Abstract
In the fall of 1937, Americans started seeing the phrase “Rising Tide” everywhere. It was in newspaper advertisements and bookstore windows, and on postcards appearing mysteriously in the mail. Eventually they learned that “Rising Tide” was a slick one-issue magazine, proclaiming a new hope for America and the world through faith, cooperation, and trust—all being brought about through the work of the Oxford Group.
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Notes
Samuel M. Shoemaker, Jr., “House-Parties across the Continent,” The Christian Century 50:34 (August 23, 1933), 1057–1059.
Samuel M. Shoemaker, National Awakening (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1936), 75.
Cited in Purdy to Shoemaker, December 20, 1934, SMS RG101-3-6. Concerning Gabriel Over the White House, Jonathan Alter, The Defining Moment: FDR’s Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2006), 185.
Stanley G. Payne, A History of Fascism, 1914—1945 (Madison: University ofWisconsin Press, 1995), 7–14.
A.J. Russell, One Thing I Know (London: Hodder and Stougtiton, 1933), 56.
T. Willard, Hunter, Busdrivers Never Get Anywhere: A Rendezvous with the Twentieth Century (Claremont, CA: ReginaBooks, 2002), 151.
H.W. (Bunny) Austin, Moral Re-Armament: The Battle for Peace (London: William Heinemann, 1938), 62–63.
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Sack, D. (2009). Rising Tide. In: Moral Re-Armament. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230101883_5
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