The materials in this volume provide essential context for understanding the role of religion in nineteenth-century charity and philanthropy. Topics be covered include the Church of England, Protestant dissenting religions, the Christian Social Union, the Catholic Church in Ireland, Judaism, and the Salvation Army.
The volume explores the role religion had in charity and philanthropy in the long nineteenth-century. Although charity is, arguably, rooted in the Old Testament and the New Testament and philanthropy, as a concept, emerges in the seventeenth century, it was only in the nineteenth century that these concepts assumed their modern form. The materials in this volume provide essential context for understanding the role of religion in nineteenth-century charity and philanthropy. Topics be covered include the Church of England, Protestant dissenting religions, the Christian Social Union, the Catholic Church in Ireland, Judaism, and the Salvation Army.
Volume 1: Spur of Religion
List of Illustrations
General Introduction
Volume 1 Introduction: Spur of Religion
Part
1. What Is Charity?
1. Homily: A Sermon of Christian Love and Charity
2. Josiah Thomas, Real Charity and Popular Charity: A Discourse Delivered in
Charter-House Chapel, London
3. Joseph Hughes, The Better Gift: A Tract Intended to Accompany a Charitable
Donation
4. Mary Kay, Ode to Charity
5. Sydney Smith, A Sermon on Those Rules of Christian Charity by Which Our
Opinions of Other Sects Should be Formed . . .
6. Peter Augustine Baines, Faith, Hope, and Charity: The Substance of a
Sermon Preached at the Dedication of the Catholic Chapel at Bradford . . .
7. Amelia Bewsher, Faith, Hope, and Charity
8. John Angell James, Christian Charity Explained; or The Influence of
Religion on the Temper Stated
9. John Bird Sumner, Christian Charity, Its Obligations and Objects With
Reference to the Present State of Society in a Series of Sermons
10. Charles Kingsley, The Charity of God
Part 2: The Amelioration of Suffering
11. J. R. Seeley, The Law of Philanthropy
12. H. P. Liddon, Pauperism and the Love of God
13. T. W. Aveling, Christian Philanthropy
14. Andrew Mearns, et. al., The Bitter Cry of Outcast London: An Inquiry Into
the Condition of the Abject Poor
15. Samuel Barnett, Consciousness of Others Needs
16. Anon., The Social Christ
17. Fred A. McKenzie, The Salvation Army as Social Force
18. Mary Martha Sherwood, The Little Sunday School Childs Reward
19. John Hobart Caunter, A Sermon Preached at St Peters, Cornhill
20. The Importance of Sobriety: Illustrated by the Evils of Intemperance
21. A Peep Into a Gin Shop!: Containing Several Choice Anecdotes and Useful
Hints, Very Interesting to All Who Love a Dram!
22. Crystal Spring Band of Hope Songs
23. Frederick Sessions, The Drink Question in India
24. John W. Kirton, The Doings of Alcohol
25. King Drink
26. W. R. Baker, The Curse of Britain: An Essay on the Evils, Causes and Cure
of Intemperance
Index
Kevin A. Morrison is Distinguished Professor of British Literature in the School of Foreign Languages at Henan University. He is the author of Victorian Liberalism and Material Culture: Synergies of Thought and Place (2018), A Micro-History of Victorian Liberal Parenting: John Morleys "Discreet Indifference" (2018), and Study-Abroad Pedagogy, Dark Tourism, and Historical Reenactment: In the Footsteps of Jack the Ripper and His Victims (2019). He has edited a number of collections including, most recently, Walter Besant: The Business of the Literature and the Pleasures of Reform (2019).