for the Bible, often sleeping with it under their pillows, and they cling with great tenacity to their own ideas and customs. One of the first questions that a stranger going among them is likely to be asked is, if he believes the world is round,-a theory which is to them a sure sign of infidelity since it is not taught in the Bible. Of their homes it may always be said that however comfortless and desolate they may appear on the outside, they are sure to be more comfortless and desolate within. But it is the condition of the women and girls among these
Format application/pdf
Setname uum_sbts
ID 1014106
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6542p9h/1014106