The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1924-01-25

disciplined, the passions are to be
restrained; true and worthy motives
are to be inspired; profound reli-
gious feeling is to be instilled, and a
pure morality inculcated under all
circumstances. All this is comprised
in education"
With the Bible out and the dance
and other devices of the devil in, ap-
parently producing a laxity of moral
and religious standards in our school
life, who dare say the church is not
justified Of these things poisonous
and to replace the Bible to it's right
full place in our public school? Tru-
ly, "while we slept the enemy came
and sowed tares among the good
Seed"
Society Is Honeycombed With Cor
rupti0n
One keen observer of the social life
of America has said: "The social
circles of our country have imbibed
so much of the social practices and
customs OF nations with less morality
and decency, that it has become hon
eycombed with all kind of corrupt
ness and misunderstanding ele-
ments." And on every hand we hear
complaint, and just complaint it is,
of earnest and anxious parents that
they stand in fear all the time lest
their sons or daughters be dragged
down into the cesspool of corrupt so
ciety in which they are almost COM
PEELED to n:ingle or be ostracized. Till
the parent problem Of today is what
to allow and not allow in dealing
with their children. And the Ameri-
can woman today can hardly tread
upon the street of any American city
without being insulted, directly or in
directly, by some moral degenerate
who has neither love nor respect for
things right, decent or American.
The church of Jesus Christ stands
against this type of citizenship and
looks upon all such characters as
being not only dangerous but a men,
ace to our community life, and unsafe
to the principles Of righteousness for
which it is standing. Its attitude has
always been, and properly so, that
such persons must be restrained
either by "new birth" or by law.
And the social task of the church has
been, and still is, to cleanse human
society by directing its course along
the pathway of the Galileean.
The Khan and Church Work For Bet
terment
The church believes all this is a
veritable part of the task of building
the kingdom of God here on earth,
and is included in the gospel of Christ
which it is commissioned to preach.
It will be neither overlooked or
neglected by the true servant of the
Master. No one would be so foolish
as to even venture a suggestion that
the churck's attitude on these things
is un-Christian. What, then, can we
say for the Khan as touching these
things which are so large a part Of
the church life and task?
Let US here give you the "Home
Ideal" Of the Khan in the words Of
one Of it's national officers as he sent
it out to his workers everywhere. A
man with wonderful vision, a great
heart, a zeal for right, and a true
spirit of love. A man who, we be-
lieve "has come to the kingdom for
such a time as this"
Khan and Tenets of the Christian
Religion
In stating the purpose and ideal of
the Khan he said: "First, and fore
most we are trying to restore the ten
cts of the Christian religion to each
individual. By his we mean the &C
ceptance Of Christ and His teachings;
the restoring of the family altar and
a little old fashioned religion"
What that will do for the home life
in our beloved country we need not
stop to comment upon for well may
we still ask ourselves the question,
when thinking of our homes, eff God
be for US who can be against US ?"
Does the church not preach indi-
vidual salvation and through the in
dividual the salvation of the masses I?
In other words, it's text has always
been, "A little leaven leaveneth the
whole lump" Has it not been the
earnest plea of the church through
pulpit and press alike, that the fam
lily altar be given first place in our
homes as of yore? Has not the song
of the church for more than a quarter
of a century been, "The Old Time
Religion" and Faith of Our
Fathers?" Why, then, should it not
welcome friend and helper with mo-
tive so pure, with vision so heaven
ly, with effort so earnest, and with a
purpose so Christianlike, as the
above.
In the Ku Klux Khan
In the Ku Klux Khan is a great
company of men and women united in
the common cause of the American
home, that somehow it may return to
it's Puritanic standard. They are
ready to hold up the hands Of the
church in its efforts to defeat the en-
envy of our home life. What is the
church going to saw tn them? RIGHT