18. A thanksgiving day
On this day our words, our songs and our confessions will say audibly, what the semblance of our peoplehood, will visibly be declared by our deeds of every day. In doing so, “the heathens” also, who bear no knowledge of “the holy God of heaven and earth” and his high law, and for this reason find our values, our morals and our laws offensive, take notice, and in spite of themselves acknowledge: “...truly the Lord hath done great things for them.”(Psalm 126:2)
Then only will there from the life of the Vow People emerge among the people of the earth something in the fulfilling of the high calling: “Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.”(St. Matthew 5:16)
We are not Vow bound to, suddenly on “day and date each year,” be the Vow People for which we shrank back to be real for the other 364 days. If we spend it this way, we make of it an abhorrent play day before the countenance of the Lord, and our yearly salute of what must have been a radiant future, becomes an in vain escape effort from our pitiful futurelessness.
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