The Groups at Birmingham The meetings of Group Movement at
Birmingham during last week-end, when an audience of 15,000, drawn not only from the city itself but from a wide district round, packed the Industrial Fair Building, provide further evidence that the Groups are playing a part that cannot be ignored in the religious life of this country as well as of certain others. The movement calls for sympathetic—which does not mean uncritical— study by everyone who realises what the unlimited potentialities of a real religious revival in a single country, much more in several countries, are, and there is evidence that it is getting it. It can be criticised on a dozen grounds, and by no means without justice ; ninny of its defects can be traced to a lack of self-criticism, due largely to over-confident enthusiasm. But so far as it is altering lives, which it is, the least the Churches can say of it (and they might say much more) is that .in this w matter whoever is not against us is for us. It is a welcome sign that the Groups are applying themselves increasingly to such problems as unemployment and international peace. * * * *
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