The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1923-10-31
WHERE THERE IS
NO VISION THE
PEOPLE W|LLPER|SH
By CLAIRE G.. WARD.

There can be more striking
eulogy of the mighty Khan move
ment than the history of the Great
War. For many years had inspired
prophets like Theodore Roosevelt
gone up and down the length and
breadth of the land, crying: "Amer-
lea, awake! Germany is making
ready against the day of battle"
But, secure in the belief of our own
omniscience, we simply smiled-and
slept.
When finally it was Enthusiastically
brought home to US that America
must throw the weight of her armies
against the onrush of the Hun
what then? A mad running to and
fro, wild confusion and distracted pre-
parations, innumerable mistakes, mil
lions of money wasted, wrong leaders,
graft, exploitation, treachery-every-
thing to hamper, hinder and defeat!
For years men and women of
prophetic vision have passed among
the people, crying: "Rouse, We
Americans! An alien menace is at
your doors-civilization itself is
threatened" But Indifference and
contempt have been their portion.
Today, in this great, belated awak-
ening of American consciousness, the
experiences of the World War have
been duplicated. Tremendous mis-
takes have been made, those trusted
proved unworthy and constituencies,
the powers of darkness in high places
have wrestled with the angel of the
Lord and the forces of satan been I'M
leashed in the conflict.
But what was it that eventually
enabled our country to overcome
every obstacle, and to trample under
foot the hydra-headed serpent of
anarchy, graft and treason?
What was it that the eyes of our
boys beheld when they charged across
No Mans Land at the zero hour?
Was it the mud of the trampled
earth, barbed wire entanglements,
dead and wounded comrades, and the
thousand horrors which compassed
them on every side? Or was their
gaze fixed in spiritual exaltation upon
vision of victory? What enabled
them to pass through a hell Of which
those who experienced it not cannot
even dimly conceive? The vision,
without which the people perish!
So, when the time finally came
that Americans could no longer deny
the sinister inroads of alien aggres-
sion, they sprang to meet the issue.
In the gigantic struggle against en-
|croachments upon the constitution,
and the setting at defiance that lib
erty to which our forefathers dedicat-
ed his land, and consecrated it with
their blood, every possible error has
been made, every obstacle spawned in
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fore the marching feet of the shock
troops of the Khan. But with eyes
ever fastened upon the spiritual pur-
pose and meaning of the conflict, they
are pressing nearer and nearer to
ultimate, overwhelming victory!
Let no man dare falter or be cast
down! "More are they who are for
US, than they that be against us,"
and the armies of the Lord of Hosts
are camped round about. Verify with
such allies it shall be said of US as
of the prophets of old: "Who, through
faith, subdued kingdoms, wrought
righteousness, obtained promises,
stopped the mouth Of the lion, quench-
ed the violence of fire, escaped the
edge of the sword, out of weakness
were made strong, waxed valiant in
fight and turned to fight the armies |
of the Aliens"
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