In the light of the horrific

events of last week, I saw this from the Canadian press which was too

good to pass up. I share it here with you.

"Widespread but only partial

news coverage was given recently to a remarkable editorial broadcast from

Toronto by Gordon Sinclair, a Canadian television commentator. What follows

is the full text of his trenchant remarks as printed in the Congressional

Record:

"This Canadian thinks

it is time to speak up for the Americans as the most generous and possibly

the least appreciated people on all the earth. Germany, Japan and, to

a lesser extent, Britain and Italy were lifted out of the debris of war

in debts. None of these countries is today paying even the interest on

its remaining debts to the United States.

"When France was in danger

of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up, and their

reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was

there. I saw it.

"When earthquakes hit

distant cities, it is the United States that hurries in to help. This

spring, 59 American communities were flattened by tornadoes. Nobody helped.

The Marshall Plan and the Truman Policy pumped billions of dollars into

discouraged countries.

"Now newspapers in those

countries are writing about the decadent, war mongering Americans. I'd

like to see just one of those countries that is gloating over the erosion

of the United State dollar build its own airplane. Does any other country

in the world have a plane to equal the Boeing Jumbo Jet, the Lockheed

Tri-Star, or the Douglas DC10? If so, why don't they fly them? Why do

all the International lines except Russia fly American planes?

"Why does no other land

on earth even consider putting a man or woman on the moon? You talk about

Japanese technocracy, and you get radios. You talk about German technocracy,

and you get automobiles. You talk about American technocracy, and you

find men on the moon not once, but several times and safely home again.

"You talk about scandals,

and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everybody to

look at. Even their draft-dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They are

here on our streets, and most of them, unless they are breaking Canadian

laws, are getting American dollars from Ma and Pa at home to spend here.

"When the railways of

France, Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans

who rebuilt them. When the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central

went broke, nobody loaned them an old caboose. Both are still broke.

"I can name you 5,000

times when the Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble.

Can you name me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans

in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even during the last

San Francisco earthquake.

"Our neighbors have faced

it alone, and I'm one Canadian who is darned tired of hearing them get

kicked around. They will come out of this thing with their flag high.

And when they do, they are entitled to thumb their nose at the lands that

are gloating over their present troubles. I hope Canada is not one of

those."

Amen. God bless America one

nation under God. In God we trust.

The Rev. Dr. Knox Herndon

is the pastor of His House Community Church (SBC) and a former Army chaplain.

The church is now in Senoia, one mile south of the intersection of Ga.

highways 16 and 85, just past the fire station. Visitors are welcome.

Church office and prayer line number is 770-719-2365. E-mail address is

[email protected] .

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