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Title: A century of achievement, the history of the New York Bible and Common prayer book society, for one hundred years
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Lowndes, Arthur, 1858-1917
Subjects: New York Bible and Common prayer book society
Publisher: New York, E. S. Gorham
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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ting Learning,the Protestant Episcopal Public School, the New York Bibleand Common Prayer Book Society, the Protestant EpiscopalTract vSociety, the Education and Missionary Society of theDiocese of New York, and the New York Protestant EpiscopalCity Mission Society. The meeting was duly held on the evening of December 28th,when suitable resolutions in memory of this distinguished clergy-man were passed. (Folio 120.) Dr. Bayard was the Second Vice President of the Society,and Rector of St. Clements Church, New York. He died atsea on the passage from Beyrout to Malta. Princeton Theological Seminary Libraries 1 1012 01236 4156 Date Due ^^Q^rff rT^ dlwft 1 /^^ 1 f) m&mMM^
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CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. Foundation of Societies in England in the Seventeenth and EighteenthCenturies — Thomas Bray — His visit to America — Christian KnowledgeSociety Founded — S. P. G. Founded — The Moral and Spiritual Conditionof the People in England and New York — Bradford Prints the FirstEdition of the Book of Common Prayer — Failure of Wesley and Whitefieldin Georgia — Their Return to England — Their Success and the Effects oftheir Preaching — Robert Raikes — Society for the Support and Encour-agement of Sunday Schools Founded — Religious Tract Society Founded —Church Missionary Society Founded — Dearth of Bibles in England —Religions Revival in Wales — S. P. C. K. Prints Bibles and New Testaments• in Welsh — Stock soon Exhausted — Edition of Ten Thousand Printed —Even this Number Inadequate — A Welsh Girl Walks Twenty-Five Milesto Secure a Copy and Is Disappointed — Her Disappointment Induces Rev.Thomas Charles, of Bala, to Petition the

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