The Death of Christian Britain
The Death of Christian Britain
The Death of Christian Britain
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— Notes to pages 48–54 —<br />
41 Quoted in W. Hanna (ed.), Memoirs <strong>of</strong> Thomas Chalmers, vol. 1, Edinburgh,<br />
Constable, 1854, p. 440.<br />
42 Revd W. Johnson, Open-air Preaching, Stirling, Drummond Tract Enterprise,<br />
1853, p. 2.<br />
43 British Messenger 1 January 1862, p. 11.<br />
44 ‘Why are Ye Idle?’ by Charlotte Murray, Messages from the Master: And Other<br />
Poems, Stirling, Drummond Tract Enterprise, 1880, p. 38.<br />
45 British Messenger, 1 August 1862, p. 89.<br />
46 J.C. Gibson (ed.), Diary <strong>of</strong> Sir Michael Connal, Glasgow, 1895, pp. 24, 66.<br />
47 An Account <strong>of</strong> the Origin and Progress <strong>of</strong> the London Religious Tract Society,<br />
London, 1803, p. 9.<br />
48 An American Citizen, Philosophy <strong>of</strong> the Plan <strong>of</strong> Salvation, London, <strong>The</strong><br />
Religious Tract Society, c. 1837, flyleaf.<br />
49 Uncatalogued correspondence on union <strong>of</strong> Stirling Tract Enterprise with<br />
Monthly Tract Society <strong>of</strong> London, the Family Worship Union, the Scottish<br />
Colportage Society and the Pure Literature Society <strong>of</strong> Ireland, contained in<br />
Stirling University Library, Drummond Collection.<br />
50 British Messenger, 1 December 1865, p. 144.<br />
51 Ibid., 1 November 1862, p. 132.<br />
52 V.M. Skinner, <strong>The</strong>se Seven Years; or the Story <strong>of</strong> the ‘Friendly Letter Mission’,<br />
Stirling, Drummond Tract Enterprise, 1888, p. 11.<br />
53 R.W. Cooper, Tract Distribution: Something You Can Do, and How To Do<br />
It, Stirling, Drummond Tract Enterprise, c. 1935, pp. 1–2.<br />
54 ‘What a Tract Did’, Good News, January 1922, p. 2.<br />
55 Cooper, Tract Distribution, pp. 7–8.<br />
56 Ibid., pp. 9–10.<br />
57 C. Cook, Sketches from Life, Stirling, Drummond Tract Enterprise, 1892.<br />
58 This marked-up bound copy <strong>of</strong> British Messenger, 1 October 1862, is in Stirling<br />
University Library, Drummond Collection.<br />
59 Chamber’s Journal, no. 1, 4 February 1832.<br />
60 Chamber’s Journal, vol. 5, no. 209, 30 January 1836, p. 1.<br />
61 In 1863, his novel Rachel Ray was commissioned by the Revd Norman<br />
Macleod, editor <strong>of</strong> the evangelical magazine Good Words, but rejected by him<br />
because <strong>of</strong> its unsympathetic portrayal <strong>of</strong> an evangelical clergyman. Quoted in<br />
D. Skilton (ed.), <strong>The</strong> Early and Mid-Victorian Novel, London, Routledge, 1993,<br />
pp. 56–8 n. 2.<br />
62 D. Trotter, <strong>The</strong> English Novel in History 1895–1920, London, Routledge, 1993,<br />
p. 63.<br />
63 Ibid., p. 182.<br />
64 On the ‘parting <strong>of</strong> the ways’ between ‘highbrow’ and ‘lowbrow’ literature in<br />
inter-war <strong>Britain</strong>, see R. Williams, <strong>The</strong> English Novel from Dickens to Lawrence,<br />
London, Chatto and Windus, 1970, ch. 5; A. Light, Forever England: Femininity,<br />
Literature and Conservatism between the Wars, London, Routledge, 1991,<br />
p. x.<br />
65 A phrase used in E. Routley, <strong>The</strong> Church and Music, n.p., Duckworth, 1978,<br />
p. 185.<br />
66 E. Routley, <strong>The</strong> English Carol, London, Herbert Jenkins, 1958, pp. 173–89.<br />
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