Bishop Athelstan Lattie, D.D.

From The Vegetarian Messenger & Health Review (November 1945)

'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: from 'An Open Letter to the Clergy' (1914)

"Truly did St. John say, 'the light shineth in darkness, but the darkness comprehended it not.' Does our 20th century darkness comprehend it now? Does the Church understand to-day that a Christianity founded upon carnivorous customs is a contradiction in terms and the destruction of the dumb creation is a perpetual crucifixion of the Lord of life and a continual violation of the law of love?" Published in The Vegetarian (July 1914 edition)

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

'Tolerant Criticism' by W. Wallace Nash

From The Vegetarian Messenger and Health Review (August 1947)

'Animal Suffering' by Rev. Francis Wood

"... we vegetarians must never forget that our special protest is not merely against cruelty to animals. We are very much more than a department of the R.S.P.C.A. We are out, I take it, to protest especially and vehemently against that wholesale and wanton destruction of the wonderful and beautiful creature life of the world of which mankind - especially in this Western part of the globe - are constantly and customarily guilty. We believe in the sanctity not alone of human but of all life. We assert that all life has but one great and sacred source. And we hold it a most immoral and impius thing that man - himself an essentially dependent and finite creature, receiving his own life by absolute will of a Higher Power - should rob his humbler fellows of their God given existence in order to satisfy his own selfish appetites and impulses." From a letter published in The Vegetarian Messenger and Health Review (August 1929) See Profile