The following is the transcript of the remarks I made as the speaker at the Celebration.
A Patriotic Celebration
AMERICA, THE LAST MAN STANDING – 3 July 2011By: William J. Dell
Good Evening, my fellow Americans. It is good to be with you tonight as we once again celebrate the birth of our nation, our Constitutional Republic. As I was preparing to speak to you tonight, I was reminded once again of the admonition of Goethe, the German philosopher, “Truth must be repeated again and again because error is constantly being preached round about.”
It is the year of our Lord two thousand eleven and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred thirty-fifth. As I reflect upon the rich heritage of the freedom which is ours, I am returned to the years of my youth in the Methodist Church where I first learned the strains of our Centennial Hymn, God of Our Fathers, which we have just sung. Do we, as individuals and a nation, really believe that the Divine Providence led our nation into existence? Or have we, as a nation, become so sophisticated after 235 years that we no longer need the reliance and help of the God of our fathers? I wonder if we, as individuals and a nation, can with fervor continue to sing the strains:
1. God of our fathers, whose almighty hand
Leads forth in beauty all the starry band
Of shining worlds in splendor through the skies
Our grateful songs before Thy throne arise.
Can we, as individuals and a nation who once felt to raise songs of gratitude to the God of our fathers for our freedom and heritage, feel so now?
I make no apology for my belief that God (more…)