In his 1856 autobiography, Methodist circuit rider Peter Cartwright warned of those Protestants whose “pretense of Divine inspiration” led them to predict a new millennium while playing on the “ignorance, superstition and credulity of the people.” Some, he said, even claimed to heal the sick and raise the dead, “just like the diabolical Mormons.”
In The Kingdom of the Cults, first published in 1965, Walter Martin writes: “Every Mormon is indoctrinated with the concept that his is the true Christian religion or to use their terms, ‘the restoration of Christianity to earth.’ The secret rites in the Mormon temples, the rituals connected with baptism for the dead, and the secret handshakes, signs, and symbols bind the average Mormon and his family into what might be called in psychological terms the ‘in group.’”
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