Christmas Card (1966)

Produced by the World League Against Vivisection and featured in No.144 of their journal The Animals' Champion

The Rev. Walter Walsh, D.D.

From the 'Vegetarian Portrait Gallery' series which featured in The Vegetarian Messenger and Health Review (February 1930 edition)

'Humane Education' By The Rev. A.M. Mitchell, M.A. (1906)

Excerpts from a booklet which was written during parliamentary amendments to the Education Act of 1902. The author sought to expand public debate beyond general religious and financial considerations in his capacity as a local education official and member of the Order of the Golden Age.

'A Vegetarian Missionary'

From The Vegetarian Messenger and Health Review (May 1946)

'Sanctuary'

A press report which was reproduced in The Vegetarian News (March 1936) where the editor remarked, "... it seems, two things may rightly be inferred: the first that, even in ecclesiastical circles, the time when 'they shall not hurt nor destroy' has not yet fully (but only locally) come to pass; the second that a slaughter-house is a place which, in its very nature, is quite incapable of being consecrated."

'Christmas Contrasts'

From The Animals' Champion (October - December 1963)

'Christian Ethics and the Animal Kingdom' by the Duchess of Hamilton

Here's a theological treatise from 1935 which I stumbled upon only recently and some striking excerpts from the author's moral case.

'Leo Tolstoy: Food Reformer'

Published in January 1911 See also: Letter and 'The First Step: Chapter IX'

Sermon by the Rev. Philip C. Whiteman, M.A. (1936)

Delivered at the Vegetarian Society AGM and published in The Vegetarian Messenger and Health Review (November 1936 edition) See tract: 'Vegetarianism as a factor in religious life'

Quotation: Rev. Victor Allen Callow (1935)

"These two principles of mercy and sacrifice are in perpetual conflict. Shall I suffer or shall I let another suffer for me? I believe that I have no moral right to ask another to do for me what I am not prepared to do for myself. If I do not think it right to kill animals for food neither is it right for me to condemn another man to a trade which I consider demoralising." From a transcript of the Vegetarian Society's annual Church Service published in The Vegetarian Messenger and Health Review (November 1935). Sermon conducted by a latter Minister of the Bible Christian Church of Salford.

'Vegetarianism's Pilgrim Fathers' by Charles W. Forward

From The Vegetarian News (February 1940)

Bishop Athelstan Lattie, D.D.

From The Vegetarian Messenger & Health Review (November 1945)

Arnold Hills (1857-1927)

From The Vegetarian News (April 1927) See: Letter to the Daily Mail

Canon Peter Green, M.A. (1871-1961)

From The Vegetarian Messenger and Health Review (March 1927) An Appreciation

The Rev. William John Monk, M.A. (1820 - 1896)

Text taken from a feature in The Food Reform Magazine (April-June, 1885 edition). The Dodington vicar was also active within the Church of England Temperance Society and the East Kent branch of the R.S.P.C.A.; as well as a Vice-President of both the Anti-Narcotic League and the Vegetarian Society. With thanks to the www.henrysalt.co.uk project for procuring the portrait from Fifty Years of Food Reform by Charles W. Forward (Ideal Publishing Union, 1898)

Quotation: E.D. Buckner, D.M. (1905)

'Sacrificial Lamb'

From The Vegetarian News (January 1939)

'The Prophet of the Ideal' (1899)

Peace by William Strutt (1825-1915) eventually resurfaced in Christian Vegetarian Association promotional materials.

Scottish Society for the Prevention of Vivisection advert (1959)

An apocryphal concept of Christian ethics which was later advocated by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. The S.S.P.V. evolved into Animal Advocates and eventually, Onekind.

From The British Vegetarian (November/December 1959)

London Evening News cartoon

Joseph Lee (1901-1975) contribution reprinted in The Vegetarian Messenger and Health Review (December 1949)