Produced by Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, Graeme Mackreth and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Modern Religious Cults and Movements Works by Gaius Glenn Atkins _Modern Religious Cults and Movements_ Dr. Atkins has written a noteworthy and valuable book dealing with the new cults some of which have been much to the fore for a couple of decades past, such as: Faith Healing; Christian Science; New Thought; Theosophy and Spiritualism, etc. $2.50 _The Undiscovered Country_ Dr. Atkins' work, throughout, is marked by clarity of presentation, polished diction and forceful phrasing. A firm grasp of the elemental truths of Christian belief together with an unusual ability to interpret mundane experiences in terms of spiritual reality. $1.50 _Jerusalem: Past and Present_ "One of the books that will help to relieve us of the restless craving for excitement, and to make clear that we can read history truly only as we read it as 'His Story'--and that we attain our best only as the hope of the soul is realized by citizenship in 'the City of God.'"--_Baptist World._ $1.25 _Pilgrims of the Lonely Road_ "A very unusual group of studies of the great mystics, and shows real insight into the deeper experience of the religious life."--_Christian Work._ $2.00 _A Rendezvous with Life_ "Life is represented as a journey, with various 'inns' along the way such as Day's End, Week's End, Month's End, Year's End--all suggestive of certain experiences and duties." Paper, 25 cts. Modern Religious Cults and Movements By GAIUS GLENN ATKINS, D.D., L.H.D. _Minister of the First Congregational Church, Detroit, Mich. Author of "Pilgrims of the Lonely Road," "The Undiscovered Country," etc._ New York Chicago Fleming H. Revell Company London and Edinburgh Copyright, 1923, by FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY New York: 158 Fifth Avenue Chicago: 17 North Wabash Ave. London: 21 Paternoster Square Edinburgh: 75 Princes Street _To E.M.C._ _Whose constant friendship through changing years has been like the fire upon his hearthstone, a glowing gift and a grateful memory_ Introduction The last thirty years, though as dates go this is only an approximation, have witnessed a marked development of religious cults and movements largely outside the lines of historic Catholicism and Protestantism. One of these cults is strongly organized and has for twenty years grown more rapidly in proportion than most of the Christian communions. The influence of others, more loosely organized, is far reaching. Some of them attempt to give a religious content to the present trend of science and philosophy, and, generally, they represent the free movement of what one may call the creative religious consciousness of our time.