28. As commemoration

28. As commemoration

Vow Day testifies that it pleased the “holy God of heaven and earth”to deploy against the forces of imperialism and barbarism of the 19th century in Africa a Vow People who makes holy seriousness with his Vow heritage; but simultaneously with it also that He in doing so would just prepare that people ahead (in the Third Thousand Year?) to bring disgrace upon those same forces, then a thousand times more puffed up and arrogant, merely by being serious with his Vow heritage.

Therefore expressly, by the name, “to commemoration . . . for our upcoming generations”: they, the coming generations, will still have more need to such a commemoration than the generations passed . . . The battle becomes not easier, but harder; the road not more even, but steeper. It becomes however still more visible true that “ . . . men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers . . . traitors, heady, high minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof . . . ” (II Timothy 3:2 to 5)