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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
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Scottish Freemason. He was initiated in Lodge St David, No. 36, (Edinburgh) and was Master of that Lodge 1892-1893. He was an Honorary Member of The Lodge of Holyrood House (St Luke's), No. 44 (1908). He served as Grand Chaplain to the
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Proudon and Marx". Glasse was a pivotal figure in the emergence of Scottish socialism in Edinburgh, going on to found the Glasgow branch of the
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privileges or position unless they resolved in the spirit of the prophets and of Jesus, and work along with
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He married twice, firstly in July 1878 to Jane Scott White (d.1904), daughter of
Provost White of Auchtermuchty. Their children were: Dr John Morley Glasse MD (b. 1879) a GP in
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Scotland in 1892, in Edinburgh. He was patron of the Greyfriars Choral Society and an executive committee member of the Edinburgh Unity of The Empire Association.
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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.
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Geikie-Cobb, W. F. (1921). Jacks, Lawrence
Pearsall; Hicks, George Dawes (eds.). "Review: Rev., D.D. John Glasse, The Mysteries and Christianity".
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on 27 January 1848 the eldest son of John Glasse and educated there in the Free Church School. He studied at
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McCabe, Michael A. (1998). "The Tears of the Poor: John Glasse, Christian Socialist, 1848–1918".
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The Great Church Crisis and the End of English Erastianism, 1898–1906
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Kenefick, William (2007). "Left Radicalism, Labour and Socialism".
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