Excerpt from The 20th Century and Missions All this is pre-eminently true in what we call the religious sphere. The past century has been prolific of movements of far-reaching im port, but not many have gauged aright their direction or their strength. Some of these move ments seemed so hostile to Chris tianity, and so irresistible, that many trembled for the tr'ii'i, while some shouted in a panic o Jil' that the ark of God was taken. But one by one the tidal waves have re ceded, and the impregnable rock of Holy Scripture stands un moved. Thus, within the century, rationalism has risen and culmin ated and declined, and is now re pudiated in the land of its birth materialism has bad a similar hi.. Tory and shared a similar fate; ritualism has risen, perhaps has culminated, but shows as yet no symptoms of decline; scepticism started for the hundredth time an avalanche of hostile criticism before which it was supposed nothing could stand; literature has pr claimed its mission to free the world from religious superstition. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.