Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-07-13
Moral Re-Armament
Needed Say Oxfords

ly feel that only through complete
moral re-armament can war be
diverted and this made better
world to live in They gave their
followers and those who obtained
some of their literature much
food for thought.
Following is the contents of one
of their pamphlets entitled, "The
Golden Age of Moral Re-arma-
ment":
Three great tasks confront this
generation: To keep the peace and
make it permanent; to make the
wealth and work of the world avail
able to all and for the exploitation
of none; and with peace and pros
perity as our servants and not our
masters, to build a new world, create
new culture, bring in the Golden
Age.
Men have always dreamed of Col
den Age-in the future or distant
past-in which all would be happy
Often they have believed that they
could achieve it by their own efforts
But mans wisdom has proved want
ing. Today we are at our wits end
Moral Re-Armament-M. R. A
is Gods supreme offer to this genera
ton. We in this generation may
bring in the Golden Age, the new
civilization built here and now on
enduring foundations. It will come
not by our own wisdom, but by an
obedient cooperation with God in the
task of Moral Re-Armament.
1t will be an age of happy homes
and laughing children, an age from
which fear has been lifted like the
smoke-pall from an industrial city,
when we shall look for care-worn
faces and find none.
It will be an age in which moth
ers will not fear that the children
they are rearing will be killed in the
next war, and husbands will not fear
that next week there may be no pay
envelope for them to take home to
their wives.
A Happy Future.
It will be an age of peace, lasting
peace in heart, home and between
nationS-a peace which will be not
alone the absence of war, but the
Liberation of all our energies to build
new world.
It will be world from which the
drab misery of poverty and unem-
ployment will be wiped away.
It will be a world in which art,
literature and music will blossom into
new life; where inventive genius, no
longer clouded by selfishness and fear,
will rise to new heights of construc-
tive greatness.
It will be a world where youth
loses its disillusion and becomes the
moral backbone as well as the nerve
and SineW of every nation.
A world in which society has no
enemies because society makes no
enemies.
A fear-free, hate-free, greed-free
world.
A world in which employer and
employee, city-Worker and farmer,
doctor and teacher, will work to-
gether under Gods direction to bring
health and plenty, wisdom and lei
sure, within the reach of all.
A world in which we can be trusted
with peace because it will not make
us soft; with prosperity because it
will not make us proud; with liberty
because it will not lead to license;
with happiness because it will not
make us selfish.
A Golden Age.
A world in which the humbleSt
citizen and the mightieSt nation shall
achieve the greatness which consists
in making our greatest contribution
to all.
Have we the right to dream these
dreams? We have the right to dream
them, if we have the will to make
them real.
M. R. A. points the way. 1t is
Gods answer for this generation.
It is on the way. 1t is within our
grasp. 1t must come.
Inc IOlueH age, Tie IeW ClNlllLd-
ton can dawn in myself today, in
my home tonight, and in the place
where 1 work, tomorrow. 1t can
dawn in my country when all who
read this begin to re-arm morally, and
in the world when my nation is ready
to give lead.
For thousands who have tried it,
the world over, it has already begun.
For them it has made all things
new.
1t will mean self-sacrifice? So did
the last war; so would the next. The
self-sacrifice of this generation in
the cause of M. R. A. will mean the
salvation of the next.
The battle for peace is being fought
here and now. 1t is being fought
each day in your heart and will.
Who knows how quickly the issue
can be decided if you re-arm morally
and enter the fray?
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