We are glad that the President of our great Republic and the Governor of our beloved State have again issued their annual thanksgiving proclamations, have pointed out some of the most salient reasons for individual and national gratitude, and have requested and urged the people of our nation to assemble in their wonted places of worship to praise God for His goodness and mercy. So long as there is enough of this spirit of thankful acknowledgment in the hearts of our rulers and people, we may indulge the hope that God will continue to bless and prosper us as a nation. The nation that remembers God, that prays to Him, and gives thanks and praise to Him still has a preserving savor in its life and thought. But woe to the nation that does otherwise, for the Bible says, “The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.”
From: Keyser, Leander. In The Apostles’ Footsteps: Sermons on the Epistle Lessons for the Church Year. The Lutheran Literary Board: 1920. Lutheran Library
(March 13, 1856–October 18, 1937). Leading theol. in The General* Syn. of the Ev. Luth. Ch. in the USA; b. Tuscarawas Co., Ohio; educ. Wittenberg Coll. (Sem.), Springfield, Ohio (see Hamma Divinity School). Pastor La Grange, Indiana, 1879–81; Elkhart, Indiana, 1883–89; Springfield, Ohio, 1889–95; Atchison, Kansas, 1897–1903; Dover, Ohio, 1903–11. Prof. systematic theol. Hamma Divinity School 1911. Works include A System of Natural Theism; A System of Christian Evidence; In the Redeemer's Footsteps; In the Apostles' Footsteps; Contending for the Faith; The Problem of Origins; Our Bird Comrades.
