Evening star., 1935-08-11
10000 ATTENDED
OXFORD CONCLAVE
Edwin Lewis, Editor of Ca.
thedra! Age, Reports
on Meeting.

Ten thousand Christian revolution
aries" from 40 nations mobilized at
Oxford, England, in July for the In
ternational and British house parties
of the oxford group, according to Ed
win N. Lewis, editor OF the Cathedral
Age, who arrived home from England
last week.
He reports Is members of the orig
taal American team, who sailed from
New York on June 20, have enlisted
for the oxford group campaign in Jut-
land, the western province OF Den
mark.
In order to gather information for
the Cathedral Age, the quarterly mag
azine published by the National Cathe-
dral Association, Mr.. Lewis visited the
cathedrals in Liverpool, Chester and
Canterbury, and St. Pauls Cathedral
and Westminster Abbey in London.
Reports New Hope.
Summarizing his impressions of the
significant meetings held at Oxford,
Mr. Lewis said:
"Of the countries represented, the
United States sent 100 and more than
$50 men and women came from Scan
dinavia.
More than 1000 people assembled
one Sunday morning in Oxford's larg-
est cinema theater. The meeting was
led by James Watt. former Communist
leader of Fifeshire. who was changed
through the oxford group. The spirit
of the unemployed in England is being
changed. Cynicism, disillusionment
and discouragement are giving way to
new hope and new confidence in
Christ.
Another challenging demonstration
was held in the Town Hall of Oxford,
where a German professor and a
French baron spoke from the same
platform and witnessed to the fellow
ship for each other which the group
had engendered, asserting that when
such a change shall take place in the
lives of thousands Of Germans and
Frenchmen, Europe will need have no
fear of war from this sector. Repre-
sentatives of 80 nations marched up
the aisle of Christ Church Cathedral
carrying the flags of their respective
nations and singing Like a Mighty
Army Moves the Church Of God Side
by side the flags of Germany and
France were carried in procession by
young people whose fathers had been
killed in the World War.
Experiment in Living.
Sleeping in bell-tents, 500 young
men from business, professional, un-
employment and university life lived
together as an experiment for 10
days to think out together Gods plan
for their own sections of England.
One man who had seen some %
camps in the course OF his life said
he had never seen such business eff
cheney and discipline, and rarely seen
eny one up before reveille-volun-
tarily!
ON the final day of the house
party 5000 people, many travelling
especially from London, met in the
oxford University Gardens, to wit
ness the commissioning of the team
soon moving to Denmark for further
work. The note of the whole service,
"A Call to England rang uncompro-
misingly true as lives were dedicated
to the task of bringing about a new
world order. Sound movies were
make Of this great service and are
being distributed throughout the
country, coupled with historical
fashback of mobilization in 1914.
paralleling and contrasting two calls
to action"
Mr.. Lewis said DR.. Raphael Har-
mon Miller, minister of the National
City Christian Church here, and his
son, Ray Miller, who also attended the
gatherings, will sail later this month
tfter taking part in the international
conference of the Church of the
Disciples to be held in Leicester.