Friday 22 June 2012

Quotation: The Rev. James Clark (1903)

"God had given us dominion over the fowls of the air and fish of the sea, and how were we to exercise that dominion? Not as a cannibal king, who scrupled not to eat any of his subjects, nor as barbarians, who had power in that they might exercise it to the hurt of others; but truly in the spirit of the Lord Christ, who came to save and not to destroy - who came to teach us to nourish each gentle emotion in our soul." From a sermon preached at Dalmarnock Road Congregational Church, Glasgow and reported in The Vegetarian Messenger (August 1903 edition). The summary of Rev. Clark's sermon was subsequently published as a tract by the Vegetarian Society, entitled Scriptural Phase of Vegetarianism.

Friday 15 June 2012

'Moral and Scriptural Objections' (1852)

An early Vegetarian Society round-up of Bible-based criticism sent their way.

Friday 8 June 2012

'Canon Donaldson and the Duty of Christians' (1930)

Vegetarian Society commentary on an article published in a pacifist journal. From The Vegetarian Messenger and Health Review (December 1930)

Friday 1 June 2012

'Beastliness Not Mysticism'

A traditional haggis recipe from slightly darker days. I'll post the occasional antithesis of veggie-Christian values in the case of such seemingly pertinent delights. Taken from The Vegetarian News (December 1931)