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...Soul Surgeon" Frank N. D. Buchman, exponent of an extraordinary technique for saving souls which has only recently come to public attention (TIME, Oct. 18), returned last week to the U. S. from Siam, having been called thither for consultation by the plump and moon-faced empress...
Briefly, the Buchman cult is distinguished from other forms of personal evangelism by its preoccupation with "washing out" from its members, by mutual confession, the strain of autoerotism...
...Buchman handbook, Soul Surgery, keynotes the slogan, "Woo, Win, Warn." There, personal workers read...
...your own former weaknesses you will elicit a full confession from him. . . . This is often the kind of drastic, spiritual operation which alone can prevent a superficial repentance and unreal conversion. In New York City, last winter, a university student leader came to talk with Mr. Buchman about entering the Christian ministry. . . . Mr. Buchman answered his questions on the ministry to the best of his ability, but still the man seemed unsatisfied. They had finished dinner with little accomplished, and Mr. Buchman then invited him to his room for further conversation. In time the student opened up a little more...
...futher manifestation of Buchmanism is the "Buchman house party," a week-end gathering of young people of both sexes in the home of some wealthy convert at which strenuous efforts are made to "wash out" all present...