'Earnest to make omers free'

Abstract

"The Rushbrooke Collection in the Angus Library4 contains a considerable amount of primary material on this issue of religious liberty. It includes manuscripts of sermons, addresses, lectures and articles, together with numerous references in his official and private correspondence. There are some box-files of his correspondence as General Secretary of the BWA, particularly for 1938-1939, which was a period of intense activity in many countries. 5 Other resources are newspaper cuttings from around the world, many reports, letters and articles in the bound volumes of the Baptist Times, and the official reports of the Baptist World Congresses, some of which Rushbrooke himself edited. This wealth of material enables us to get a clear understanding of the principles which he enunciated and of his total commitment to them. Examination of a number of documents will illustrate this. "