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Scrivener
Theodore Scheffer
Accession Number
PAG2004.008
Creation Date
1863
Description
Color-printed Taufschein with religious scenes on sides, block border.
Dimensions in Inches
16 x 12 1/2
Dimensions in Centimeters
41 x 32
Materials
Ink on paper
Technique
Hand colored, Hand lettered
Print Shop Location
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Decorator Location
Harrisburg, PA
Associated Places
Monroe Township, Snyder County, Pennsylvania
Category
Birth and baptismal certificate (Geburts-und-Taufschein)
Associated Names
Michael Hehn, Elizabeth, V. Loudenslager, Emy Moria, Emmy Maria, Hottenstine
Rights
Please contact the Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College for permissions which fall outside of educational fair use.
Source
Ursinus College Library Special Collections and the Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art
Provenance
Pennsylvania Folklife Society
Script/Text
English script
Language
English
Transcription
Behold what condescending love/Jesus on earth displays!/To babes and sucklings he extends/The riches of his grace!
He still the ancient promise keeps,/To our forefathers giv’n:/Young children in his arms he takes,/And calls them heirs of heav’n.
“Permit them to approach,” he cries,/“Nor scorn their humble name;/For ‘twas to bless such souls as these,/The Lord of angels came.”
We bring them, Lord, with thankful [hearts]/And yield them up to thee;/Joyful that we ourselves are thine,/Thine may our offspring be.
Record of Birth & Baptism.
TO THESE TWO PARENTS: AS Michael Stehn and his Wife/Elizebeth a daughter of V. Loudenschlager/was born a Daughter on the 22d day of/September in the year of our Lord 1862/This child was born in Monroe Township in/Snyder county, in the State of/Pennsylvania in North America; was/baptized by the Rev’d. Hottenstine and/received the name of Emy Moria/WITNESSES: It’s own Parents
When life’s tempestuous storms are o’er,/How calm he meets the friendly shore,/Who liv’d averse from sin! Such peace on virtue’s path attends,/That, where sinner’s pleasure ends/The Christian’s joys begin.
No sorrow drowns his lifted eyes;/No horror wrests the struggling sighs,/As from the sinner’s breast:/His God, the God of peace and love,/Pours kindly solace from above,/And fills his soul with rest.
O grant my Saviour, and my friend!/Such joy may gild my peaceful end./So calm my ev’ning close,/While loos’d from ev’ry earthly tie,/With steady confidence I fly,/To thee from whom I rose!
Kindly receive this tender branch,/And form his soul for God;/Baptize him with thy Spirit, Lord,/And wash him with thy blood.
Thus to their parents and their seed,/Let thy salvation come;/And num’rous households meet at/In one eternal home. [last,
PRINTED AND FOR SALE BY THEO. F. SCHEFFER-HARRISBURG, PENN’A
[bottom center] EMMY
Comment
This is the English version of PAG1998.215, which Scheffer printed alone under his name, and is the same edition as PAG1998.229.
Condition
Good
Bibliographical Reference
Stopp #408.1.2
Published
Stopp, Klaus. The Printed Birth and Baptismal Certificates of the German Americans. 6 vols. (Mainz, Germany, and East Berlin, Pa.: privately published, 1997–99). vol. 3, p. 104.
File Format
.jpeg
Type
image
Keywords
fraktur, Pennsylvania German, Pennsylvania Dutch, folk art, illuminated manuscript, taufschein
Image Location
Rights Statement
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