The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1919-01-04
THE KNIGHTS OF {
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pleasures a. ~-~,~-,. home are
coming with a greatly heightened re-
gard and understanding for the Order.
The American mind has been instilled
with a new regard for the body of
men who bent patriotically to the task
demanded of them and accomplished
it. Our ideals and achievements are
known and acknowledged.
There is no doubt that thousands Of
eligible Catholics all over the country,
properly approached, would readily
welcome the opportunity of sharing
our manifold benefits and of partici-
pating in the great work that lies be-
fore us. Magnificent, indeed, are the
possibilities that tower above the foun-
dation of membership of a million
of such men. Never in fact were there
such wonderful opportunities for
united Catholic effort or the develop
ment of Catholic thought and enter
prise. Each Council, built up to it's
maximum strength, would be potent
source of enlightenment and of real
service in its community, while the
Order as whole would be so equipped
as to rise to heights of achievement
far beyond the range of even it's pres
ent large membership.
To it's larger ranks and larger hopes
the Order cordially welcomes the
eligible men of the Catholic faith, in
Guiding former members who may
again wish to share the benefits and
the merits of it's work, confident that
their undoubted sympathies with Cath
olic effort cannot fail to find it's best
avenue of expression through the
Knights of Columbus.
Many Benefits.
1t is not enough, however, that men
be called upon merely to ally them
selves as members of the Order They
should be induced to partake of all of
the benefits which the organization
offers. Insurance members should be
sought with especial effort. The Or
der directs that there should not be a
meeting held anywhere in insurance
territory where the benefits of insur-
ance membership should not be en-
phasized. This is one of the most i'm
portant advantages of the Order. 1t
is the pafainoant duty OF every man
to protect those dependent upon him.
For practical purposes nothing tends
so toward permanent membership in
the Order as the possession of our
insurance, erected upon acturial
solvency and adequate rates, upon fair
economic theory and true scientific
principles.
The logic upon which the perma-
nency of insurance membership is
predicated is this: The man who has
as additional incentive to living true
Knight the knowledge that he is stor-
ing away earning power against the
day he will not be here to protect his
family, clings even more earnestly
and persistently to the association
established in the knights of Colum-
bus. And that is the type of member
for which the Order looks in it's fresh
expansion.
One million permanent members are
needed, needed acutely to carry on the
Orders work, grown through its new
made prominence in the world to un-
precedented proportions. The violent
changes that came in the wake of the
war have brought before the eyes of
a shaken world the proponents of un-
restraint insidiously availing them
selves of the disturbed conditions of
peoples lately released from oppres-
sion. The sole counterpoise to such
influences is the spread of Catholic
| truth.
This is the crux of the summons:
| To think, to act, to live anew to the
end that within the twelvemonth
| one million Catholic men, vigilant
against social and moral disorder,
anarchy and crime, be working with
all the ardor of their Christian man
hood for God, for Church and for
| Country.