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The American Tract Society's founders felt that the American Bible Society was limited in its activities, leading to ATS's establishment. [2] ATS was created from a merger of the New York Religious Tract Society, founded 1812, and New England Religious Tract Society, founded 1814.
The American Bible Society and the American Tract Society were among the largest organizations involved in colportage in the United States. D. L. Moody founded the "Bible Institute Colportage Association" in 1894 to distribute tracts and books.
Russel(l) Sturgis Cook (1811–1864) was an American Congregationalist minister, and a secretary of the American Tract Society from 1839 to 1856. [1] He was known also as Russell Salmon Cook , and built up colportage as basic to the Society's business model.
Charles Taze Russell (February 16, 1852 – October 31, 1916), or Pastor Russell, was an American Adventist minister from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and founder of the Bible Student movement. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He was an early Christian Zionist .
150 Nassau Street, also known as the Park Place Tower and the American Tract Society Building, is a 23-story, 291-foot (89 m) building in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City. It is located at the southeast corner of Spruce Street and Nassau Street , next to 8 Spruce Street , the former New York Times Building , and New ...
That’s the question explored in a new documentary, “Racist Trees,” about a historically Black neighborhood called the Crossley tract in Palm Springs, Calif., whose residents suspected a ...
In addition to the American Bible Society and the International Bible Society (now "Biblica"), a number of state and regional Bible societies were established prior to the American Civil War and to this day, they have remained active, they distribute Bibles and other works of religious literature to prisons, hospitals and shelters.
[20] [24] At the time of the American Civil War, the American Tract Society printed The Soldier's Pocket Bible in large numbers to serve as a religious manual for the Northern troops. [20] About fifty thousand copies of The Soldier's Pocket Bible were reprinted for the troops at that time. [9] [10] [22] [25] [26]