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Salient. The Newspaper of Victoria University College. Vol. 20, No. 3. April 12, 1956

Produced stability

Produced stability

"It has produced a stability in this country without which the Queen's visit would not have happened."

What is this force which takes an ordinary student of a statesman and makes him the sort of person who can change the course of a whole nation and provide an answer to the deepest [unclear: a] of a divided world?

A diplomat of wide experience has answered it this way: "Moral Re-Armament is a phenomenon of the twentieth century. Frank Buchman has done three things. First, he clearly saw thirty-five years ago that the world was not just at the end of war between great powers but at the start of a breakdown of civilisation.

"Second, he did not stop short at diagnosis. He built an answer that works. Third, and perhaps hardest of all, he give his life to create a force to carry that answer to the world, so that today thousands of men and women in every part of the world provide an ideological army trained, tested and in action in over 118 countries to build the unity of renaissance."

You cannot join Moral Re-Armament. You cannot resign from it. Each one of us either lives it or does not. It is the simple choice in every heart whether we sacrifice our selfishness for humanity or whether we sacrifice humanity for our selfishness. Only the most blind and bigotted Relieve that we can demand to be left alone today while we continue to live selfishly, comfortably and undisturbed.

Moral Re-Armament is not just a personal matter—though it demands personal change.

It is not a moral movement—though it fights that absolute moral standards become the normal for men, cabinets and nations.

It is not goodwill—though, through change and the guidance of God, it can render effective that inert mass of goodwill in millions today which self-righteously preaches to others and accomplishes nothing.