Yesterday I sent you info on Teddy Roosevelt.  What I wanted you to figure out was that Donald Trump is tough just like Teddy was.  Trump is running for President for a second time.  Roosevelt was running for President for a second time also as the candidate for Bull Moose Party.

Teddy was starting to make a speech at a political rally at this same time of the year.  This evil fellow walked up in front of the lectern and shot Teddy right in the chest. The bullet missed his heart and lodged in the back of his chest.  How tough of a dude was Teddy Roosevelt???  He walked up and finished his whole speech as his white shirt turned red from all the blood.

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Yes, you have heard stories about this man, how he stormed San Juan Hill with his Rough Riders, and how Franklin Roosevelt gained the White House on his coat tailes.  However, his whole life was so amazing and so influenced our America, that I wanted you to have the opportunity to see his whole story, as shown below:                                   Ron 

                                            

Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., was born October 27, 1858.

As a child, he had debilitating asthma, often waking up at night as if being smothered to death.

At 6-years-old, he watched Abraham Lincoln’s funeral procession from the window of his grandfather’s mansion in Union Square, New York City.

Theodore was home-schooled as a child, becoming fascinated with animals and zoology after seeing a dead seal in a local market.

His father, Theodore Roosevelt, Sr., was a successful New York business leader, who helped raise support for the Union during the Civil War.

Young Theodore described him:  “My father, Theodore Roosevelt, was the best man I ever knew. He combined strength and courage with gentleness, tenderness, and great unselfishness. He would not tolerate in us children selfishness or cruelty, idleness, cowardice, or untruthfulness.” 

His father took the family on trips to Europe in 1869 and 1870, and Egypt in 1872, and helped found New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.

At 15-years-old, Roosevelt wrote of their trip to Jerusalem:  “In the afternoon we went to the Wailing Place of the Jews.”

After being accosted by older boys on a camping trip, Roosevelt began exercising.  He became an accomplished boxer and a third-degree brown belt in judo.

He entered Harvard in 1876.

He was devastated in 1878 upon news of the sudden death of his father, who had told him:  “Take care of your morals first, your health next, and finally your studies.”   

After graduation, he attended Columbia University Law School in New York. 

While there, at the age of 23, he wrote a significant book, The Naval War of 1812 (published in 1882).

The book was so well received that just four years later, the U.S. Navy ordered a copy of it to be placed on every ship.

The book influenced Rear Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan to write The Influence of Sea Power Upon the French Revolution and Empire, 1793–1812 (published in 1892). 

This book revolutionized naval warfare, causing not only the United States, but Britain and Germany, to improve their navies.

Roosevelt began attending meetings of New York’s 21st District Republican Association.

When 20th President, Republican President James Garfield, was assassinated in 1881, and Chester Arthur became the 21st President, Roosevelt decided to run for state assemblyman.

He won in 1882, and dropped out of law school to pursue politics.

He was reelected in 1883, and again in 1884, the same year Democrat Grover Cleveland was elected the 22nd U.S. President.   

In 1880, Theodore married Alice Hathaway Lee.

Four years later, in 1884, their daughter, Alice Lee Roosevelt, was born. Tragically, two days later, on February 14, 1884, Roosevelt’s mother, Mittie, died of typhoid, and later that afternoon, in the same house, his wife, Alice, died of kidney failure.

Roosevelt scratched in his diary a large black “X” with the words “The light has gone out of my life.”

Attending the Republican National Convention in June of 1884, he gave a speech in support of John Roy Lynch, an African-American former slave, recommending he be chosen as the temporary chair of the Convention.

After bitter political battles, Roosevelt retired from politics, left his baby daughter with his sister, and went to ranch in the Dakotas.

Roosevelt wrote that: “A cattle rancher had few of the emasculated, milk-and-water moralities admired by the pseudo-philanthropists; but he does possess, to a veryhigh degree, the stern, manly qualities that are invaluable to a nation.”

While there, he wrote three books: Hunting Trips of a Ranchman; Ranch Life and the Hunting-Trail; and The Wilderness Hunter.

Roosevelt bought a herd and ranched for three years, till the severe winter on 1886-1887 killed most of his cattle.
He returned east and married a childhood friend, Edith Kermit Carow, on December 2, 1886, at St George’s Church in Hanover Square, London.

Together they had five children, and also raised daughter Alice from his first marriage.

In 1886, he ran for Mayor of New York City, but lost.

He wrote another book: The Winning of the West.

Roosevelt campaigned for Republican Benjamin Harrison, who won election as the 23rd U.S. President.

Harrison appointed Roosevelt to the United States Civil Service Commission.

In 1892, Democrat Grover Cleveland won his second term, as the 24th President, and reappointed Roosevelt to the same position.

Before the mafia came to New York, the local police “ran” the crime in their districts.
In 1894, the Mayor of New York appointed Roosevelt to the City Police Commissioners, where he became president of the board, reforming the department, cleaning out corruption, and installing telephones in the station houses.

Roosevelt was for law and order. He walked officers’ beats on the streets after midnight to make sure they were on duty.

On Sundays to make sure all stores were closed to comply with New York’s Sunday Closing Blue Laws, which were put in place to promote observance of the Lord’s day of worship.
Roosevelt was the first to bring Jews into the police force, calling them his “Maccabees.”

Journalist Jacob Riis of the Evening Sun newspaper, wrote in his book How the Other Half Lives, of the terrible conditions the millions of immigrants suffered:
“When Roosevelt read my book, he came. No one ever helped as he did. For two years we were brothers in (New York City’s crime-ridden) Mulberry Street.

There is very little ease where Theodore Roosevelt leads, as we all found out.

The lawbreaker found it out, and lived to respect him. For the first time a moral purpose came into the street. In the light of it, everything was transformed.”

In 1897, when William McKinley became the 25th President, he appointed Roosevelt as the Assistant Secretary of the Navy.

With the help of Alfred Thayer Mahan, Roosevelt built up the U.S. Navy, especially battleships.

On February 15, 1898, USS Maine exploded in Cuba’s Havana Harbor, beginning the Spanish-American War.

Roosevelt immediately sent orders for the Navy to prepare for war. Admiral George Dewey later credited this as a key factor in quick victory in the Battle of Manila Bay.

Roosevelt resigned his position as Assistant Secretary of the Navy and organized the first Volunteer Cavalry, “The Rough Riders,” which helped capture Cuba’s San Juan Hill.

Upon his return to New York in 1898, Roosevelt ran for Governor and won.

In the 1900 Republican Convention, he was chosen to be the Vice-Presidential running-mate for William McKinley’s reelection.

When McKinley was assassinated on September 6, 1901, Theodore Roosevelt became America’s youngest President.

As the 26th U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, a Republican, was the first President to invite an African American, Booker T. Washington, to dine in the White House on October 16, 1901.

Southern Democrat newspapers condemned him, as printed in The Memphis Scimitar:  “The most damnable outrage which has ever been perpetrated by any citizen of the United States was committed yesterday by the President, when he invited a n…. to dine with him at the White House.

It would not be worth more than a passing notice if Theodore Roosevelt had sat down to dinner in his own home with a Pullman car porter, but Roosevelt the individual and Roosevelt the President are not to be viewed in the same light.”

 Roosevelt addressed the Long Island Bible Society in 1901:
“Every thinking man realizes that the teachings of the Bible are so interwoven and entwined with our whole civic and social life that it would be literally — I do not mean figuratively, I mean literally — impossible for us to figure to ourselves what that life would be if these teachings were removed.

We would lose almost all the standards by which we now judge both public and private morals; all the standards toward which we, with more or less of resolution, strive to raise ourselves.

Almost every man who has by his lifework added to the sum of human achievement of which the race is proud, has based his lifework largely upon the teachings of the Bible.

Among the greatest men a disproportionately large number have been diligent and close students of the Bible at first hand.”

Roosevelt took on his era’s version of big tech globalist elites by being a “trust-buster,” breaking up monopolies, such as John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Account.

He exposed deep-state corruption in the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Land Office, and Post Office.

After Upton Sinclair’s book, The Jungle (1906), Roosevelt harnessed public opinion to pass the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act.

He intervened to settle labor disputes.

On March 17, 1905, St. Patrick’s Day, President Theodore Roosevelt gave away in marriage his deceased brother’s daughter, Eleanor, to wed her fifth cousin, once removed, Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Capitalizing on Theodore’s name, Franklin rose in politics to become the 32th U.S. President.

Theodore Roosevelt is considered the first “conservationist president.”

He created the U.S. Forest Service, designating:
5 National Parks;

18 U.S. National Monuments;

51 bird reserves,4 game preserves,

150 National Forests,being responsible for a total of 121 forest reserves in 31 states.

He set 230,000,000 acres under public protection and by the end of his second term established 150 million acres of reserved forestry land.

In his foreign policy, he assisted in 1904 to negotiate a Japan-Russian Treaty, for which he won the Nobel Peace Prize.

He intervened in the First Moroccan Crisis, the Venezuelan Crisis, and settled the dispute with Britain over the Alaskan border.

He helped Panama separate from Columbia, and began building the Panama Canal.

Roosevelt argued for the protection of Jews of North Africa.

Ambassador Michael B. Oren noted in Power, Faith and Fantasy, that in Roosevelt’s negotiations with Morocco, he insisted they:
“Secure his country’s customary concerns in the area, protecting North African Jews from oppression and American merchants from unfair restrictions and fees.”

He pressured Romania and Russia to treat their Jewish populations fairly.

After a massacre of Jews in Kishinev, in the Bessarabia Governorate of the Russian Empire, Roosevelt wrote:  “I need not dwell upon a fact so patent as the widespread indignation with which the Americans heard of the dreadful outrages up on the Jews in Kishineff.”

In 1906, Roosevelt became the first president to appoint a Jew as a Cabinet Member – Secretary of Commerce and Labor Oscar Solomon Straus, who owned, with his brother, the Macy’s Department Store.

He wrote to Straus: “I don’t know whether you know it or not, but I want you to become a member of my Cabinet. I have a very high estimate of your character, your judgment and your ability, and I want you for personal reasons.

There is still a further reason: I want to show Russia and some other countries what we think of Jews in this country.”

Roosevelt stated:  “To discriminate against a thoroughly upright citizen because he belongs to some particular Church, or because, like Abraham Lincoln, he has not avowed his allegiance to any Church, is an outrage against the liberty of conscience.

In my Cabinet at the present moment there sit side by side Catholic and Protestant, Christian and Jew, each man chosen because in my belief he is peculiarly fit to exercise on behalf of all our people the duties of the office.”

A member of the Dutch Reformed Church, Theodore Roosevelt stated in 1909:  “After a week on perplexing problems it does so rest my soul to come into the house of The Lord and to sing and mean it, ‘Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty’.  (My) great joy and glory that, in occupying an exalted position in the nation, I am enabled, to preach the practical moralities of the Bible to my fellowcountrymen and to hold up Christ as the hope and Savior of the world.”

Theodore Roosevelt also championed a type of muscular, manly Christianity, addressing the Holy Name Society, August 16, 1903:
“I am not addressing weaklings, or I should not take the trouble to come here. I am addressing strong, vigorous men, who are engaged in the active hard work of life men who have strength to set a right example to others.  You cannot retain your self-respect if you are loose and foul of tongue, that a man who is to lead a clean and honorable life must inevitably suffer if his speech likewise is not clean and honorable. A man must be clean of mouth as well as clean of life — must show by his words as well as by his actions his fealty to the Almighty.  We have good Scriptural authority for the statement that it is not what comes into a man’s mouth but what goes out of it that counts.” 

He added:

“Every man here knows the temptations that beset all of us in this world. At times any man will slip. I do not expect perfection, but I do expect genuine and sincere effort toward being decent and cleanly in thought, in word, and in deed. I expect you to be strong. I would not respect you if you were not. I do not want to see Christianity professed only by weaklings; I want to see it a moving spirit among men of strength.”

 Roosevelt continued:

“I should hope to see each man become all the fitter to do the rough work of the world and if, which may Heaven forfend, war should come, all the fitter to fight. I desire to see in this country the decent men strong and the strong men decent.”

He added: 

“There is always a tendency among very young men to think that to be wicked is rather smart; to think it shows that they are men. Oh, how often you see some young fellow who boasts that he is going to ‘see life,’ meaning by that that he is going to see that part of life which it is a thousandfold better should remain unseen!

I ask that every man here constitute himself his brother’s keeper by setting an example to that younger brother which will prevent him from getting such a false estimate of life. 

Example is the most potent of all things. If any one of you in the presence of younger boys, and misbehave yourself, if you use coarse and blasphemous language before them, you can be sure that these younger people will follow your example and not your precept.

It is no use to preach to them if you do not act decently yourself. 

The most effective way in which you can preach is by your practice The father, the elder brothers, the friends, can do much toward seeing that the boys as they become men become clean and honorable men.” 

Roosevelt concluded:

“I have told you that I wanted you not only to be decent, but to be strong. These boys will not admire virtue of a merely anemic type. They believe in courage, in manliness. They admire those who have the quality of being brave, the quality of facing life as life should be faced, the quality that must stand at the root of good citizenship in peace or in war. 

If you are to be effective as good Christians you must possess strength and courage, or your example will count for little with the young.

I want to see every man able to hold his own with the strong, and also ashamed to oppress the weak. I want to see him too strong of spirit to submit to wrong. I want to see each man able to hold his own in the rough work of actual life outside, and also, when he is at home, a good man, unselfish in dealing with wife, or mother, or children.

Remember that the preaching does not count if it is not backed up by practice. There is no good in your preaching to your boys to be brave, if you run away.”

After his Presidency, he helped William Howard Taft to be elected the 27th President.

Roosevelt then led a Smithsonian safari in Africa in 1909.

He then traveled to meet world leaders, from Egypt to Austrian-Hungarian Emperor Franz Joseph, Germany’s Kaiser Wilhelm II, England’s King George V.

In St. Louis, Missouri, 1910, Roosevelt was the first person who had been President to fly in an airplane.

At a campaign speech in Milwaukee, October 14, 1912, a saloonkeeper shot Roosevelt in the chest. As the bullet did not hit any vital organs, Roosevelt stood back up and finished his speech, with blood staining his shirt.

 On June 28, 1914, Austria’s Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo, beginning World War I.

As America was preparing to enter the War, the New York Bible Society published a pocket New Testament and Book of Psalms in 1917 to be handed out to all the U.S. soldiers, with Theodore Roosevelt writing the introduction:

“The teachings of the New Testament are foreshadowed in Micah’s verse (Micah vi. 8):
‘What more does the Lord require of thee than to do justice, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?’

DO JUSTICE; and therefore fight valiantly against the armies of Germany and Turkey, for these nations in this crisis stand for the reign of Moloch and Beelzebub on this earth.

LOVE MERCY; treat prisoners well, succor the wounded, treat every woman as if she was your sister, care for the little children, and be tender to the old and helpless.

WALK HUMBLY; You will do so if you study the life and teachings of the Saviour.
May the God of justice and mercy have you in His keeping.-(signed) Theodore Roosevelt.”

 During World War I, Roosevelt’s son Quentin was pilot in Europe, but was tragically shot down and killed July 14, 1918.

Theodore Roosevelt died less than six months later, on January 6, 1919, at the age of 60.

Vice-President Thomas R. Marshall stated:  “Death had to take Roosevelt sleeping, for if he had been awake, there would have been a fight.”

The End

In commemoration of this important day, below are the thoughts expressed by some of the most famous leaders and thinkers of our country on the Revolution and the resulting Declaration of Independence.  I hope they are very meaningful to you! Ron 

38-year-old King George the Third ruled the largest empire that planet earth had ever seen – “on which the sun never sets.”

He was a one-world government globalist, with him at the top, ruling through mandates.

President Ronald Reagan declared May 9, 1983:
“The Founding Fathers understood that only by MAKING GOVERNMENT THE SERVANT, not the master, only by positing SOVEREIGNTY in THE PEOPLE and not the state, can we hope to protect freedom.  In 1776, the source of government excess was the crown’s abuse of power and its attempt to suffocate the colonists with its overbearing demands. In our own day, the danger of too much state power has taken a subtler but no less dangerous form.”

Twenty-seven abuses of King George the Third were listed in the Declaration of Independence, signed JULY 4, 1776.
These abuses included:

A two-tiered justice system:
“He has made judges dependent on his will alone.”

Weaponizing bureaucracy:
“He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.”

Imposing martial law:
“He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies, to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, for quartering large bodies of armed troops among us.”

Targeting political opposition:
“For imposing taxes on us without our consent.

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of trial by jury.

For establishing an arbitrary government.

For altering fundamentally the forms of our governments.”

Turning law enforcement and military against his own subjects:

“He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation, and tyranny.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavored to bring other inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.”

33-year-old Thomas Jefferson’s original rough draft of the Declaration also contained a line condemning slavery, as the King of England was part owner of the Royal African Company: “He has waged cruel war against human nature itself in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither, suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce determining to keep open a market where MEN  should be bought and sold.” 

Unfortunately, a few delegates from southern states objected to this line.  Since everyone was in a panic as the British were invading New York and the city was in flames, and since the Declaration needed to pass unanimously, the line in Jefferson’s original draft condemning slavery was tragically set aside.

John Hancock, the 39-year-old President of the Continental Congress, signed the Declaration first, reportedly saying “the price on my head has just doubled.”

Next to sign was Secretary, Charles Thomson, age 47.

70-year-old Benjamin Franklin said: “We must hang together or most assuredly we shall hang separately.”

When the King infringed upon people’s GOD given rights, the founders went above the King’s head, appealing in the Declaration directly to God as the author of individual rights:
“Laws of Nature and of NATURE’S GOD.”

“All Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their CREATOR with certain unalienable Rights”

“Appealing to the SUPREME JUDGE OF THE WORLD for the rectitude of our intentions.”And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of DIVINE PROVIDENCE, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.”

The line “all men are created equal” fundamentally changed government, as kings did not believe everyone was created equal. They believed they were created extra special. It was called “the divine right of kings,” namely, that the Creator gives rights to the king and he dispenses them at his discretion to whoever he wishes.
The Declaration of Independence bypassed the King, declaring that the Creator gives rights directly to each individual person.

Many of the 56 signer’s sacrificed their prosperity for their posterity.
Of the signers:

11 had their homes destroyed;

were hunted and captured;

7 served in the military;

9 died during the war.

27-year-old George Walton signed, and at the Battle of Savannah was wounded and captured.

Signers Edward Rutledge, age 27, Thomas Heyward, Jr., age 30, and Arthur Middleton, age 34, were made prisoners at the Siege of Charleston.

38-year-old signer Thomas Nelson had his home used as British headquarters during the siege of Yorktown. Nelson reportedly offered five guineas to the first man to shoot into his house.

Signer Carter Braxton, age 40, lost his fortune during the war.

42-year-old signer Thomas McKean wrote that he was “hunted like a fox by the enemy, compelled to remove my family five times in three month.”

46-year-old Richard Stockton signed and was dragged from his bed at night and jailed.

50-year-old signer Lewis Morris had his home taken and used as a barracks.

50-year-old signer Abraham Clark had two sons tortured and imprisoned on the British starving ship Jersey.

More Americans died on British starving ships than died in battle during the Revolution.

53-year-old signer Rev. John Witherspoon had his son, James, killed in the Battle of Germantown.

60-year-old signer Philip Livingston lost several properties to British occupation and died before the war ended.

63-year-old signer Francis Lewis found out that the British plundered his home and carried away his wife, Elizabeth, putting her in prison. The British wanted to make an example of her, so they denied her a change of clothes, a bed, and gave her nothing but the most meager food. She was treated so harshly that she died shortly after being released.

65-year-old signer John Hart had his home looted and had to remain in hiding, dying before the war ended.

41-year-old John Adams wrote:  “Posterity, you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven that I ever took half the pains to preserve it.”
Regarding on the day the Declaration was signed, John Adams wrote to his wife:  “I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding generations, as the great anniversary Festival.

It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by SOLEMN ACTS OF DEVOTION TO GOD ALMIGHTY.

It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other from this time forward forever more.”

Gustave de Beaumont, a contemporary of Alexis de Tocqueville, wrote in Marie ou L’Esclavage aux E’tas-Unis, 1835:  “I have seen a meeting of the Senate in Washington open with a prayer, and the anniversary festival of the Declaration of Independence consists, in the United States, of an entirely religious ceremony.”

John Adams continued in his letter to his wife: “You will think me transported with enthusiasm but I am not. I am well aware of the toil and blood and treasure, that it will cost us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States. Yet through all the gloom I can see the rays of ravishing light and glory. I can see that the end is more than worth all the means. And that Posterity will triumph in that Days Transaction, even although we should rue it, which I trust in God we shall not.”

When 54-year-old Samuel Adams signed the Declaration, he said: “We have this day restored THE SOVEREIGN to whom all men ought to be obedient. He reigns in heaven and from the rising to the setting of the sun, let His kingdom come.”

34-year-old James Wilson signed the Declaration. He later signed the Constitution and was appointed to Supreme Court by George Washington. 
James Wilson stated in 1787: “After a period of 6,000 years since creation, the United States exhibit to the world THE FIRST INSTANCE of a nation … assembling voluntarily and deciding that system of government under which they and their posterity should live.”

Senator Daniel Webster stated in 1802: “Miracles do not cluster, and what has HAPPENED ONCE IN 6,000 YEARS, may not happen again. Hold on to the Constitution, for if the American Constitution should fail, there will be anarchy throughout the world.”

John Jay was President of the Continental Congress, 1778-1779, and later nominated by George Washington to be the First Chief Justice of Supreme Court. John Jay wrote in 1777: “The Americans are THE FIRST PEOPLE whom Heaven has favored with an opportunity of choosing the forms of government under which they should live. All other constitutions have derived their existence from violence or accidental circumstances. Your lives, your liberties, your property, will be at the disposal only of your Creator and yourselves.

“Yale President Ezra Stiles, 1788: “All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one: and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America.”

At the time of the Revolutionary War, nearly every other country on Earth was ruled by a king.

Dr. Pat Robertson wrote in America’s Dates with Destiny, 1986: “On September 17, 1787, the day our Constitution was signed, monarch the absolute Ch’ien Lung, emperor of the Manchu (or Ch’ing) Dynasty, reigned supreme over the people of China. Revolts were put down by ruthless military force.

In Japan the shogun (warriors) of the corrupt Tokugawa chamberlain Tanuma Okitsugu exercised corrupt and totalitarian authority over the Japanese.

In India, Warren Hastings, the British Governor of Bengal, had successfully defeated the influence of the fragmented Mogul dynasties that ruled India since 1600.

Catherine II was the enlightened despot of all the Russia’s.

Joseph II was the emperor of Austria, Bohemia and Hungary.

For almost half a century, Frederick the Great had ruled Prussia.

Louis XVI sat uneasily on his throne in France just years away from revolution, a bloody experiment in democracy, and the new tyranny of Napoleon Bonaparte.

A kind of a constitutional government had been created in the Netherlands in 1579 by the Protestant Union of Utrecht, but that constitution was really a loose federation of the northern provinces for a defense against Catholic Spain.

What was happening in America had no real precedent, even as far back as the city-states of Greece. The only real precedent was established thousands of years before by the tribes of Israel in the covenant with God and with each other.”

President Theodore Roosevelt stated in 1903: “In NO other place and at NO other time has the experiment of governmentof the PEOPLE, by the PEOPLE, for the PEOPLE, been tried on so vast a scale as here in our own country.”

President Calvin Coolidge stated in 1924:  “The history of government on this earth has been almost entirely rule of force held in the HANDS OF A FEW. Under our Constitution, America committed itself to power in the HANDS OF THE PEOPLE.”

A King has “subjects” who are subjected to his will.

The word “citizen” is Greek, and it means a co-ruler, a co-regent, a co-king.

America’s founders, for all their faults, gave a present to all future citizens, namely, each person gets to be king of their own life, and all citizens together are the co-kings of the country!

A republic is where the people are king, ruling through representatives.
America is a republic where WE THE PEOPLE get to rule ourselves.When someone protests the flag, what they are effectively saying, is, that they no longer want to be king.

They protest this system where they participate in ruling themselves.
They want someone else to rule their life.

President Ford stated in Rock Hill, South Carolina, October 19, 1974:  “What they don’t tell us when they propose all these benefits that they are going to give you from our Government, that a government big enough to give us everything we want is a government big enough to take from us everything we have.”

Ronald Reagan opened the Ashbrook Center, Ashland, Ohio, May 9, 1983:  “From their own harsh experience with intrusive, overbearing government, the Founding Fathers made a great breakthrough in political understanding. They understood that it is the excesses of government, the will to power of one man over another, that has been a principle source of injustice and human suffering through the ages.

“John Adams wrote in his notes on A Dissertation on Canon & Feudal Law, 1765:  “I always consider the settlement of America as the opening of a grand scene and design in Providence for the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.”

John Jay noted in 1777:  “This glorious revolution distinguished by so many marks of the Divine favor and interposition and I may say miraculous, that when future ages shall read its history, they will be tempted to consider a great part of it as fabulous.  The many remarkable events by which our wants have been supplied and our enemies repelled are such strong and striking proofs of the interposition of Heaven, that our having been hitherto delivered from the threatened bondage of Britain ought, like the emancipation of the Jews from Egyptian servitude.”

Franklin Roosevelt stated in 1939:  “Rulers increase their power over the common men. The seamen they sent to find gold found instead the way of escape for the common man from those rulers.

What they found over the Western horizon was not the silk and jewels of Cathay, but MANKIND’S SECOND CHANCE, a chance to create a new world after he had almost spoiled an old one. The Almighty seems purposefully to have withheld that SECOND CHANCE until the time when men would most need and appreciate liberty.”

Ronald Reagan stated 1961:  “In this country of ours took place THE GREATEST REVOLUTION that has ever taken place IN THE WORLD’S HISTORY. Every other revolution simply exchanged one set of rulers for another. Here for THE FIRST TIME in all the THOUSANDS OF YEARS of man’s relation to man, the founding fathers established the idea that you and I had within ourselves the GOD-GIVEN RIGHT AND ABILITY to DETERMINE OUR OWN DESTINY.”

Donald Trump stated July 3, 2020:  “Each of you lives in the most magnificent country in the history of the world.

Our Founders launched not only a revolution in government, but a revolution in the pursuit of justice, equality, liberty, and prosperity.

No nation has done more to advance the human condition than the United States of America. And no people have done more to promote human progress than the citizens of our great nation.

It was all made possible by the courage of 56 patriots who gathered in Philadelphia 244 years ago and signed the Declaration of Independence.

They enshrined a divine truth that changed the world forever when they said: ‘All men are created equal’

Our Founders boldly declared that we are all endowed with the same divine rights, given to us by our Creator in Heaven. And that which God has given us, we will allow no one, ever, to take away. Ever.

Seventeen seventy-six represented the culmination of thousands of years of western civilization.

Trump explained the left’s “identity theft” of America’s history:

“And yet there is a growing danger that threatens every blessing our ancestors fought so hard for, struggled, they bled to secure.

Our nation is witnessing a merciless campaign to wipe out our history, defame our heroes, erase our values, and indoctrinate our children.

Angry mobs are trying to tear down statues of our Founders, deface our most sacred memorials, and unleash a wave of violent crime in our cities.

Many of these people have no idea why they are doing this, but some know exactly what they are doing.”

He added:

“One of their political weapons is “Cancel Culture” — driving people from their jobs, shaming dissenters, and demanding total submission from anyone who disagrees.
This is the very definition of totalitarianism, and it is completely alien to our culture and our values, and it has absolutely no place in the United States of America.”

Trump spoke further:

“We will expose this dangerous movement, protect our nation’s children, end this radical assault, and preserve our beloved American way of life.

In our schools, our newsrooms, even our corporate boardrooms, there is a new far-left fascism that demands absolute allegiance.

If you do not speak its language, perform its rituals, recite its mantras, and follow its commandments, then you will be censored, banished, blacklisted, persecuted, and punished. It’s not going to happen to us.

Make no mistake: this left-wing cultural revolution is designed to overthrow the American Revolution.

In so doing, they would destroy the very civilization that rescued billions from poverty, disease, violence, and hunger, and that lifted humanity to new heights of achievement, discovery, and progress.

They are determined to tear down every statue, symbol, and memory of our national heritage.

The violent mayhem we have seen in the streets of cities that are run by liberal Democrats, in every case, is the predictable result of years of extreme indoctrination and bias in education, journalism, and other cultural institutions.

Our children are taught in school to hate their own country, and to believe that the men and women who built it were not heroes, but that were villains.

Their radical view of American history is a web of lies — all perspective is removed, every virtue is obscured, every motive is twisted, every fact is distorted, and every flaw is magnified until the history is purged and the record is disfigured beyond all recognition.

No movement that seeks to dismantle these treasured American legacies can possibly have a love of America at its heart.

No person who remains quiet at the destruction of this resplendent heritage can possibly lead us to a better future.”

He continued:

“The radical ideology attacking our country advances under the banner of social justice. But in truth, it would demolish both justice and society.
It would transform justice into an instrument of division and vengeance, and it would turn our free and inclusive society into a place of repression, domination, and exclusion.

We will not be silenced. We declare that the United States of America is the most just and exceptional nation ever to exist on Earth.

Our country was founded on Judeo-Christian principles, and we understand — that these values have dramatically advanced the cause of peace and justice throughout the world.

We believe in equal opportunity, equal justice, and equal treatment for citizens of every race, background, religion, and creed.
Every child, of every color — born and unborn — is made in the holy image of God.
We want free and open debate, not speech codes and cancel culture. We only kneel to Almighty God.”

President Trump concluded:

“Those who seek to erase our heritage seek to dissolve the bonds of love and loyalty that we feel for our country, and that we feel for each other.

Their goal is not a better America, their goal is the end of America.

Our opponents would tear apart the very documents that Martin Luther King used to express his dream, and the ideas that were the foundation of the righteous movement for Civil Rights.

It is time for our politicians to summon the bravery and determination of our American ancestors.

It is time to plant our flag and protect the greatest of this nation, for citizens of every race, in every city, and every part of this glorious land. For the sake of our honor, for the sake of our children.

Americans must never lose sight of this miraculous story. We will raise the next generation of American patriots.”

British Edwardian writer G.K. Chesterton stated in “What is America”:  “America is the ONLY NATION IN THE WORLD that is founded on creed.

That creed is set forth in the Declaration of Independence, that all men are equal in their claim to justice, that governments exist to give them that justice.

It certainly does condemn atheism, since it clearly names the CREATOR as the ultimate authority from whom these equal rights are derived.”

Calvin Coolidge stated July 5, 1926:  “THE PRINCIPLES which went into the Declaration of Independence are found in THE SERMONS of the early colonial clergy.

They preached equality because they believed in the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man.

They justified freedom by the text that we are all created in the Divine image.”
Lincoln stated in his Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863:  “Our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”

Henry Cabot Lodge, who filled the role of the first Senate Majority Leader, warned the U.S. Senate in 1919:

“The United States is the world’s best hope.

Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance for if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.”

In the Gospel of Mark and in the other gospels, Jesus told of the great persecution that would happen to those associated with Him and His Spirit.  Unfortunately, it is still happening.  Below is a brief history of that persecution for you to review:

Ron

The Christian church was born into persecution from an anti-Christian one world government — the Roman Empire.

Eleven of the twelve apostles were martyred, with the 12th, John, being reportedly thrown into a boiling pot of oil, but miraculously survived.

Jesus said in Acts11:8: “But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost

is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.”

 The word “witness” in Greek is “martyr.”

The traditional histories are:

Peter preached in Rome and was crucified upside down c.66 AD;

Andrew preached in Asia Minor, modern-day Greece and Turkey, before being crucified on a sideways “Saint Andrew’s Cross” around 60 AD;

Thomas preached east of Syria, Parthia, and possibly India, and was pierced through with spears by four soldiers in 72 AD;

Philip reportedly preached in Egypt, Carthage in North Africa, and Asia Minor. After converting the wife of a Roman proconsul in Phrygia, he was arrested and cruelly put to death in the city of Heliopolis around 80 AD;

Matthew preached in Parthia, Persia and Ethiopia, where he
was reportedly stabbed to death in the back in city of Nadabahl
in 74 AD;

Bartholomew, according to tradition, preached in India, Armenia, Ethiopia and Southern Arabia, before being skinned and martyred in the 1st Century AD;

James, the son of Zebedee, also know as “James, the greater,” was arrested by Herod Agrippa, and beheaded by the Romans in 44 AD;

James, the son of Alpheus, also known as “James, the younger,” is said to have ministered in Syria, where he was stoned and clubbed to death in 62 AD;

Thaddaeus, or Jude, preached in Asia Minor and Greece, till he was crucified in Beirut or Edessa around 65 AD;

Simon the Zealot reportedly preached in Persia, Mauritania, on Africa’s west, and possibly England, before being crucified in 74 AD;

Matthias preached in Syria, where he was burned to death.

The first martyr was Stephen, as told in the Book of Acts, chapter 7: “When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth.

 But Stephen, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven.  And said, ‘Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God’.  They cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man’s feet, whose name was Saul.

Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, ‘Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.’

Saul converted and became the Apostle Paul, who preached in Syria, Asia Minor, Greece, and throughout the Roman Empire, till he was beheaded in Rome in 66 AD.

James the Just, also known as “James, brother of the Lord,” was one of the leaders of the early church in Jerusalem till he was martyred in 62 AD.

In 155 AD, Polycarp, a disciple of John, was ordered to deny Christ or die.

Polycarp responded:  “Eighty and six years have I have served Him, and He has done me no wrong. How can I blaspheme my King and my Savior?”

Josh McDowell explained the significance of the Apostles being martyred in his best-selling book, Evidence That Demands a Verdict (1972).

The book was updated (2017) with his son and co-author, Sean McDowell, who stated:  “The apostles spent between 1.5 to 3 years with Jesus during His public ministry.  Although disillusioned at His untimely death, they became the first witnesses of the risen Jesus and they endured persecution; many subsequently experienced martyrdom, signing their testimony, so to speak, in their own blood.  Their willingness to die, indicates that they did not fabricate these claims; rather, without exception, they actually believed Jesus to have risen from the dead lending credibility to their claims about the veracity of the resurrection, which is fundamental to the case for Christianity.”

Jesus foretold persecution in the Gospel of John, chapter 15:  “You are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you … If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. But all these things they will do to you for My name’s sake, because they do not know Him who sent Me.  He who hates Me hates My Father also.”

The Book of Revelation, with chapter 12, stated:  “Now is come the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.  And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.”

It was a criminal act for Christians to assemble.

 If the government caught Christians meeting together, they were subject to being arrested and killed.

This resulted in Christians meeting in caves carved underground called “catacombs.”

Emperor Diocletian’s persecution was the worst.

When Diocletian lost battles in Persia, his generals blamed it on the army’s neglect of worshiping the Roman gods.

Diocletian ordered all military personnel and government employees to worship the Roman gods.

This order forced Christian soldiers to either go out of the military or into the closet.

After purging Christians from the military and government, Diocletian surrounded himself with anti-Christian advisers.

In 303 A.D., he consulted the Oracle Temple of Apollo at Didyma, which told him to initiate a great empire-wide persecution of Christians.

Diocletian revoked the tolerance issued a previous Emperor Gallienus in 260 A.D., and then used the military to force all of Rome to return to worshiping pagan gods.

What followed was a decade of the worst and most intense persecution of Christians to that date.

Diocletian had his military go systematically province by province forbidding church gatherings, arresting church leaders, burning scriptures, destroying church buildings.

He ordered the beautiful new church at Nicomedia to be torn down.

Christians were deprived of official ranks, lost their jobs, imprisoned, had their tongues cut out, were boiled alive, and even decapitated.

From Europe to North Africa, thousands were martyred. The faithful cried out in fervent prayer.

Finally, Diocletian was struck with an intestinal disease so painful that he abdicated the throne on MAY 1, 305 A.D..

The next emperor, Gelarius continued the persecution, but he too was struck with the intestinal disease and died in 311.

Emperor Constantine defeated Emperor Maxentius in 312 A.D. at the Battle of Romes’ Milvian Bridge.

In 313 A.D., Constantine issued the Edit of Milan, ending the persecution of Christians.

Commenting on Roman persecutions was Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan, the Democrat Party’s candidate for President in 1896, 1900, and 1908.

William Jennings Bryan, in his speech, “The Prince of Peace,” (New York Times, September 7, 1913), stated:
 “I can imagine that the early Christians who were carried into the Coliseum to make a spectacle for those more savage than the beasts, were entreated by their doubting companions not to endanger their lives.

But, kneeling in the center of the arena, they prayed and sang until they were devoured.”

Bryan continued:

“How helpless they seemed, and, measured by every human rule, how hopeless was their cause!

And yet within a few decades the power which they invoked proved mightier than the legions of the Emperor, and the faith in which they died was triumphant o’er all the land.

They were greater conquerors in their death than they could have been had they purchased life.”

It takes courage to walk in faith:  Joshua 1:9: “Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.”

The Book of Revelation 21:8 lists cowards as the first ones thrown in the lake of fire:  “But the cowardly (fearful), unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”

The Center for Studies on New Religions found that in 2016, over 90,000 Christians courageously kept their faith, even though they were murdered, 30 percent of whom were at the hands of Islamic terrorists.

Open Doors UK & Ireland CEO Lisa Pearce reported: “Persecution levels have been rising rapidly across Asia and the Indian subcontinent, driven by extreme religious nationalism which is often tacitly condoned, and sometimes actively encouraged, by local and national governments.

If a Christian is discovered in Somalia, they are unlikely to live to see another day.

 North Korea is at the top of the list of countries persecuting Christians, followed by nations practicing sharia Islam.  

China has increased targeting Christians and demolishing churches.”

Catholic News Agency reported:  “All top 10 countries with the worst persecution of Christians are in Asia and Africa. Somalia ranks second on the list, followed by Afghanistan, Pakistan, the Sudan, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Yemen, and Eritrea.

More Christians were recorded as killed (in Pakistan) for their faith in 2016 than any other country.”

Open Doors reported that in 2016:  Islamic fundamentalism is responsible for persecution of Christians in 35 of the top 50 countries;

Pakistan is 4th in persecution, worse than northern Nigeria;

Sudan is the 5th worst persecutor of Christians, with President Omar al-Bashir proclaiming, “Now we can impose sharia here”;

Christians are killed in crossfire in Yemen, Syria and Iraq;

Hindu nationalists have caused India to reach its highest level of persecution, battering churches;

Laos, Bangladesh, Vietnam and Bhutan increased persecution;

Buddhist nationalism in Sri Lanka has put the country among the top 50 persecutors;

Turkish President Erdogan used a suspicious coup to eliminate opposition and increase persecution of Christians, moderate Muslims and non-Islamists.

President Ronald Reagan commented on the courageous Christians who suffered persecution in the Roman Coliseum at the National Prayer Breakfast, February 2, 1984:

 “This power of prayer can be illustrated by the story that goes back to the fourth century, the monk (Telemachus) living in a little remote village, spending most of his time in prayer.

 One day he thought he heard the voice of God telling him to go to Rome.  Weeks and weeks later, he arrived at a time of a festival in Rome.

He followed a crowd into the Coliseum, and then, there in the midst of this great crowd, he saw the gladiators come forth, stand before the Emperor, and say, ‘We who are about to die salute you.’

 And he realized they were going to fight to the death for the entertainment of the crowds.

He cried out, ‘In the Name of Christ, stop!’ And his voice was lost in the tumult there in the great Colosseum.”

Reagan continued:

“And as the games began, he made his way down through the crowd and climbed over the wall and dropped to the floor of the arena.

Suddenly the crowds saw this scrawny little figure making his way out to the gladiators and saying, over and over again, ‘In the Name of Christ, stop!’

 And they thought it was part of the entertainment, and at first they were amused.  But then, when they realized it wasn’t, they grew belligerent and angry.”

Reagan added:

“And as he was pleading with the gladiators, ‘In the Name of Christ, stop!’ one of them plunged his sword into his body.

And as he fell to the sand of the arena in death, his last words
were, ‘In the Name of Christ, stop!’

And suddenly, a strange thing happened.

The gladiators stood looking at this tiny form lying in the sand.

 A silence fell over the Colosseum.

 And then, someplace up in the upper tiers, an individual made his way to an exit and left, and the others began to follow.

 And in the dead silence, everyone left the Colosseum.

That was the last battle to the death between gladiators in the Roman Colosseum.

 Never again did anyone kill or did men kill each other for the entertainment of the crowd.”

 Reagan ended:

“One tiny voice that could hardly be heard above the tumult. ‘In the Name of Christ, stop!’

It is something we could be saying to each other throughout the world today.”

I am sure that you have heard about Dr. Albert Schweitzer.  Most people only know that he was a medical missionary to Africa.  That is true, but there is so much more to know about him and his life and especially his thoughts on things such as abortion and God.  If you would like to know about those things concerning this amazing man, I have compiled some of them for you below:  Ron      

Albert Schweitzer was born January 14, 1875, in a village in Alsace, Germany.

The son of a Lutheran-Evangelical pastor, he won acclaim at playing the organ.
He earned doctorates in philosophy and theology.

 Schweitzer was pastor of St. Nicholas Church. He was also the principal of St. Thomas College and a professor at University of Strasbourg.
Then, at age 30, his life changed.
He read a Paris Missionary Society article of the desperate need for physicians in Africa. To everyone’s dismay, he enrolled in medical school and became a medical missionary.
In 1912, he married a nurse, Helene Bresslau.
The next year they traveled to west central Africa, and founded a hospital in the jungle village of Lambarene, Gabon.

After first using a chicken hut as their medical clinic, they erected a hospital building of corrugated iron in 1913.

In the first 9 months they saw over 2,000 patients.
World War I started, and the conflict between France and Germany went global, reaching into Africa. The Schweitzers were arrested and put under French military supervision, then taken to a prison camp in France.
After the war, they moved to Alsace-Lorraine, a border area between France and Germany, where their only child was born, a daughter, Rhena.
Saving their money, Helene stayed back with their daughter, Rhena, and Albert returned to Gabon in 1924.

Traveling back and forth several times, they rebuilt the hospital.

They served uninterrupted throughout World War II, being joined by additional staff.

The patients they treated suffered from:• malaria,• fever,• dysentery,• severe sandflea bites,• tropical eating sores,• leprosy,• crawcraw sores,• sleeping sickness,• yaws (tropical infection of skin & bones),• nicotine poisoning,• necrosis,• heart disease,• chronic constipation,• strangulated hernias, and• abdominal tumors.
He helped Mbahouin tribes and pygmies who lived in fear of cannibalism.
Albert Schweitzer spoke in Europe and in 1949 visited the United States.
He was very frugal, for instance, once he was asked “Why are you traveling in the 4th class?” He replied “Because there is no 5th class.”
Once on a train two schoolgirls asked him, “Dr. Einstein, will you give us your autograph?”  Not wanting to disappoint them, he signed: “Albert Einstein, by his friend Albert Schweitzer.”
 His daughter, Rhena, became a medical technician and married an American doctor, David C. Miller, who was serving at the African hospital — Albert Schweitzer Hospital.
Albert Schweitzer joined Albert Einstein in warning the world of the dangers indeveloping nuclear weapons.
In 1952, Dr. Schweitzer was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. He used the prize money to build a leper colony.

Schweitzer embraced a pro-life philosophy, explaining:

“For months on end, I lived in a continual state of mental agitation. Without the least success I concentrated even during my daily work at the hospital on the real nature of the affirmation of life and of ethics.  I was wandering about in a thicket where no path was to be found. I was pushing against an iron door that would not yield.In that mental state, I had to take a long journey up the river.  Lost in thought, I sat on deck of the barge, struggling to find the elementary and universal concept of the ethical that I had not discovered in any philosophy. I covered sheet after sheet with disconnected sentences merely to concentrate on the problem.
Two days passed.  Late on the third day, at the very moment when, at sunset, we were making our way through a herd of hippopotamuses, there flashed upon my mind, unforeseen and unsought, the phrase:  ‘Ehrfurcht vor dem Leben’ (‘Reverence for Life’).
The iron door had yielded. The path in the thicket had become visible.”
Schweitzer’s words stand in contrast to utilitarian cultures and political party platforms advocating euthanasia, organ harvesting, honor-killings, and abortion: Those that were being so advocated by Hitler and the Nazis.
 At the beginning of World War Two, The New York Times reported October 10, 1933, on the utilitarian views of socialized medicine in Germany:
“NAZI PLAN TO KILL INCURABLES. The Ministry of Justice explaining the (Hitler’s National Socialist Workers Party) intentions to authorize physicians to end the sufferings of the incurable patients.
The Catholic newspaper Germania hastened to observe: ‘The Catholic faith binds the conscience of its followers not to accept this method’.  In Lutheran circles, too, life is regarded as something that God alone can take.  Euthanasia has become a widely discussed word in the (Third) Reich. No life still valuable to the State will be wantonly destroyed.”
Similar to Nazis, in recent times utilitarian governments give hospitals financial incentives for administering experimental gene therapies, ventilator treatments and expensive pharmaceuticals, with little or no regard for conscientious objections, while refusing alternative treatments. Such governments even have schools groom children into questioning their sex and then steer them into experimental surgeries which result in higher risks of suicide.
In contrast to these utilitarian views and financially incentivized treatments, Dr. Schweitzer stated:
“Ethics is nothing other than Reverence for Life. Reverence for Life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, assisting and enhancing life, and to destroy, to harm or to hinder life is evil.”

In declaring National Sanctity of Human Life Day, President Trump stated January 22, 2018:

“Reverence for every human life, one of the values for which our Founding Fathers fought, defines the character of our Nation. Today, it moves us to promote the health of pregnant mothers and their unborn children.”

Schweitzer’s attitude was in agreement with the original Hippocratic Oath, which, up until recent times, was taken by all medical practitioners:
“I swear … I will use those dietary regimens which will benefit my patients according to my greatest ability and judgement, and I will do no harm or injustice to them.
I will not give a lethal drug to anyone if I am asked, nor will I advise such a plan; and similarly I will not give a woman a pessary to cause an abortion.
In purity and according to divine law will I carry out my life and my art.”

Dr. Albert Schweitzer wrote in Indian Thought and Its Development, 1935:
“The laying down of the commandment to not kill and to not damage is one of the greatest events in the spiritual history of mankind.”

Dr. Albert Schweitzer wrote in Out of My Life and Thought: An Autobiography, 1931:
“The world-view based on reverence for life is, through the religious character of its ethic of active love and through its fervor, essentially akin to that of Christianity.
What Christianity needs is to be filled with the spirit of Jesus Christ, to become living, intense, a religion of love which it was meant to be.
Since I myself am deeply devoted to Christianity, I seek to serve it with fidelity and truth.
I hope that the thought which has resulted in this simple, ethical-religious idea — reverence for life — may help to bring Christianity and thought closer to each other.”

Schweitzer’s life has been portrayed in numerous documentaries and films, including the 2009 movie Albert Schweitzer-A Life for Africa.”
Many groups work to raise awareness of crimes against life, and endeavor to protect it.
VOICE OF THE MARTYRS documents crimes committed against Christian minorities in Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Pakistan, Turkey, Palestine, Uzbekistan, South Sudan, Ivory Coast, Tanzania, Indonesia, and Nigeria.
INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR HUMAN RIGHTS reported that 80 per cent of all acts of religious discrimination in the world today are directed at Christians.
CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF GLOBAL CHRISTIANITY estimated that every year 100,000 Christians, 11 every hour, die because of their faith.
PEW RESEARCH CENTER reported in 2012 that Christians faced discrimination in 139 countries, nearly 3/4s of the nations in the world.
THE GLOBAL WAR ON CHRISTIANS (Random House) author John Allen stated that followers of Jesus are “indisputably the most persecuted religious body on the planet.”
CHRISTIANOPHOBIA: A FAITH UNDER ATTACK (Eerdmans) author Rupert Shortt reported from Nigeria to the Far East, Christians are targets of violent human rights abuses and intimidation: “in a vast belt of land from Morocco to Pakistan there is scarcely a single country in which Christians can worship entirely without harassment.”
OPEN DOORS USA estimated 100 million Christians are persecuted globally each year, mostly from Islamic extremism. Open Doors president David Curry said: “Tactics used by the Islamic State are being adopted and used in Africa.”

After reading these tragic reports, one is challenged by a sermon of Dr. Albert Schweitzer, January 6, 1905:
“Our Christianity — yours and mine — has become a falsehood and a disgrace, if the crimes are not atoned for in the very place where they were instigated.  For every person who committed an atrocity someone must step in to help in Jesus’ name; for every person who robbed, someone must bring a replacement; for everyone who cursed, someone must bless”
He continued:
“When you speak about missions, let this be your message:  We must make atonement for all the terrible crimes we read of in the newspapers.  We must make atonement for the still worse ones, which we do not read about in the papers, crimes that are shrouded in the silence of the jungle night.”
After his wife died, Schweitzer continued to work in Africa till he died at the age of 90. Overcoming innumerable difficulties, he once wrote:  “One day, in my despair, I threw myself into a chair in the consulting room and groaned out:  ‘What a blockhead I was to come out here to doctor savages like these!’.
Whereupon his native assistant quietly remarked:’Yes, Doctor, here on earth you are a great blockhead, but not in heaven.'”

Before he died, Dr. Schweitzer wrote:
“I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.”

I thought that you would like this “trivia” announcement:  The summer solstice is tomorrow, the longest day of the year and announcing the real summer.  What is so interesting is that it is the earliest that it has happened in over 200 years.  The last time that it appeared so early, George Washington was president of the U.S.

Ron 

Yes, today is Father’s Day in America.  The following is sent to you to help us both remember what it means to be a father and to have a father:

Ron

U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Center for Disease Control, and other agencies report that children from fatherless homes are:

• Five times more likely to live in poverty;

• Nine times more likely to drop out of school;

• Twenty times more likely to go to in prison;

• Higher risk of drug and alcohol abuse;

• Increased incidents of internalized and externalized aggressive behavioral problems;

• Greater chance of runaways and homelessness;

• Twice as likely to commit suicide. 

In an effort to recognize the importance of a father in the home, several “Father’s Day” services were celebrated:

One was organized by Grace Golden Clayton, who on July 5, 1908, arranged a church service to honor all fathers, in memory of her father who was a Methodist minister in West Virginia.

Another event was celebrated June 19, 1910, in Spokane, Washington.

Sonora Louise Smart Dodd heard a church sermon on the newly established Mother’s Day and wanted to honor her father, Civil War veteran William Jackson Smart, who had raised six children by himself after his wife died in childbirth.

Sonora Louise Smart Dodd drew up a petition supported by the Young Men’s Christian Association and the ministers of Spokane to celebrate Fathers’ Day.

In 1916, Woodrow Wilson spoke at a Spokane Fathers’ Day service.

On December 6, 1904, President Theodore Roosevelt addressed Congress:

“No Christian and civilized community can afford to show a happy-go-lucky lack of concern for the youth of to-day; for, if so, the community will have to pay a terrible penalty of financial burden and social degradation in the to-morrow.”

Roosevelt continued:

“The prime duty of the man is to work, to be the breadwinner; the prime duty of the woman is to be the mother, the housewife.  All questions of tariff and finance sink into utter insignificance when compared with the tremendous, the vital importance of trying to shape conditions so that these two duties of the man and of the woman can be fulfilled under reasonably favorable circumstances.”

In 1972, President Nixon established Father’s Day as a permanent national observance (Proclamation 4127), stating:

“To have a father, to be a father is to come very near the heart of life itself. In fatherhood we know the elemental magic and joy of humanity.  In fatherhood we even sense the divine, as the Scriptural writers did who told of all good gifts corning ‘down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning’ (James 1:17); symbolism so challenging to each man who would give his own son or daughter a life of light without shadow.”

Nixon added:

“Our identity in name and nature, our roots in home and family, our very standard of manhood, all this and more is the heritage our fathers share with us.  It has long been our national custom to observe each year one special Sunday in honor of America’s fathers; and from this year forward, by a joint resolution of the Congress approved April 24, 1972, that custom carries the weight of law.  Let each American make this Father’s Day an occasion for renewal of the love and gratitude we bear to our fathers, increasing and enduring through all the years.

Now, Therefore, I, Richard Nixon, President of the United States of America, do hereby request that June 18, 1972, be observed as Father’s Day.”

On May 20, 1981, in a Proclamation of Father’s Day, President Ronald Reagan stated:

“‘Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it,’ Solomon tells us (Proverbs 22:6).   Clearly, the future is in the care of our parents. Such is the responsibility, promise, and hope of fatherhood. Such is the gift that our fathers give us.”

Dr. Ben Carson explained:

“The more solid the family the more likely you are to be able to resist peer pressure. Human beings are social creatures. We all want to belong, we all have that desire, and we will belong, one way or another. If the family doesn’t provide that, the peers will, or a gang will, or you will find something to belong to.”

On Father’s Day, 1988, Ronald Reagan said:

“Children, vulnerable and dependent, desperately need security, and it has ever been a duty and a joy of fatherhood to offer it.  Being a father requires strength and more than a little courage to persevere, to fight discouragement, and to keep working for the family.”

Reagan ended:

“Let us express our thanks and affection to our fathers, whether we can do so in person or in prayer.”

U.S. Senate Chaplain Peter Marshall commented on Marxist social deconstruction (20 Centuries of Great Preaching Vol. 12 Waco: Word, 1971 p. 11-19):

“The history of the world has always been the biography of her great men.  There was a time in these United States when youth was inspired by (heroes), when a picture of Washington or Lincoln adorned every school room wall, along with the ponderous Family Bible on the Victorian table and the hymn books on the old-fashioned square piano, there looked down from the walls the likenesses of our national heroes.

Those were the days of great beliefs, belief in the authority of the Scriptures, belief that prayer was really answered, belief in marriage and the family as permanent institutions, belief in the integrity and worth of America’s great men.  These beliefs laid the groundwork for producing more great men, for many a boy figured, “If that man could do it, get an education, make his life count for something, then I can too'”

Marshall continued:

“Then there dawned the day when the pictures of Washington and Lincoln did not fit in with our concept of modern décor. The old Family Bible looked embarrassingly out of place.  So, the pictures and the Bible were often relegated to the Attic of Forgotten Things.  There went with them some of the most stabilizing influences of American life.  We had become a more sophisticated people, somewhat cynical of the cherished beliefs of our ancestors, rather blasé, frankly skeptical of old-fashioned sentimentalism.

Along with our higher education came a debunking contest. This debunking became a sort of national sport.  It was smarter to revile than to revere, more fashionable to depreciate than to appreciate.  In our classrooms at all levels of education, no longer did we laud great men, those who had struggled and achieved. Instead, we merely took their dimensions and ferreted out their faults.

We decided that it was silly to say God sent them for a special task. They were merely  products of their environments.  The Constitution, that hitherto cherished charter of American liberties, was drawn up by men who never spoke on a telephone or flew in a plan therefore, we should change the Constitution to suit modern ways.”

Senate Chaplain Marshall added that sons and daughters need courageous fathers to defend them against predatory agendas:

“We failed to realize that when we were denying the existence of great men, we were also denying the desirability of great men.  So now, many of our children have grown up without the guiding star holding in their hands, only a bunch of question marks, with no keys with which to open the doors of knowledge and life.  The young no longer had any particular ambition to become heroes. Their ambition now was to make as much money as possible, as quickly as possible, in whatever way was most convenient.

Thus, our debunking is a sign of decaying foundations of character to the individual and in the national life. We who are Christians, believe that God gives the world a few great men to lead the rest of us closer to Him, that to depreciate or to deny their greatness is to deny one of God’s revelations of Himself to mankind.  The heroes the Christian cherishes were (or are) human. They have their weakness. Their faults are well-known to their friends, better known to themselves. But the point is that with God and His guidance, they can provide the moral leadership that our nation so sorely needs.

America needs heroes on the battlefield of everyday life, in our homes, in our schools, on college campuses, in offices and factories, who can lead us towards a return to idealism. For time is running out for us.”

U.S. Senate Chaplain Peter Marshall concluded:

The call today is for Christian heroes and heroines who are willing to speak a good word for Jesus C”hrist, who are willing to live by the undiluted values of Christian morality in the pagan atmosphere of our society surrounded by lewdness, pornography, and profanity. This may be a higher bravery than that of any battlefield: to face ridicule, sarcasm, sneering disdain for what one believes to be right.  To fight for goodness and right, fighting the battle first in our own hearts and souls, seeking God’s help to overcome our particular temptations for the sake of peace, for the sake of America, for our own sake, and yes, for God’s sake.”

In 1942, General MacArthur was named Father of the Year. He stated:

“By profession I am a soldier and take pride in that fact.  But I am prouder. infinitely prouder to be a father.

A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys. The one has the potentiality of death; the other embodies creation and life.

And while the hordes of death are mighty, the battalions of life are mightier still.

It is my hope that my son, when I am gone, will remember me not from the battle but in the home, repeating with him our simple daily prayer, ‘Our Father Who Art in Heaven.'”

MacArthur composed “A Father’s Prayer”.  Please read it while thinking of yourself and your father:

“Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.

Build me a son whose wishes will not take the place of deeds; a son who will know Thee — and that to know himself is the foundation stone of knowledge.

Lead him, I pray, not in the path of ease and comfort, but under the stress and spur of difficulties and challenge. Here let him learn to stand up in the storm; here let him learn compassion for those who fail …

Build me a son whose heart will be clear, whose goal will be high; a son who will master himself before he seeks to master other men; one who will reach into the future, yet never forget the past.

And after all these things are his, add, I pray, enough of sense of humor, so that he may always be serious, yet never take himself too seriously.

Give him humility, so that he may always remember the simplicity of true greatness, the open mind of true wisdom, and the meekness of true strength.

Then, I, his father, will dare to whisper, ‘I have not lived in vain.'”

The Communists of Korea were pushing the Non-Communists and Liberty loving Koreans off that peninsula in early June of 1950.  In that June the United States declared war on those Korean Communists and went there with our military to oppose them.  We were very tired of war.  We had no taste for doing that, but we did it. 

On this anniversary of our doing it, I think it is very important for us to remember why we did it, especially with things that are happening again this June.  Please remember it here with me this June!

Ron

The Korean War started June 25, 1950.

Communists from the north invaded the non-communists, killing thousands.

 Outnumbered, the liberty loving non-Communists and American troops who went to help them, as part of a U.N. police action, fought courageously against the Communist Chinese and North Korean troops, who were supplied with arms and MIG fighters from the Soviet Union.

Five-star General Douglas MacArthur was Supreme U.N. Commander, leading the United Nations Command from 1950 through1951.

MacArthur made a daring landing of troops at Inchon, deep behind Communist lines, and recaptured the city of Seoul.

MacArthur Watching the Dangerous Invasion of Inchon Korea

With temperatures sometimes forty degrees below zero in the Korean mountains, and Washington politicians limiting the use of air power against the Communists, there were nearly 140,000 American casualties:

• in the defense of the Pusan Perimeter and Taego;

• in the landing at Inchon and the freeing of Seoul;

• in the capture of Pyongyang;

• in the Yalu River where nearly a million Communist Chinese soldiers invaded;

• in the Battles of Changjin Reservoir, Old Baldy, White Horse Mountain, Heartbreak Ridge, Pork Chop Hill, T-Bone Hill, and Siberia Hill.

Harry S Truman contrasted communism and democracy in his Inaugural Address, January 20, 1949:

“We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God. From this faith we will not be moved.  Communism is based on the belief that man is so weak and inadequate that he is unable to govern himself, and therefore requires the rule of strong masters. Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with reason and justice.

Communism subjects the individual to arrest without lawful cause, punishment without trial, and forced labor as a chattel of the state. It decrees what information he shall receive, what art he shall produce, what leaders he shall follow, and what thoughts he shall think. Democracy maintains that government is established for the benefit of the individual, and is charged with the responsibility of protecting the rights of the individual and his freedom.”

Truman continued:

“These differences between Communism and Democracy do not concern the United States alone. People everywhere are coming to realize that what is involved is material well-being, human dignity, and the right to believe in and worship God.”

The word “democracy” has two main definitions:

• the first is a political form of government where every citizen votes on every issue and the majority rules. This only successfully worked on a small city-state basis, like Athens, where every citizen had to physically be present at every meeting;

• the second definition of “democracy” is simply a general reference to a “popular” government, where the population participates in ruling themselves.

It was the second definition that came into common use.

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels published their Communist Manifesto in 1848.

That same year, after France’s 1848 Revolution, Alex de Tocqueville wrote in his “Critique of Socialism”:

“Democracy extends the sphere of individual freedom, socialism restricts it. Democracy attaches all possible value to each man; socialism makes each man a mere agent, a mere number. Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude. Democracy allows for individual capitalism, where a person can own private property and engage in business to improve his or her life.”

Forbes, July 27, 2020, published Rainer Zitelmann’s article “Anyone Who Doesn’t Know The Following Facts About Capitalism Should Learn Them,” in which he wrote:

“In 1820, 94% of the world’s population was living in extreme poverty. By 1910, this figure had fallen to 82%, and by 1950 the rate had dropped yet further, to 72%. However, the largest and fastest decline occurred between 1981 (44.3%) and 2015 (9.6%).

Reading these figures, which were compiled by Johan Norberg for his book Progress, is enough to make anyone rub their eyes in disbelief. For according to leftist anti-capitalists, these were the very decades in which so much went so wrong in the world.”

Zitelmann continued:

“200 years ago, at the birth of capitalism, there were only about 60 million people in the world who were NOT living in extreme poverty. Today there are more than 6.5 billion people who are NOT living in extreme poverty. Between 1990 and 2015 alone 1.25 billion people around the world escaped extreme poverty —- 50 million per year and 138,000 every day.”

Friedrich Engels explained in Outlines of a Critique of Political Economy, 1844, how the middle-class must be eliminated so that the socialist planners can rule without opposition:

“Every new crisis must be more serious than the last, ruin more small capitalists and increase the number of the unemployed.  In the end commercial crises will lead to a social revolution.”

Karl Marx had attended the University of Berlin, where he became involved with a radical anti-religious student group — the Young Hegelians. After being refused a university post because of his extreme views, Karl Marx began publishing a paper in 1842, which was banned in Germany.

He fled to Paris, then Brussels, and finally to London.

Marx founded the International Workingmen’s Association and the Social Democrat Labor Party.

        Karl Marx

Marx’s philosophy influenced:

• Adolph Hitler in starting the National Socialist Workers Party;

• Vladimir Lenin in starting the Social-Democrat Party;

• Joseph Stalin in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; and

• Mao Zedung in the Chinese Communist Party.

Lenin explained:

“The goal of socialism is communism.”

Lenin wrote in State and Revolution, 1917:

“The dictatorship of the proletariat will produce a series of restrictions of liberty in the case of the capitalists. We must crush them. Their resistance must be broken by force. There must also be violence, and there cannot be liberty or democracy.”

                                                               Vladimir Lenin

Karl Marx wrote:

“The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: ‘Abolition of private property.’ Take away the heritage of a people and they are easily destroyed.”

Franklin D. Roosevelt explained that communism is nothing more than dictatorship, as he stated in his address to the Delegates of the American Youth Congress, Washington, D.C., February 10, 1940:

“I disliked the regimentation under Communism. I abhorred the indiscriminate killings of thousands of innocent victims. I heartily deprecated the banishment of religion.   I, with many of you, hoped that Russia would work out its own problems, and that its government would eventually become a peace-loving, popular government. That hope is today shattered.  The Soviet Union, as everybody who has the courage to face the fact knows, is run by a dictatorship as absolute as any other dictatorship in the world.”

President Harry S Truman spoke at the laying of the cornerstone of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, Washington, D.C., April 3, 1951:

“The international Communist movement is based on a fierce and terrible fanaticism. It denies the existence of God and, wherever it can, it stamps out the worship of God. Our religious faith gives us the answer to the false beliefs of Communism. fOur faith shows us the way to create a society where man can find his greatest happiness under God. Surely, we can follow that faith with the same devotion and determination the Communists give to their godless creed.

Every day our newspapers tell us about the fighting in Korea.  Our men there are making heroic sacrifices. They are fighting and suffering in an effort to prevent the tide of aggression from sweeping across the world. Our young men are offering their lives for us in the hills of Korea. and yet too many of us are chiefly concerned over whether or not we can buy a television set next week. This is a failure to understand the moral principles upon which our Nation is founded.”

Conrad Hilton, founder of the hotel chain, spoke at a Prayer Breakfast at the Mayflower Hotel, following addresses by Congressmen, Senators, and Vice-President Nixon.

Hilton stated:

“It took a war to put prayer at the center of the lives of our fighting men. It took a war, and the frightening evil of Communism, to show the world that this whole business of prayer is not a sissy, a counterfeit thing that man can do or not as he wishes. Prayer is a part of man’s personality, without which he limps. Men grope in darkness unless they believe that God, in His kindness, is willing to lift the shadows if we ask Him in prayer.” 

Truman stated while lighting the National Christmas Tree, December 24, 1952:

“Shepherds, in a field, heard angels singing: ‘Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men’. We turn to the story of how ‘God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.'”

Truman continued:

“Tonight, our hearts turn first of all to our brave men and women in Korea. They are fighting and suffering and even dying that we may preserve the chance of peace in the world.

                                   Actual Picture of the Fighting and Suffering in Korea

And as we go about our business of trying to achieve peace in the world, let us remember always to try to act and live in the spirit of the Prince of Peace. He bore in His heart no hate and no malice, nothing but love for all mankind. We should try as nearly as we can to follow His example. We believe that all men are truly the children of God.

As we pray for our loved ones far from home, as we pray for our men and women in Korea, and all our service men and women wherever they are, let us also pray for our enemies. Let us pray that the spirit of God shall enter their lives and prevail in their lands.”

Truman concluded:

“Through Jesus Christ the world will yet be a better and fairer place.”

Fighting in Korea was halted July 27, 1953, with the signing of an armistice with North Korea at Panmunjom.

On December 24, 1953, Dwight Eisenhower stated at the lighting of the National Christmas Tree:

“The world still stands divided in two antagonistic parts. Prayer places freedom and communism in opposition one to the other. The Communist can find no reserve of strength in prayer because his doctrine of materialism and statism denies the dignity of man and consequently the existence of God. But in America religious faith is the foundation of free government, so is prayer an indispensable part of that faith. The founders of this, our country, came first to these shores in search of freedom to live beyond the yoke of tyranny.”

So, my friends, 36,000 U.S. service men died in Korea to protect us from Communism.  However, I hope you are as disgusted as I am on this anniversary of that war, that miss-led professors across America are teaching Communism to our young people.  

And as I have shown above, it is in opposition to the God of most all of their parents, and certainly in oppositionto the Mighty God of the Universe!   

My fellow Americans, this is the anniversary of D-Day.  It was such a momentous event in American history and World history, please, let’s remember it again together.  Following, let’s go through the events together:

Ron 

After World War I, Germany’s economy suffered from depression and a devaluation of their currency.

On January 30, 1933, Adolph Hitler was elected Chancellor of Germany by promising hope and universal healthcare. Less than a month later, on February 27, 1933, a crisis occurred.  The Rheichstag, Germany’s Capitol Building, was suspiciously set on fire, with evidence pointing to Hitler’s supporters.  Hitler, though, blamed the attack on his political opponents and used the power of the state to falsely accuse and arrest them.

Hitler used the panic of the “crisis” as an opportunity to suspend citizens’ rights and systematically undermine Germany’s Weimar Republic.

He had radical homosexual activist Ernst Röhm and his feared Brownshirts, called “Sturmabteilung” (storm troopers), to storm into the meetings of his political opponents, disrupting and shouting down speakers.

Brownshirts organized protests and street riots, similar to modern day BLM/Antifa-style protests, smashing windows, blocking traffic, setting fires, vandalizing, and even beating to death innocent bystanders to spread fear and panic.
Nazis implemented boycotts of Jewish businesses.  The riots destabilized the country and led to the overthrow old political leaders. 

 
On Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass), they broke windows, looted and set on fire over 7,500 Jewish stores and 200 synagogues.

Once securely in power, Hitler had his SS and Gestapo secret police kill the Brownshirts in the Night of the Long Knives, thus eliminating competition and giving the public impression that he was cracking down on lawbreakers.

Hitler at Height of His Power

Hitler then confiscated weapons from law-abiding citizens.  An SA Oberführer warned of an ordinance by the provisional Bavarian Minister of the Interior:  “The deadline set for the surrender of weapons will expire on March 31, 1933. I therefore request the immediate surrender of all arms.  Whoever does not belong to one of these named units (SA, SS, and Stahlhelm) and keeps his weapon without authorization or even hides it, must be viewed as an enemy of the national government and will be held responsible without hesitation and with the utmost severity.”

Heinrich Himmler, head of Nazi S.S. (“Schutzstaffel” Protection Squadron), announced:  “Germans who wish use firearms should join the S.S. or the S.A. Ordinary citizens don’t need guns, as their having guns doesn’t serve the State.”

In 1938, when a suspected homosexual youth shot a Nazi diplomat in Paris, it was used as an excuse to confiscate all firearms from Jews.  German newspapers printed, November 10, 1938:  “Jews Forbidden to Possess Weapons by Order of SS Reichsführer Himmler, Munich  ‘Persons who, according to the Nürnberg law, are regarded as Jews, are forbidden to possess any weapon. Violators will be condemned to a concentration camp and imprisoned for a period of up to 20 years.'”

“The Berlin Police announced that the entire Jewish population of Berlin had been ‘disarmed’ with the confiscation of 2,569 hand weapons, 1,702 firearms and 20,000 rounds of ammunition.  Any Jews still found in possession of weapons without valid licenses are threatened with the severest punishment.”

Of the Waffengesetz (Nazi Weapons Law), March 18, 1938, Hitler stated at a dinner talk:  “The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing.  So, let’s not have any native militia or native police. German troops alone will bear the sole responsibility for the maintenance of law and order.”

Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, pioneered the use of fake news to sway public opinion so that the entire nation accepted the lies of the deep-state:  “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The truth is the greatest enemy of the state.”

In socialist countries, a person’s life is only of worth if it benefits the state:  “No life still valuable to the state will be wantonly destroyed.” (German Penal Code, October 10, 1933)Those not promoting the deep-state narrative were driven from their jobs, publicly ridiculed, and eventually removed from society and sent to labor and concentration camps.”

Jews at Concentration Camp about to be Gassed

Anti-socialist John Basil Barnhill stated in a debate with Henry M. Tichenor, 1914 (National Rip Saw Publishing Co., St. Louis, MO):  “Where the people fear the government you have tyranny. Where the government fears the people you have liberty.”

This is similar to thoughts of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who warned at Hillsdale College, April 11, 2023:
“1. Any power that government takes from the people, it will never return voluntarily;2. Every power that government takes, it will ultimately abuse to the maximum extent possible;3. Nobody ever complied their way out of totalitarianism. The only thing we can do is resist.”

The National Socialist Workers Party operated over 1,200 concentration camps where millions of Jews, Poles, Gypsies, handicapped, and others were experimented, tortured, or were killed in gas chambers.

German churches were silent, as they had for centuries taught pietism – a version of separation of church and state where Christians were instructed to only focus on their own personal spiritual life and withdraw from involvement in worldly politics.
As a result, the church stood by silent as the National Socialist Workers Party usurped power, leaving the work of stopping Hitler to be done by the sacrifice of millions of courageous Allied soldiers.

By the time a few courageous Germany church leaders spoke out, such as Dietrich Bonhoeffer, it was too late — the government had grown so powerful it simply arrested and executed them.

Hitler’s National Socialist Workers’ Party used diplomatic intimidation, deception, and Blitzkrieg “lightning war” attacks to take control of:

• Bohemia,
• Moravia,
• Poland,
• Denmark,
• Norway,
• Luxembourg,
• Belgium,
• Holland,
• France,
• Monaco,
• Greece,
• The Channel Island (UK),
• Czechoslovakia,
• Baltic states,
• Serbia,
• Italy,
• Hungary,
• Romania,
• Bulgaria,
• Slovakia,
• Finland,
• Croatia,
• Austria,
• and more.

Other Axis Powers were also aggressively expanding:
• Italy had invaded Ethiopia in 1935, and
• the Empire of Japan had invaded China in 1937.

The United States entered World War II on December 7, 1941, when Pear Harbor was bombed by Imperial Japan, a Tripartite Pact partner with Nazi Germany and Italy’s Benito Mussolini.

The turning point in the Pacific War was the Battle of Midway, June 4, 1942.
The turning point in Europe was D-Day, JUNE 6, 1944.

Over 160,000 troops from America, Britain, Canada, free France, Poland, and other nations landed along a 50-mile stretch of the Normandy coast of France.

In his D-Day Orders, JUNE 6, 1944, Supreme Allied Commander General Dwight Eisenhower sent nearly 100,000 Allied troops marching across Europe to defeat Hitler’s National Socialist Workers Party with these instructions:
“You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty loving people everywhere march with you.
You will bring about the elimination of Nazi tyranny over the oppressed peoples of Europe.Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well trained, well equipped and battle hardened; he will fight savagely.
Let us all beseech the blessings of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.”

It was the largest seaborne invasion force in world history, supported by 13,000 aircraft, 5,000 ships with 195,700 navy personnel.

Prior to the invasion, Allies attempted to mislead the Nazis as to where the attack would take place.

The invasion was supposed to take place June 5, but the weather was so bad aircraft could not fly. General Eisenhower gave the risky order to delay the attack 24 hours to allow the weather and tide to improve.

The night before, Allied aircraft launched an enormous air assault on Nazi defenses, batteries, and bridges.

Then paratroopers were sent in behind enemy lines to cut off their supplies.
President Ronald Reagan stated at the 40th Anniversary of D-Day:
“Something else helped the men of D-day: their rock-hard belief that Providence would have a great hand in the events that would unfold here; that God was an ally in this great cause.

And so, the night before the invasion, when Colonel Wolverton asked his parachute troops to kneel with him in prayer he told them:
‘Do not bow your heads, but look up so you can see God and ask His blessing in what we’re about to do.’

Also that night, General Matthew Ridgway on his cot, listening in the darkness thought of the promise God made to Joshua: ‘I will not fail thee nor forsake thee.'”

Then elite Army Rangers went in to scale the cliffs and take out Nazi gun positions.
President Reagan stated:
“40 years ago at this moment, the air was dense with smoke and the cries of men, and the air was filled with the crack of rifle fire and the roar of cannon.

At dawn, on the morning of the 6th of June, 1944, 225 Rangers jumped off the British landing craft and ran to the bottom of these cliffs.  Their mission was one of the most difficult and daring of the invasion: to climb these sheer and desolate cliffs and take out the enemy guns.  The Allies had been told that some of the mightiest of these guns were here and they would be trained on the beaches to stop the Allied advance.
The Rangers looked up and saw the enemy soldiers along the edge of the cliffs shooting down at them with machine guns and throwing grenades.  But the American Rangers began to climb. They shot rope ladders over the face of these cliffs and began to pull themselves up. When one Ranger fell, another would take his place.  When one rope was cut, a Ranger would grab another and begin his climb again. They climbed, shot back, and held their footing.

                           Rangers Climbing Point-du-Hoc

Soon, one by one, the Rangers pulled themselves over the top, and in seizing the firm land at the top of these cliffs, they began to seize back the continent of Europe. Two hundred and twenty-five came here.  After 2 days of fighting, only 90 could still bear arms.”
At 6:30am, Allied forces began landing.  Troops ran across the heavily fortified beaches of:
• Utah Beach• Pointe du Hoc• Omaha Beach• Gold Beach• Juno Beach• Sword Beach

Ocean water ran red with the blood of almost 9,000 killed or wounded.

In the next two and a half months, over two million soldiers arrived on the shores.

Paris was liberated on August 25, 1944, and the Nazi war machine was pushed back over the Seine River. It was a major turning point in World War II.

Reagan continued:
“The men of Normandy had faith that what they were doing was right, faith that they fought for all humanity, faith that a just God would grant them mercy on this beachhead or on the next.

It was the deep knowledge (and pray God we have not lost it) that there is a profound, moral difference between the use of force for liberation and the use of force for conquest.”

Shortly after D-Day, on July 20, 1944, a courageous German resistance movement was formed which attempted to assassinate Hitler, but he survived.
Hitler retaliated by killing over 7,000 Germans.

President Franklin Roosevelt stated JUNE 6, 1944:
“My fellow Americans: Last night, when I spoke with you about the fall of Rome, I knew at that moment that troops of the United States and our allies were crossing the Channel in another and greater operation.

I now ask you to join with me in prayer:

Almighty God, Our sons, pride of our Nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our republic, our religion, and our civilization.
Give strength to their arms, stoutness to their hearts, steadfastness in their faith. They will need Thy blessings. Their road will be long and hard.

For the enemy is strong. He may hurl back our forces. We know that by Thy grace, and by the righteousness of our cause, our sons will triumph.
Some will never return. Embrace these, Father, and receive them, Thy heroic servants, into Thy kingdom.”

FDR concluded his D-Day Prayer:
“Help us, Almighty God, to rededicate ourselves in renewed faith in Thee in this hour of great sacrifice.

I ask that our people devote themselves in a continuance of prayer. As we rise to each new day, and again when each day is spent, let words of prayer be on our lips, invoking Thy help to our efforts.

Give us strength and, O Lord, give us Faith. Give us Faith in Thee. With Thy blessing, we shall prevail over the unholy forces of our enemy, and a peace that will let all of men live in freedom, reaping the just rewards of their honest toil. Thy will be done, Almighty God.  Amen.”

McArthur was born January 26, 1880 to parents who both had military backgrounds.  His mother who most called Pinkey, was from well to do Virginia parents.  His father was already a rather famous U.S. Army officer. Compared to most famous people, Douglas McArthur lived what I would call four whole lives.  He was a commander in three major wars.  Therefore, in relating to you his amazing life, it will be necessary to convey it to you in sections or posts.  Following is the Fourth one.

Ron

The Rainbow Division was now moving into the lines in strength.  They scheduled three raids for the night of March 9.  With Menoher’s blessing MacArthur decided to join a battalion of Iowan’s against a section of German trench on the Salient du Feys for these raids. 

As zero hour approached, the enemy, anticipating visitors, opened up with forty batteries of heavy artillery, and American casualties began to mount before the attack had even begun.  To steady his men, MacArthur walked the line in his eccentric apparel, now augmented by a sweater bearing the big black “A” he had won at the Point by playing on its football team.  An Iowan said: “I couldn’t figure what a fellow dressed like that could be doing out there.  When I found out who his was, you could have knocked me over with a feather.”

Five minutes before zero, sixty French batteries began their protective barrage, and as the minute hands crept upright, MacArthur mounted a scaling ladder and went over the top as fast as he could.  He scrambled forward.  He said the blast was like a fiery furnace.  He wondered if any of the Rainbow guys were following, but quickly saw that they were all around him and some even ahead, a roaring avalanche of glittering steel and cursing men.

And they carried the enemy position.

Menoher reported: “He accompanied the assault wave of the American companies engaged with the sole view of lending his presence where it was reassuring to the troops who were then unaccustomed to this manner of warfare.  On this occasion, in the face of the determined and violent resistance of an alert enemy, he lent actual service on the spot to the unit commanders and by his supervision of the operation not only guaranteed its success, but left the division with the knowledge of the constant attention of their leaders to their problems in action and the sense of security which the wise and courageous leadership there impressed on the engaged companies.”

This time MacArthur received the distinguished Service Cross for his “coolness and conspicuous courage.”

                      MacArthur with his long muffler and squashed down hat.

A few days later, MacArthur, who was strict about his men carrying their gas masks but often neglected to bring his own, was gassed.

He was in bed with a mask covering his eyes since the gassings could make one go blind.  He Heard that the U.S. Secretary of War Baker was coming to survey the front lines.  He ripped off his blindfold in time to show Secretary Baker around the area on 19 March.

Upon the recommendation of Menoher, MacArthur was awarded his first general’s “star” when he was promoted to brigadier general on 26 June.  At the age of just thirty-eight, this made him the youngest general in the AEF.

Promoted, but still wearing crushed down hat, with riding crop, and cavalry boots

Around the same time, the 42nd Division was shifted to Châlons-en-Champagne to oppose the impending German Champagne-Marne offensive.

The Germans decided to now mobilize a push so massive that it would end the war.  They had not been successful at Verdun or other offences.  But they were sure they would now.  They even erected a high wooden observation platform behind the lines for the Kaiser to be able to view this offensive.

It started with an artillery barrage so massive that the Allied observers said it was the largest ever seen in any war.  MacArthur’s division was charged with stopping it on their southern sector, the spearhead of it.  He devised an unusual plan to try to stop it, though the Germans were sure that they would be able to proceed right on to Paris.  He set up a front line of suicide, shock troops that the Germans were to fight through first.  After they were tired out and somewhat disorganized, they would meet the main line of defense manned by the Rainbow Divisions main troops. 

This plan was unusually risky, but it succeeded gloriously.  The German troops were thrown back with massive losses and never caught site of Paris.

MacArthur was determined to know the real result of this massive battle.  He and his staff had no real intelligence to know. Hearing reports that the enemy may have withdrawn, MacArthur went forward on 2 August to see for himself. He later wrote:

“It was 3:30 that morning when I started from our right at Sergy. Taking runners from each outpost liaison group to the next, moving by way of what had been No Man’s Land, I will never forget that trip. The dead were so thick in spots we tumbled over them. There must have been at least 2,000 of those sprawled bodies. I identified the insignia of six of the best German divisions. The stench was suffocating. Not a tree was standing. The moans and cries of wounded men sounded everywhere. Sniper bullets sung like the buzzing of a hive of angry bees. An occasional shellburst always drew an angry oath from my guide. I counted almost a hundred disabled artillery guns of various sizes and several times that number of abandoned machine guns.”

MacArthur reported back to Menoher and Lieutenant General Hunter Liggett, the commander of I Corps (under whose command the 42nd Division fell), that the Germans had indeed withdrawn.  He was amazed to personally observe that the hilltop German Command center was empty, and there was a massive empty sector in the German lines.  He knew that if the AEF forces attacked immediately, they could push on at will and the war would be over.  He knew that it must be done, but no one in Pershing’s staff or the other primary officers would listen.  Later his insistence was acknowledged, but got no traction at the time, and thousands and thousands of allied troops were later lost as a result. 

As a result of his heroic personal observations, he was awarded a fourth Silver Star. He was also awarded a second Croix de guerre and made a commandeur of the Légion d’honneur.  MacArthur’s leadership during the Champagne-Marne offensive and counter-offensive campaigns was noted by General Gouraud when he said MacArthur was “one of the finest and bravest officers I have ever served with.”

MacArthur receiving the French Croix de Guerre medal from General Bazelaire

The 42nd Division earned a few weeks rest, returning to the line for the Battle of Saint-Mihiel on 12 September 1918. The Allied advance proceeded rapidly, and MacArthur was awarded a fifth Silver Star for his leadership of the 84th Infantry Brigade.

In his later life he recalled: 

“In Essey I saw a sight I shall never quite forget. Our advance had been so rapid the Germans had evacuated in a panic. There was a German officer’s horse saddled and equipped standing in a barn, a battery of guns complete in every detail, and the entire administration and music of a regimental band.”

He received a sixth Silver Star for his participation in a raid on the night of 25–26 September. The 42nd Division was relieved on the night of 30 September and moved to the Argonne sector where it relieved the 1st Division on the night of 11 October. On a reconnaissance the next day, MacArthur was gassed again, earning a second Purple Heart.

The 42nd Division’s participation in the Meuse–Argonne offensive began on 14 October when it attacked with both brigades. That evening, a conference was called to discuss the attack, during which Major General Charles P. Summerall, commander of V Corps, was present and demanded that Châtillon be taken by 18:00 the next evening. An aerial photograph had been obtained that showed a gap in the German barbed wire to the northeast of Châtillon. But Chatillon was the center and strength of the German forces.

General Summerall said that Chatillon must be taken or a casualty list of

5,000 casualties sent.  MacArthur said: “It will be taken by that deadline of 6:00 tomorrow evening or a casualty list of 6,000 dead with my name at the top will be sent.”  Summerall was so moved that he just left.

MacArthur enveloped the hill, mounting a frontal assault and, simultaneously, sending a battalion let by Major Lloyd Ross around it, snaking from hole to hole, cleaning out ravines and Machine-gun nests.

It was a bloody business.  In McArthur’s words:  “Officers fell and sergeants leaped to the command.  Companies dwindled to platoons and corporals took over.  At the end, Major Ross had only 300 men and 6 officers left out of 1,450 men and 25 officers.  That is the way the Cote-de-Chatillon fell.

Lieutenant Colonel Walter E. Bare—the commander of the 167th Infantry—proposed an attack from that direction, covered by a machine-gun barrage. MacArthur adopted this plan.  He was wounded, but not severely, while leading a reconnaissance patrol into no man’s land at night to confirm the existence of the gap in the barbed wire.  As he mentioned to William Addleman Ganoe a few years later, the Germans saw them and shot at MacArthur and the squad with artillery and machine guns. MacArthur was the sole survivor of the patrol, claiming it was a miracle that he survived. He confirmed that there was indeed an enormous, exposed gap in that area due to the lack of enemy gunfire coming from it.

At last the Americans had pierced the main German line.  Pershing called it  “a decisive blow” and said:  “The importance of this operation can hardly be overestimated”

Summerall recommended that MacArthur be promoted to major general and awarded the Medal of Honor.  However, neither happened.  He did receive a second distinguished Service Cross. Its citation read:  “For the manner to which he personally led his men, displaying indomitable resolution and great courage in rallying broken lines and reforming attacks, thereby making victory possible.”  The citation concluded, “on a field where courage was the rule, his courage was the dominant force.

MacArthur receiving Distinguished Service Cross from General Pershing

Following all this action there was a rest and then a council of war in an old farm house in late October.  With Menoher presiding, he asked this two Brigade commanders whether they thought the Rainbow, which had lost four thousand men in penetrating the Hindenburg Line, would be fit to play a role when the American advance resumed in November.  According to the divisional history, “MacArther jumped from his chair and started walking up and down, as he always did when talking about something in which he is greatly interested.  In his brilliant way he soon showed that there was no phase of the matter which he had not thoroughly considered from every possible point of view.  His discussion was such a comprehensive and competent analysis that his two auditors regretted then and afterwards that there was no stenographer present to take it all down and preserve it.”

There was more action by the Rainbow Divion, but by now the Germans had become demoralized.  There was news that there were insurrections back in Germany, and that the German fleet had mutinied when ordered to go out to sea and attack the British in a last ditch suicide raid.

MacArthur got word that there was an officer from Pershing’s staff snooping around divisional headquarters, asking the staff what they thought about their leader.  MacArthur interpreted this that they were out to get him on the ground “that I failed to follow certain regulations prescribed for our troops, that I wore no helmet, that I carried no gas mask, that I went unarmed, that I always had a riding crop in my hand, that I declined to command from the rear.”

Actually, this was not really the case.  Menoher was being promoted to corps commander, and MacArthur was designated his successor.  He was now the Commander of the 42^nd Division.  At age thirty-eight he was the leader of twenty-six thousand men—the youngest divisional commander of the War.  At the same time, Persing wrote him that “it gives me great pleasure to inform you that on Oct. 17, I recommended you for promotion to the grade of Major General, basing my recommendation upon the efficiency of your service with the American Expeditionary Force.”

Finally, on 9 November, 1919 Armistice was declared.  That horrible, bloody war was over.  There was massive celebration all over the world, especially in America.

There would be no more promotions in the ranks, so MacArthur was not made Major General at that point.  However, for his service in WW I he received two Distinguished Service Crosses (just below the Congressional Medal of Honor), a Distinguished Service Medal (for exceptionally meritorious service in a duty of great responsibility), and seven Silver Stars (for gallantry in action against an enemy of the United States while engaged in military operations), as well as two Purple Hearts.  He was also awarded all manner of medals, citations, and military honors by other countries, especially the French, from whom MacArthur received two Croix de Guerre medals (awarded for extraordinary feats of bravery in Military action).

The Rainbow Division did not go home immediately.  It was chosen to participate in the occupation of the Rhineland in Germany.  It occupied the Ahrweiler District of the Rhineland in April of 1919 for 5 months.

Finally, the 42^nd Division entrained to Brest and Saint-Nazaire where they boarded the ships to return to the United States.  MacArthur traveled on the ocean liner SS Leviathan, which reached New York on 25 April 1919.

You hear a lot about Douglas MacArthur for his exploits in WW II, and the Korean War and afterwards, but his exploits in WW I were enough to fill a lifetime for most people!

Though it may seem hard to believe, but considering the absolute facts, one has to concur that God was preserving the life of Douglas MacArthur during Word War I.