The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1924-01-25
By Minister whom the Devil Hates (St. Paul. Mimi

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this great body of real men and wo-
men as united with itself in a COM
mon cause and say, "They that are
with US are more than they that are
with them" And the forces of sin
will begin to move out of America
as never in a long while and the
Protestant church will come into its
own, and God the Father and Christ
the Son will be exalted in all the ma
tions of the earth.
The Khan Is Christian
Now our contention is that the
Khan is placing itself to hold up the
hands of the church. 1t is, therefore,
undoubtedly Christian, and if Chris
tan then right. It is holding up the
handsof the church, in what it be-
lieves. The belief of the church is
summarized in the Apostles Greed.
Let us note just a few statements
from that creed as we use it. II
believe in God the Father Almighty.
In Jesus Christ, His only
Son, our Lord. = - In the
Holy Spirit; In the Holy catholic
(church of God in general) church.
No man dare call these things un-
Christian for they are not. They are
the very incarnation of all that Christ
taught himself. Let US place along
side of these some of the things
cleaned from the creed of a Klans-
man, if we may be allowed to call it
creed. "I believe in the tenants Of
the Christian religion; in God-in
Jesus Christ His Son-in the Holy
Spirit and the Bible as the message
of God to man.. I believe that every
man owes it to himself, to his family,
his posterity, and his God to ally him.
self with some Protestant church.
And that the church should unfalter-
ingly stand for the principles OF
morality and justice"
Khan Is With the Church
If these are UNI Christian then the
above are also. But no man dare call
them so lest he place himself in the
same class with those Jews who
called the Christ a man of lies and
Misrepresentation and then spit in
His face. Truly can it be said that
so far as it's belief is concerned the
Klan is with the church. And let us
add that this organization is almost
daily (and nightly, emphasizing
these mighty truths before more men
and women than is the church itself.
And among these multitudes are men
and women whom the church never
got a chance to reach until through
the Khan they were turned into the
path that leads to the door of the
church. The preacher whose heart
is in this movement is finding an op-
portunity to preach to more folks
than he who is opposed. And the
man who, with this God-given op-
portunity, fails to drive home the
real gospel message to these men and
women who, through the influence
of this organization, are awakening
to the need of Jesus Christ in their
lives, is falling far below the wond-
erful possibilities that have come to
him.
For these folks, for the most part,
are hungry for the gospel that saves
man and makes him good for some
thing in this world. The church has
eliminated much of the real gospel
and put in something else in it's effort
to catch men.
Khan Should Welcome the Khan As a
Helpmeet
The Khan is trying to help the
church beck to Christ in this sense.
Why should it not welcome help
meet like unto this? No sane man
with knowledge of the subject and
the real attitude and program of the
Khan can give a reason. He may Of
fer an excuse.
The Khan is holding up the hands
of the church in its ideals. What are
the ideals of the Protestant church {?
As we think of them we might state
them all in one, and say the ideal of
the church is for all men and women,
the life and teachings Of Jesus Christ.
The gospel which the church has
been commissioned to preach is that
man must apply the principles and
teachings of Christ to every act of his
life whether it is. political, social or
what. In other words we might state
it in the language of St. Paul when
he wrote to the Corinthian people
that he was determined to know
nothing among them but Jesus Christ
That is to say that whatever phase
of their life he might touch he must
come unto contact only through ap-
plying the principles of Jesus. Now
what is the ideal of the Khan?
! Let me give it in the words of one
of the national officers of the organ
ization as he Numbered it forth from
the platform where there were
gathered some fifteen thousand peo-
pie. "The watch-word of Klans.
man is honor. The one and only
pattern for a Klansman's life and
conduct il Jesus Christ. Let us EN-.
blazon upon the sky that no man car
be a good Klansman unless he pat.
tern his life after The man Of Gal.
] ilee.' And whenever we leave out the