The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-08-01
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DEL MONTE, Calf, Aug. IL
Attending the World Assembly
for Moral Re-Armament from
South Florida are Mr.. and Mrs.
T.. Virgil Thomas of Key West
and Miami. The conference is
for the purpose of calling the
nations Of the world to a new
spirit Of cooperation and national
responsibility.
The following remarks were
made BY DR.. Frank N. D. Buch-
man, speaking at the opening of
the Second World Assembly for
Moral Re-Arrnament:
This is the Second World As
sembly for Moral Re-Armament.
One year ago we met at Inter
laken, Switzerland. under the
threat of war. The thought that
riveted the attention Of the
world at that time was aGuid-
.ance or Guns" The intervening
months have only served to en-
phasize the truth of that alter
native. 1t is clearer now than
ever before that Moral Re-
Armament is the essential foun-
dation for any world settlement.
Everyone agrees that the need
of the hour is for MIRA. The
next step is for men and women
in every nation to enlist in the
service of MIRA. for the drra-
ton of this world war for peace.
At times Of crisis we must re-
Iexalnine. all our values. Our
commonly accepted standards
fail to be adequate. We need a
new quality of life for all. We
must possess some superior
quality quality of living that
rises above resentment, Jealousy,
greed and points of view. because
all these may keep US from a
maximum message. It is that
quality of life that is above party,
above class, above faction, above
nations God-control We need
to call into being a whole new
philosophy of living.
People and nations for long
time have been thinking abnor-
mally Some super-humRn power
is needed to change the thinking
of the ordinary man and of those
who lead: The great man of his
tory is the man who can arti-
culate and transfer into action
the answer to war, the man who
will confess his own shortcom-
ings instead of spotlighting those
of others.
New Fabric of Living
At times of great crisis people
just naturally look to God, and
they expect their leaders to give
them the lead. In a fateful hour
when announcements are made,
men hope against hope that there
will be some forces at work that
will put off what we all deserve.
II is one thing to say that God
control is the only true policy. It
is another thing to make it a
reality in the life of the nation.
A whole new fabric needs to be
woven. We cannot live on the
past. We must bring in a whole
new philosophy of willing and
living and acting. Through the.
lack Of that sort of living we
have starved the nations life
and the lives of the nations. All
our values are slipping, as cur.
rencies slipped after the war.
Times Of crisis reveal the bank
ruptcy of our thought and action.
Sheer economy of time and.
energy and ultimate bankruptcy
may force us to God-control.
The Oxford Group has been in
action since the last war training
men for the moral re-armament
of the nations. We are waging
the greatest battle of history in
this world-war against selfish
ness.
We must forge new weapons Of
warfare. Our weapons seem like
relics from the armoury of some
illustrious ancestor, which In
their day were useful, but now,
out-moded, leave US defeated
and defenseless. We must have
superioR forces of spiritual arm
our. Moral Re-Ar1naTnent is the
keynote Of world reconstruction.
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