page_title: John Glasse
section_title: Works
hierarchical_section_title: John Glasse / Works
caption_attribution_description: English: The inscription on the endpaper of a copy of the Bassendyne Bible owned by Reverend John Glasse of Greyfriars Kirk Edinburgh, with Glasse's signature.
context_page_description: The Reverend John Glasse was a Church of Scotland Minister at Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1877-1909.
  He was a leading advocate of Christian Socialism, and was described by Sidney Webb as one of the "two most influential Scottish socialists".
context_section_description: His The Relationship of the Church to Socialism (published in 1900) was one of several pamphlets that he wrote for the socialist movement.
  In it, amongst other things, he expressed doubt as to the motivations for the then movement for Ritualism in the Church of England, opining that it was less motivated by popular demand and more motivated by sacerdotalism and self-aggrandizement.
  He also expressed his objection to doctrines of Socialism being inevitable, which he regarded as damaging to the Socialist movement.
  He wrote that "The object of my paper was to persuade the ministers and members of the Church of Scotland that they were not worthy of their privileges or position unless they resolved in the spirit of the prophets and of Jesus, and work along with Socialists in breaking every yoke and letting the oppressed go free."
  In addition to the aforementioned pamphlet, Glasse wrote about John Knox.
  Glasse, John (1905). John Knox. London.
  Glasse, John (1906). "John Knox and Scottish Reformation". Quarterly Review. 205.
  Earlier writings by him include Robert Owen and his Life-work and Pauperism in Scotland, Past and Present.
  In response to an appeal by Edward Carpenter for songs for a forthcoming socialist songbook, Glasse wrote "A Processional Hymn", to be sung to the tune St Gertrude by Arthur Sullivan, which was printed in the 22 October 1882 edition of The Commonweal.
  His Times and Seasons, published posthumously by Oliver & Boyd of Edinburgh in 1920, was a collection of sermons.
  His The Mysteries and Christianity also published by Oliver & Boyd in 1921, was a summary (to date at the time of Glasse's death) of the scholarship concerning paganism and early Christianity.
caption: Glasse's inscription on the endpaper of a copy of Thomas Bassendyne's Bible, with his signature, sold by his family in 2017[17]
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