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You may have heard of "The Oxford Group." If you had naked me what it was a few days ago, I should have-wald "A sort of religious revival, isn't it? Run by an American called Doctor Buchunan.
"A lot of undergraduates meet together and tell each other. about their sins. I should think.
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I SAW
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ments of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark have been constantly
in receipt of mysterious on- velopes marked "Oxford," "and.' addressed to the Treasury,
On opening these envelopes the astonished oficials have discovered, reposing in them chaques to the amount of many thousands of pounds in payment of income tax which had been fraudulently with- held.
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You see, the first of the prin
MIRACLE NUMBER ONE: IT goes on and on. I came out ciples to which all these people
meeting is being led by of the hall bewildered. What have to subscribe is "absolute,"
THAT was what I thought it
was when I went to Oxford. When I came away, after only a few days I knew that I had caught a glimpse of a new world.
The words "religious revival" in the General Strike. Now, his the shoulder. I looked round are utterly inadequate to express whole life is devoted to this. He and saw an old friend. what the Oxford Group is doing. has been "changed."
what are you The word "Oxford" is utterly Next to him on the platform is doing here?" inadequate to describe its scope. a big employer of labour. They "Oh-this is just all I live for
The word "house party" call each other by their Christian now," he replied cheerfully. examination of your own self, in
a little Scotsman who was once is it? What's the explanation? honesty." secretary of the Young Com- How? Why? What? munist Party of Great Britain. As I was walking across the purity, absolute unselfishness,
"Absoluto honesty, absolute
He played a considerable part lawn I was suddenly clapped on and absolute love."
(which is, the term given to their names. meetings) is equally inadequate
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TS pretty revolutionary. Try It. Try the first for example.
Try absolute honesty in an
No. The ex-Communist is not I stared at him. We will call your own room, in the quiet. He has not been him X. And the reason I stared It's disturbing, to say the least to describe their method of pro- "binckleg."
tempted by a cushy job. He is was because X when I had of it.
known him, was the most entire- "changed." I should need a whole issue of just ...
But these people claim that if And so his words ring out....
ly Pagan person I had ever met, you follow those four principles, To call him "immoral" would and if you completely surronder ception of this astonishing move. "This is the one way in which ment. It seems to me, without we can bring a truer dignity to have been an understatement. your life to God, you straighten "This is the He just didn't know what morals out every tangic, at once, in exaggeration,. one of the most labour....
every respect, and completely important things that is happen- Sreatest revolutionary factor..., were.. ing in Europe to-day.
when the Holy Spirit becomes When I had last seen him his automatically: I told you that we were going active in the lives not only of the marriage had been on the point You don't become a bore, Or
of the employers but
em- of breaking up. Ile hardly met a religious maniac. Or an anti- ployces."
his wife except when they gave social person. You merely be- "Our movement will cut across a joint.cocktail party. LET me give you an idea of the all artificial barriers, and will
come yourself, with every fear She was a Pagan, as he was. eliminated, meeting we had in Oxford's revolutionise all our ideas of She wouldn't even have her largest cinema one Sunday economics in relation to supply children baptized. She did not However, I'm sure you're more morning.
allow them to hear the word God. interested in practical examples. The great building is packed
than in theories. from floor to ceiling. As you Miracle Number Two: A down- enter, you pass by great staring and-out from Monmouth. He TOOK on that picture and on posters of popular beauties. used to hung about. street-cor- this. We are having a meet- Joan Crawford with her big .ners. He used to spout against ing after dinner. X gets up and dyes, Clark Gable with his jut ting chin, and quantities of
in platinum blondes various emotional situations.
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HERE'S another. There was a woman who was a drug addict. She couldn't wear even- ing dress because her armis wore mutilated by piquers of morphia.
She had spent half her life screaming in nursing homes. She had lost her family, her friends... everything,
PARTY LABELS The recent remark by Sir Auster Chamberlain that he is never happy with the name "Conservative," serves to draw little petulantly at the crowd, for Capitalism. He was utterly tells how it all happened. Mrs. attention to the question of nobody is in the least interested miserable. Now he is complete X follows.
She is extremely sophisticated British party labels. In Scot-in them. They have discovered ly happy and will always be so. land, the name "Conservative" something infinitely more excit- He says, quite as a mattor of and exquisitely dressed. She is She got in touch with the has long been the
course, nat he is going bacle to saying, quite calmly, things that Group. At her first meeting she of popular, though the Scot has
make Wales safe for Christ. make you gasp.. "We hated each had morphia in her bag. At the the Press
other," she says, "I was bored end of the meeting she threw IL the reputation of being cautious WE squeeze into
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with my children .. of change in any form, whilst
I didn't away. She is completely cured. Miracle Number Three: The
want to go on. even some of the party leaders at this crowd. You have never President of the Vancouver
Anybody who has ever had have recently revealed n dis-seen anything like it.
Stock Exchange. He reads a satisfaction with the term. Al- Young men in shorts from message from the Prime Minis whole of the story. I can only anything to do with a man or ternatively, Conservatives
woman who is addicted to drugs Scandinavia, girls from Ger- ter of Canada to the effect that write the end.
They came to Oxford for a or drink will not call that vague. still often referred to as "Union-many, mill girls from Lanca- Canada is easier to govern since ists," a name which has long shire, negroes, smart, young the visit of the Oxford Group. sneering, wondering who could new sensation. They were both
I'm not making these things since lost its meaning. Origin-undergraduates next to down- Got that? ally, it was the label given to and-outs,
middle-
say the wittiest things about all up. I couldn't. It would be He makes a highly technical these pious lunatice.
utterly beyond the power of my speech about international curs They went back. Years had imagination. rencies. He proves, as a matter fallen from them. They were of ordinary business, that "the lovers again. only security lica in God's guidance."
are
capitalists,
the group of Liberals who oppos-class mothers, bishops, boxers. ed Home Rule for Ireland and
vent over to the Conservatives,
but retained their distinctive NOTES OF THE DAY
designation, being long known
is "Liberal Unionists"--that is,
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May we call that Miracle Number Six?
"All right, you may say, "and-It's certainly interesting.
a
Vague!
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spoke to a woman and her hus-
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band from Hongkong. "We'd "That's all off now." arranged a divorce," she said.
little vague?" But aren't some of these miracles I do not often ask you to do anything for me. But I do Well answer that word with entreat you, at the very least, to miracle number seven.
acquaint yourself with thia movement.
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Liberals who believed in the pre- NO PLACE FOR POLITICS servation of the unity of the
Miracle Number Four: A United Kingdom. In course of what is sometimes looked upon in lem in South Africa is consider Many people have wondered at South African. "The race prob. time, this group has become America as an exaggeratedly de wholly submerged in. the Conmocratic election system, by which ably alleviated since the visit of servative Party, "Unionist" even the administrators of the the Oxford Group.”
Oh, yes. now really denotes a fresh con- states justice are subject to the
It sounds funny, ception of the title, being claim- fickle fancies of the people and be- All right, laugh. But this is a Miracle Number Seven con- You can do so by writing to ed as standing for unity of come the targets for political fact, admitted by the most concerns the visit of the Oxford The Oxford Group, Brown's endeavour, unity of Empire, and marksmen. No doubt there laservative South African papers. Group to Scandinavia. They Hotel, Dover-street, London,
much to be said for the American unity of all classes. Yet the system; but there are times, and porarily unemployed plumber. countries because Scandinavia is on the outside of the envelope, Miracle Number Five: A tem- are conquering the Scandinavian W.I. You'd better put my name term cannot rightly be appro- the State of New Jersey is experi-n the old days if I did a job a strategic position for the con- and enclose a stamp for a reply.. priated by the Conservative encing one such period, when poli-
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want to Scandinavia the Govern-
SIDE GLANCES By George Clark
Party, since it can be applied tics appear to hamper the way of that took an hour and three quest of Central Europe (which with equal truth to the Liberals justice. We refer to the Haupt- quarters, I charged two hours. has already begun). and the moderate element of themann case, the apparently growing I don't do that any more. I'm Labour Party. The fact that feeling that all was not well with changed." the Conservatives include many the prosecution's reasoning, which distinctly progressive elements secured a verdict; that there were in their ranks provides the chief weaknesses in the chain of circum- binds cause for objection to the official stantial evidence: which title of the party; yet, if the land to the intervention of Senator Hauptmann to the electric chair; term be regarded as implying Harry Moore, a Democrat and the conservation of all that is former Governor, who is criticising. best in national life, there would the present Governor, a Republican, appear to be little need of a for allowing à famous detective to change of designation. So far have access to the files of the case. as the term "Liberal". is con- The detective's name is Ellis Par- cerned, it can be said to be aker, and he is one of the shrewdest true reflection of the principles States. Moreover, being chief de- men in his business in the United $3.75 for which that particular party tective for Burlington County, New, has stood a term which con- Jersey is belief that Hauptmann 4.00 noles a recognition of the prac-is not guilty must weigh with those tical needs of the governed, in who require that justice should be 4.00 preference to a theory based on done. If this man, with Governor empty forms of constitutional Hoffman's acquiescente, can bring 5.75 dogma. Actually, however, the forward any now evidence which Liberal Party, as such, is gradu-may save an innocent man from to be encouraged, 4.00 ally disappearing, due largely to death, he is
the fact that its none too well rather than deterred. And for 1.00 defined principles have been politicians to make capital out of such a situation seems us to in- absorbed by the progressive dicate a singular lack of balance sections in the other two main and good taste. Meanwhile, Haupt- 32.50 political units of the nation. mann sits in the death cell, close 21.00 distinctive appeal in its name,chair awaits him. He has seen six 2.00 although hore, also, some con- men ass his sell door to their fusion arises in the minds of deaths. What more ghostly place foreign observers at the use of for a-condemned man, and possibly the alternative name of "Social-an innocent man, than a coll at the ists. All members of the very entrance to the execution party claim to be Socialists, but chamber, and in sight of those wretches on their last little walk? there are 'degrees of Socialism,
Continued on Page 7) and the Right wing of the Party, which is predominant, is more correctly reflected in the. "La- the virtual passing of the Libor- bour" title. So far as the als, whose place might well be British public is concerned, the taken by a new combination, re-
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We're going to visit our den- tist today.
Not that we like him. Dentists are far too familiar. As a mat— ter of fact, ours often gets on our nerve, fooling around with our teeth the way he docs.
A parson may get the toothache, þut it takes a dentist to curate.
And a sissy sort of chap may have: a falsetto voice, but you should see our dentist's falsetto teeth.
On the other hand, adientist. deserves some sympathy. His la boring sort of job.
And when there's no boring to be dots, he's always scraping for a living.
Remind us to tell you about a famous Alm star's dentist. Ho was described as the chap who drave into the teeth of a westerly' buster.
Our dentist is very polite with Women. When our wito went along to have her teath out, he put the gai maak over her face and asked her to breathe in such a nice manner that eho couldn't refvat.
Well, we must be going now. Tooth will out, as they say in the bock of 2 quotations.
Don't forget to brush your wisdoms. Bong Jaw (French).