As I am currently in a certain social media timeout, I was unable to do a regular “It’s Sunday” post from my collection. So it goes here. Pray AI will let me back on the platform, but if not, I’ll join another one. These tracts I pick up when I find them…mostly very early 20th century and indicative of the sometimes annoying invasion of christian evangelism. Cheap printing of these 4-pagers made everyman an evangelist. “In many ways, the modern history of the movement can be traced back to the birth of fundamentalism in the first decades of the 20th century, when conservative Protestants began to organize around their rejections of liberal and “modernist” Christian responses to the rise of science, biblical criticism, and secularism. Fundamentalists lost control of most church institutions to the liberals, but they largely retained control over who would be identified as an evangelical going forward” The Pluralism Project Harvard University.
Original evangelist tracts circa 1930 - 1930. Collection Jim Linderman. Dull Tool Dim Bulb the blog.
