lease all people from their small aims and purposes that have divided and held humanity back. ‘Up, up with people’ is their theme song.” True to the tradition of this sect, no tasks are too stupendous for them to un dertake, no nation’s too remote to be influenced by them, no problems too difficult for them to overcome. Their naivete is almost unbelievable in the face of the unrest and violence which plague our country. Belk gives these statistics: “ Sing-Out has been seen by 1.6 million people; played on 312 college and high school campuses; traveled 35,000 miles and grown from one cast of 130 to 42 casts with 5,000 participating in America and at least one cast on every continent.” MRA leaders are great name-drop- pers; says Belk: “ They have been received by 15 governors; during one week former Presidents Eisenhower in Gettysburg and Truman in Mis souri received this force.” However, in this message Belk makes no direct reference to God, to the Gospel, to sin or to the real heart need of man. In an editorial in the handsome MRA pictorial, Pace, for August
much is made of “ something for young people to believe in” but it is not spelled out: that they need a Saviour who can bring into any life His transforming power. At the MRA headquarters in Mackinac Is land, Michigan, 3000 young people gather each summer, which assem bly has been described as having “ some elements of a YMCA camp, a university campus, a religious revi val, an ideological green house, a country club, a training camp and a non-stop musical review.” In his book, The Mystery o f Moral Re armament, member of British Par liament Tom Driberg states: “ MRA, at least since its transformation from a Christian evangelistic mis sion into global ideology is, frankly, concerned with power: spiritual pow er, yes . . . but temporal power also: for God control of the world means control by God’s instruments, his changed and guided men.” Natural ly these are the MRA leaders. Sadly lacking — as always — is the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, still the only cure for individual and national ills.
CULTS CR IT IQUE by B etty Brueehert
QUESTION: Who now heads Moral Re-armament (formerly O x f o r d Group) since the deaths of Buchman and Howard? Will you please explain about the new gimmick they are employing ? ANSWER: The new U.S. director is J. Blanton Belk. The new “ gimmick” is the Sing-Out. Recently in the Rockies, near Estes Park, Colorado, college young people gathered for what Belk de scribed as a “month-long Sing-Out multiplication of the Sing-Out ex plosion which has rocked America for the last ten months.” Calling the conference an Action Now Demon stration, in his opening speech the Director called this “ an idea for the heart of the land that can yet bind up the world’s wounds and set na tions free . . . revolutionize and re
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