Word: buchman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Buchmanism, in its essentials, is easily seen as an adaptation of Christianity which contains many features of traditional excellence. Conversion, contemplation, confession-upon these it lays emphasis. One peculiarity, however, has made it famous and has caused its founder, Frank N. D. Buchman, Muhlenburg graduate and Lutheran minister, to be called ugly names. At Buchman "houseparties" (gatherings devoted to mutual confession and "washing out"), sex is the pièce de résistance. Mr. Buchman and his assistants are accused of reducing their diagnoses of spiritual sufferings to bad sex habits. The weak-chinned element in schools and colleges...
...ranks of Buchmanism are by no means filled with the sons of the humble; the founder of the sect has an attraction if not a predilection for the rich and for crowned heads. His influence upon the members of the Royal House of Rumania has been marked and apparent. Queen Marie, at whose palace Frank Buchman has made long visits, talks with the fetching lack of reserve which characterizes the true Buchmanite, while her second son, weak-chinned Prince Nicholas, one of the regents of Rumania and uncle to small
...Buchman is a Christian evangelist so unusual in his practices that he has brought considerable obloquy upon himself (TIME, Oct. 18, Nov. 1). A graduate of Muhlenberg College and a Lutheran minister, he has discovered that ordinary church work fails to reach many nominal Christians. Neither are these people affected by the conventional tabernacle howlers. Aimee Semple McPherson, Dr. J. Frank Norris, William A. Sunday can reach great crowds, can excite many a soul to march up the sawdust trail to salvation. But the enduring effect of such theatrical evangelizing is always dubitable. More important, few of the hymn-singing...
...reach the cold ones, Mr. Buchman invented an evangelizing process that still is little understood. He uses the intimate interview, the personal exhortation. And he has been effective. His adepts stop at nothing in telling their experiences. It becomes a goal for them to reveal their sins, to bare their private pollutions...
...Princeton in recent years he acquired a stout following chiefly among members of the Philadelphian Society, the university Christian organization. These young men, made zealous, tried to bring their friends to grace, delving with dangerous ignorance into delicate problems. The university authorities asked Mr. Buchman to keep away, banned his technique...