The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1923-10-31
IN THE FOOTSTEPS
4. or DR.. FRANK CRANE

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The Knights of the Ku Klux Khan
years hence. I
The Knights Of the Ku Klux Khan
stands in a niche all it's Min the
Secret Order Hall Of Fame. ~.
It has no fellow. It has no rival.
It is no "prinnus inter pares." There
are no "pares." .
1t is as distinct and solitary upon
it's throne in the kingdom Of Amer
lean secret societies, as the Protest.
ant Christian religion has always
been, since it's foundation.
1t stands for the cleanest, most
honest, gentlest and most courageous
thinking that has ever been done in
all the world. -
b Time is the supreme critic; the
leveler Of all things.
i The Judgement of man must stand
many years before it settles. All heat
must go down, all personalities must
be precipitated, all the foam Of con-
troversy must disappear, before the
final crystal estimate is apparent.
The original enemies of the Khan
have been dead long enough for the
petty confusion they caused in their
time to be gone; and the Klan is now
to all but a pure and luminous spirit
It moves in our midst as part of the
machinery directed by the eternal
mind. All it's works have that uni
versatility of understanding, and the
utter honesty of reporting only what
the God of Nature and of all mankind
whispered to it, which render the
spirit of organization immortal.
The Khan is disable. The Khan is
nearer to us all than any and all OF
the great secret organizations, and
we can comprehend it better.
While the Khan strikes the same
deep note that we know to be in the
Word of God and the Church of the
Living God, it has never usurped the
place of the church, but has rather
been chief aid to the church in bring
ing men back to the true bearings
and to first things.
No man can be a part of Klandom
for a day, a week or month, and
carefully and with reflection study
it's teachings, without being richer in
his Christian experience, more &C.
curate in his Interpretation Of Gods
will, more powerful in his work fol-
God; more of neighbor, friend, a
husband, a father and a citizen.
The Khan is not a society of men
seeking selfish ends.
It has no evil and only good de-
signs; first to the brothers of the
fold, because there first is where one
learns the lesson and then, to every
man, whether he be white or black
Jew or Gentle, Catholic or Protest
ant. The Khan speaks the language
of Jesus, which is to do good unto
others. It would be the first to deny
that any man has a right to live
other than peaceably with all men
1t is for all men alike, notwithstand-
ing it admits but a chosen set. It
exalts no set of men at the expense
of another.
The Khan message is for all. It is
a deep universal message, reaching
the hearts of all mankind. The Khan
is both thinker and does, because
it's membership is made up of think.
ers and doors. The Khan has world
spirit dictated by the Spirit of God
Of all secret societies to which mef
should belong, American citizens
who are earnestly and sincerely try
ing to walk the walk of faith, are
recommended the Knights of the Ku
Klux Khan, which when read princi.
Piles were being submerged and for.
gotten, aye bloted out, and being
caused to perish from the earth, 1t
came to the worlds rescue and raised
these cardinal things on high, and has
ever since kept them unsullied and
unspotted.
Sanballat-following
nr. Crane on Emerson