The Death of Christian Britain

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