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The series was brought to an end by the intervention of Richard Bagot, Bishop of Oxford, not unsympathetic to the Tractarians, [5] after the appearance of Newman's Tract 90, which suggested a heterodox reading of the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England, and caused controversy in the University.
Book of martyrs: An account of holy men who died for the Christian religion. 4 "Z." (Hannah More) The carpenter; or, the danger of evil company. 5 The cock-fighter: A true history. 6 Isaac Watts Divine songs attempted in easy language for the use of children. 7 Execution of Maclean, commonly known by the name of The Gentleman Highwayman. 8
The Society also published reliegious tracts by women writers for use in overseas missions like the Missionary Birthday Book compiled by Lucy Currie, a missionary in Punjab, India. The Birthday book provided a daily passage for each day of the year with a bible verse, a hymn verse, and a piece of missionary history.
The first of the Scots tracts was The History of Maitland Smith, published in 1807 to raise funds to support the family of the executed criminal in the title. Other titles included The Happy daughter, or the history of Jean Morton. by Elizabeth Hamilton (writer). A 2nd collected edition ‘corrected and greatly enlarged’ was published in ...
As religious literature, tracts were used throughout the turbulence of the Protestant Reformation and the various upheavals of the 17th century. They came to such prominence again in the Oxford Movement for reform within the Church of England that the movement became known as "Tractarianism", after the publication in the 1830s and 1840s of a series of religious essays collectively called ...
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Before ATS was founded, the Bible was the only religious book being distributed widely around the United States. The American Tract Society's founders felt that the American Bible Society was limited in its activities, leading to ATS's establishment. [2]
The sale of Colportage Library books was 192,308 copies as compared with 192,490 copies in 1905. The vitality of this series is shown by the constant demand for even the earliest numbers, there being 196,509 reprints in all during 1906. 236,877 copies of the Emphasized Gospel of John were published during 1906.