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    CHRISTIAN TRACT SOCIETY.

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    The twenty-third Annual Meeting of this Society was held at the Worship Street Chapel , on Thursday , May the 1 Oth , on which occasion the Rev . James Yates was called to the chair . The secretary , who had also acted as treasurer , commenced the business of the evening by reading the balancesheet , from which , it appeared , that there was in his hands in favour of the

    Society only 19 s . The proceeds of tracts sold were 93 Z ., annual subscript tions 867 ., and a life subscription from Mr . Sturch 10 / . 10 s ., which sums constituted nearly"the whole receipts of the current year . The Report was then read . It stated that seven of the old tracts had

    been reprinted , and three new ones printed , namely , The Effects of a Bad Temper displayed in the History of Rebecca Price ; ' ' Friendly Suggestions to the Labouring Classes ;' and * Adherence to Truth recommended . ' It also stated , that the Committee had not yet been able to make any tise of the Dutch tracts , and it then proceeded as follows ;—' In the course of the last twelve

    months , there have been issued from the store nearly twenty thousand tracts . Of these an unusually large number has been presented to societies , or to individuals who requested to be furnished with them , or to whom the Committee presumed that they would prove acceptable , Donations of tracts have been made to friends

    residing at . Brighton , Ipswich , JXpw * bury , Trowbridge , Cradley , Louglv borough , Sunderland , and Deptford ; also the General Baptist Congrega *

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    tion , Trinity Place , Borough , and to the Worship Street Sunday School ; to the Rev . R . K . Philp , for the use Of the City Mission ; to the author of " Rebecca Price ; " to Mr , Cook , a worthy artizan , who has just emigrated to Canada ; to Mr . Thomson , a

    gentleman residing in the Island of St . fEhomasriirtherWes ^^ Hellyer , a man of an inquiring mind and an excellent spirit , in Hobart ' s Town , Van Dieman ' s Land ; to Count Lasteyrie , president of a society for popular instruction at Paris ; to Mr . Hume , the member for Middlesex ,

    who has shown his approbation of the tracts , by becoming an annual subscriber ; and lastly to the Trustees of the British Museum , one of the collectors for which institution had expressed a wish that a set might be placed in the National Library . To one of these donations the Committee

    advert with much pleasure , namely , that-to the Rev . R . K . Philp , City Missionary . The catholic spirit of the undertaking which this gentleman has been appointed to execute , is so congenial with the leading principle of this Society , as to render this grant peculiarly appropriate .

    . ¦ While your Committee trust that these donations will be taken as some proof that they have not been inactive , they are confident that you will rejoice with them in the contemplation of the moral and spiritual good , which your Society is effecting in many and distant patts of the world . Believing

    that your publications set forth the pure morality and the divine consolations of the Gospel in a style which is well fitted to engage the attention , they are anxious to disseminate them as widely as possible ; they are always happy in having any new quarters

    pointed out to them in which their introduction would be desirable ; and they feel encouraged in their labours by the many assurances which have reached them , that your tracts have proved both interesting and edifying to those in whose hands they have been placed .

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    have occupied the attention of the Society during the past year . That the investigations of the Scriptures were productive of interest , may be assumed from the regular attendance of the members , and your Committee look forward with hope , that from the seeds thus scattered may be reaped a haTvest-of-abundaat-usefulnessT——

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    XINITABIAN CHRONICLE . 11 $

    Christian Tract Society.

    CHRISTIAN TRACT SOCIETY .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 1, 1832, page 119, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1718/page/7/