Christian Literature: a sermon delivered May 8th, 1870, in Kensington Chapel, at the seventy-first anniversary of the Religious Tract SocietyStoughton, John
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Christian Literature: a sermon delivered May 8th, 1870, in Kensington Chapel, at the seventy-first anniversary of the Religious Tract Society
Stoughton, John
Bible. John, XXI, 25 -- Sermons; Christian literature -- Sermons; Congregational churches -- Sermons; Sermons, English -- 19th century
To the PARIS TRACT SOCIETY, the Committee have voted £100 to reduce the
price of the _Almanach des Bons Conseils_, £120 towards the free
circulation of 100,000 tracts, including a monthly grant to the agents of
the Home Missionary Society, and £300 for the publication of various
tracts monthly in editions of 10,000 each.
To Toulouse, £300 has been given; and to M. Puaux, £100.
Grants have also been made to the Strasbourg Society of £10; to M.
Jenkins, of Morlaix, for Breton publications, £19 10s. 5d.; and to Pastor
Maillard, of La Mothe, £20, for the publication of a Hymn Book.
BELGIUM AND HOLLAND.
The Committee have furnished the Belgian Evangelical Society with the
means for publishing an edition of 3,000 of a new translation of the Rev.
Newman Hall’s “Come to Jesus,” and 5,000 each of eleven Flemish tracts.
They have also continued their subsidies to the Flemish Christian monthly
periodical, and, for a period of the year, to the French _Chrétien
Belge_.
ROTTERDAM.—M. HERKLOTTS has issued from the auxiliary—Tracts, 57,181;
Books, 1,747; Handbills, 13,050; total, 71,978. The “Sinner’s Friend”
has been reprinted, and 7,050 copies issued.
AMSTERDAM.—During the past year, a Workmen’s Exhibition was held in this
city, and the Committee sent to Pastor Adama v. Scheltema £10 in English
tracts, £10 in foreign, and £10 in Dutch tracts. A handsome kiosk was
erected for their reception. They were wisely distributed and well
received.
SWITZERLAND.
Grants voted to Switzerland, £146 14s.
RUSSIA.
ST. PETERSBURG.—Twenty-three new tracts have been printed—121,000
copies—at a cost of £80 to the Society. They are chiefly translations
from English tracts, and all contain the Gospel of our Lord.
The sales, including nearly 8,000 German tracts and books, have reached
during the past year 115,823 copies. The gratuitous circulation has
been, in addition, 2,600 tracts.
At RIGA, M. LOESWITZ still pursues his tract publication in the German,
Lettish, Esthonian, and Polish languages. His scheme involved the
printing of 90,000 tracts and books in these tongues at a cost of over
£300, towards which the Committee contributed £100.
SWEDEN AND NORWAY.
The Stockholm Missionary Union, of which the Rev. Mr. Wiberg is
Secretary, has issued sixteen new tracts, in editions of 10,000 each, at
a cost of £44, towards which the Committee have voted £20.
The gratuitous circulation during the year amounts to 80,000, by the
hands of sixteen agents employed in various parts of the kingdom.
Through the Rev. J. STORJOHANN, the Norwegian Chaplain to the Port of
London, the Committee have printed six tracts in Norse, amounting to
15,500 copies.
GERMANY.
HAMBURG.—The Lower Saxony Tract Society has received the usual grant of
£350. It has printed during the year 870,000 publications, and
circulated by sale and gift 1,060,000.
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