THE BONNEWITZ GARDENS, VAN WERT, OHIO 
AS THE YEARS ARE PASSING 
I have a physical life, and at the age of sixty-nine I am enjoying 
health of body. 
I have an intellectual life, and my magazines, my books, my con¬ 
tacts with intellectual men and women, and last of all, my own 
thoughts and meditations bring me more satisfaction than in earlier 
life. 
I have a spiritual life which was dormant, but which has been 
awakened and stimulated into growth by the events which the de¬ 
pression has brought. This spiritual awakening and growth has 
brought a new zest into my life; a zest which I would like to share 
with everybody with whom I come into contact. 
At the moment when I first realized that I am a spirit, that I 
am spiritually alive, that I am spiritually ready for service, I was 
holding in my hand the book “For Sinners Only”, and I was praying 
for the peace of God which passeth understanding. 
This book, rather more intimately than any other I have ever 
read, explains the belief of the members of the Oxford Group, that 
all followers of Jesus Christ can come into fellowship with God’s 
Holy Spirit, and can get God’s guidance at any time, in any place, 
and on any subject. 
But you will be surprised at the subjects upon which the Groupers 
ask guidance. They are not at all the same subjects upon which they 
would have asked guidance before coming into the Group. For 
50 years I had boldly prayed for guidance in the accumulation of 
this world’s goods. But not now. I cannot conceive of any Grouper 
petitioning for wealth, for our Heavenly Father knows before we 
ask Him what things we have need of. 
In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, I received the peace I 
prayed for, and spiritually I have ever since been alive and ready 
for service. 
I cannot tell you that if you hold in your hand the same book 
which I read and pray for the same peace for which I prayed that 
you will receive it. But even as I was guided into the desire of my 
heart, I am sure that if you believe that Jesus is indeed “the way, 
the truth, and the life,” that you will be guided into the desire of 
your heart, and that the real you which bears your name but which 
does not go down into the grave will rejoice in the Communion with 
God’s Spirit while your physical body performs its service to its 
fellows. 
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