The Pledge

Each year since 1913, members of the First Lutheran Church renew their commitment to the Century Chest, as instructed by the church's members of 1913:

"At the burial of the chest, on April 22, 1913, Oklahoma's birthday, members of the church and their children took a vow to preserve the chest from all harm, and to pledge their children and their children's children to see that it was unearthed on the morning of April 22, 2013, Their vow to be repeated on the same date and every tenth year provisions be made that an account of its contents be published in the city papers, and at that time the ministers of the city churches be asked to read a similar account from their pulpits."

Pledge

Before God and in the presence of each other will you promise to perpetuate the idea incorporated and embodied in “The Century Chest” buried in the center of the basement of this building on the 22nd day of April 1913? Answer Yes.

Do you promise to protect that chest and use every means to the best of your ability to ensure it against destruction so long as you live and remain members of this organization?

Do you promise to this obligation each succeeding year on a date approaching the anniversary of the burial of that chest, at a meeting when the members are assembled together? And will you promise to have announced from the pulpits of the city the contents of that chest, and ask the daily papers to print such list every ten years?

In the event that this site should ever be abandoned as a church, do you promise that a suitable place, equally safe shall be selected for the depositary of said chest? And do you promise to perpetuate this knowledge from generation to generation and teach your children and urge them to request their children to keep these facts before the public and carry out the program on the 22nd of April 2013 as it was rendered one century before, if so answer “I will.”