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    multitudes who , have never reached the Tabernacle . Plain speaking on the great realities of a present salvation may be said to form the characteristic

    of the volume . From the same . — ' Booth of the Blue Ribbon

    Movement ; or , the Factory Boy who became a Temperance Evangelist , ' by Ernest Blackwell , with a preface by Canon Wilberforce . It is a

    curious coincidence that the leaders of the Salvation Army and the Blue Eibbon movements should possess ¦ - the __ sime . _ patronymic _ _ _ althoug _ h we - believe

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    American citizen . The story of his life and of his public career is full of exciting incidents , and Canon Wilberforce has written a sympathetic

    and laudatory introduction . From Messrs . Kegan PaulTrench 3 &

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    the omission _ . With an apology . , for its absence _ , ^^ ^ _ ^ he promises to supp ^ ly the want when he issues a , ^ * . « . .. _ __

    second series , and this _ we trust the success of the present volume will enable him to send to the press ere long .

    From Th . 0 Religious Tract Society . — 'Present Day -1 - ^ w . ¦ Tracts — - on •_ subjects - ^ k _< ^^ • of ' Christian - ¦ - Evidence - _• - - * v — — - ¦ . ¦_• ^« r v | , _

    Doctrine , and Morals / by various Writers . Volume II . The essays included in this volume form a continuation of the Society ' s effort to

    present in a portable shape , and in language intelligible to the ordinary reader , an examination of the chief subjects on which objections are

    most frequently urged 41 against religion V generally , and Christianity in particular . -Each essay in the — — set — is the work of an acknowled — ged ^ -y expert j ^ — - ,

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    pealed condition to of the evi country dences of being the successively authenticity ap ot

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    powerful paper on ' that Nature the to book Christianity covers wide / It ground will , th and us it be woul seen

    difficult be of no learned exaggeration questions and yet has to practi say never that ca before l the writing been same on provifl * tnew < *** *

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    From Pentateuch Rector of same St , ' Al . b — y the hage Rev London . R . Wheler Wallft Bush nd ^ rna , JH ^ - ^ j

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Sept. 15, 1883, page 820, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15091883/page/8/