CURE FOR CRISIS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 28 August 1939, Page 11

CURE FOR CRISIS

MESSAGE OF MORAL REARMAMENT A permanent cure for crisis was the keynote of Dr. F. Buchman’s (founder of the Oxford Group) Californian world broadcast. “This group,” he said, "is accustomed J to crisis because Moral Re-armament j was born in crisis in the dark days of j last September. M.R.A. was born in i East London, the cradle of the workers’ ! movement. In twelve months it has j girdled the globe and brought the mes- j sage of a constructive answer. It has I spread with speed because it gives the fundamental cure for 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, but of God’s plan. When men change nations change. “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 panic-proof. If we give ! and spread M.R.A. everywhere to all I peoples we may yet enjoy and celebrate ! the outbreak of peace. “To-day M.R.A. leaders have been speaking to practically every country in j the globe, bringing a message of hope i and constructive action to every citizen, j While broadcasting to the Pacific na- j tions the new Clipper took its finst! flight to New Zealand—another miracle ; o? the race with time, spanning the gulf ; between nations. When shall we be true bridge-builders between men and men and nation and nation? By the first week-end in December we must have one hundred million hate-free greedfree people listening to God. As Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek said, ‘lf we perspire more in times of peace we will bleed less in times of war.' During the past week there were seven national and world broadcasts.”