When Frank Buchman, the initiator of Moral Re-Armament died last August, messages came from twenty-two Heads of State and Prime Ministers all over the world. Many described the profound effect he had had upon their countries. The Prime Minister of New Zealand, Mr Holyoake, said that he ‘had done as much as any man of our time to unite the peoples of the world by cutting through the prejudices of colour, class and creed’. Mr Carl Hambro, the Norwegian statesman and author, called him ‘the greatest man of our age’. Meanwhile, in Lima, Peru, 6o,ooo people stood in silence in his memory.
What was the secret of Frank Buchman's amazing life - of the love that he drew from so many and the fanatical hate which he provoked in some ? What was the basis of Moral Re-Armament ?
This book is not concerned with praise but with truth. It tells Frank Buchman's Secret - his way of dealing with the men and women of every race, class and nation who flocked to him. For it was on the transformation of such people, dockers and kings, statesmen and barmen, workers and intellectuals, that the larger changes, which drew the attention of the world, depended.
So here is told, in vivid detail, how Frank Buchman set about changing men. But first his own development is described as he discovered in his own life the truths which he was later to give to millions.
Peter Howard, who worked closely with Dr Buchman for nearly twenty years, tells the story with humour and insight. His aim is to make Frank Buchman's secret available to everyone - so that the statesman and the ordinary man can themselves set out on the high and necessary adventure of changing men and nations.
