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...Oxford Group. Frank Buchman's special magnetism was not evident early in his life; one of his teachers in his home town of Pennsburg. Pa., remembered him as "not outstanding in any respect." A bachelor all his life, he was ordained a Lutheran minister in 1902, and soon found that his special interest was working with young men; for seven years he was secretary of the Y.M.C.A. at Pennsylvania State College. After that, missionary work and evangelism among prisoners in World War I took him to the Near and Far East. and to Europe. It was not until...
...Lutheran minister from Pennsburg, Pa. was pondering the world's sins as he strolled the quiet walks of Oxford. "How can one man change the world?" he asked himself. Suddenly, as he said afterwards, the answer came direct from God: "First one man changed, then two, then four, then eight. A million changed. A whole nation changed...
Thus last week, with the pomp of a court circular, did Buchmanism-heretofore quartered in Brown's Hotel, London - announce the acquisition of famed 18th Century Lord Clive's 34-room house in swankest Mayfair. Minimum price in the neighborhood: $50,000. Dr. Buchman, born in unswank Pennsburg, Pa., will make Berkeley Square his home...
Frank Buchman was born 58 years ago in Pennsburg of a Pennsylvania Dutch stilling family. He went to Muhlenberg College, Mt. Airy Theological Seminary, became a Lutheran pastor. Doing welfare work for Lutheran boys at Overbrook, Pa., he quarreled with trustees of his hospice, went to England with a bitter heart. In 1908 in a rural English chuch he says he had a stirring, heart-warming religious experience which set his life on a new course, revealed new spiritual powers to him. These new powers, enabling him to "probe souls" and "cleanse" by extracting confessions, earned him a shower undesirable...
Lorenz, J., '14, Benjamin D. Greene, Delphi, Pa., Perkiomen Seminary, Pennsburg...
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