The coming German crisis in America

Pastor, thank you for the invitation, and, yes, of course, we would be honored to attend your installation. We shall pray for you. We plan to be back in Wisconsin before Valentine's Day, February 14, 2011.



Yes, I concur with your assessment of trends. In fact, I just bought and am reading Glenn Beck's Broke - published 2010. I am pursuing one chapter at a time. What is basic to everything is what the late American philosopher Russell Kirk calls the "moral order." Moral order must precede political, social, and economic order, for without moral order we drift into chaos and destruction sooner or later. As Beck reminds us, we relearn basic truths as Dr.Samuel Johnson observed and Kirk observed, and Beck reminds us again of the having a healthy, basic "moral order" in place, for it is the required foundation on which to build other human activities. Of course, Revelation is the bedrock, source of this "moral order," and as secular humanism erodes this fact, we are paying an ever-mounting toxic cost.



Yes, I concur with your assessment of the probability of white flight, call it what it is, from the urban, metro areas to the safety of our small towns, which still preserve much of the old "moral order" on which this country was built and depends for its survival. This is why I love going to Mineral Point, Wisconsin, Jane's hometown, for there time has stood still and people go to church in large numbers as in the past. It provides the social, economic, and political order that invites people from Chicago to transplant there when they find the town. The result is a real estate market that is "out of sight" for a rural area. Yet, if we lose this bedrock Christian moral order, all is lost, and rightfully so.



Last summer, in Canada, at the Canadian Bible Society Thrift Store in Chathan, Ontario, somehow, God's grace at work, spotted an old book for $.50. Its title is The German Crisis. In it, a reporter fluent in German from New York with the name Knickerbocker (old New Amsterday legacy) travels the length and breadth of Germany n 1932 - to survey the impact of the Great Depression on the country. The publication date for the book is in fact 1932. It is a stunning, sobering description of what our country risks because of rampant greed on Wall Street and the loss of our basic "moral order." What jumped out at me was his chapter on the religious revival across Germany that was happening! He said 500-600 people nightly would crowd into the nearest church for comfort, hope, for they had given up on politics as salvation! Yes, we have put our faith in men, not God, and we can see the ever-worsening, terrifying results around us. You "hit the nail on its head" when you observe the coming need for spiritual oases of hope in our small towns and rural regions as people flee literally for their lives in every larger numbers. I believe this book came to me not by accident.



In the last chapter, Knickerbocker has a private interview with Hitler, yes, himself. Hitler is in a blue business suit. Knickerbocker asks Hitler how we feels about America. Hitler says he has no problems with America, except for the Woolworth stores in Germany. Knickerbocker asks what problem might this be. Hitler says, well, Woolworth is just fine as long as what it sells is made in Germany by Germans to provide jobs! Think Wal-Mart here, of course. In 1932, nobody knew who would take over the government in Germany, and of course, in retrospect, we know that Hitler in 1933 would emerge as the person to put "Humpty Dumpty" back together again, or try.



It is now 1932 again in America. We are on the cusp, and there is no easy way out of what is coming. More than they realize, people are going to be afraid, and they should be afraid if they are in their right minds, because of the horrific wounds inflicted on our country. Yet, whom God loves He corrects. More than you realize, and your eyes are wide open, and more than your humble servant here imagines, we are going to need our Lord, Who teaches us "Fear not little flock." Amen. Amen.



PAUL RUX, PH.D.