To the Paris Tract Society, the Committee have voted £100 to reduce the price of the Almanach des Bons Conseils, £120 towards the free circulation of 100,000 tracts, including a monthly grant to the agents of the Home Missionary Society, and £300 for the publication of various tracts monthly in editions of 10,000 each.
To Toulouse, £300 has been given; and to M. Puaux, £100.
Grants have also been made to the Strasbourg Society of £10; to M. Jenkins, of Morlaix, for Breton publications, £19 10s. 5d.; and to Pastor Maillard, of La Mothe, £20, for the publication of a Hymn Book.
BELGIUM AND HOLLAND.
The Committee have furnished the Belgian Evangelical Society with the means for publishing an edition of 3,000 of a new translation of the Rev. Newman Hall’s “Come to Jesus,” and 5,000 each of eleven Flemish tracts. They have also continued their subsidies to the Flemish Christian monthly periodical, and, for a period of the year, to the French Chrétien Belge.
Rotterdam.—M. Herklotts has issued from the auxiliary—Tracts, 57,181; Books, 1,747; Handbills, 13,050; total, 71,978. The “Sinner’s Friend” has been reprinted, and 7,050 copies issued.
Amsterdam.—During the past year, a Workmen’s Exhibition was held in this city, and the Committee sent to Pastor Adama v. Scheltema £10 in English tracts, £10 in foreign, and £10 in Dutch tracts. A handsome kiosk was erected for their reception. They were wisely distributed and well received.
SWITZERLAND.
Grants voted to Switzerland, £146 14s.