{"id":770,"date":"2016-07-29T16:07:12","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T16:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/?page_id=770"},"modified":"2017-08-01T20:27:53","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T20:27:53","slug":"missionary-society-membership-certificate","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/missionary-society-membership-certificate\/","title":{"rendered":"Missionary Society Membership Certificate, 1848"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_754\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/server.np-3-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-754\" class=\"wp-image-754 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/server.np-3-1-1000x1247.jpeg\" alt=\"N. Currier, Membership Certificate to [Vermont] Conference Missionary Society, 1848, via American Antiquarian Society. \" width=\"1000\" height=\"1247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/server.np-3-1-1000x1247.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/server.np-3-1-250x312.jpeg 250w, https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/server.np-3-1-768x958.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/server.np-3-1-500x623.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/server.np-3-1-624x778.jpeg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-754\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">N. Currier, Membership Certificate to [Vermont] Conference Missionary Society, 1848, via <a href=\"http:\/\/gigi.mwa.org\/netpub\/server.np?find&amp;field=Keywords&amp;op=contains&amp;value=methodist&amp;site=public&amp;catalog=catalog&amp;sorton=Filename&amp;ascending=1&amp;template=detail.np&amp;offset=0&amp;TabletNPResults=\/netpub\/server.np%3Ffind%26field%3DKeywords%26op%3Dcontains%26value%3Dmethodist%26site%3Dpublic%26catalog%3Dcatalog%26sorton%3DFilename%26ascending%3D1%26template%3Dresults.np&amp;TabletNPResultsCount=6&amp;playMode=stop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Antiquarian Society<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>The Second Great Awakening moved American evangelicals to proselytize at home and abroad. &nbsp;The image on this lifetime membership certificate to a missionary society shows how the new member\u2019s money will be used. &nbsp;The guiding hand of Providence and an angel bearing a book (presumably a Bible) hover at the top of the image. &nbsp;In the background, a mosque topples over. &nbsp;An African family kneels and reaches towards the heavens on the left side, while a minister preaches to Native Americans gathered before him on the right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Second Great Awakening moved American evangelicals to proselytize at home and abroad. &nbsp;The image on this lifetime membership certificate to a missionary society shows how the new member\u2019s money will be used. &nbsp;The guiding hand of Providence and an angel bearing a book (presumably a Bible) hover at the top of the image. &nbsp;In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-770","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=770"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1379,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/770\/revisions\/1379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}