Tracts and Handbills of the Religious Tract Society, March 1st, 1843

Part 3

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_Price_, _Each_. _per_ 100. _s._ _d._ _d._ 800 Influence of Pious Women in 2 4 ½ promoting Revivals of Religion 801 The Reclaimed Infidel 2 4 ½ 802 The Soap Boiler 1 2 ¼ 803 The Dying Gipsey 2 4 ½ 804 The Effects of Infidelity 3 6 ¾ 805 This is the Man 1 2 ¼ 806 The Pilot and the Captain 2 4 ½ 807 Phœbe Wood 1 2 ¼ 808 Eliza; a North American Indian 2 4 ½ Woman 809 Dying Hours of Infidels 1 2 ¼ 810 The Providential Visit 2 4 ½ 811 Hugh Bourne 2 4 ½ 812 The Pious Seaman 1 2 ¼ 813 Thomas Yates 2 4 ½ 814 The Pharisee 2 4 ½ 815 The Life of Thomas Mitchell 2 4 ½ 816 Poor Nanny 2 4 ½ 817 The Aged Shepherd 2 4 ½ 818 The Aged Widow 2 4 ½ 819 Old Gabriel 2 4 ½ 820 Memoir of Krishna-Pal 3 6 ¾ 821 Little Nelly 1 2 ¼ 822 Conversion of an Indian Conjure 2 4 ½ 823 The Cholera Morbus 2 4 ½ 824 Blind Sandwich Islander 1 2 ¼ 825 The Traveller and Widow 2 4 ½ 826 The Miner 2 4 ½ 827 The Danger of Trifling with 3 6 ¾ Convictions 828 History of Mary White 3 6 ¾ 829 The Great Change 1 2 ¼ 830 Elizabeth Cronch 3 6 ¾ 831 Sabbath Stroller Reclaimed 1 2 ¼ 832 Rothsay Castle Steam-packet 2 4 ½ 833 The New Zealand Girl 1 2 ¼ 834 Memoir of Edward S— 2 4 ½ 835 A Traveller arrived at the End 2 4 ½ of the Journey 836 Some Account of John Knill 2 4 ½ 837 The Self-Murderer 2 4 ½ 838 The Three English Sailors 1 2 ¼ 839 The False Hope 1 2 ¼ 840 Sarah Wilson, or the Young 2 4 ½ Cripple 841 The History of Sarah 4 8 1 842 The Mountain Miller 4 8 1 843 The Afflicted Mason 2 4 ½ 844 Memoir of Miss L. Stapleton 2 4 ½ 845 Memoir of Ra-Poor-Negro 2 4 ½ 846 Old James 1 2 ¾ 847 Lydia Sturtevant 2 4 ½ 848 James Hooton, or Joy and Peace 3 6 ¾ in Believing 849 The Irish Cottager 3 6 ¾ 850 The Happy Death-bed 2 4 ½ 851 The Way of the Transgressor 2 4 ½ 852 Joseph Archer, the Converted 3 6 ¾ Sailor 853 Short Account of Thos. C— 2 4 ½ 854 Brief Account of a German 2 4 ½ Minister 855 The Dying Soldier 2 4 ½ 856 Memoir of Leang Afa 3 6 ¾ 857 Charles Kimmer 3 6 ¾ 858 The Backslider 2 4 ½ 859 The Railway Passenger 2 4 ½ 860 Fatal Calamity at Leeds 2 4 ½ 861 My Father’s Prayer 2 4 ½ 862 Catherine Phillips 4 8 1 863 History of Ruth Clark 4 8 1 864 Conversion of the late Rev. 2 4 ½ Joseph Swain 865 Jejana, a S. African Woman 2 4 ½ 866 The Converted Sailor 3 6 ¾ 867 History of F. S. or the 2 4 ½ Penitent Female 868 History of Anne Monk 2 4 ½ 869 Farmer B. 5 6 ¾ 870 The Faithful Letter 3 6 ¾ 871 Family Piety 2 4 ½ 872 Old Gearing 2 4 ½ 873 Rozie. By a Missionary 2 4 ½ 874 Poor Matchseller of Croydon 2 4 ½ 875 The Russian Nurse 2 4 ½ 876 The Northumbrian Girl 2 4 ½ 877 Drunkard’s Impious Wish 4 8 1 878 The Russian Tailor 3 6 ¾ 879 True Charity; or, Bell Turner 2 4 ½ and her Charge 880 Thomas Hogg, the Scottish 4 8 1 Wanderer 881 The Swedish Nursemaid 3 6 ¾ 882 Aged Roman Catholic Widow 3 6 ¾ 883 Sins going before to Judgmt 3 6 ¾ 884 “No one ever told me this 2 4 ½ before” 885 The Priest and the Bible 2 4 ½ 886 Trust in God 1 2 ¼ 887 Wanderer welcomed Home 2 4 ½ 888 First Prayer in the Family 1 2 ¼ 889 Mary Williams 1 2 ¼ 890 The Young Disciple 1 2 ¼ 891 The Soldier’s Wife 2 4 ½ 892 The Poor Irishwoman 1 2 ¼ 894 Danger of Indecision 2 4 ½

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