JIM MOLLISON AND RELIGION

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 261, 31 July 1937, Page 6 (Supplement)

JIM MOLLISON AND RELIGION

Joins Oxford Group Jim Mollismi Ims turned to religion. A few days ago lie joined the Oxford Group Movemenl. Now he hopes to start a new life. "It’s quite true,” he said to Victor Burnett in his Loudon flat recently. "There will be no more drink, except for medicinal purposes when I’m very tired. Then there will only he a Hille.’ When 1 visited the flat before there was always tin ample array of bottles o it the sideboard. Yesterday they had all disappeared. “I hadn’t thought much about religion before,” Jim continued. "But on niy last flight, out in mid-Atlantic, when I thought everything was finished for me, I thought of God. "It was a poignant, heart-reaching thought. I prayed for the first time since I was a small boy. And when I landed safely at Croydon the thought persisted. It stayed in the background of my mind. “Then, a few days ago, some members of the Oxford Group visited me and tried to persuade me to join them. I thought it over and agreed. The more ritualistic forms ,of religion never appealed to me. This movement seems to fit the ideas of modern life more closely. “I’m utterly serious about this. Many people will laugh. Let them. They will see I mean every word I say. “I want to become a practical Christian. I want to do my utmost to help my fellow men, stretch out a helping hand wherever I can. That Is to be the aim of my life from now on. “Of course, I shall keep on flying. “From this day on I shall try to lie the man I always should have been. With luck, witli endeavour, I shall succeed.”