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 no one of these so fully to answer the call of the offerer of the prize as to allow them to award the whole of it to that, they have awarded the same in equal divisions, to the authors of the two best manuscripts, 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.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1859, by
THE 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.
PRAYER FOR THE OPPRESSED.