From Deseret News archives:
'The leader we need is you,' Beck tells 17,000 at BYU
Radio-TV host keynotes Patriotic Service at BYU
That's what radio and TV personality Glenn Beck told a vocal crowd of nearly 17,000 gathered at BYU's Marriott Center Sunday evening for America's Freedom Festival's annual Patriotic Service.
"In a time when America is begging for a leader; in a time when America is shouting out, 'Where is the leader, when will he step forward?' I am here to tell you: You are the leader the leader we seek. The leader we need is you; it always has been.
"We are the United States of America," he said. "We can solve any problem." Beck said the drafters of the Constitution put, "we the people," at the very top of the document in big, bold letters for a reason to remind the people of America just exactly who would shape the nation's destiny, even with all of its problems. Just as the signers of the Declaration of Independence, "in hot, humid, not-yet-riddled-with-gangs Philadelphia" pledged their lives, fortunes and sacred honor for the cause of freedom, so too should each American.
"Hope is the recognition of who we truly are," Beck said. "Not in who we've allowed ourselves to become all we have to do is remember."
Beck repeatedly told the crowd it is vital for Americans to remember how important God is in America's past and future. He said the pilgrims humbly came to the American continent according to God's will. Like those pioneers, he said, America needs pioneers now.
"We are this country's next great dispensation's pioneers," he said. "We are the ones that are going to take us into a new place, beyond your wildest imagination. It will be hard, it will be rough, but, oh, how we will have this tale to tell."
Throughout the service, Beck repeatedly returned to the words of the LDS hymn "Come, Come Ye Saints." Struggling with words and speaking with visible emotion, Beck said that immediately following the events of Sept. 11, he was supposed to do a radio broadcast after visiting the area of ground zero in lower Manhattan. As he tried to tell the story that day, he said he was comforted by the the words from the hymn, which say, "All is well, all is well."
Even with all the talk of disasters and tough times Americans are facing, Beck said, he has a different message for the American people.
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