NEW COMRADESHIP

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22320, 18 January 1936, Page 2 (Supplement)

NEW COMRADESHIP

WORK OF THE OXFORD GROUP Rural England is recapturing her heritage of spiritual unity and vigour as the Oxford Group spreads from village to village, writes Mr. Garth Lean in a London journal. Squire, ploughman, and parson in county after county are finding an adventurous new comradeship. In a Somerset hamlet strange teammates are the village villain, a notorious poacher, and tho local gamekeeper. From Oxfordshire comes news of a party in the house of a general, a member of the Jockey Club. On a recent Sunday he preached in tho village church, and invited the villagers to his party. "I'm tired of pig-sticking, war, and racing," the general told them, "but this Oxford Group game of changing the world is tho most thrilling thing I've ever met."

In Cambridgeshire a country doctor invited 200 of his friends and patients together to toll them about the now power he found in his life. As a result of this party a certain man and his wife, after eight years of separation, started a new honeymoon. From Sussex comes news of a landowner who has rebuilt all the workpeople's cottages on her estate. "My time was spent in nothing but hunting and thinking of my own children," she told me. "When I was changed God told me to go and examine mv cottages. " Would I think them fit for my own children to live in? I found they weren't, and so I had to rebuild them."