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
Mr. Oncken’s circulation for the year ending March 31, 1870, was
1,030,306. The grants made to him have been £300 for tract printing,
£100 for the purchase of tracts from other German Societies, and £13 for
Spanish and Russian tracts.
The Bremen Society, conducted by Dr. Jacobi, has received £85,
principally for German versions of the Society’s English tracts.
The miscellaneous grants are two of £20 each to Mr. Lehmann, of Berlin,
one of whose distributors has been imprisoned for giving away a tract
under prohibited circumstances; £30 to Dr. Adelberg, of Erlangen; £10 to
Pastor Tretzel, Nüremberg; £20 to Nassau; £30 to Baden; and £20 English
books for the daughter of the late Dr. Fliedner, at Hilden.
HUNGARY.
The sums expended in this field amount to £460:—35,000 copies of tracts
in Hungarian have been printed, and 13,000 in Slavonian.
ITALY.
The books printed at the Typographia Claudiana, at the cost of the
Society, during the past year amounted to 40,500 copies.
Grants voted to Italy, £819 4s.
SPAIN.
From November, 1868, to February, 1870, 1,500,000 tracts have been
printed at Madrid, at a cost of £1,490.
“Tracts are a mighty power _rightly_ used, but tracts can be wasted and
the tract brought into contempt. The rule we desire to see carried out
in Spain is, tracts given to all who purchase Gospels; an assortment to
purchasers of Bibles and Testaments, given to those who can _read_, or
who have sons or children who can read for them.”
TURKEY.
The works printed during the past year at the cost of the Committee by
the American Missionaries in Constantinople, who have received the usual
grant of £300, have amounted to 13,000 copies in Arabo-Turkish; 8,000 in
Armenian; 3,000 in Armeno-Turkish; and 6,000 in Bulgarian.
ASIATIC OPERATIONS.
INDIA.
The report from India speaks of movement and progress both in printing
and circulation.
Madras writes:—“The past year records the largest number of distinct
publications that have ever been published in any one year. The average
number of new publications has only been _seven_: this year
_seventy-seven_ distinct publications have been issued, sixty-four of
which are new tracts and books. The printing is about the average.”
From BOMBAY, Mr. Bowen says:—“Our circulation is much in advance of what
it ever was. Our financial condition is good.”
From COLOMBO Mr. Murdoch says:—“The subscriptions are somewhat in advance
of the preceding year; but the most encouraging feature is the great
increase, amounting to 45 per cent. beyond former sales.”
The amount of paper granted to the various printing presses during the
past year has been considerably increased, being 3,062 reams; while
754,110 books and tracts have been printed during the year by the various
Indian Auxiliaries.
CHINA.
The total grants during the year have amounted to £247. Returns of
publications printed not received in time for the Report.
BRITISH NORTH AMERICA.
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