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much greater degree of success than it had yet obtained . He was sure that those who read its invaluable publications would unite with him in saying , that all might gaiu something by ( he perusal of their pages , and that much virtuous principle was to be deduced from them . According to the accounts rereived by the Committee , much good had resulted from their distribution : and
they had been distributed in most parts of the civilized world . They had been well received in America , where many of them had been reprinted ; they had even reached the north of Africa ; and , but for one o ( those political changes which so frequently occur there , they would have been translated and put into extensive circulation by a distinguished Mahometan who had read them and
could appreciate their admirable moral tendency /' The total number of Tracts printed to this time was stated to be 458 , 500 , of which 392 , 569 , had been circulated or sent out from the Society ' s store ; leaving a stock on hand of 6 * 5 , 931 . Several of the Tracts , it was said , would shortly require to be reprinted , in order to keep up the Series . The property of the Society was stated to be as follows :
Owing by Booksellers , Agents , and Country Societies 73 6 8 In the hands of the Treasurer .... 1187 Estimated value of theStock 398 12 1—473 17 4 Owing by the Society for Paper to this time .... 48 29 for boarding volumes and stitching , Nos ... 10 12 5— 58 15 2
Leaving a balance of . .. £ 415 2 2 The Subscribers were respectfully and earnestly requested to use their best endeavours to induce their friends to enrol their names among the list of the Society's patrons , and before the meeting separated several subscriptions were doubled and the names of new
subscribers given to the Collector . Thanks were voted to the officers . Mr . Aspland seconded a motion , " That the cordial thanks of this meeting be given to Mr . G . Smallneld , for his useful , zealous , and long-continued services as Secretary ; and that , while they regret his official retirement , they hope for his valuable assistance as a member of the Committee for the ensuing year , " by
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observing , that " they were under the greatest obligations to Mr . Smallfield for the attention he had always paid to the interests of the Society . He took the burden upon him at a lime when it was highly necessary for the welfare of the Institution ; and he had discharged
the trust committed to him in a way that entitled him to the gratitude of the whole Society . " lu acknowledging the honour done him , Mr . Smallneld observed , " that he was very grateful for this testimony of the Society ' s approbation . He deeply regretted that he bad not been able to render more efficient
service to an Institution to which he felt a growing attachment for its catholic spirit aud those strictly moral habits which it was designed to superinduce , founded upon the principles and the hopes of the Gospel . The Society had been in existence nineteen years , during ten of which he had had the pleasure and honour of discharging the duties of
its Secretary . He had , indeed , for some years past , been anxious to throw the burden off from his shoulders ; not be . cause he had been unwilling to perform the duties of his office , but because he had been painfully conscious of his inability to give the Society as effective aid as it was justly entitled to receive from its Secretary . Nearly half a million of Tracts had beeu circulated during its existence , aud he rejoiced that they had
honoured him with their confidence long enough to have enabled him to send out about 200 , 000 of their useful publications . He congratulated the Subscribers that they had a prospect of having a geutleman as his successor , who , by his talents and station , might render their institution that important service it so well deserved . " He concluded with moving , " That the Rev . Benjamin Mardon * be requested to accept the office of Secretary for the year ensuing . "
The Rev . R . Aspland " suggested the practicability of the Society ' s publishing a new series of very cheap tracts for general distribution . It was unnecessary for him to iuform that meeting , that a great battle was now being fought , upon the result of which depeuded the
happiness of this empire , and in a great measure that of the world . The battle was between religious liberty , and intolerance and bigotry . It was indeed well to teach the youug the necessity of being , virtuous ; but it was , perhaps , not less necessary to teach them , to teach all , the value and the justice of a respect for No . 6 , Goulden Terrace , Pentonville-
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tntelligence .--Christian Tract Society . 505
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1828, page 505, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2562/page/73/
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