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...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...
When the followers of Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman wish to emphasize the fact that the Oxford Groups include all sorts of people, they often speak of their "former Communist" colleague, Scotsman James Watt. The Oxford Groups lay no claim to having a "former Fascist" in their midst, and German Buchmanite baronesses hedge when asked how the movement works in the case of German Jews. Last week, to a stray interviewer from the New York World-Telegram, brisk Dr. Buchman readily declared himself on Fascism, now No. i bugaboo to practically all U. S. churchmen...
...thank heaven," exclaimed Grouper Buchman, "for a man like Adolf Hitler, who built a front-line of defense against the anti-Christ of Communism. My barber in London told me Hitler saved all Europe from Communism. That's how he felt. Of course, I don't condone everything the Nazis do. Anti-Semitism? Bad, naturally. I suppose Hitler sees a Karl Marx in every...
First religious journal to plumb the implications of Dr. Buchman's plea was Zion's Herald, influential New England Methodist weekly which editorialized: "Just what would happen if Adolf Hitler, shorn of all his pagan power, were suddenly to become a St. Francis of Assisi? Would not such a conversion immediately mark the end of all bluster, swashbuckling, regimentation, coercion, intolerance, and persecution? Dictatorship would instantly fade away at the touch of Christ, whose whole method was teaching and persuasion...
Like the followers of Dr. Frank Buchman, Elsie Janis believes in divine guidance. Unlike Oxford Groupers, she thinks of God in military terms - a Commander- in-Chief issuing His inexorable orders from General Headquarters. Last week, as the result of such a G. H. Q. order, Miss Janis used the News of Tarrytown, N. Y., where she owns famed Phillipse Manor (built in 1683), to reveal her plan to dispose of that 15-acre estate, auction off her other effects for local charities later this summer. Wrote Miss Janis to the News editor...