The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1961-06-08

Fire From Heaven
AS the theological struggle intensified
across the world, a growing multitude caught
the fire of these pioneers. For only men
ablaze for the right can ever hope today to
win men who burn for the wrong. Fire from
Heaven" that is how Don Sturzo, patriot
priest Of Italy, described Moral Re-Armament
in a message sent to the World Assembly on
Mackinac Island. His thinking inspired the
Christian Democrat parties of Italy, France
and Germany, which have given three great
Europeans to the world Prime Minister dc
Gasperi, Prime Minister SchuInan and Char
cellor Adenauer.
Prime Minister de Gasperi expressed his
conviction that Moral Re-Armament by going
ito the root of the worlds evils will bring
about the understanding between men and
nations for which all people long"
Prime Minister Schuman wrote, what
Moral Re-Armament brings us is a philoso-
ply of life applied in action. 1t is not a ques-
ton OF a change of policy. 1t is a question OF
changing men. Democracy and her freedoms
can be saved only by the quality of the mer
who speak in her name
Chancellor Arenauer knows the value Of
Moral Re-Armament. He says it has played
an invisible but effective part in bringing
differences of opinion between negotiating
parties in important international agree
ments." H
These brave men chose. Now a world
wide army is surging forward on every con-
tinent.
Four weeks ago there arrived in Brazil,
a force of $50 from twenty-four countries.
thousands flocked to see the Japanese plav
The Tiger, showing the answer to the Tokyo
riots. Thousands more who could not get in
saw films giving the answer to conflict Of
race, class and theology.
The President summoned this force to. the
capital, Brasilia. Led by General Bethlem.
former Ambassador of Brazil in Pakistan and
Bolivia, the man whose decision had brought
them to his continent, there came to meet the
President a modern group of men and women
ablaze with conviction. The President heard
from the grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, a
former Mau Mau fighter from Kenya. a for
mer top Communist student leader from Ke-
rala, an American educator whose experience
of Moral Re-Armament had led him to give
ms lie to Negro education in America. the
son of an American Ambassador to Brazil and
Peru, an Indian Chieftain from Western
Canada, a Nigerian nationalist, a member of
$500 NAAeSIl ldI1llY OF JdD90.
a Frenchwoman, who was a member of the
Central Committee of the Socialist Party and
leader of the three million Socialist Women
OF France, and a British Admiral, descendant
OF the Lord Cochrane who helped iberate
Chile, Brazil and Peru.
President Quadros Welcomes MIRA Force
The corriere della Sera, carrying this
news fn Io1u mode Gn.--.1p&. -. -
oros received today a delegation of Moral
He-Armament at his re sidence. He gave them
a cordlal welcome and said, T have followed
the activities of Moral Re-Armament now FOR
several years. l am convinced that the world
as it is today cannot survive unless men
stand for the ideals for which Won are fipht-
ing. The disorder in the world TODAY - eco
nomlc, social and political = is due to the
TACT that men have stopped being concerned
about spiritual and moral forces. | have lis
tened with deep emotion to your convictions.
l want to let you know that as far as i can
| will do all that is p ossible so that we
IN Brazil will understand better the moral
values OF our civilization aa
Responding to the invitation to come to
the conference for Moral Re-Armament which
opens in Caux, Switzerland, on June Isl.
Quadros said, 4 will send a personal repre-
sentative
When ne learned that the Japanese play
The Tiger was available, he telephoned to
the general in charge of his Military House.
hold and said, Provide all that is needed
to bring The Tiger to Brasilia. Instruct the
Mayor to obtain the theatre, provide trans
port in the city and, further, have the Air
Force put at their disposal so that this work
can be known in city after city through al.
the centres of Brazil.
General Bethlem, describing in the press
the impact of this force, writes, "For the first
time on this continent Communism has been
confronted with a positive alternative and
for the first time it is being made to retreat.
| have found a real revolution in MIRA. We
Brazilians are being challenged to give this
to Communists, non-Communists and anti
Communists alike. Many of us have been
confused through our moral compromise.
have found clarity through change. We need
to wake up. The theological war is already