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Have you ever walked a tightrope about fifty feet off the ground? Neither have I, nor do I intend to. In 1976, I served as delegate to our Presbyterian General Assembly in Baltimore. Following the Assembly, my family and I took a bicentennial tour throughout the East Coast. We saw firsthand the landmarks leading to our freedom as a nation. Following the trip, I preached on the theme, "Celebrating a Nation's Birthday." As a part of that message, I used an example of an event that occurred at the previous year's General Assembly. It is a painful memory to the Hopi Indians that in 1776, as independence was proclaimed up and down the American Colonies, the Hopi people were in the process of losing their independence. That event is partly why the Native American Indian Ralph Sissins requested to speak on the floor of the 1975 General Assembly to register his vote not to support the Bicentennial Celebration. "There is nothing in it that we can celebrate." Render to Caesar; render to God. It's a tightrope. -- Keller
