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Seventh-Day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 31, 1884

FromThe Signs of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 5

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International Tract and Missionary Society.

By Stephen Nelson Haskell

THE International Tract and Missionary Society was organized Aug. 13, 1874. It has furnished health and religious publications to co-operative missions and individuals in every State and Territory in the United States, and to every civilized nation on the globe. During 1883 it placed in free public libraries in this country over 6,000 volumes of standard religious books, at a cost of over $6,000, two-thirds of which was donated by other funds and the publishers. It has also placed valuable books in many libraries in England, and supplied reading-rooms with health and religious periodicals.
It has a free reading-room, No. 371 Third Avenue, New York City, where it will keep constantly on hand Health and Temperance publications to furnish co-operating missions and branch offices on the Atlantic Coast and in Europe. William J. Boynton, 200 East 27th Street, manager and city missionary.
It has also a free reading-room, 318 Fremont Street, San Francisco, Cal., from which place all ships are visited which enter that harbor. Andrew Bronsen and H. C. Palmer, city missionaries.
Free reading-room on L Street, near corner of Fifth, East Portland, Oregon. Boston, Mass., J. R. Israel, residence Rowley, Mass. New Bedford, Mass., Mrs. Anna H. Bradford, residence, Acushnet, Mass. The ship work at Liverpool, England, is under the charge of Geo. R. Drew, 40 Rodney Street, Birkenhead, Cheshire, Eng. Eld. A. A. John, 161 Willingham Street, Great Grimsby, Eng. At the above-mentioned places the public are cordially invited.
The society is sustained by the liberalities of friends of missions. Donations by draft or otherwise will be thankfully received and gratefully acknowledged by any of the above-mentioned agents, or Miss M. L. Huntley, Secretary, South Lancaster, Mass., U. S. A.
S. N. HASKELL. President.