America is standing at a crossroads of history; our very survival as a nation may depend on the presence or absence of masculine leadership in millions of homes; leadership in the form of loving authority; leadership in the form of financial management; leadership in the form of spiritual training; and leadership in maintaining good marital relationships.

Sometimes there are effect of our influences that we may never know. Brook Adams kept a diary from his boyhood. One special day when he was 8 years old he wrote in his diary, "Went fishing with my father; the most glorious day of my life." Throughout the next 40 years of his life, he never forgot that day he went fishing with his father; he made repeatead reference to it in his diary, commenting on the influence of that day on his life.

Brook's father was an important man; he was Charles Francis Adams, the U.S. ambassador to Great Britain under the Lincoln administration. Interestingly, he too made a note in his diary about the fishing trip. He wrote simply, "Went fishing with my son; a day wasted."