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A MAGAZINE OF GOOD CITIZENSHIP
NATIONAL ASSETS OF AMERICA DEPEND
ON STABILITY OF OUR COMMON FAITH
HEN THE EARLY Americans, immigrants and children of
immigrants all, declared for freedom and fared forth to
battle against a mighty foe, it was a principle around which they
rallied. This principle was the culmination of an idea that had
grown and ripened as the colonies grew, that all men are created
equal and endowed with inalienable rights to be free and pursue
happiness as far as their God given talents will permit in con
formity with such laws and regulations as they may set up them
selves by means of a REPRESENTATIVE form of government.
This principle gave birth to a new FAITH which changed the
subjects of tyrants into conquerors, and by the same token knit
them together in a common bond. Through this Faith they began
to visualize a new nation, molded and fashioned upon this prin
ciple and sustained by their Faith in one another, each an integral
part of the whole. Around it all they threw a cordon of hope and
aspirations, and studded it with tears and prayers. They resolved
that one prayer is as good as any other, coming from a contrite
heart, and that there should be no denominational lines so long as
they shared with one another a common Faith in God and in the
cause they were espousing. When they hoisted the symbol of their
Faith to the masthead, they swore an oath of allegiance which is
sacred and which none but a profligate will ever dare to defile. In
that hour the virile and untainted patriotism of this new nation was
born and in the name of a common God denominator, AMERICA,
glorious and mighty in emancipated ideals, went over the ramparts.
If to disseminate the gospel of Faith is a proposition paying
large dividends in national security, then those engaged in trans
planting it into the hearts and minds of the millions of immigrant
people gradually ambling through our gates to citizenship, are not
receiving adequate compensation for their genuine labor of love.
FEBRUARY, 1927
PORTLAND. OREGON