WORLD HEADING TOWARDS RUIN

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 13235, 10 January 1941, Page 6

WORLD HEADING TOWARDS RUIN

“BACK TO GOD,” THE ONLY REMEDY SIR SIKANDER HYAT KHAN’S ADDRESS IN LAHORE Sir Sikander Hyat Khan, speaking at an All-India gathering of the Moral Rearmament Conference in the Neclous Hotel, Lahore, said that there must be something fundamentally wrong Avith a Avorld in which the whim of one or t%vo men intent on dominating the Avhole Avorld could SAvay entire nations. Justice, truth, equity and fairplay, he added, (ay trampled under the heel of those who believed in the grossest form of materialism —a materialism Avhich thrived on the might of the SAvnrd. lust for blood and poAver and the ambition to subjugate other nations.

Th|> only remedy, continued Sir Sikander, lay in placing religion on its high pedestal once again. OtherAvise, the Avorld Avould cease to be a fit place for human habitation.

“Towards this end,” he added, “the Moral Rearmament movement may prove a beacon light to bring us back to the spiritual home from which we have wandered. Tn fact, I am convinced that this is the only movement which will save both the old and the new worlds from a catastrophe.” He was attracted to the movement, said Sir Sikander, when the war clouds were hanging darkly over the European horizon in September, 1938. A friend sent him a booklet which brought home to him “the truth that was within him.” He felt that if nations could be brought together on a spiritual basis, our generation may be spared in future an experience of the horrors o? war. Mankind, he said, must come back to God.

India’s Duty Concluding, Sir Sikander defined

the duty of India at this critical juncture. India, he said, with its great traditions of spirituality, should go to the aid of the warring nations, to rehabilitate the cardinal principles of truth, equity and fairplay. The Moral Rearmament Conference, had a lengthy session. The movement originated with a man named Frank Buckman, a resident of New York, who was a Pennsylvanian Dutchman. He started the movehvent in England where it came to be known as the Oxford Group movement. Now the movement has spread across the whole world. It aims at regenerating the individual and the world by altering human nature by purging it of the deadly sins. Its slogan is that “there is enough in this world for everybody’s need, but not enough for everybody’s greed-’’