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an over the collection to the Loral treasurers , and the Local Treasurers to L General Treasurers . This is the principa l machinery of the Society ; iod it appears sufficiently simple and efficient . The Rules are of two classes ; ihefrst containing the fundamental laws of the Society ; the second
containing regulations proposed to the adoption of the Local Auxiliary Associations . These Rules do not admit of abridgment , though perhaps they might be simplified . We shall conkide this article with giving a copy of them . We cannot however conclude without
recommending the plan to the serious and dispassionate consideration of our readers ; and especially of such as have the direction of our-Tr % ct Societies , and are desirous of spreading their ramifications , and of extending their
benefits into the several neighbouring congregations with which a Tract Society maybe surrounded . The Report before us modestly says , " This Society has only been established about half a year : what has
been done must be considered rather as art experiment towards the formation of a Tract Society than as the proceedings of a matured Institution . " The experiment is successfully begun , and we trust will be productive of extensive and beneficial results . The Reid of operation is wide and full of population . The number of Tracts distributed
and sub-distributed by the . Local Societies , will in a few years be considerable , and must produce a decided effect . We have already observed that the present number of Subscribers is 355 . Supposing this number to be stationary ( though the prospect of increase / appears in the ? Report ) and the Donations to be limited to the first
year of the Establishment , yet from this nqmber of members an annual « um of nearly £ &O will arise ; and if hi not more than half a year upwards of twelve hundred Tracts have been put in circulation , the aggregate result « * course of , time must be numerically and morally very considerable . it
appears a part of the p lan that a ** V * n shall be read to the Subscribers w fne ' « Annual Meeting of the As-^ ation of the Ministers usually de-^ aimated Presbyterian , in the West Jwng of Y orkshire / ' Th is will give * to ^ kasing and important discus-?»• The Catalogue frnd Roles wiH
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be thus revised and improved from year to year . The Catalogue contains several important Works scarcely to be considered as Tracts , unless the example of Mr . Locke and the late -Bishop Watson sanction this use of the term . It presents , however , a selection and union of such useful and well-knowi \ publications , as are calculated to increase piety to God , and practical godliness ; and to give just vi ^ ws of the character , government , and revealed will oi the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ . We subjoin the Rules :
" Rule 1 . That the following" Congregations of Protestant Dissenters in Yorkshire , be united into a Society for the distribution of Religious Tracts : viz . The Congregations assembling : in St .
Saviour-gate , York ; Mill-Hill , Leedsr Westgate , Wakefield ; Chapel-lane , Bradford ; Northgate , Halifax ; Lidyate j and South-End , £ lland ; and such other Protestant Dissenting Congregations , as may be disposed to join this Union .
" Rule 2 . That this Society be denomi ^ nated , * A Society of Protestant Dissenters in the West-Riding of Yorkshire , for Promoting , by the Distribution of Tracts , the Knowledge of the Christian Religion , and the Practice of Piety and Righteousness . *
" Rule 3 . That the Annual Meeting of this Society be held on the day , and at the place , of the Annual Meeting of the Association of Ministers usually denominated Presbyterian , in the West-Riding of Yorkshire , immediately after the close of the morning ' s service , when a Report of the proceedings during the past year shall be read , and a Secretary ,, a Treasurer , and two Auditors of Accounts appointed for the
year ensuing . " Rule 4 . That the Rev . Henry Turner be Secretary ; Mr . Thomas Hoi lings , Treasurer ; and Mr . C . H . Dawson , and Mr * George Stansfeld , Auditors , for the year ensuing . " Rule 5 . That the Subscription to this Society be limited to a . penny a week * or 4 s . 4 d . a year ; but that Donations will be thankfully received .
" Rule 6 ' . That Tracts he allotted to the full amount of the Subscriptions , aiid to as large an . amount of the Donations a * the state of the Funds will admit . \ ^ " Jtule 7 . That the Depository ; ' ^ Tracts be at Bradford , under the cane of the Secretary . That it be open during the whole of the week following tfu » second Sunday in the months of June , September , December and March : ajodl
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Review . —Report of the West Riding Tract Society . 603
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1816, page 603, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2457/page/39/
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