Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-06-04

People have been teaching the great truths in
the wrong way. They lack the dominant passion
to hear the plan that God has for their nations
and the conviction to follow it. They lack the
training that helps them to live for their nations
and to remake the world.
Mackinac and Caux are schools of statesman
ship where statesmen, workers. industrialsts are
trained to meet men who have materialist ide-
ology and to win them to superior idea. One
European expert on Russian affairs, who went
with the head of his nation to Moscow to advise
him in the negotiations, says that the work of
men who have had this training has three times
been decisive factor in recent history. First at
Banding, where Moral Re-Armament was de-
Clared to be the one way to unite the East and
West; then in the industrial heart of Europe
the Ruhr, where MRA-trained men broke the
hold of materialist ideologies and saved Europe;
and thirdly in the Pacific where at the Baguio
conferences Japan, Korea, the Philippines and
other SOUTHEAST Asian nations found unity
through moral theology. These are solid
achievements of trained men who live fully con-
vinced.
A uniting theology is the essential pre-condi.
ton of any successful Summit conference. Gov
ernments as fully convinced of Moral Re-Arma.
ment as Moscow is of Communism will lead
the world Immediately into a new era of unity,
peace and plenty, the God-given heritage of the
millions of every nation,
In India they asked me what is Moral Re.
Armament's program for the millions. My reply
was, empty hands will be filled with work,
empty stomachs with food and empty hearts
with an idea that really satisfies. That is Moral
Re-Armament-fo East and West"
Take our youth in America. A young man
found this answer. He had been part of a New
York street gang that drank and drugged. He
had smashed up three cars in six months. He
found in Moral Re-Armament purpose big
enough and the idea that satisfied. He said
This is what the kids where come from really
need-and want"
A young American girl from home of prvi-
ege gave herself wholly to healing the hates and
hurts of the world. She was modern girl with
the secret of patriotism, modern Joan of Arc
for the youth of the nations. She said, Every
day is new adventure. There is nothing that
holds me-" She was only % when she died this
year, but her life too was fulfilled and satisfied.
American labor lost great leader in the pass
ing of John Rife, former Executive Vice-Presi.
dent of the Go, whose fight for unity between
the unions sprang from his own experience of
change and unity in his previously very divided
home. At Mackinac last year he was seriously
i'll. One day he had just one God-given thought
for Senator who was at the Assembly. When
the Senator came to his room, John slowly said
and then repeated these words, Senator, you
must tell America that when Frank Buchanan
changed John Rife he saved American industry
FIVE hundred million dollars"
Coul that be the answer for imitation Is that
the way our nations wealth could be saved from
the waste of selfish conflict to be invested in the
strength and unity of our people?
A man of eighty is speaking to you. A man
who has often been beset by confusion and grad.
ually learned to know the answer for a nation.
In every battling problem of the statesman and
the ordinary man the answer is given to those
who listen. Only there must be the willingness
to obey. 1t is not what expect but what we
allow God to give us. With all the sincerity of
my eighty years and impelled by the urgency of
the critical world situation, ! say God is the
answer to the modern confusion that dogs us.
Go all the way with God and you will have the
answer. Go all the way with God and you will
bring the answer to your nation.
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