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I know that. t is right;
That it is not good to lie;
That love is better than spite,
And a neighbor than a spy;
In the darkest night of the year,
When the stars have all gone out,
That courage is better than fear,
And faith is truer than doubt;
And fierce tho the fiends may fight,
And long tho the angels hide,
I know that truth and right
Have the universe on their side;
And that somewhere, beyond the stars,
Is a love that is better than fate;
When the night unlocks her bars
I shall see HIM and I can wait."
History records that it was the assassination of President
James A. Garfield that actually preserved the Union of States.
For fifteen years after the Civil War, there was still division
between the North and South. It took the death of a beloved
President to break down the barriers and unite the Nation.
When James A. Garfield was laid low by the hand of an assas-
sin, it was said: "Guiteau's bullet, in the mercy of Providence,
has done more to make us a nation than has been accomplished
in all the years past since 1850. There is no longer any South,
North, East or West. We are all brothers; all filled with a
common purpose. There is already a warmer feeling, a greater
respect among Republicans for Democrats, a stronger sym-
pathy among Democrats for Republicans, a more perfect po-
litical charity, a more magnificent brotherhood." Who knows
what the outcome of this tragic assassination of last week will
be? Maybe again God will use the assassination of a President
to awaken our patriotic conscience and unify our people in
an uncompromising war against communism internally and
internationally.
THAT COURAGEOUS DALLAS POLICEMAN
At a time when the entire nation mourns the passing of
the President, we should all remember the family of Police
Patrolman J. D. Tippit of the Dallas Police Department,
whose courage and valor is directly responsible for the appre-
hension of the Communist assassin, Lee Oswald. Only thirty-
nine years of age, this courageous patrolman gave his life at-
tempting to arrest the assassin, as Oswajd sought to escape.
Dallas Police Chief Jesse Curry said of his courage, "except
for Tippit's action — which led police to Oswald — the "ac-
cused slayer might have escaped the country."
Actually, no one suffered a greater loss than the Tippit
family. Our prayers and Christian benevolence should go out
to this bereaved family.
At this point, may I further suggest that every Crusader
friend write Police Chief Jesse Curry and the Dallas Police
Department, thanking them for their quick and successful ap-
prehension of the communist assassin. At a time when the
liberal press of our nation, along with the communist press of
the Iron Curtain countries, is lambasting the Dallas Police, a
letter of simple thanks from the patriots of this nation for the
Dallas police department's clear-headed and effective action
at a time of crisis and extreme emotional pressure, would be
indeed fitting.
THE NATION
I
X SURVIVE
The thing we must all remember is that in spite of this
heartache and national tragedy, the Union will survive. When
Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, many thought America died
with the President when the assassin's bullet plowed into his
heart in the Ford Theater in Washington on April 14, 1865.
However, James A. Garfield, Congressman, who would later
himself be assassinated while serving as President, assured a
large and discouraged crowd which gathered on Wall Street
in New York City the morning after the assassination of Lin-
coln, that the Union would survive even that tragedy. He said,
"Fellow citizens, clouds and darkness are round about Him.
Christ's pavilion is dark waters and thick clouds of the sky.
Justice and judgment are the establishment of Christ's throne.
Mercy and truth shall go before His face. Fellow citizens, God
reigns and the government in Washington still lives." This
assurance from a man who would later become the President
of the United States so inspired the assembled crowd that their
fears were forgotten and the nation moved forward.
OUR NEW PRESIDENT, LYNDON B. JOHNSON
The United States has a new President. His name is Lyn-
don Baines Johnson. Mr. Johnson is a Westerner, hailing from
Johnson City, Texas. I know many men who know President
John'son personally. Prior to the Democrat Convention in Los
Angeles in I960, H. L. Hunt, the conservative leader of Dallas,
Texas, urged the nomination of the then Senator Lyndon B.
Johnson on the Democratic ticket for the Presidency of the
United States. Mr. Hunt accompanied Senator Johnson to the
Democrat Convention in Los Angeles. I remember Mr. Hunt
calling me one night while I was visiting in Winona Lake,
Indiana. He told me that he personally knew Lyndon Johnson
and felt him to be the most conservative of all the candidates
seeking the office of the Presidency and he urged me to throw
whatever personal influence I had behind the campaign for
Senator Johnson. I must admit I did not then share Mr.
Hunt's enthusiasm for Lyndon Johnson. However, it is my
sincere hope at this moment that H. L. Hunt's appraisal of
Lyndon Johnson was correct and that Mr. Johnson will return
our nation to Constitutional concepts.
A LOOK AT THE ASSASSIN, LEE OSWALD
The man who shot the President of the United States, Lee
Oswald, was, as you know by now, a communist. There is no
doubt that Marxist Oswald shot the President of the United
States after deliberately planning it for weeks prior to the
President's visit in Dallas, Texas. Furthermore, there is no
doubt that communist Oswald hoped to assassinate the Presi-
dent and make a clean get-away, thus blaming it on the anti-
communists or the conservative right-wing in the United
States. But, again, thanks be to God, this evil man did not
get by with his Satanic scheme.
Time alone will determine whether or not Lee Oswald
was acting under orders of the Kremlin, where he had lived
for some time, or under orders of Castro, whom he had served
faithfully since Castro's rise to power. Personally, knowing
the communists' dedication and their scheme to overthrow
the free world and yet without any evidence except that which
I have read in the paper and heard on television, I am con-
vinced that Oswald was acting under orders of a higher com-
munist authority — that the assassination of the President of
the United States was not the insane ambitions of one Marxist,
but instead, was a well-calculated plan. No one could have
studied communism for any length of time without coming
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