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by Pastor Tim Burt

I have printed this before, but after all the trending put-downs of this nation, I felt impressed to post it again! And let me add this comment. Our nation has been far from perfect since it’s existence. The atrocities and sins of this nation are many. But like any immature, even rebellious teenager, this nation has grown up and is maturing. America sets an example of goodness in so many ways to the world around us. Like any person, if you focus on their faults, that’s pretty much all you’ll see. You’ll miss the good in them and hold them in contempt—locking them into the issues they have. But, when you focus on the goodness that is within them and help encourage them to continue to grow, mature, improve, and be a light—they do! Our nation has always improved and continues to do so. It may not happen fast enough for our liking, but that is how life evolves—slowly! There is a reason so many people want to move to American and live. They see the good! This post was written by a Canadian commentator who could see our good. After reading this, I pray that the people of our nation will see the good and try to improve through appropriate and constructive conversation with the love of Jesus guiding us. If we don’t, the divide will continue to grow and we will lose what has made American great in the past. God bless you!  Pastor Tim 

What you are about to read is an amazing text of an editorial broadcast from Toronto by Gordon Sinclair, a Canadian television commentator from June 5, 1973. It was printed into Congressional Record. 

“The Americans”

The United States dollar took another pounding on German, French and British exchanges this morning, hitting the lowest point ever known in West Germany. It has declined there by 41% since 1971 and this Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans as the most generous and possibly the least-appreciated people in all the earth.

As long as sixty years ago, when I first started to read newspapers, I read of floods on the Yellow River and the Yangtze. Who rushed in with men and money to help? The Americans did. They have helped control floods on the Nile, the Amazon, the Ganges and the Niger.

Today, the rich bottom land of the Mississippi is under water and no foreign land has sent a dollar to help. Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy, were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts. None of those countries is today paying even the interest on its remaining debts to the United States.

When the franc was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it.

When distant cities are hit by earthquakes, it is the United States that hurries into help… Managua Nicaragua is one of the most recent examples. So far this spring, 59 American communities have been flattened by tornadoes. Nobody has helped.
The Marshall Plan .. the Truman Policy .. all pumped billions upon billions of dollars into discouraged countries. Now, newspapers in those countries are writing about the decadent war-mongering Americans.

I’d like to see one of those countries that is gloating over the erosion of the United States dollar build its own airplanes.

Come on… let’s hear it! Does any other country in the world have a plane to equal the Boeing Jumbo Jet, the Lockheed Tristar or the Douglas 107? If so, why don’t they fly them? Why do all international lines except Russia fly American planes? Why does no other land on earth even consider putting a man or women on the moon?

You talk about Japanese technocracy and you get radios. You talk about German technocracy and you get automobiles. You talk about American technocracy and you find men on the moon, not once, but several times … and safely home again. You talk about scandals and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everyone to look at. Even the draft dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They are here on our streets, most of them … unless they are breaking Canadian laws .. are getting American dollars from Ma and Pa at home to spend here.

When the Americans get out of this bind … as they will… who could blame them if they said ‘the hell with the rest of the world’. Let someone else buy the Israel bonds, Let someone else build or repair foreign dams or design foreign buildings that won’t shake apart in earthquakes.

When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them. When the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central went broke, nobody loaned them an old caboose. Both are still broke. I can name to you 5,000 times when the Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble.

Can you name me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble? I don’t think there was outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake.

Our neighbours have faced it alone and I am one Canadian who is damned tired of hearing them kicked around. They will come out of this thing with their flag high. And when they do, they are entitled to thumb their nose at the lands that are gloating over their present troubles.

I hope Canada is not one of these. But there are many smug, self-righteous Canadians. And finally, the American Red Cross was told at its 48th Annual meeting in New Orleans this morning that it was broke.

This year’s disasters .. with the year less than half-over… has taken it all and nobody…but nobody… has helped.

The Americans Gordon Sinclair Radio Station CFBR 1010 2 St. Clair Avenue West Toronto, Ontario, Canada. “LET’S BE PERSONAL” Broadcast June 5, 1973 CFRB, Toronto, Ontario Topic:

Note from Pastor Tim: It is my prayer, that Christians will let prayer and the love of God guide their hearts, communication and voice. AND, through the grace and strength of God, will use restraint from any form of inappropriate communication or action. Let change start with each one of us and now! Please feel free to share this! 

Proverbs 14:34 (NLT) “Godliness makes a nation great, but sin is a disgrace to any
people.” 

In His love,
Pastor Tim Burt

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