I Am the American Flag 

     So, one of the celebrations of our 250th anniversary will be a race-car event in our capital city. Okay. Hopefully America will be in order by then. 

     What was America like in our 200th year? And would a comparison teach us anything? Happily, we have a short book. The author was the late Dr. Robert Schuller, then pastor of Garden Grove Church in California. Fifty years ago, he wrote as if he was the American Flag.

     We will give you excerpts all week. Here is his forward: 

     Always, in our nation, there are negative thinkers who deluge us with cynical, gloomy, pessimistic predictions that would discredit our country.  

     At an hour like this I suggest we stop talking and start listening to the voice of the American Flag. 

     I imagine that Old Glory, as some call her, with the wisdom of two hundred years of history behind her, would have fitting words for us today. 

     Week after week she stands silently behind me in this pulpit. Without the authority that she represents, I would not have the freedom to speak as I have. Today she speaks. Let us listen to her.

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