CALL FOR A PRIZE TRACT.
CALL FOR A PRIZE TRACT.
The subscriber is authorized to say, that a friend, not wishing his name should be publicly known, offers $100 to the person who will write the best tract on the duty and importance of praying for the abolition of slavery and oppression, especially in our own country, particularly adapted to interest new converts before their minds become embarrassed with political and party strife.The tract is to be entitled, “Prayer for the Oppressed.” The offerer nominates and requests the gentlemen named below to act as committee of award, to wit: Rev. Elnathan Davis, Fitchburg, Mass.; Rev. George Trask, Fitchburg, Mass.; John W. Sullivan, Boston, Mass.; Charles B. Wilder, Esq., Boston. Mass.; Rev. E. H. Nevin, Chelsea, Mass.The tract should not exceed 24 pages of common size when printed, and should be sent to the committee of award in season to be examined, and the prize one transmitted to the publication committee of the A. T. S., Boston, by the 1st of June next.NOAH EMERSON,For the offerer of the Prize.Hollis, N. H., January 21, 1859
The subscriber is authorized to say, that a friend, not wishing his name should be publicly known, offers $100 to the person who will write the best tract on the duty and importance of praying for the abolition of slavery and oppression, especially in our own country, particularly adapted to interest new converts before their minds become embarrassed with political and party strife.
The tract is to be entitled, “Prayer for the Oppressed.” The offerer nominates and requests the gentlemen named below to act as committee of award, to wit: Rev. Elnathan Davis, Fitchburg, Mass.; Rev. George Trask, Fitchburg, Mass.; John W. Sullivan, Boston, Mass.; Charles B. Wilder, Esq., Boston. Mass.; Rev. E. H. Nevin, Chelsea, Mass.
The tract should not exceed 24 pages of common size when printed, and should be sent to the committee of award in season to be examined, and the prize one transmitted to the publication committee of the A. T. S., Boston, by the 1st of June next.
NOAH EMERSON,For the offerer of the Prize.
Hollis, N. H., January 21, 1859
Last winter, a Christian gentleman, by advertisement in the New York Independent, offered a premium of $100 for the best tract which might be submitted on “Prayer for the Oppressed.” The undersigned were nominated and requested to act as a committee of award in this case, and have received and examined a large number of manuscripts, many of which were of marked ability and power; but finding nooneof these so fully to answer the call of the offerer of the prize as to allow them to award the whole of it tothat, they have awarded the same in equal divisions, to the authors of thetwo bestmanuscripts, viz.: Rev.George W. Bassett, Washington, D. C., and Rev.James A. Thome, of Cleveland, Ohio. And they have strong confidence that these tracts will soon come before the public, and that God will mightily bless them as an instrumentality in inciting the Church universal to benevolent action and believing prayer, for the overthrow of slavery and oppression.ELNATHAN DAVIS,EDWIN H. NEVIN,GEORGE TRASK,JOHN W. SULLIVAN,C. B. WILDER.Boston, August, 1859.
Last winter, a Christian gentleman, by advertisement in the New York Independent, offered a premium of $100 for the best tract which might be submitted on “Prayer for the Oppressed.” The undersigned were nominated and requested to act as a committee of award in this case, and have received and examined a large number of manuscripts, many of which were of marked ability and power; but finding nooneof these so fully to answer the call of the offerer of the prize as to allow them to award the whole of it tothat, they have awarded the same in equal divisions, to the authors of thetwo bestmanuscripts, viz.: Rev.George W. Bassett, Washington, D. C., and Rev.James A. Thome, of Cleveland, Ohio. And they have strong confidence that these tracts will soon come before the public, and that God will mightily bless them as an instrumentality in inciting the Church universal to benevolent action and believing prayer, for the overthrow of slavery and oppression.
Boston, August, 1859.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1859, byTHE AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY,In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.
Geo. C. Rand & Avery, Printers, 3 Cornhill, Boston.