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Eternity, written on cardboard by Arthur Stace for his friend Thelma Dodds 1960-1967

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National Museum of Australia

The National Museum of Australia is a social history museum that explores the land, nation and people of Australia. The museum focuses on Indigenous histories and cultures, histories of European settlement and our interaction with the environment.

Eternity

Written in chalk on Sydney's pavements for decades by Arthur Stace, the word Eternity, in copperplate script, has become an icon of Sydney's popular culture, as well as its religious life.

Stace, Arthur

A former drunk who was converted to Christianity, Arthur Stace spent the rest of his life spreading the Gospel, and unobtrusively writing Eternity in chalk on pavements all over Sydney. The identity of the Eternity Man was a mystery for over twenty years. Eternity has since become part of Sydney's mythology and iconography.

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Stace, Arthur

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The man who wrote Eternity on Sydney's pavements for over thirty years.

Eternity

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Word written by footpath evangelist Arthur Stace between 1932 and 1966 on pavements throughout the city.