Christian Tract Society. Tracts designed to inculcate Moral Conduct on Christian Principles. Vol. III. London: J. Chapman, Agent to the Society, 1847. [10599]
Brown cloth with blind patterns, bright gilt to spine, 7 x 4 1/2 inches, binding clean and very good. This once had a paper wrapper, and there are remnants of the wrapper remaining to the inside paste-downs. This is a bound collection of tracts, with each tract having its own page numbers, and most having their own title pages. Very good. Hardcover.
Adherence to Truth Recommended, By Joseph Calrow Means; An Address to the Parents of Sunday-Scholars, by Joseph Calrow Means, to which is added, The Way to be Happy; The Duty and Blessedness of Obeying Conscience, by Edwin Chapman; Good out of Evil: A Tale of a Cellar, by Rev. J. Johns; The Divine Origin of the Christian Religion, by Thomas Bradshaw; Owen and Llewellyn; being a sequel to "Good Out of Evil," by Rev. J. Johns; How to Spend a Day, by Henry Ware, Junr. D.D.; Life in its Trials and Religion in its Power: A Tale, by Edward Whitfield; How to Spend Holy Time, by Henry Ware, Junr., D.D.; Walks in a City, by Rev. T. Bowring; "Bear Ye One Another's Burdens." by Rev. T. Bowring; Amy Gordon: Founded on Facts, by Miss H. M. Rathbone; The Young Wife and Mother.
The tracts collected hear bear an imprint dates from the 1836-1848. The Christian Tract Society was formed in 1809 with one of the founders being the Unitarian Rev. Robert Aspland. It was set up, partly at least, to counter the influence of the Religious Tract Society, founded by Hannah More.
