'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.

'The First Step' by Count Leo Tolstoy (Chapter IX)

From The Vegetarian Messenger and Health Review (August 1950) Pages 6-8 here See also 'Leo Tolstoy: Food Reformer'

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'Vegetarianism in Relation to the Treatment of Animals' by the Rev. Francis Wood

Originally published in The Vegetarian Messenger and Health Review (December 1919) and as a tract in the following year. See: Rev Francis Wood (1854-1934)

'Food Reform in the Early Church' by Rev. G. Nevin Drinkwater, B.Sc.

From a factual portion of a thesis which was eventually published as a twenty page booklet: Food in the Early Church - A Study of Christian Vegetarianism in the light of modern Biblical Research (St. Alban's Press). Above extract taken from The Vegetarian News (Winter 1947 edition)

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.

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

'The Simple teaching of Jesus' by Dugald Semple (1884-1964)

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An undated treatise by the Scottish vegan lecturer, broadcaster, conscientious objector and advocate of 'Simple Living'.

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'In Memoriam The Rev. Gideon Jasper Richard Ouseley' (1835-1906)

Published by Samuel Hopgood Hart (1865-1958) as part of a pamphlet in 1952.

Hart's text was partly based on a biography which was published in the influential 'Men of the Day' series which appeared in the Victorian periodical Vanity Fair (unrelated to the contemporary magazine). Later editions of the Gospel of the Holy Twelve reprinted Hart's essay in their introductions.

A short chapter of my book Familiar Strangers is devoted to the Victorian origins of Ouseley's allegedly "ancient" manuscript.

(Hart portrait from The Vegetarian News, December 1921)

'Guiding Principles of Christian Vegetarianism'

Source material for a tract which was circulated among vegetarians in Britain during the early 1960's.

This particular version was published in the Winter 1964/65 edition of The Ark (No.83) - journal of the Catholic Study Circle for Animal Welfare which became Catholic Concern for Animals in 2003.

'Vegetarianism' by Bramwell Booth (1900)

An early Salvation Army contribution to the subject which remained on the fringe of vegetarian ideology throughout the twentieth century.

From The Vegetarian Messenger (December, 1900)

See also: 'Food reformers and the Salvation Army' and 'The Death of General Booth'

From The Vegetarian Messenger and Health Review (July 1913 edition) - issued as a tract by the Vegetarian Society in the same year.

'The Bible and Vegetarianism' by Geoffrey L. Rudd (1955)

See also: 'Letters from History' and 'A Question of Choice'

'Christianity and Vegetarianism' by Dorothy Gill

From The Vegetarian News (Summer 1953 edition). Reprinted as a tract by the London Vegetarian Society in the same year.

'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)