St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1947-05-02

you were led, you saw what greed,
racism, hate, and parasitism lead
men to. You saw it in terms Of
millions Of Jews and others de-
stroyed by an evil man named Hit
Ter along with his soulless hench-
men. You saw men die and women
and children driven to things words
are powerless to describe.
Here on the home front, my son,
we too saw things we could not
believe existed. At times we felt
that the whole war was a trumped
up affair to cure a depression here
at home. We had the feeling that
to most Americans war represented
an opportunity to make some
money. Nothing more, nothing
less.
You are now back with US on the
homefront, but the real job is yet
to be done, Unless you, you and
you deliberately pick up the re-
sponsibility of making it legal and
most secure TO serve God in this
country you will again see flaming
swords of war streak down across
the lives Of the young men who
will again be called upon to go out
and fight the wars of leaders who
are dead from the neck up.
To some, my charge that it is IL
legal to serve God in the highest
sense may be startling. Therefore,
shall clarity this statement a bit:
Today, in a great portion Of the
United States, it is against the law
for black and white Christians to
assemble as Christians in the same
auditorium on the same floor un-
less there is a rope or some line of
division between where Christians
of one race must sit and Christians
Of another race must sit.
Segregation makes it impossible
for Christians to meet as Chris
tians. This constitutes the great
est barrier to world unity today
From this law which makes it i'm
possible for Christians to break
bread together as the twelve die
on the occasion when Jesus warned
that before the cock crowed twicC
one Of those present would betraS
him, Jim Crow, white supremacy
the mother theology of Nazism-
get their sustenance.
You went to fight that we nigh
have another chance to correct thu
things at home and abroad which
make wars inevitable. There arr
laws, mores, unholy traditions anC
grandfather customs against whicl
you must war on the home from
until life is done.
| understand that many of yoI
have not got hold of yourselves
You are frustrated, confused an
in a lot Of cases you don't know
what you want to do. For year
some one fed you, gave you cloth
ing, medical attention, did you
thinking for you while in tn
process Of training you to do on
thing and one thing only-kill.
Easier to Make n Killer
II is much easier to make n sol
dier-killer out of n civilian tina
it is to make civilian out Of
soldier. No one can readjust 20
as you can. Buckle down to thi
business of making yourself d
> what you ought to do even thong
you don't want to do what 20
ought do.
= You ought to rededicate youl
l self to this business of building u
, a way Of life wherein the law {
! God is the court from which me
will not countenance any appeal
Against Law to Practice
4 Christianity
Today, in America, the law I
race supremacy in the backwaI
sections Is superior TO the law I
God. Today in the backward Sc
tons 1t is against the law of Il
land to practice real Christianit
k Getting such laws wiped from Il
4 statute books and the love for SUI
n laws by whites and blacks .uprOOt,
n would open the doors TO many wi
now seek solution TO perplexiI
, problems outside the council
n God.
Al Until men with various raci
religious and cultural backgroun
N come to unite themselves, knoel a
10 pray, congregate, break bread
70 gether as leaves of one tree a
~ rivulets of one great human 5
with all division based on race do
- away with, there will be no pea
in the hearts Of men, there will
no peace or real prosperity will
= our courts.
The earth is but one country, a
=, mankind its citizen. The best
loved Of all things in the sight
God is justice. Turn not aw
therefrom II you desire Him, l
love is His stronghold. He Il
. entereth therein is safe and secu
- In every community in this l
~ ton hundreds of people are bari
III from coming to God by mores, !
holy traditions, racism backed
M statute, both municipal and sta
GU The forces Of bigotry, unscrul
ut lousness and backwardness are
~ termined that right and just
shall not prevail. When you I
II. yourself in the wee hours Of
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