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Page iii To my friend Frank Buchman Page v Book II Contents The Oxford Group 1 Sin 15 Sharing for Confession and Witness 23 Surrender 35 Restitution 47 Guidance 57 The four Absolutes: 65 1. Absolute Honesty 65 2. Absolute Purity 75 3. Absolute Unselfishness 83 4. Absolute Love 93 The World 103 You 109 Page vii Foreward The very last thing that the writer of this book would wish is that he should become widely known as a prophet of the Oxford Group Movement. Even less, if that were possible, would he claim any special authority as an exponent of its principles.
Life-changing is not idealistic clap-trapas some doubters would term itbut an absolutely true change, the wonder of the results of which are provable beyond doubt. Surrendering our lives to God means a complete giving back to God of the will-power He gave us at Creation which, with the Ages, has separated itself by Sin from the Giver, and our taking, in its place, His will as He intended our will should be when He first made man in His own image. Will-power is acknowledged to be an active force, as positive in its effects as, for example, electricity; these effects and their extensions are beyond our present knowledge; we only know that the will-power has been the driving force for the Page 38 actual accomplishment of great works, deeds, feats, and inventions, and that if the will-power behind them is sufficient seemingly impossible things can be carried to completion.
It is spiritual courage which, possible to every man and every woman, means the sacrifice of our confidence and our pride in the material ego. Only those who have surrendered know that it does not mean cringing or apologizing but joining, with courageous optimism, Christ and our brother Christians in spiritual fellowship. Our initial Surrender to God does not mean that henceforth we shall be asleep to the world around us; that temptations will never assail nor sins conquer us again, and that, if they do, God is not living up to His part of the compact: or that, because we are not strong enough to carry out our Guidance as really good Christians, it is hopeless to think that we can continue to live under God's Direction.