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Christian Tract Society ' - * rtfe jRfteVebtfi Anmjret $ ary of this Sa ~ ctet ^ was fiel d on Th ursd&y , June Idtfi , &t the Old London Tavern , Bishopsgate Street , Loiid ' on ; Thomas Gibson , Esq ., ! n the Chair . The Treasurer presented his report , from which it appeared that he was in advance 5 / . 8 * . 3 d .
The Committee s report was then read , ft waVstated , that in compliance with the wish expressed by the last General Meeting , the ' Committee had taken into consideration , and resolved ou the allowance to be made in future to wholesale
purchasers of the Tracts . This they had fixed ! at 25 per cent- to Subscribers , and at 15 per cent , to Non-subscribers , when not less than a quarter of a hundred of any tract was taken * They had printed and circulated this new scale of wholesale
prices , and had appended it to many of the tracts recently printed .- —Mr . C . Foti , the Collector , having resigned his office , the Committee had appointed Mr . J . M . Sidney as his successor . —The grants of the Society ' s Tracts made during the last year have been as follow : To the
Unitarian Eiind five guineas * worth ; to the Provisional Government of Greece , one set in boards , and to the Hon . Col , Leicester StanhopiS , through whose friendly agency they were presented , another set ; to the Rev . JaMes Hawkes of Nantyvich ,
two guineas' worth for the Sunday School children of his congregation , and for distributionaniong the poor in his neighbourhood ^ and two sets to an active minister in Rhode Island , North America . It was stated that an account had reached the
Committee of 27 of the tracts having been ; reprinted at Boston ; and that , in consequence of there being no duty ou paper in the United States , the booksellers who had undertaken their re publication were enabled to offer them at a reduction from
the * original prices . The Society ' s Traets having been spoken of in terms of great approbation , in an American periodical , entitled The Christian Disciple , and the booksellers having thought them worthy their attention , the Committee , not
unreasonably- anticipated that a circulation would be given to them , in the United States , limited only by the boundaries of that vast and interesting portion of the globe . —Of the grant made last year to ffr illiam Roberts , of Madras , the following acknowledgment has been received :
" Madras , Oct . 8 , 1823 . " My kind Sir * € i I have received from Mr . Camming your parcel ^ containing your veiy kiud letter * and the excellent moral tracts , on the 11 th of August last * and take this opportunity of returning my grateful
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thanks to the Committee of the Christian Tract Society , through you , for their having so kindly sent them . I have perused them as far as the No . 3 T ) , and 'I am much instructed and edified by them , some country borns also have perused themi and think they are very good £ the miseries and unhappy end occasioned by
vices and impiety , on the one handy the peace , comfort and everlasting happiness on the other , tending by godliness of life , and benevolence to our fellow-creatures , brought in view on different cha ?* racters , under various circumstances , a-s they are done in these tracts , makes strong impression and affords lively force to our actions . I doubt not it would be
of a real use for reclaiming many ; and if please God , at some ; future opporttuiity , the Committee of the Christian Tract Society should think proper to favour [ naejy I shall be very happy to receive a few sets of those excellent tracts , to give away in their name amongst the country borns and others that can read English , - # * * * * * '"
* I remain , my kind Sir , « * ' Your obedient Servant , - " WILLIAM ROBERTS . " u Mr . G . Smallfieldr Public libraries having recently . been established for the use of apprentices and other young persons in -various ; parts of England , the" report suggested the propriety of the-General Meeting authorizing its iiew Conrmittee to present one or two sets of the Society's Tracts , to all the institutions of this kind with the
formation of which they might become acquainted * During the last year , the Committee have had occasion to reprint eleven of the tracts , and the report stated that one
number must be immediately reprinted , and others before the next anniversary . To the catalogue three new t racts' have recently been added—the whole series now amounting to forty-nine . For the accommodation of those Subscribers who
prefer the tracts in that form , the last 12 Numbers have been put into boards * but the Committee reccommended that the fifth volume should not be considered as completed till another number had been added , thus constituting an average of ten tracts in each of the five volumes .
The first new tract is entitled An Address to the Children xtf Some Sunday Schools * on their leaving the Institution . This was sent anonymously to the Committee , but accompanied by an offer of taking 500 copies , at Subscribers * price , should it be approved atad printed . The second is entitled " An Address to the Teachers in Sunday Schools , " written by that inde-
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: tnieU % g&nGe . ~ Chri * tlun Tract S&cietp . $ § 9
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vol . xix , 3 ii
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1824, page 369, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2525/page/49/
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