M.R.A.

Grey River Argus, 30 August 1939, Page 9

M.R.A.

WELLINGTON, August 28. A cable received by Oxford Group in Wellington from California, stales: --A permanent cure fqr crisis was the keynote of Dr. F. Buchman’s Californian world broadcast. "This group,” he said, "is accustomed to crisis. because M.R.A. was born in crisis in the dark days of last September. M.R.A. was born in East London, the cradle of the workers’ movement. In twelve months it has girdled the globe and brougnt the message of a constructive answer. It has spread with speed because it gives the fundamental cure lor fundamental disease. To-day we all look at the headlines, but we can do more than that. M.R.A. is everybody's chance to do something about it themselves . We can look at ourselves, our town and our nation, and see where we need to be different. We need to think not of man’s plan nor of this or that nation’s plan, bur of God’s plan. When men change nations changes. Again we face a time of crisis—crisis that teaches man that man’s extremity is God’s opportunity. We need to be fearfree and panit'proof. If we give and spread M.R.A. everywhere to all people we may yet enjoy and celebrate the outbreak of peace. To-day M.R.A. leaders have been speaking to practically every country in the globe bringing a message of hope and constructive action to every citizen. While broadcasting to the Pacific nations the new Clipper took its first flight to New Zealand—another miracle of the race with time, spanning the gulf between nations. When shall we be true bridgebuilders between man and man and nation and nation? By the first week-end in December we must have one hundred million hate-free greed-free people listening to God. As Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek said, ‘lf we perspire more in times of peace vye will bleed less in times of war.’ During the past week there were seven national and world Ijroadcasts.”