The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1922-10-28
FEDERATED CHURCHES
PASS RESOLUTION ON
DEATH OF DIR. MORRIS.

NEW YORK, N. Y. Oct. 26.-The
Federal Council OF Churches, through
its administrative committee has re-
Gently passed two outstanding resolu-
tions. One. on the death of DIR. e. C.
Morris. President of the National Bap-
list Convention and the other dis
owning any connection or tolerance of
the Ku Klux Khan and its principles.
The resolutions are as follows on
the death Of Or. Norris is as follows:
| WHEREAS. DIR. z. G. Morris, Pres
ident National Baptist Convention, has
passed from labor to reward, and
WHEREAS, His own denomination,
the Federal Council. the cause of the
Christian Church, and the nation at
and almost highly esteemed citizen.
and
s"wHEREAs, We, the members of
the Administrative Committee of the
Federal Council deeply realize the loss
to ourselves, to the nation and the
bereavement to his family an1 to the
members of his church,
THEREFORE,, BE 1T RESOLVED,
That we hereby record our deep APP
probation of the life he lived and
the service he rendered. our sense of
great loss and our profound sympathy
with his stricken family and the Ma
tional Baptist convention,
ABE 1T FURTHER RESOLVED. That
copy of these resolutions be spread
upon the minute of the Administrative
Committee, a copy be sent to his fam
ily and to the Nationl Baptist Con-
vention."
Resolution ON Khan.
THE Administrative Committee of
the Federal Council of the Churches
of Christ in America records its strong
conviction that the recent rise of or
ganizatjons whose members are mask-
ed. oathbound and unknown. and
whose activities have the effect of
arousing religious prejudice and ra-
tonal antipathies is fraught with
grave consequences to the Church and
to society at large. Any organization
whose activities tend to set class
against class or race against race is
consistent neither with the ideals Of
the churches nor with true patriot
ism. however vigorous or sincere may
be its professions of religion and
Americanism.
evils of lawlessness and immoral
ity, however, serious, can never be
remedied by secret, private and un-
authorized aczlan They must be hand
led by the State and by the recognized
forces of education. For groups of in
dividuals wearing masks and conceal
ling their identity to pass judgment
humiliating measures of their own
devising, is subversive of every prin-
ciple of civilized government, and I'M
dermines respect for the established
agencies of law and order.
"Any body of men. unidentified and
banded together TO achieve in a par
tisan spirit the purposes of a Sec
tional political. racial or sectarian
group, is almost certain to fall into
the very evils of mob rule against
which the spirit, of Christian de-
mocracy and Americanism makes Wig
orous and constant protest. Even If
they resort to no unworthy deeds
theselves, their practice of carrying
on theIrf plans in disguise or under
cover of darkness encourages others
to do likewise, and so affords the
opportunity from arrest or punish
ment. However true II is that in
some communities religious organiza-
tions seek a control over municipal
administration which is undemocratic
and highly undesirable, yet for anoth-
err body of men, secret and oathbound,
to undertake to get control Is equally
intolerable, even IL they seek with all
sincerity to wrest 1T from the con-
troll of other groups.
'@The Administrative Committee OF
the Federal Council of the Churcnes
is opposed to any movement which
overrides the processes of law and
order. and which tends to complicate
and make more difficult the work Of
cooperation between the various po-
litical, racial and religious groups in
the Republic. No such movements have
the right to speak in the name OF
Professionalism and the churches are
urged to exert every influence to
check their spread"