The Archive · 1940

Moral Re-Armament

Reply To Pragmatist

To the Editor of the "'Nomrt-Chiva Datty News"

Mr. B's letter of the 12th inst. querying ihe applicability. of Moral He-Armament (hereafter abbreviated fo MARA) to present world condi-tons, intrigues. me and, in reply, 1 have the pleasure of penning the fol-Towing that comes to my" personal Knowledge.

MORA, whose creed comprehends Christ's "four standards of absolute 100 honesty, absolute purity, absolute un~ Selfishness and. absolute love, is the fnly- elution to' the problems con= fronting the world today. ts sole objective is to" build a" nate-ree, fear-tree, " greed-free world, Of course, this Tew world cantor be built fu a day or a year, Te will take 2 long time. 'But singe the mover ment is so rapidly gaining strength in every nation of the world, Its goal wilt" unquestionably" bein' sight in the near future, 'As one of its well-known slogans, MRA, begins with you and me, irre: Speciive of ereed of class, sex or Tationality, and. requires, Ast of al, a change of heart by letting God ffulde us in our dally' work and cone facts. 'Tt is the testimony of not lip—that convinces the unbellevrs to Join this world movement. Tt Fequires its. followers to practice Christ's teachings rather' than preach them, T'have seen many In thstmovemest whale ivan are thing mid their erstwhile broken homes from the Festless to peaceful

are now built on the basis of order and harmony. These "people "who have found peace in their own heart, fare eager to give their friends and Felatives. that peace. As the. move-tment is expanding, the time Is bound {o: come when enough new men and how homes wil establish a new tion and enough new nations, world, The adherents of MRA, are prac-Uical-minded enough, many occupying positions of leadership in various prot {esslona. They are not fond of build. Ing easites in the ale as you might have supposed, but trust ta God and fave "impllet faith in Jesus "of Nazareth who prepared 90 years for active life of three years and re-Yolutionized the whole human eoneep-Yon of Lite The MRA. advocates would not be urpind hat their Ideals of & new Wworld which today may be considered Tantasies, will some" day" become factualities, not forgetting that when Ealgon had the vision of coding the world. with light, many" people thought Ita fantastic Idea, Some 49 years go, when young Henry Ford was peltering "around a horseless petite, the. wise ten shook tee ads and called him crazy. Today they nod their heads and admit that hope Ma. B. has found satisfaction fromthe above; perhaps we may have an' opportunity of getting to-author tu the battle against our common enemy, sin TD, Zay, aap.

Shanghai, Feb. 19,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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