Religion: To Change the World

In 1921 a Lutheran minister from Pennsburg, Pa. was pondering the world's sins as he strolled the quiet walks of Oxford. "How can one man change the world?" he asked himself. Suddenly, as he said afterwards, the answer came direct from God: "First one man changed, then two, then four, then eight. A million changed. A whole nation changed."

Dr. Frank Buchman, then 43, set to work without delay to "change" man No. 2.* As yet no whole nation has followed suit. But last week, Buchmanites all over the world celebrated their founder's 70th...

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