- “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door! ” Those are the words of Emma Lazarus written at the base of the Statute of Liberty in New York Harbor.
This nation is trillions of dollars in debt when we ought to have an enormous surplus in our treasury. We ought to have the words of Emma Lazarus etched in bronze at every port city in this country. America, what happened?
It’s Payday Someday, friend. The Ten Commandments weren’t just banned from our public schools in 1980, the Eternal Creator and Giver of all life was shunned and barred from the American way of life.
Those who think the natural order of cyclical devastation and disaster accounts for all the weather phenomena and various catastrophes we see playing out day by day across this nation are in for a rude awakening. The average Christian dwells more on the government of man than on the kingdom of God. It is this present life and world that holds his, or her, interest – not eternity and the gift of immortality.
It was a far different mindset held collectively by the citizenry of this great nation when in 1903 the words of Emma Lazarus’ sonnet were inscribed on a plaque inside the base of the Statue of Liberty. I wholeheartedly agree that immigrants should be vetted and allowed to enter this country only at pre-approved ports of entry. But the invitation to “Come unto us all ye that labor and are heavy laden” should never be repealed. After all, we are all immigrants or descendants of immigrants save only for the various American Indian tribes.- Christ’s Aged Servant (Galatians 1:10-12),
- Donald Wiley
