True National Service

Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 124, 29 May 1939, Page 7

True National Service

OVERSEAS NEWS OF OXFORD GROUP Every Mayor in Britain has received instructions to put national service first for the coming months. So it was not surprising to see five Mayors and many councillors at a moral rearmament meeting of some 1600 in the De La Warr Pavilion at Bexhill on a recent Tuesday. The Mayor of Bexhilf, who had called the meeting, started by saying tnat he felt moral rearmament was true national service, lie believed that it would prove the cure to the great national problem of apathy, and give people a new sense of patriotism. Thit note of patriotism, as in Frank Buchman’s historic phrase, “a true patriot is one W'ho gives his life to bring ills country under God’s control,” was the thread of the meeting. Ken Belden, who introduced tho speakers, said that moral rearmament means every citizen giving and living the best for his nation. It gets rid of the selfishness which is more destructive than any enemy, the fear which is more crippling than poison gas, and the apathy which is more paralysing than a blockade. It is the ordinary man's movement for remaking th« world.