Word: buchman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Buchmanite movement qualifies as a religion, certainly, too, they have, in many cases, received a faith. The existence of the intellectual framework is not so obvious--few of the devotees could state it succintly, but a diligent perusal of their publications, and of the words of Dr. Buchman will show a certain set of purposes which are fairly consistently followed...
...Buchman, who in his more infested moments, has asked for "a supernatural network over five wires," and for "a spiritual radiophone in every home," puts forward as the central object of the movement God-control of every person's every act. God-control is acquired by the faithful as a result of frequent "quiet times" when uninterrupted meditation produces God's answer to any troublesome problem. To a certain extent this seems to be the old faith in the natural man, a reliance on the efficacy of the still, small voice of conscience...
Even so, Alf Landon did not lack company. Riding along in Massachusetts he talked to Rev. Dr. Frank Buchman, leader of the Oxford Group (TIME, April 20, et seq.). Dr. Buchman discussed God and politics. When Governor Landon stepped out to address a crowd at Pittsfield, he had to show that he was on speaking terms with God. Said...
...Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman, onetime Y. M. C. A. worker who founded the Oxford Group, a First Century Christian Fellowship, "God is a millionaire." Missing from headlines since their vast house-party at socialite Stockbridge, Mass, last June, the popular evangelist's team of disciples recently has been touring fashionable eastern resorts preaching spiritual placidity and divine guidance. Simultaneously last week they arrived back in the headlines and at the summer headquarters of U. S. millionaires: Newport...
...arranged a large reception for them. The godmother of Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Mrs. Henry Parish, put up one team member. The wife of the head of the Allerton Hotels system, Mrs. James Stewart Cushman, vice president of the World Y. W. C. A., put up Dr. Buchman. Other hostesses to the visiting Groupers included Mrs. Edward V. Hartford, sister-in-law of the Great Atlantic & Pacific grocers; Mrs. Sheldon Whitehouse, wife of the onetime U. S. Minister to Guatemala and Colombia; Countess Laszlo Szechenyi, who was Gladys Vanderbilt...