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The Far-reaching Readjustments of Christian Faith in the Last Fifty Years--The Reaction of Evolution Upon Religion--The Reaction of Biblical Criticism Upon Faith--The Average Man Loses His Bearings--The New Psychology--The Influence of Philosophy and the Social Situation--An Age of Confusion--The Lure of the Short Cut--Popular Education--The Churches Lose Authority--Efforts at Reconstruction--An Age of Doubt and a Twilight-Zone in History--The Hunger of the Soul and the Need for Faith--Modern Religious Cults and Movements: Their Three Centers About Which They Have Organized Themselves.