A NEW WORLD

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 73, 23 September 1939, Page 7

A NEW WORLD

MORAL RE-ARMAMENT

Various nations and many sections of life are represented at the, Oxford Group Assembly being held at the Royal Oak Hotel, Wellington, this week. Business men, housewives, unemployed, sheep farmers. clerks, artisans, a doctor, an R.A.F. officer, a Canadian, a Maori, a Chinese, and an Australian are among those who have been attending the meetings. Subjects are being covered at the meeting relating moral re-armament to the needs of the individual, the nation, and the world today. "Our real enemy today is more than National Socialism in Central Europe," said Mr. Lan Macphail, Wellington. "It is national selfishness and materialism in every country. The root causes of war are the basic infirmities of human nature in every man and every nation. Until we diagnose and remedy those causes, beginning in ourselves and our own nation, there can be no foundation for lasting peace." There was going to be a big job to do following the war, said Mr. C. Athol Williams, Hawke's Bay. A peace tree from hate and fear could not be made as long as these existed in men's minds. "Youth today is being enlisted for destruction because we have failed to unite for construction," said Mr. J. Linton, Wellington, speaking at a meeting on the enlistment of youth for the building y a new world order. "M.R.A. stands for a re-made world —it is a practical policy for rebuilding a hate-free, greed-free, fear-free world." | Mr. Greville Warren, Hawke's Bay, said that the world situation was bewildering men's minds. Something must be done, but what? "The rules of moral and spiritual conduct are as unalterable as the material and scientific laws," he said. "We break \ those laws with grave risk of their breaking us. The solution lies in the acceptance and rediscovery in the individual of the fundamental truths of Christianity. When man listens, God speaks; when man obeys, God works; when men change, nations^ejjihge." Other speakers gave evidence of the solution being found to personal, national, and international problems I through the application of these principles.