REV. JOHN OWEN, A. M.

LATE FELLOW OF CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE,

RECTOR OF PAGLESHAM, ESSEX,

AND

ONE OF THE SECRETARIES TO THE BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY.

VOL. II.

"And I saw another Angel fly in the midst of Heaven, having the everlasting
Gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to EVERY NATION,
AND KINDRED, AND TONGUE, AND PEOPLE."

Rev. xiv. 6.

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THE

HISTORY

OF THE

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

BIBLE SOCIETY.

PART II.

CHAPTER II.

1810--11.

CHAP.

II.

1810-11.

THE affairs of the Society in that portion of PART II.

the East to which the attention of its conductors

had been principally directed, assumed an ap-

pearance, in the course of the years 1810 and

1811, which gave them a character of importance,

and which entitle them, in this part of the His-

tory, to a more particular and detailed narration.

The reader has already been informed of the

political disabilities and restraints to which the