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    Prom The Society for Promoting Christian Heisch Knowledge . One . — direct ' William advantage Tyndale of the / cel by ebration C . E .

    of in honour anniversaries of the , centenaries great men , of and the other past festivals , lies in the attention which is called by the popular

    literature issued as an accompaniment to the works public meetings of the heroes and services thus distinguish to the lives ed . The and ,

    fourth centenary of the birth of William Tyndale gested has , as the our erection readers of are a probabl statue which y aware is , soon sug- ! 1 to in be this unveiled little book on the we Thames have a brief Embankment record of , and the [ f

    career of the Reformer , with a portrait by way of Tyndale frontisp as iece the . translator The great of life- the work Bible of Master must | .

    volume g always ratitude give will of i him » Knglish ive a to claim readers Christians on who the , haye admiration and littl this e little time aud ' ^ [

    for study a fair idea of his history .

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), May 1, 1884, page 419, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01051884/page/11/