Chart of the Seven Dispensations
Chart of the Seven Dispensations
- Collection ID
- OBJ.000399
- Type
- Object
- Date
- Early 1900s
- Geography
- United States
- Language
- English
- Medium
- Paint and Ink on Canvas
- Dimensions
- 6.33 × 14.83 ft. (1.929 × 4.52 m)
- Exhibit Location
- Not on View
This chart was created and used by Rev. Ernest Grenville Sawyer (1876–1949), a pastor and evangelist in the Evangelical United Brethren Church in western Pennsylvania. It bears the title, “Chart of the Seven Dispensations,” under which the dispensations are hand-painted in color in elaborate detail. Metal grommets are located across the top and on the corners. Sawyer used the chart as a visual aid during his sermons and Bible studies, reflecting the growing popularity of “dispensational theology” in America at this time. He gifted it to his granddaughter upon his death, who used it in her own ministry before donating it to Museum of the Bible.
This chart was created and used by Rev. Ernest Grenville Sawyer (1876–1949), a pastor and evangelist in the Evangelical United Brethren Church in western Pennsylvania. It bears the title, “Chart of the Seven Dispensations,” under which the dispensations are hand-painted in color in elaborate detail. Metal grommets are located across the top and on the corners. Sawyer used the chart as a visual aid during his sermons and Bible studies, reflecting the growing popularity of “dispensational theology” in America at this time. He gifted it to his granddaughter upon his death, who used it in her own ministry before donating it to Museum of the Bible.
Created in the early 1900s by Ernest Grenville Sawyer, minister, Pennsylvania; Gifted before 1949 to Barbara Sawyer, Virginia; Donated in 2019 to Museum of the Bible, Washington, DC.
Created in the early 1900s by Ernest Grenville Sawyer, minister, Pennsylvania; Gifted before 1949 to Barbara Sawyer, Virginia; Donated in 2019 to Museum of the Bible, Washington, DC.
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