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£ 66 Intelligence . —Christian Tract Sxtvietyf
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Christian Tract Society . The Eighteenth Anniversary of this Society was held on Wednesday , May 9 th , at the White Hart Tavern , Bishopsgate Street , London : the Rev . Dr . Rees in the Chair . The Committee ' s Report was not of so encouraging a nature as on some former occasions . The pressure of the times , as might have been expected , has occasioned a falling off in the number of
Subscribers * The Collector chosen by the last General Meeting declined accepting the office ; and the gentleman appointed , by the Committee , to fill it having as yet succeeded in obtaining but a small proportion of the subscriptions for the year 1826 , the Committee had thought it right to confine the outlay to the reprinting of such Tracts as were required to keep up the series . Two Tiacts were stated to be under
consideration—one a MS . from the pen of a former contributor , Mrs . M , A . Price , t the other an Irish tale already in circulation , but which , with some verbal alterations , it was thought would be well adapted for promoting the objects of this Institution . To enable their
successors to bring out new Tracts , the Committee respectfully but earnestly recommended the prompt payment of subscriptions both in arrear and for the current year ; the pecuniary claims on the Society being considerably beyond the funds in hand . Indeed , nearly the whole of the present year ' s subscrip-( ions , it was stated , would be required to satisfy those claims ; particularly as the accession of new members does not
equal the number of those who have died or withdrawn their subscriptions . The Committee , however , saw no cause for despondency , as activity on the part of the steady friends of the Society in the endeavour to procure new subscribers and a few donations and life subscriptions would again place it in a condition for effectively prosecuting its benevolent ami important objects .
Although the circulation during the past year had fallen below that of former years , yet the demand had required the reprinting of ten Tracts—and 617 volumes in boards had been supplied to Subscribers , Agents , and Booksellers . — The Rev . G . Harris , of Glasgow , was announced as the gratuitous Agent of the Society for Scotland — wnere he thinks a considerable circulation of the Tracts may soon be obtained . The Committee reported the following grants : to Senhor Carvalho , who
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was the Minister of Justice tinder the late Constitutional Government of Por * tugal , a set in boards was presented ; That gentleman was already possessed of the Society ' s Tracts j but finding his family , who were about to return to their native country , could understand them and were highly interested in their perusal , he was desirous of their taking with them publications so well calculated to inspire a love of goodness . —To the Lancashire and Cheshire Unitarian
Missionary Society , on the application of the Rev . J . R . Beard , Tracts were voted . ~ -To a gentleman residing at Hobart ' s Town , in Van Dieman ' s Land , and who was anxious to pat info circulation there Moral and Religious' Tracts , an allotment had been forwarded . —At the request of Mr . John Mardon , Secretary of
the Finsbury Chapel Sunday Schools , some Tracts were presented for the use of the children . —And , conformably with a resolution passed by the General Meeting of 1824 , a set in boards has been presented to the Rotherhithe and Bermondsey Mechanics' Institution . —A Letter was read from the Rev . S . Wood , who stated that he was at Geneva last
autumn , when he was requested by M . Bouvier , one of the Pastors , " to recommend to him some English work calculated for the instruction of the poor . " Mr . Wood replied , that he " considered The Christian Tracts peculiarly adapted to the object in view .- ' He , therefore , begged to be favoured with a set in boards , which he would forward to M . Bouvier , who , if he had not leisure to translate the Tracts
himself , would > he believed , procure their translation . By such a grant Mr . Wood thought the Committee would " confer a substantial benefit on the worthy and intelligent people of Geneva * " He had also heard M . Monod , of Paris , very lately express " the highest admiration of one or two of the Tracts which had fallen in his way , and which he had made an effort to have translated . "
The total number of Tracts which the Society has printed- was stated to be 444 , 500 , of which upwards of 378 , 000 have been circulated . The stock on hand amounts to nearly 66 , 000—and , With the present series , can seldom be much less . The average yearly circulation from the commencement of the Institution has been abbu * 2 l , 000 ' copies . The property of the Society was thus stated : Due from Agents , Country Societies , and Booksellers , for Tracts on Sale
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1827, page 466, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1797/page/74/
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