Evening star., 1961-05-05
"YOU SAY WHAT is STRAIGHT
AND RIGHT"

It is just year now since force of Moral
Re-Armament left from Caux to work in the
Congo. What is the battle they are fighting? 1t is
a difficult task. But they are meeting with such a
response that the Minister for Information and
National Defense in Leopoldville says that moral
Re-Armament has saved the Congo from far
greater catastrophe"
The other day they were invited to the con-
troed area of the Lower Congo, in which are the
ports of Matad Bona and Banana. En- route they
encountered several Congo Army road blocks. At
one the sergeant said, Moral Re-Armament! We
listen all the time to your radio broadcasts," and
he began to sing one of the songs. He was over
joyed to meet the Colwell Brothers from Holly
wood, who had put these songs twice day on the
radio in the languages of his people At every road
block, as the soldiers realized the MIRA men were
in the car, they crowded enthusiastically around,
and at the last block before entering Matadi, the
soldiers cheered them for bringing the answer to
Communism.
At the end of the road in Bona the square
was sea of faces as ten thousand people crammed
into the Civic Centre to see the MIRA films and
hear these men speak. That crowd stood for four
hours and when asked if they wanted more, roared
their approval and said, eve want the MIRA force
to stay for month right here to spread this idea"
The Bishop of Matad said after the film, "You
say what is straight and right. This is the good
and only way, the way of MIRA which we all need.
I congratulate and thank you will give you my
fullest support so that the masses will follow this
idea"
Africa can be lost in the sinking sands of the
materialism of East and West. Leaders of Africa
welcome Moral Re-Armament because it is the
solid ground on which hate-free fear-free greed
free continent can be built. Marking the independ-
ence of their country the Government of Sierra
Leone invited the representatives of fifty-six
nations to see The Grooming Experience. The
Deputy Prime Minister, presenting the film said,
Il have decided to throw my whole weight into
this work of Moral Re-Armament." Humphrey
Wood officially representing Moral Re-Armament
at the independence celebration, presented my
message: Sierra Leones destiny is to be nation
guided not by the will of others but by the will of
God to follow what is right. Strong as lion she
will be among the nations The whole world is
anxiously waiting to see what God can do through
one nation wholly given to Him. Sierra Leone can
be that nation. My heartest congratulations"
Introducing The Grooming Experience, which
was repeatedly interrupted by applause Manasseh
Moerane, Vice President of the thousands of
African teachers of South Africa said political
independence is important: economic stability is
important, but above all a new nation needs an
ideology We in Africa cannot afford neutralism
We have got to stand for what is right"
Bremen Hofmeyr, whose family have held six
Cabinet posts in South Africa, said, Moral Re-
Armament is the ideology that sets men and
nations free, that keeps men and nations free and
unites free men to win the world"
President Tubman of Liberia has also asked
for the men of Moral Re-Armament to present
The CroCning Experience to the Pan-African Con-
ference which opens this week in Monrovia He
says, II invite the leaders and people of Africa to