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be sent back to Sierra Leone . A better chance will also be thus afforded for restoring some of the captured slaves to their former connexions 5 and some of them , after having enjoyed the advantage of instruction in agriculture , and in other useful arts , at the colony , may pos ibly be beneficially employed in disseminating , in other parts of Africa , the
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REPORT OF THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY .
This Society was instituted in the year 1799 * and is distinct from " The hociety for , pr © moting Religious Knowledge among the Poor , ' * instituted anno 1750 . The latter is supported by churchmen and dissenters of all denominations ; the former , of which we shall now give a brief account , is in the hands of the miscalled Evangelical party .
The Report before us is described as the Ninth Annual ope , and was read on the lath of May . It was drawn up we apprehend , by some veiy young person . The first four pages are mere eloquence j
such as appears in a school-boy * s first theme . We have a good deal about the genial influences of the month of May , of its being " consecrated weeks , during which the citizens of 7 Aon enjoy ^ nany holy convocations ;*' - —and after this descant upon the natural and spiritsal creation , comes a catalogue pf valuable societies , as the British and Foreign Bible Society * , the Missionary Societies of London and Edinburgh , and those supported by the Methodists ,
Baptists and Moravians , the'Hibernian Society , the London Eemale Penitential ry , and finally a recommendation of the Eclectic Review , the genius and abilities of whose writers are praised in as glowing terms as if the compiler of the Report were one of the contributors to that publication .
The seventh page brings us , thoroughly fatigued , to the Religious Tract Society , and here we must acknowledge we are refreshed with a detail ( for matter of fact is better in these ca « es than eloquence ) of real and extended beneficence . Within the year , ending the 31 st of March , 1808 , upwards of a mijlhon of Tracts of one series , and FOUR HUNDRED AND FORTY
TilOU-* The same gentleman , the Rev . J . Hughes , of Battersea , is secretary to . the Tract Society , and one of the secretaries t # the Bibje { Society .
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sand , three Ht / NDRED of another have been dispersed , making five millions , SIX HUNDRED AND SEVEN / THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED of thfc first series , and twelve hundred thousand of the second series , which have been sold and circulated since the
commencement of the Society . The Society has engaged a great number of hawkers in the distribution of its publications , and it is calculated that by this means * , since the zst of July I& 06 , about THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND tracts of a profane and immoral tendency frtve been kept out of circulation . Zealous persons of each sex and of *
• • « « « _ * m various stations have lent their influence to the Society . "We are much edified by a letter from a lady g iving an-account ot the mode of her distributing some thousand of their little publications in various paits of the kingdom . Why
couid not our Unitarian ladies imitate this example , and devote some of their elegant leisure to the < 4 i persion of the tracts of our several societies ? Heat and light are usually connected in the natu * ral world , and in the religious world , knowledge ought to enkindle zeal .
Encouraged and animated by the institution of this society , benevolent persons have fotmed minor societies for the purchase and distribution of religious tracts in Birmingham , Cambridge , Chelsea , Liverpool , Plymouth-dock and South *
wark . The Society ha % in the true Spirit of philanthropy , stretched out the ha » 4 of kindness to Foreign Countries . Five
thousand copies of a tract , entitled " Scripture £ xtra « t 4 " have been printed in the Icelandic UnMligf , Jind sent off to Iceland , the moat <* $ *** M ** if &t Danish dominions . Tnisl $ ^ rliaj ? ftJ * i&c
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Intelligence . —Religious Tract Society . 6 Q&
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knowledge which they may have thus acquired . ' * The following is a statement of the funds of the Ins t itution . £ . s . d . Subscriptions and donations 2976 7 , 7 Expenses of printing , &c . 494 % 9 £ a 48 l 19 IO
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1808, page 625, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2398/page/49/
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