The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1923-12-12
life DEMANDS SERVICE!
SACRAFICE!

sisted in the presentation of the dead
body of a victim, whose carcass was
placed upon an altar and consumed
by fire, as the expiatory substitute
for man. The new, or Christian, or
der Of worship calls for something
alive. Neither God nor man wishes a
dead thing. Among the activities of
men there is no room for a corpse,
literal or figurative. Life demands
Service and Service calls, for Life.
He who would serve, must be alive,
and all truly living men must serve.
It is the price of existence, the toll
for being alive. It is worth living to
serve. Life and Service go hand in
hand.
Service calls for sacrifice, but it
must be of the living kind, and not
the sacrifice of dead body. A life
less carcass can avail nothing when
placed on the altar, however pious
the act may be. Kdansmen believe
in that kind of sacrifice which calls
for living body placed on the altar
of Service, utilized by man and dedi-
Gated to God. By this kind of Ser
vice the Klansman lives. This is his
aim, his purpose, his ambition, in
life.
Service Counts
Nor is this ambition confined to
those of his kind, alone. He stands
with other Klansmen; he stands for
the Race. Toward other Klansmen
he is the soul of honor, possessing
unfeigned love, showing kindness,
giving preference rather than sell
fshly demanding for himself. Re-
garding his personal affairs, the
Klansman is dutiful in business, re-
joising because of his hope, patient
amid the trials of life, and hospitable,
withal. To those without, he is non
retaliative, honest, peaceable, and
even willing to return good for evil,
thereby proving his superior worth.
In his service to men, his method is
to overcome Evil with Good.
The Klansman has policy that lies
far beyond his naturalization into
the membership of the Klan. To him,
naturalization is but enlistment for
service. It is the service that counts
with him. This lofty desire of the
Klansman to serve, comes from the
sense of duty, from the recognition
of obligation. He feels charged with
the ambition to be an active construc-
zionist rather than passive law
abiding fgurehead. He thirsts for
duty; he demands the right to be USE
full. He feels it criminal to have and
not to give; to possess, and not to use.
He does not feel satisfied to be pas
sively good. By becoming an active
benefactor he presents his body a liv-
ing sacrifice, believing it to be accept
able to God because it is his reason
able service to his fellow-men.
| Our Spiritual Aims
It is said of Him Who walked
among u lowly mortals as the Son of
God: He came not to be ministered
unto, but to minister, and to give
His life ransom for the many. He,
therefore, Who is the Klansman,s Ex-
emplar, sets the example to all Klans-
men. To minister, and not to be min
istered unto, is the only worthy ex-
cuse for existence. We are the heirs
of the ages. All that has gone before
is ours, being poured into our laps
from the cornucopia of the bounteous
past. The years gone before are ours.
The worthy men of these by-gone
years, are ours. Their great and
valient deeds are ours. Their prin-
ciples and their ideals, are ours. Such
heritages more valuable than crowns
of gold, are handed down to US who
are the sons of such worthy fathers.
The memory of these great and noble
men, these defenders Of the faith, can
best be kept green by our safe
guarding the ideals and the principles
which these forefathers bequeathed
US. And how can this be done I?
How, better, than by our living these
ideals and these principles, by our
making them part of our being, as
virtually as bone of our bone and flesh
of our flesh? g..
Too long, be it admitted, has the
attention of the average American
been diverted to material gain, to
the overlooking of the spiritual.
Thoughts, ideals, principles, these be-
long to the realm of the spiritual.
They are not as wood or stone; as
gold or silver. They cannot be weigh
ed on the scales nor measured by
tangible Device. Being of the spirit
ual, they will exist forever, for the
things which are seen, are temporal,
but the things which are not seen,
they are the! eternal. These indy
ing requests from our venerated
fathers are to be incorporated by US,
their sons, thus having them to live
again in our bodies, as in resurrec-
tion body. Sired by fearless pioneers,
inheriting the aspirations of the un-
daunted, the. ambitions of the ideal
lists, the honor of the chivalrous, the
reverence of the faithful, the Klans-
men possess a position to be coveted
by angels. l. ~
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