On board his vessel, he delivered a sermon presenting the vision for a “City on a Hill” and adapted from the biblical passage of Matthew 5:14-15 as the vision for the colony: He would ultimately be elected twelve times to the position, but in 1630, he was leading “the Great Migration” of ships carrying more than 700 settlers who would arrive over the year. The John Winthrop referenced by Reagan was the first Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony. We are indeed, and we are today, the last best hope of man on earth.” The eyes of all people are upon us, so that if we deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword throughout the world.’ Well, we have not dealt falsely with our God, even if He is temporarily suspended from the classroom. "Standing on the tiny deck of the Arabella in 1630 off the Massachusetts coast, John Winthrop said: ‘We will be as a city upon a hill. The date of his speech was January 25, 1974, but Governor Reagan brought listeners to a sermon penned and delivered aboard a ship which had arrived in New England some 344 years prior: Speaking before the first convention of the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC), then California Governor Ronald Reagan began his road to the White House by reminding listeners that the American story was a journey expressed in written documents that formed a roadmap to liberty. Plymouth and the roadmaps of American liberty Together we can preserve our heritage and historic landmarks. Your donation helps support the work of the Leyden Preservation Group. A Thanksgiving Day worthy of remembrance rests on this foundation. A great mantle was placed on this nation with the declaration of the Pilgrim Fathers that they would be a covenantal people of faith committed to generational faithfulness and missionary zeal. Our booklet chronologically offers insights into that legacy of vision, evangelism, civil and religious liberty, and national gratitude. Read it aloud, sharing the stories and many primary source documents. Bring “Thanksgiving 400: A Grateful Nation” to your own celebration. Importantly, this commemorative booklet provides chronological recollections on the faith of our 1621 fathers and mothers. Within its pages you will find American traditions including psalms, hymns, poetry, parades and recipes. It is a celebration of that first day of thanksgiving, and of the streams of blessing which flowed from Plymouth to our nation and the world. Over the centuries millions of Americans have followed the example of the Pilgrims, with the result that Thanksgiving Day has become the great American tradition of American families stopping from work to celebrate and give thanks for the mercy and goodness of God.įor the 400th anniversary of the Pilgrim thanksgiving celebration of 1621, we offer this booklet of gratitude. This year, 2021, marks the 400th anniversary of that celebration. Today it is celebrated each year on the fourth Thursday of November, but the American tradition of a special day of thanksgiving has as its foundation the Pilgrim harvest festivities of 1621. No American holiday is more universally honored or the cause for as much goodwill and family togetherness as Thanksgiving Day. The Robinson/Scrooby Covenant of 1606 became the model for the covenant of the Mayflower Compact of 1620, which in turn became the model for the Declaration of Independence of 1776. This 1620 Mayflower Compact has correctly been honored as the conception moment for what would ultimately become the United States of America. the Lord’s free people joined themselves (by a covenant of the Lord) into a church estate, in the fellowship of the gospel, to walk in all His ways made known or to be made known unto them, according to their best endeavors, whatsoever it should cost them, the Lord assisting them.” (William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation, ed Samuel Eliot Morison, p.9)įourteen years later, the spirit, foundations and structure of the 1606 covenant were repeated in Provincetown, Harbor, aboard the Mayflower when members of Pastor John Robinson’s congregation, joined by others who would build their new society, covenanted and combined in a “civil body politic,” and “In the name of God, Amen,” to create America’s first great covenant-The Mayflower Compact. The Scrooby Covenant of 1606 was significant because it was a rejection of a worldly and coercive system of social and religious organizations in favor of a covenant between God and man entered by individuals binding themselves together before God through a solemn covenant which they freely acknowledged on behalf of themselves, their families and their heirs. A covenant is a sacred agreement between God and individuals, binding those individuals together before God in a common purpose.
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