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.

'In Praise of our Pioneers' - sermon (1909)

Delivered by the Rev. Prof. John E.B. Mayor and published in The Vegetarian Messenger and Health Review (January 1910)

Sermon by the Rev. Clifford Pickford, B.A. (1954)

Report of an Address in conjunction with the May Meetings of the Vegetarian Society. From The Vegetarian Messenger and Health Review of July/August 1954

Sermon on vegetarianism (1897)

Taken from the tract Bible Testimony as to the Use of Animal Food by the Rev. James Clark which was published by the Vegetarian Society in 1901.

Originally preached at the Primitive Methodist Chapel in Ramsgate, on Sunday, May 30th, 1897, to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the VS.

See also: 'Bible difficulties' and Quotation

From an Anglican sermon (1873)

The above proclamation by the Rev. Algernon Godfrey Kingsford, vicar of Altcham, nr Shrewsbury; was actually written by his wife, Anna (1846-1888) who later became a Catholic with strong links to theosophy. She trained in Paris to become a medical doctor and eventually campaign against vivisection and discrimination against women in Victorian society.

The passage was discovered by Samuel Hopgood Hart and published in The Vegetarian News (March 1929).

'The Race that is set before us' by Rev. A.O. Broadley

Sermon delivered at the Bible Christian Church of Salford, on 11th October 1908 to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Vegetarian Society.

Transcript published in The Vegetarian Messenger and Health Review (December 1908)

See also: 'A Vegetarian Church'

'Vegetarianism in the Pulpit'

From The Vegetarian News (September 1927)

Michael Fryer, who founded the important, if mostly forgotten, Crusade Against All Cruelty to Animals in 1955, wrote of "...the late Basil G. Bourchier, whose church was situated close to my home. This man rarely stood up in his pulpit without making some outspoken reference to the plight of suffering animals and man's inhumanity towards them. Far from causing people to turn away from his services, it had the opposite effect. Although his church was in size 'a young cathedral', one could not get a seat in his heyday unless one was there at least an hour before the service began."

Editorial, The Living World (Vol.1, No.1. 1970)

Rev Bourchier biography

'Man's relationship with the Animal Creation' by the Venerable Edward Carpenter, Ph.D

The vegetarian clergyman became Dean of Westminster Abbey in 1974 and took an active role in the Christian Consultative Council for the Welfare of Animals, as Chairman, following his retirement in 1985.

From the July/August 1966 edition of The British Vegetarian

'The Wider Fellowship of Love and Service' by Rev. Walter Murray, B.D.

The author of this sermon enrolled at Manchester Unitarian College in 1916 and Ministered at the Bible Christian Church of Salford after the First World War.

First published by the Vegetarian Society in June 1934 and reprinted as a tract in the same year.

See also: 'A New Year's Message' (1919)

'A Vegetarian Church' by the Rev. A.O. Broadley

Published in the November 1906 edition of The Vegetarian Messenger and Health Review

See also: 'The Race that is set before us'