A frequent criticism of brisk Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman's "Oxford Group Movement" or "First Century Christian Fellowship" has been that its members are too exclusively preoccupied with well-tailored, socially presentable people. Group members counter by telling how they "changed" (converted) an old Pennsylvania bootlegger called "Bill Pickle"; how in London Group workers live in slum quarters; how a poor little girl was changed, telling her mother that God wanted her to help with the housework.
Last week in Manhattan the Oxford Group presented an even better-documented case. At a meeting at the Hotel...