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n this book we will discuss several important questions: What’s so great about America? What made America so great? What threatens America’s greatness? How can we preserve America’s greatness?

HOW DO YOU MEASURE GREATNESS? Greatness means different things to different people.

· To those who left their home lands under persecution, religious and civil liberties make a country great.

· To the farmer who struggles to provide for his family on soil that will not produce, fertile soil is greatness.

· To the Jews who were unfairly persecuted under Hitler, justice in the courts is greatness.

· To the third world countries, technological advances is what elevates mankind.

Half the world goes to bed hungry every night. Homemakers in much of the world might never see, in a lifetime, the quantity of food the American house-wife sees in her daily trip to the supermarket.[1]

Let’s make a comparison between the greatness of America and the poverty of godless nations.

· If we were to take 100 American infants and 100 Asian infants, there would be more Americans alive at age 65 than Asians at age 5. In Guatemala, 75 percent of the children die before they are 5 years old. Their death rate is so high that children under the age of 5 are not counted in the national statistics. Many children aren’t even named until they have had their fifth birthday. A nursing mother in Guatemala will often abandon a newborn child and allow it to die in favor of a child closer to the age of five because the older child has a greater chance of survival.[2] In Afghanistan, one out of every four children die before the age of 5 and one out of 3 are orphans.[3]

· An Egyptian peasant, from the day he is born until the day he dies, does not know what it is like to have a full stomach. In Bangladesh, during times of poor crops, peasant children sift through the manure of farm animals to reclaim undigested oats.[4]

· The life expectancy of a father in Mali is 45.7. In Zimbabwe, life expectancy is expected to drop to 39.[5] In America, the life expectancy of a father is 79.[6] A disease that will disable a healthy American for no longer than a week, will kill or cripple people in many parts of the world simply because they do not have access to what we would call routine medical treatment.[7]

· Contrast the greatness of America to the poverty in godless countries like Russia and China. Contrast our fantastic achievements to theirs. Russia was a godless nation for many years and made achievements in only one field, its military. Russia had a great military only because it constantly robbed its people in every conceivable way and then squandered the spoils on its hideous war machines. America was so afraid of Russia that many were marching our streets pleading with our national leaders to surrender their military superiority to appease the Communist. Isn’t it interesting that godless Russia knelt before Christian America and we didn’t even have to fire a bullet?

· China has also been a godless nation for many years. In the days when the American Constitution was signed, 95 percent of our citizens were required to work on farms to produce the needed food for our nation.[8] Today it only takes 2 percent of the American public to feed ourselves plus 25 percent of the rest of the world.[9] Never before in the history of man have so few fed so many for so little. We spend only 16 percent of our income for food while the rest of the world spends 50 percent. Ninety-seven percent of all Americans are set free to use their time and talents in developing and maintaining conveniences. In godless China, nearly half of the citizens are required to work on farms to produce food for their starving people.[10]

The following statistics were published in the 1970’s. Obviously the figures have changed since then, but I am confident the ratio has remained close to the same. These statistics illustrate that God has blessed America.

· The United States of America has only 6 percent of the world’s population,[11] but we have...

China $4,420 (Note: The Time Almanac 2000 p. 194, says that this figure may
be overstated as much as 25%).

Thus America still leads all the world by nearly twice the GDP as any other country. It is easy to see, however, that we are losing our margin of superiority.

Some say the land itself has made America great. America has a beauty that all who have traveled across the continent surely recognize. One of our most moving patriotic hymns cites the beauty of America. Katherine Lee Bates stood atop Pike’s Peak and scanned a panorama of beautiful mountains in the distance with hundreds of acres of fruitful fields below. She was then impressed that she was moved to wrote of the purple mountain majesties, and the amber waves of grain.” She concluded that God had shed His grace on this land. This land was a vast unexplored wilderness which, in an astonishingly short period of time, grew into the greatest nation on earth.[20]

It would be foolish to deny that the rich natural resources of the land itself have not helped to make America great. The oil, the ore, the timber, the water, the soil and the climate, all have combined to nourish a civilization that would eventually spread from sea to shining sea. Other nations, though, have been blessed with wonderful resources: yet none of them have risen to such greatness.

Others have said that America’s people made her great. Layman Abott once said, “A nation is made great, not by its fruitful acres, but by the men who cultivate them: not by its great forests, but by men who use them; not by its mines, but by the men who [dig] them. America was a great land when Columbus XE "Columbus" discovered it: American’s have made it a great nation.”[21]

Is America’s greatness solely a result of its people or is there a greater cause?

The point that I wish to establish is, although good people from every religion helped to build our country, it was the God of Christianity, His Bible and His people that made America into the greatest nation on earth. Other nations are devoted to other religions, but they have never come close to the achievements of this country. America was settled primarily so honest people could worship God according to the Bible, and this is the reason that America has become the greatest country on the face of the earth.

It is no accident that America is the greatest and richest country on the face of the earth. While we are considering this fact, I would like to point out that it is not JUDEO/Christian values, but Christian values that established this country. The Jewish law stands only for the principle of “an eye for an eye.” Christianity strives to go further by forgiving those who mistreat us. Our founding fathers were not Jews but Christians. It was not the effect of Hinduism, Buddhism, Humanism or Satanism that produced the foundation of the greatest country on earth, it was Christianity. This is a fact.

Daniel 4:32, “The Most High is sovereign over the kingdoms of men and gives them to any one he wishes.”

Psalm 127:1, “Unless the Lord builds the house, its builders labor in vain.”

Proverbs 14:34, “RIGHTEOUSNESS EXALTS A NATION, BUT SIN IS A DISGRACE TO ANY PEOPLE.”

[1] The Rebirth of America; Published by The Arthurs S. DeMoss Foundation 1986 p. 23.

[2] Magazine, Pulpit Helps, February 1982.

[3] Fox News 10/12/01.

[4] Magazine, Pulpit Helps, February 1982.

[5] Health raising life expectancy strains health budgets, Report by Commerce Department’s Census Bureau, news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_221000/221695.stm p. 1.

[6] The Secrets of Aging, Department of Health and Human Services, 1996, www.originalghr15.com/secrets.htm. p. 1.

[7] Magazine, Pulpit Helps, February 1982.

[8] Colliers Encyclopedia, 1976, Vol. 1, pp. 292, 294

[9] Dr. and Mrs. J.C. Wilkey, Handbook On Abortion, Hayes Publishing Co. INC., Cincinnati, OH, p. 69.

[10] Time Almanac 2000, Boston, MS, p. 194. Fifty three % of the labor force work on farms and in forestry.

[11] Magazine, Pulpit Helps, February 1982.

[12] Sept. 21, 1001, Museum under the Arch in St. Louis, MO. A banner reads, “US. has 5% of world’s population and consume 30% of economic output.” Note the financial decline since Bible study and prayer was outlawed in schools.

[13] Bill Jones’ bulletin article.

[14] The World Almanac & Book of Facts, 2001, Mahwah, N.J. p. 32.

[15] Time Almanac, 2000, Borgna Brunner Editor, Boston, MA., p. 160.

[16] Time Almanac, 2000, Borgna Brunner Editor, Boston, MA., p. 876.

[17] Time Almanac, 2000, Borgna Brunner Editor, Boston, MA., p. 876.

[18] Time Almanac, 2000, Borgna Brunner Editor, Boston, MA., p. 876.

[19] Time Almanac, 2000, Borgna Brunner Editor, Boston, MA., p. 876.

[20] The Rebirth of America, Published by The Arthurs S. DeMoss Foundation 1986, p. 23.

[21] The Rebirth of America, Published by The Arthurs S. DeMoss Foundation, 1986, p. 23.

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