Promise Prayer Poetry 

• 1930 
• A.P.S. London 
• Box met gebedskaartjes 
• Godsdienst 

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  MeditatieSpreuken

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Promise Prayer Poetry

1930

13.7 x 9.2 x 4 cm

Godsdienst, Meditatie, Spreuken

Karton, Papier

Jaartal geschat op basis van lettertype en opgeplakt litho plaatje jaren 1920/30. Informatie via SMU Bidwell Library dat er vanaf eind 19 eeuw diverse doosjes met 150 a 200 tekstrolletjes zijn geproduceerd : van hout, karton , met of zonder laadjes en vaak voorzien van pincet UK London: A. P. S. The exact origins of this devotional object have not yet been discovered. It consists of a printed hinged box filled with 147 small rolled slips of paper bearing printed texts for Christian meditation. Other sets that are known have two hundred slips kept in a similarly printed box with a drawer containing tweezers for extracting the rolled slips. Each slip in Promise, Prayer, Poetry provides three quotations. The first is always a Bible verse. The second quotation, printed in italics, is frequently a Psalm. The third text quotes a verse from a nineteenth-century English hymn, the title of which is not provided. For example: The Lord is my Shepherd; I shall not want. – Psalm 23:1 I will call upon Thee, for Thou will answer. – Psalm 86:7 Jesus is our Shepherd, for the sheep He bled; Every lamb is sprinkled with the blood He shed.