Below is an alphabetically arranged catalogue of several of Thomas Chalmers’ primary sources with the digital files made accessible. Where I’ve audio-recorded the resource, the title has been hyperlinked. So click to listen away, all you multi-taskers! [A work in progress here; and starting with his material directly or indirectly related to his advocacy of parish missions.]

“A Charge to New Elders at the Tron Kirk, Glasgow” (1816)

“Churches and Chapels; Or, The Necessity and Proper Object of an Endowment” (1834)

“Considerations on the System of Parochial Schools in Scotland” (1819)

“On the Duty and the Means of Christianizing Our Home Population” (1820)

“Preface to Church Extension” (1834)

“The Cause of Church Extension” (1834)

“The Example of Our Saviour in the Establishment of Charitable Institutions” (1815)

The Right Christian and Civic Economy for a Nation (1819-1823)
Ch. 1, “The Advantage and Possibility of Assimilating a Town to a Country Parish”
Ch. 2, “On the Influence of Locality in Towns”
Ch. 3, “The Application of the Principle of Locality to the Work of a Christian Minister”

“The Right Ecclesiastical Economy of a Large Town” (1834)

The Establishment and Extension of National Churches (1838)
Lecture 1, “State of the Question Respecting a National Establishment of Christianity”
Lecture 2, “Vindication of a Religious Establishment, in Opposition to … the Economists”
Lecture 3, “Vindication of a National Religious Establishment, in Opposition to… [the Voluntaries]”
Lecture 4, “On the Circumstances Which Determine a Government to Select one Denomination”
Lecture 5, “On a Territorial Establishment, and the Reasons for Its Efficacy”
Lecture 6, “Circumstances Which Justify a Government [in Selecting One of Several Protestant Denominations]”

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