THE OXFORD GROUP MOVEMENT: IS IT OF GOD OR OF SATAN? by J. C. BROWN. Glasgow: Pickering & Inglis, Bothwell Street. Price, 1s. net.
This is a trenchant criticism of the Movement which goes by the above name. Sometimes it is called Buchmanism, from its founder the Rev. Dr. F. N. D. Buchman, a minister of the Lutheran Church in the United States. The Movement is not lacking in zealous advocates and though of recent origin it is making its influence felt. We are not sufficiently acquainted with its literature to pass an opinion on the Movement but if we accept what we have read in articles in the religious press and in pamphlets criticising it, from competent judges, it is a dangerous movement. In the booklet before us the author has no hesitation in condemning it and judging by the quotations he has given the condemnation is none too severe. This new phase of religion does not seem to have much need of the atoning blood which, in itself, is a sufficient ground of condemnation.