•-^«"»M»^, - V- PROPHETS ANDRELIGION—ITSFALSE THE MACMILLAN COMPANY -NEW YORK • BOSTON - CHICAGO DALLAS ATLANTA SAN FRANCISCO MACMILLAN & CO., Limited • •LONDON BOMBAY CALCUTTA MELBOURNE THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, Ltd. TORONTO t? RELIGION—ITS PROPHETS AND FALSE y BY JAMES BISHOP THOMAS, Ph.D. OF SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY, IN THEPROFESSOR UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH, SEWANEE, TENNESSEE THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1918 All rights reserved 8 YORKNEWTHE \ LIBRARYPUBLIC \ Copyright, 191 By the MACMILLAN COMPANY Set up and electrotyped. Published May, ipiJ DEDICATED TO LESLYE IDADOROTHEA AND TO CLARE ROSAMONDTHE MEMORY OF TO AMELIAAND MYRAVIRGINIA ST. JOHN CHILDRENOUR PERSONAL WORDA is one that has beenThe message in this book seeking expression since the author's Seminary days the Episcopal Theological School at Cam-at bridge, Massachusetts—more than twenty years ago. Owing to the self-sacrificing co-operation of his mother—early left a widow—he was enabled to re- ceive his preparation for the ministry. It came at a time when the sense of the social implications of Christianity was beginning to be quickened and Prof. Nash was expressing to his pupils those views later embodied in his "Genesis of the Social Con- seemingly fruitlessscience," After three years of sympatheticpreaching of the social gospel, the furtherance of his wife enabled the author to spend three years in in further study.Europe Germany as offering the best oppor-was selected — tunities.
•-^«"»M»^, - V-PROPHETS ANDRELIGION—ITSFALSETHE MACMILLAN COMPANY -NEW YORK • BOSTON - CHICAGO DALLAS ATLANTA SAN FRANCISCO MACMILLAN & CO., Limited • •LONDON BOMBAY CALCUTTA MELBOURNE THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, Ltd. TORONTO t?RELIGION—ITS PROPHETS AND FALSE y BY JAMES BISHOP THOMAS, Ph.D. OF SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY, IN THEPROFESSOR UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH, SEWANEE, TENNESSEE THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1918 All rights reserved8 YORKNEWTHE \ LIBRARYPUBLIC \ Copyright, 191 By the MACMILLAN COMPANY Set up and electrotyped. Published May, ipiJ