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Quilt
InscriptionsHand written, ink, central white square inscribed :
''Young Ladies Missionary and Temperance Circle of the Point St. Charles Methodist Church, Montreal 1884''
Six surrounding squares with texts as follows:
''For God and home and native land''; ''The idols He shall utterly abolish''; ''He shall speak peace unto the heathen''; ''Let the whole earth be filled with His glory''; ''Go ye unto all the world and preach the gospel to every creature''; ''The Lord is a great God and a great King above all gods''; ''Freely we have received, freely given''.
Hand written, ink,1 name in each triangle : 510 names
Date
1884
Dimensions187 x 228 cm
ClassificationCommunication Objects - Arts - Visual Arts
Origin
Montreal (Pointe-St-Charles), Quebec, Canada
Object NumberM975.108
CollectionMcCord
CreditGift of Harriet Hawkins
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