For Christians Only
Subtitle: an examination of the Oxford Group Movement : including the impressions of a medical doctor and others
By: by Herbert Stewart.
Edition: 3rd ed., rev. and enl.
Publisher: The Scripture Circulation Movement
Published: 1941
Place of publication: Belfast
Language: eng
Number of pages: 64
Subjects: Oxford Group Movement.; Christian theology.; False doctrines.
First sentence: IN his book, IF I BE LIFTED UP, the Rev. S.M.Shoemaker, a foremost Group Leader, observes: "I think the thing that made Him say, 'It is finished,' was the knowledge that He had lived long enough to infect the world with a new principle."
Description: FOREWORD

Bible Christianity is based upon Scripture as entirely and absolutely the Word of God. This being so, Scripture, as a Divine Revelation, is our instant and final authority in all matters of faith and conduct. Whenever any new movement in the religious world makes its appearance, therefore, the Christian's sole court of resort is to the Scriptures. What does God's infallible Word say? What that Word says should be, to him, final, and should regulate his life accordingly. Only so will he escape the pitfalls that are coming to so significantly abound in these latter days that close the present Church era in the plans and purposes of God. We will, therefore, in the light shed by Scripture, briefly examine the credentials and character of Buchmanism known also as the Oxford Group Movement, and upon which it rests its claim to First-Century Fellowship. Is it that, or is it not? Is it of the Holy Spirit, or is it a penetration of Satan fashioning himself as an "angle of light"? Much able literature already exists, both general and particular, dealing with the intricacies of this Movement, but in the light of recent events, there would seem to be some call to apply the acid-test of what is written for our learning in Holy Writ by concentrating upon a direct appeal to its pages for guidance at this confusing and perilous moment. For, confessedly, many who are the Lord's are in grave danger here, by mistaking darkness for light, and being enticed thereby away from their safe and true position in Christ, and which, while it does not affect their state of Salvation through Him, does embark them upon the sorrows and losses eventually of deserting Him to that extent for a latter-day delusion.

These subtleties [spelled subleties in the text] of the Evil One are countered and vanquished in only one way. Our Lord, in that tremendous trial of strength over truth and Headship, simply referred Satan to Scripture — no more, no less. And so pulverizing [spelled pulverising in the text] is the Word of God, used in the way Christ used it in His temptation, that the Tempter, unmasked and cowed, fled. Christ on that occasion entered into no parley with His formidable antagonist. There was no discussion, no argument. Merely, He confined the Enemy, Liar and Accuser, to what "is written." That as it proved, sufficed. And that surely suffices here as well in proceeding to turn the searchlight of Divine declaration upon the pretensions of Buchmanism.

Let us now proceed to test this strange invasion, know as The Oxford Group Movement, by putting into action the command of God through the prophet Isaiah, "To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this Word, it is because there is no light in them" (Isaiah 8:20).