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Show MORAL RE-ARMAMENT RE ARMAMENT REARMAMENTThe - - The Neivest Nelvest Newest Force at Work in the World WorldIs @ Is Basedon Based on the Oldest Rule of Living @ t . , By B } ) Frank rrank Parker Stockbndgc Stockbrldg Stockbridge StockbridgeReleased StockbndgcReleased ( Released by Western Newspaper Union I ) IEKE TIKE an army with bannersmarchmg bannersmarching banners EKE IKE | marching marchmg to war a acorn l.om lom l.ompany Lompany . * < / pany of men and women womenfrom womenfrom womenfrom from every part of the natIon natIonand nationand nationand and of the world has latelybeen lately latelybeen latelybeen been moving movmg across the length lengthand lengthand lengthand and breadth of the Umted UmtedStates UmtedStates UnitedStates States Their banner bears a astrange astrange astrange strange device , four straIght straIghtlmes straightlines straighthnes lmes lines tapering tapermg upward to- to toward toward to toward - ward infinity mfimty , crossed WIth WIththe withthe withthe the letters "MRA MRA " " Thatstriking That Thatstnkmg Thatstriking stnkmg striking symbol stands for ' Moral Re Armament " I | I first encountered the new ban banner banner banner ner last spring sprmg in Washmgton Washington Washmgtonand Washingtonand Washingtonand and later at a great meeting meetmg inConstitution In InConstitution inConstitution Constitution haU hall Senators rep representatIves representatives representatives resentatIves and high officials ofthe ofthe of the federal government sat on onthe onthe onthe the platform and in the audience audienceand audienceand audienceand and listened hstened while whlle Amencans Americans AmencansEnglIshmen AmericansEnglishmen AmericansEnglishmen EnglIshmen Irish Insh Scots Fmns Finns FmnsDanes FinnsDanes FinnsDanes Danes Swedes Norwegians NorwegiansNetherlanders NorwegiansNetherlanders NorwegiansNetherlanders Netherlanders , French Austrah Australi Austrahan Australian Austrahan an Canadian Japanese Chmese ChmeseBurmese ChmeseBurmese ChineseBurmese Burmese , , Swiss Indian , , Egyp Egyp- Egyptian Egyptian Egyptian - - tian and South African AfClcan men and andwomen andwomen andwomen women told what MRA meant to tothem tothem tothem them personally and to their theircountrIes theircountries theircountries theircountriesI countrIes countrIesI I met this army m in action m in mMadison inMadison inMadison Madison Square Garden in m New NewYork NewYork NewYork York under the same banner I Isaw Isaw Isaw saw the flags of every nation pa paraded paraded paraded raded by the youth of those na natlOns nations nations , tlOns tions young men and women womendressed womendressed womendressed dressed m In their national cos costurnes costumes costumes turnes tumes singing smgmg singmg their stirring stIrrmg call callto callto callto to human brotherhood ' < Bridge BridgeBullders BridgeBuilders BridgeBuilders Bullders Builders Two special trains trams had hadbrought hadbrought hadbrought brought Canadians to New York Yorkto Yorkto Yorkto to take partAfter partAfter part partAfter After the Canadians hadmarched had hadmarched hadmarched marched out of the hall and the theaudience theaudience theaudience audience had begun to disperse I Itried Itried Itried tried to get up to the platform platformseekmg platformseeking platformseeking seekmg seeking more information mformatlOn about aboutMRA aboutMRA aboutMRA MRA A thousand others It Itseemed itseemed itseemed seemed had the same idea at the thesame thesame thesame same time All around me men menand menand menand and women were asking askmg eagerquestions eager eagerquestion eagerquestions question questions : . of the hundred or more morewho morewho morewho who had taken a leading leadmg part In m Inthe mIt mthe the It , he evening evenmg s ceremonies ceremomes ceremoniesIhat ceremoniestthat " tthat "hat hat Ihat % Is \ BIRA9 l\IItA l IItA MRA BIRA9I ? I t ' ' < You ve ye got something somethmg that I Illaen I'paten I"haient Ihaient lla\en lla en 'paten paten ' " \ t got I heard on e\ery e ery every eeryside everyside everyside \ side side'hat \ What \\'hat 'hat hat ' is It if " ' I want to toknow toknow toknow know more about it Where can canI canI canI I get more information mformatlon about aboutMRA aboutAll aboutMRA MRA " All they had heard from the theplatform theplatform theplatform platform had been a very slffiple supple slffiplemessage supplemessage simplemessage message indeed mdeed Only that If Ifeverybody ifeverybody ifeverybody everybody lived hved honestly decent decently decently decently ly unselfishly and lovingly lovmgly there therewould therewould therewould would be an end to the world \ w \ orld s stroubles stroubles stroubles troubles Most of them had heard heardthat heardthat heardthat livingfrom hvmgfrom that simple program of hvmg living from their youth up It had bepn been bepnpreached beenpreached bepnpreached preached at them from pulpits pulpitstaught pulpitstaught pulpitstaught taught them in m Sunday school and andat andat andat at home But here they had hadheard hadheard hadheard heard it m in a way that made It Itsound itsound itsound sound not only true but possible possibleThey possible'They They 'They ' had not been preached at atbut atbut atbut but had heard a score and more moreof moreof moreof of upstandmgclear men and women upstandmg upstanding upstandingclear upstandingclear clear eyed folk some young youngsome youngsome youngsome some with graying graymg hair tell slm situ slmply situply simply ply , briefly and convincingly convmcmgly how howthey howthey howthey they each individual mdlvldual had learned learnedto learnedto to live hve bye by the ancient acceptedcode accepted acceptedcode acceptedcode code in m which everybody beheves believes behevesfor believesfor believesfor for the other fellow but an appall appallmg appalling appalling mg ing few adhere to for themselvesBut themselvesBut themselves themselvesBut But hpre here . were v.ere vere people of every land everyland intelligent mtell1gent people many of ofthf'm ofthem ofthem thf'm thfm them ' leaders in m their respective respectivespheres respectivespheres respectivespheres spheres giving gIVmg tangible eVidence eVidenceof evidenceof of the fact that their lives hadbeen had hadbeen hadbeen been changed by acceptance ofthe ofthe of the principles prmclples of MRA There Therewas Therewas Therewas was nothing nothmg sanctimonious sanctImomous m in mtheir intheir mtheir their manner no cant no rant rantmg ranting ranting mg ing just straightforward recitals recitalsof recitalsof of personal relationships re readJusted readjusted readjusted adJusted of quarrels and dls dis dlstrust distrust distrust trust between employers and andv.orkers andworkers andworkers v.orkers vorkers workers . changed to mutual con confidence confidence confidence fidence and respect of racial m in mtolerances intolerances intolerances tolerances and hatreds laid to torest torest torest rest of class antipathies vamsh vanish vamshmg vanishing vanishing mg ing when the speakers had hadlearned hadlearned hadlearned learned to be absolutely honest honestin In all their human relations to todIScover todiscover todiscover dIScover and admit their own ownfaillngs ownfailings ownfailings faillngs failings before blaming blammg thentroubles their theirtroubles theirtroubles troubles on someone else to ac accept accept accept cept all other human beings bemgs as asbrothers asbrothers asbrothers ; brothers under the All Father Fatherand Fatherand Fatherand and to strive as far as was hu humanly humanly humanly personalhves personallives manly possible to lead personal personalives hves lives under the direction of God GodAnd GodAnd GodAnd And they were happy It was wasthat wasthat wa ; ; that note of happiness happme.s happmes : . unmistakable unmlstak unmistak unmlstakable unmistakable able and smcerehlch sincere smcere \ / which \/hlch hlch Impressed Impressedeverybody impressedeverybody impresseceverybody [ everybody who heard them more morethan morethan monthan ; than what they said'hlie said \ While \\'hlie 'hlie hlie ' the therest therest thirest > rest of us were vainly vamly stnvmg striving stnvmgIn strivingin strivuiin ) ; In the pursuit of happiness happmess these thesefolk thesefolk thesifolk ; folk had found it I wanted to toknow toknow tiknow , know more about MRA How d d dthey dthey ( 1 peoplilearn peoplelearn they do It it9 " ' How did these people 2 learn this new way of hfe life life9 " ' Could Couldanybody Couldanybody Coulianybody i anybody do It it7 " ' Did Old you have to toJom tojoin tjoin > Jom join anything9 anythmg anything " ' How much did It Itcost itcost icost7 cost " ' It occurred to me as asapproached I Iapproached Iapproached approached the platform that thatnobody thatnobody thanobody nobody had passed the hat hatthought I Ithought Ithought thought of a thousand questions questionsthe questionsthe questionsthe ; the sort of qupstions qupstlOns questions wh ch nat naturally naturally nalurally , urally occur to a newspaper martrained man mantramed mantrained i tramed trained by tempel tempeiamcnt temperament ament andey andcx and ey cx e ? - - - - - , . - Rt ' r - ' h4vr Ndi IOha < a ak akd ' , d . fo foM forr * { M rr rra a t tt i c & x v r t } st &sM sM &sMx &sMa &sMv a ! txi , t tst . R 4 4f 4a 4etR f a etR etRx x a y L LA I IA I II A Call to the Nations for 1\Ioral 1 Ioral Moral \ Re Armament Hollywood Bowl Cahf Calif , July 19 1939 The four fourbeams . beams of I1ght light behlDd behind the platform slgmfy signify the four standards of 1\IRA-HonestyUnselfishness 1 IRA HonestyUnselfishness MRA-HonestyUnselfishness MRA \ - , , PUrity , Love I penence perlence perience to be suspicious of any anythmg anything anything thmg thing new which he does not un understand understand understand derstand especially in a racket racketmmded racketminded racketminded mmded minded age to look for the con concealed concealed concealed cealed motives behind behmd all human humanactions humanactions humanactions humanactionsBuchman actions actionsBuchman Buchman the DynamoWhen DynamoWhen Dynamo DynamoWhen When I finally caught the eye eyeof eyeof eyeof of the alert vigorous appearing appearmg appearmgman appearingman man who had acted as master of ofceremomes ofceremonies ceremonies ceremomes though he let others othersdo othersdo othersdo do most of the talking talkmg he greet greeted greeted greeted ed me as an old acquamtance acquaintance He Hewas Hewas Hewas was Dr Frank N D Buchman Buchmanfounder Buchmanfounder Buchmanfounder founder of the Oxford Group the thedynamo thedynamo thedynamo dynamo of Moral Re Armament ' < I want to learn more about aboutMRA aboutMRA aboutMRA MRA and try to write wnte the mside m mside mside side story of it I told himOur himOur him himOur Our next jump is to the Pa Paclfic Pacific Pacific clfic cific coast he replied Come Comeout Comeout Comeout out and join Jom us thereSo thereSo there thereSo So as soon as I could arrange arrangeit It I hopped a plane at New NewYork NewYork NewYork York one evening evemng and landed mSan m in mSan inSan San Francisco Franclsco the next mormng morning morningI mormngI I traveled up ur and down the Pa Paclfic Pacific Pacific clfic cific coast for a month with the theMRA theMRA theMRA MRA International Team of ofworkers ofworkers ofworkers workers sat m in their inner mner coun counclls counoils counoils clls oils learned their inmost mmost secrets secretswhich secretswhich secretswhich which turned out to be no secrets secretsat secretsat secretsat at all and mingled mmgled . with v.lth vlth the thou thousands thousands thousands sands of Westerners who fiocked Pocked fiockedto Pockedto flockedto to the dozens of public publ1c meetmgs meetings meetmgslarge meetingslarge meetingslarge large and small and came camearound camearound camearound around afterwards to seek more morelight morelight morelight light to find guidance to enable enablethem enablethem enablethem them to live l1ve the happy unwor unworrled unworned unworned rled ned lives which those who flew flewthe flewthe flewthe the MRA banner enJoyedThe enjoyedThe enjoyed enjoyedThe The Hollywood Bowl holds 30 30000 000 people Forty thousand clam clamored clamored clamored ored for admission admlsslOn at the first firstMRA firstMRA firstMRA MRA meeting meetmg in m Cal California orma The TheSan TheSan TheSan San Francisco rranclsco rrancisco World s fair on onTreasure onTreasure onTreasure Treasure Island set apart two twodays twodays twodays days in m August for special MRA MRAgathermgs MRAgatherings MRAgatherings gathermgs gatherings Monterey Pasadenaf Pasadenari Pasadena Pasadenafffiwyg.jis PasadenaR R # \f f ' \ ri $ fffiwy-g.jis fffiwyg.jis fffiwy g.jis gjis - . fit K , , . ff , , , fn , . < ftf , ; DR FRAMC rRAAK N D BUCHMAN BUCHMANa a dozen smaller cities in the Gold Golden Golden Golden en State turned out thousands to tohear tohear tohear hear the message MRA was wasfront wasfront wasfront front page news in m the daily dally pa papers papers papers pers all up and down the coast coastfrom coastfrom coastfrom from Seattle to southern Califorma Cal Califor Califorma or orma ma Newspaper reporters whocame whocame who came to scoff returned to their of offices offlees fices flees to write wnte sincerely smcerely enthuslas enthusias enthuslastic enthusiastic enthusiastic tic articles about the movement movementand movementand and its lts people The movie colonyin colonym colony in m Hollywood developed an amazmg amazing amaz ing mg mtelest interest mtei est The radio carried carned carriedthe carnedthe the thefour story of MRA literally l1terally to the four corners of the earthon earth on one oneday day from the World s fair grounds groundsthere there was continuous contmuous broadcastmg broadcasting broadcast ing mg by short waves with menspeakmg menspeaking men speaking speakmg languagesto in their own languages to their compatriots compatnots across theseven theseven the seven seasChange seasChange seas Change lour 10ur Own L LifeThe Life e eThe The public publ1c meetings meetmgs of MRAwith MRAwith MRA v/ith v ith with / their crowds and their thelr pag pageantry pageantry eantry are all for lor the purpose purposeof of stimula stimulating stlmulatmg + ing individual mdlvldual mqulr ingmr mqulrles ingmrlea ies les lea The answer every e\ery e ery eery \ mqulrer inquirer mqulrerreceives inquirerreceives ! preciselythe receives is in m effect precisely precise ! ; the answer wh . whch h ch Peter and the theother theother th < , ' other Apostles gave Each one onemust onemust on < ! I theI must bythe first change his own life l e bthe by ] the grace of God and there I is is : . > a . tramed trained willing wllllng worker ready to toteach toteach toteach teach him or her how to seek and andobtam andobtain andobtain obtam obtain the Divine Dlvme guidance to tobrmg tobring tobring brmg bring about the change There IS ISnothmg isnothing isnothing nothmg nothing new about this It IS ISmerely ismerely ismerely merely a return to the fundamen fundamental fundamental fundamental tal principles prmclples of Christianity ChnstIamty and andthe andthe andthe the ways of the first apostlesI apostlesAnd apostles apostlesAnd I And that I learned is the foun founi foundation foundation i dation of MRA MRAIt MRAIt MRAIt It is not a new creed or a new newreligIOn newreligion newreligion religIOn No one joins Joms any anythmg anything anything thmg thing It is not an orgamzatlon organization orgamzatlonbut organizationbut organizationbut but a fellowship of like mmded minded mindedpeople mindedpeople , people It is not an effort to totake totake totake take people a\\ a away aay \ \ ay from their theirchurch theirchurch theirchurch church relations but rather to toput toput toput put more people into mto the churchesand churches churchesand churchesand and to help those now m in the thechurches thechurches thechurches |