MORAL REARMAMENT

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 148, 18 March 1939, Page 8

MORAL REARMAMENT

M.R.A. As Counterblast To A.R.P. a (•‘Dominion” Special Service By Airmail.) LONDON, February 22. The “Evening Standard’s” political column, “Londoner’s Diary,” announces that Moral Rearmament is becoming a national counterpart to air raid precautions. The columnist writes: — “A.R.P. has a rival —M.R.A. M.R.A., in the language of the Oxford Group, stands for Moral Rearmament. Four pillars, surmounted by their initials, are the symbol of a new campaign which is to sweep the country next month. The pillars stand for M.R.A.’s four ■ standards —absolute honesty, absolute purity, absolute unselfishness and absolute love. “Mr. ‘Bunny’ Austin, the tenuis player, has written a book as a kind of counterblast to the A.R.P. Handbook. “A film on the theme of M.R.A. is to back up tire book which has already been distributed to the American House of Representatives.” A.R.P. has been the subject of a Government campaign involving the distribution of 20,000,000 pamphlets. Dr. Buchman himself defined the relationship between M.R.A. and A.R.P. recently when he said, “M.R.A. is just as necessary as A.R.P. and takes away the fear.”