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Pope Pius XI once referred to God as the "Principal Newsmaker," but few churchmen conceive of the Deity as a Great Editor. In England, however, a number of members of the Oxford Group of Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman last summer enlisted God's aid in a journalistic venture. In their "quiet times" every morning they took pencil & paper, jotted down what they believed to be divine instructions on problems of makeup, caption-writing and layout for a one-shot picture magazine to be called Rising Tide. The result was published in an. edition of 300,000 copies...
...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...
...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...