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...BUCHMAN IN OXFORD
...report has been widely circulated regarding the work of the groups in Oxford associated with the name of the Rev. F. N. D. Buchman, D.D. From what we have observed of the results of this work, it is our belief that this criticism has arisen from misunderstanding and unfounded rumour, and misrepresents the spirit of the work. The letter was printed above another communication which dealt with "The Laws of Cricket." It was signed by eleven gentlemen of whom three were officers of three of the most important colleges at Oxford: Alexander Dunlop Lindsay, Master of Balliol, Sir Michael Ernest...
Your correspondent is rather dogmatic in referring to Frank Buchman's work at Oxford in your issue of May 28. Has he ever been to a "houseparty" or to Oxford? A year ago I attended a conference, such as the one which comes in for criticism in this latest issue of TIME at Wallingford, England (twelve miles from Oxford). There was no single piece de resistance; the discussions, continuing over a period of three days, centered on the life of Christ, prayer, and the implications of the Christian way of life for the individual Christian-what willingness to carry...
...ranks of Buchmanism are by no means filled with the sons of the humble; the founder of the sect has an attraction if not a predilection for the rich and for crowned heads. His influence upon the members of the Royal House of Rumania has been marked and apparent. Queen Marie, at whose palace Frank Buchman has made long visits, talks with the fetching lack of reserve which characterizes the true Buchmanite, while her second son, weak-chinned Prince Nicholas, one of the regents of Rumania and uncle to small
Last week's outcry at Oxford bears a close resemblance to the events which preceded Dr. Buchman's expulsion from the campus of Princeton, four years ago. At Oxford, however, there are perhaps not more than 75 Buchmanites of whom several are dons. After the outcry, the authorities made no move, undergraduates exhibited a lackadaisical approval, and Buchmanites continued to hold their "morning watches," and to move in their mysterious ways...