26. Also to our children

26. Also to our children

If the narration, and the thereby stimulated reliving of that event by the “upcoming generations” are not there, or if the “celebration speech” is something else, then we do not pay the Vow. Then we make of the Day of the Vow either self over-estimatingly a total obsolete 53rd Church Sunday, or impudently a political party rally. Both are precisely evenly rejectable.

Which somnambulist between the realities of Africa, is it then who on the threshold of the Third Thousand Years goes with the thick peels of self-deception on his eyes and mumbles saintly questions about the right of the Voortrekkers to plunge their offspring in Vow Debt?

However, it will also have no result if we take our children on 16 December with us to the Vow Celebration, so that they may hear the history - even transcendently narrated - but then they hear the other 364 days nothing of it, and especially in the life of the Vow People of whom every child sees the front line in his own parents, see nothing of it.

It is surely clear: you are heir of the gift of a civilised faithful manhood with eternal value on Africa soil, and if you really received it and it is your most precious possession on earth, then you are also mutually committed for its safekeeping for the coming generations; or you are partaking in the extermination fury staged against it by the “spiritual wickedness in high places” (Ephesians 6:12), who wants to defeat such a manhood. There is indeed no middle course between these two alternatives!

The question about the right which our predecessors would not have had, shoots from the same poisoned source than the feigned concern on the “right of children” to decide on their own comings and doings. It exalts this absurdity properly to a basic fundamental human right which children then might have had: to be only delivered to themselves.