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♪ Praise to the Lord, the Almighty ♪
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♪ The King of creation ♪
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♪ O my soul, praise him ♪
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♪ For he is my help and salvation ♪
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♪ All ye who hear ♪
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♪ Now to his temple draw near ♪
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♪ Join me in glad adoration ♪
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♪ O come, O come Emmanuel ♪
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♪ And ransom captive Israel ♪
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♪ That mourns in lonely exile here ♪
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♪ Until the Son of God appear ♪
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♪ Rejoice, rejoice Emmanuel ♪
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♪ Shall come to thee, O Israel ♪
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♪ Rejoice, rejoice Emmanuel ♪
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♪ Shall come to thee, O Israel ♪
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♪ O come, Desire of nations, bind ♪
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♪ All peoples in one heart and mind ♪
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♪ Bid envy, strife, and quarrels cease ♪
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♪ Fill the whole world with heaven's peace ♪
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♪ Rejoice, rejoice Emmanuel ♪
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♪ Shall come to thee, O Israel ♪
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♪ O come, thou Dayspring ♪
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♪ Come and cheer ♪
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♪ Our spirits by thine advent here ♪
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♪ Disperse the gloomy clouds of night ♪
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♪ And death's dark shadows put to flight ♪
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♪ Rejoice, rejoice Emmanuel ♪
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♪ Shall come to thee, O Israel, amen ♪
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This Founders' Day is always a special day
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in the affairs and activities of Duke University,
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for it is on this day that we remember
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the kind of dedication and support
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that made possible this university.
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And it's a special day of remembrance for us,
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for the Duke family,
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the father, Washington Duke,
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and the sons, Benjamin and James Buchanan.
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And it's good to remember
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that this university was not created all at once.
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And that it came from the steady pursuit of excellence
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on the part of the faculties.
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It became what it is today with the steady dedication
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of literally hundreds and hundreds of people,
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who felt the need for this kind of an institution.
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And certainly, the Duke family did not just all of a sudden
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make money available that made a university possible.
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And I think not only did the Duke family bring money,
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but I am certain also
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that they helped shape the character of this institution
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in some extremely important ways.
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They were supporting this small college,
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getting it established as it moved to Durham,
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still a college.
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And Washington Duke, a man of considerable vision,
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at a time when the distinguished president
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of Harvard University
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was proclaiming in his sense of fairness and understanding
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that we shouldn't be too hasty in judging
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that women could not do college work,
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that it might yet be established
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that they were capable of doing so.
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And Washington Duke, at that time,
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was giving a special grant to Trinity College
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on the condition that Trinity College admit women,
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at the turn of the century, on an equal basis.
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And incidentally, to give another insight
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into his character,
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shortly thereafter he wrote and said,
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"I withdraw the conditions,
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"because I never like to put strings
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"on contributions to colleges."
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Fortunately, the president got the message
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without the string.
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A few years later, the Bassett Case,
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that very much is a part of the history of this university.
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It wasn't only President Kilgo and Dean Preston Few
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and certain trustees who led the way
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to establish firmly that academic tradition,
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but Benjamin Duke, in the background, was saying,
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of course, the trustees are going to support
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the concept of academic freedom.
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And again, the character of this institution
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was being shaped.
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And then, when James Buchanan Duke later made possible
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the funds that made possible the building of this campus
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and the creation of this university,
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he did it as his indenture pointed out,
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with the expectation
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that this would be the kind of university capable
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of obtaining and maintaining a place of real leadership
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in the educational world.
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And so, this is a time of remembrance, appreciation,
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appreciation to those who made it possible,
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in terms of financial support.
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And remembrance and appreciation for those
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who helped us establish, for this university,
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the sense and the dedication to academic freedom,
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to creativity and excellence.
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For this heritage, we are grateful,
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and to this heritage, we are pledged.
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Let us pray.
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O Lord our God, God of all times, all places, all peoples.
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We thy people lift our hearts to thee in this moment
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and in this place.
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God of all wisdom, we give thee thanks for those who,
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wise in thought and in the ways of living,
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have shared their wisdom with others and with us.
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God of all grace, we give thee thanks for those who,
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gracious and generous
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in things spiritual, intellectual, and material,
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have shared themselves and their possessions
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with others and with us.
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God of all hope, we give thee thanks for those who,
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faithful and obedient in matters of the mind and the spirit,
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have shared visions and dreamed dreams
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and given to others and to us, hope for today and tomorrow.
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We give thee thanks, O God, this day for Duke University.
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Thou whose desire is that we love thee
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with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength,
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and that we love and serve our neighbor as ourselves.
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For all the goodly heritage of past and present,
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we give thee thanks and praise, O God.
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Keep us, we pray thee, from being a world unto ourselves.
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Make us always mindful of the world beyond our boundaries.
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Help us in these days, as a university community,
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to commit ourselves to bringing knowledge, health,
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understanding, and above all, this day, peace
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to our day and time.
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We pray all this in thy holy name.
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And hear us, O God, as we join together
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to offer this responsive litany of commemoration
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on this day.
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Almighty and eternal God,
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in whom our mothers and fathers have trusted,
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we their children at this time of remembrance
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offer unto thee our litany of commemoration.
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Hear us, we beseech thee, O Lord.
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For the members of the Duke family,
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father, daughter, sons and their wives,
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grandchildren, and all others in continuing generations,
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who with concern and compassion, devotion and dedication,
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and by their generosity,
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built on a good foundation, continued a worthy school,
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and provided for education and service
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beyond even their dreams and expectations.
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We give you thanks and praise.
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For the pioneering and persevering
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men and women of our state,
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Methodists and Quakers, farmers and merchants,
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teachers and administrators,
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who in days gone by,
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believed in education and made their belief prevail.
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We give you thanks and praise.
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For the embodiment of their dreams,
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from private school, to academy, to college, to university,
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founded in hope, continued with sacrifice,
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growing in outreach, established in assurance.
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We give you thanks and praise.
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For faculty and staff,
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whose vision was bolstered by their courage,
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whose patience was tested and found true,
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whose idealism was implanted
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in the hearts and minds of others.
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We give you thanks and praise.
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For the ongoing presence of noble ideas,
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the blending of eruditio et religio,
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the freedom for wrought responsible
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academic research and teaching,
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the unending care for both the body and the spirit,
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the pursuit of knowledge in the sciences and the humanities,
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the realization that the old order changes
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and the new days bring new demands on us all.
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We give you thanks and praise.
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For the future of Duke University,
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established for your glory
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and for the enlightenment of the human mind and spirit,
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for consecration to learning by the young,
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for the best use of the wisdom of those in later years,
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for the commitment to the growth and enhancement
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of all persons,
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for a sense of humor, a sense of cooperation,
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and a desire for understanding
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among all within our community.
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We give you thanks and praise.
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And to thee, O God, we shall ascribe, as is most due,
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all praise and glory, world without end, amen.
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The idea of a Founders' Society
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grew out of this celebration several years ago,
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when we recognized what we knew,
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that the maintenance of excellence
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is a continuing necessity.
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And indeed, the founding and re-founding of a university
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is a continuing process,
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as we attempt to make each part of the university
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the level of excellence
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that we seek for the total university.
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So indeed, it is a never ending process
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and the use of personal wealth
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to endow a gift to this university
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is also a never ending process,
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for an endowment assures you and assures us
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that for all times, forever,
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your funds, your interests,
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your dedication, your generosity,
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will be here providing for the level of excellence
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of this university, forever.
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And so, we thank all of you that recognize that
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and join with us
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and continue to be a part of the building and the founding
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of a greater and greater university.
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And we are grateful to all of you
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for your part and your continuing part
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in the hopes of this university.
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It is my pleasure now
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to proceed to the awarding of an honorary degree.
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And I now invite trustee Margaret Harris
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to present the name of the recipient.
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Mr. President, it is my pleasure to present to you
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the name of Stanley Sebastian Kresge,
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who is a candidate for the degree, honorary degree,
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of humane letters.
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The nomination has been approved
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by the faculties of the university
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and by the board of trustees.
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Professor Jameson Jones and professor John Bergland,
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Jameson Jones being his faculty sponsor,
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will please escort Mr. Kresge to the chancel.
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Stanley Sebastian Kresge, distinguished business leader,
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philanthropist, churchman, and friend of higher education,
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you stand in a small company of individuals
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who have combined exceptional business acumen
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and imaginative administrative leadership
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to make enduring contributions to humanity.
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You inherited a wise, practical vision of the world.
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You honor it as it does honor to you.
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Early in your life, you acquired a deep devotion
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to family, hard work, and the Christian faith,
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a devotion that has marked your vigorous leadership
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and a long association with the S.S. Kresge company,
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the Kmart Corporation, and the Kresge Foundation.
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You have made your modesty, goodness,
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and deep reverence for the will of God
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profound and living ideals.
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As a man of national stature in the business world
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and as a wise steward of the resources
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of the Kresge Foundation,
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you have fostered opportunities for others
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in a broad range of humanitarian causes.
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Your abiding concern
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for the enduring purposes of higher education
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has been demonstrated assuredly
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as you have given generously
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of your wisdom, time, talents, and personal substance
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to assure countless significant advances
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in human and spiritual knowledge and understanding.
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Your generous hand of support to this university
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has helped to secure the foundations of our Eye Center,
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our University Center, and our Divinity School.
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Duke University is proud to recognize
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your contributions to humanity, your wise leadership,
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and your vision of the future.
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We celebrate your life of faith, your compassion for all,
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your own humility,
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and we make you a permanent member
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of our university community.
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Thank you, very much.
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Kresge, with appreciation for your concern
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for higher education
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and the role of religion in higher education,
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I welcome you back.
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And by the authority vested in me,
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I confer upon you the degree of doctor of humane letters
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and I admit you to its rights, its privileges,
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and its obligations.
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Thank you President Sanford, thank you very much.
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♪ Let thy holy presence ♪
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♪ We pray ♪
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♪ Thy holy, thy holy presence ♪
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On this beautiful and blessed third Sunday
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in the season of Advent,
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12 days before the festive and joyous celebration again
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of the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ,
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I greet you.
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May the peace and the love of our Lord be with you.
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Let us together, in the presence of one another
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and before the presence of God, confess our sin.
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Let us pray.
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O Lord our God, hear us as we pray.
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O thou Eternal Wisdom,
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whom we partly know and partly do not know,
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O thou Eternal Justice,
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whom we partly acknowledge, but never wholly obey,
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O thou Eternal Love,
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whom we love a little, but fear to love too much,
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open our minds that we may understand,
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work in our wills that we may obey,
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kindle our hearts that we may love thee.
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Help us as we worship thee
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to come to a truer knowledge of ourselves,
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knowing that we cannot hide from thee.
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God be merciful to us, for we are sinners.
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Dear friends, our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God,
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has come truly to seek and to save those who are lost.
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Everyone who trusts in him receives forgiveness of sin
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through his Spirit and his grace.
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Therefore, be assured
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that God bestows upon you forgiving mercy
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and indeed, grants you release from your sins
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and leads you into life eternal, amen.
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Let us give thanks for God is good
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and God's love is everlasting.
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Thanks be to God, whose love has made us.
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Thanks be to God, whose mercy forgives us.
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Thanks be to God, whose grace leads us into the future.
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May I say a word of welcome to all of you this morning.
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A beautiful day it is,
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the third Sunday in the season of Advent.
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Nearing the end of a semester,
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here for us in this university community.
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We're pleased to welcome all of you here.
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We're especially pleased
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to have members of the Founders' Society
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with us this morning.
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But also, are particularly pleased
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to have many members of the faculty of Duke University here,
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those who by virtue of their distinction
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as teacher, researcher, writer, or in some other way,
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you have distinguished yourself in your field
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and now occupy a distinguished chair at Duke,
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we are particularly pleased to have each of you
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and all of you here on this Founders' Day.
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This is a special time for us, a time of celebration.
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It also is the nearing of the end of this semester.
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And so, as those of you who are students face examinations
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and the writing of papers for this term,
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and as faculty face a grading and evaluating time,
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our prayers and best wishes are with all of you,
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that it may be a productive and fruitful time for all.
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Tonight at 7:30, the Hillyer Concert Choir from Raleigh
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will present a special Mozart concert here in Duke Chapel.
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The concert will last for one hour.
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There is no admission charge.
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It begins at 7:30.
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You and friends and others in this community
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and in this area
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are invited to come and to share in that particular concert.
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May I make a very special announcement?
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I have in my hand a copy of a recording
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that was made here in Duke Chapel last Easter Sunday.
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It's entitled Easter Music from Duke Chapel.
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I commend it to you, because I think as you hear it,
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or as you give it to others for them to hear,
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you will be reminded again of the beauty
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of the sheer majesty of the music in that service.
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The carillon, the organ, the choir,
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the congregation, the hymns we sang.
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It will be on sale beginning tomorrow
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in the Duke University bookstores.
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So I think for those of you
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who are looking for a good Christmas present,
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I'd be glad to suggest this and commend it to you.
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And to Ben Smith and the choir and the organists,
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I want to say a word of thanks and appreciation
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for a beautiful, moving, and memorable worship experience
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which we now have on this record.
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we received word last Monday from CBS TV,
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a good word that this Easter Sunday's 11 o'clock service,
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on April 11, will be carried nationwide by CBS TV.
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So, we would like for you to spread that word,
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not only here,
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but wherever you go from this place between now and Easter.
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And if you have a good suggestion or two
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for a sermon for that day.
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It is a privilege this morning to welcome back home
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Bobby and Bill Quick.
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The Reverend Dr. Bill Quick
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is our preacher for this Founders' Day.
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He currently serves as the senior minister
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of Metropolitan United Methodist Church
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in Detroit, Michigan.
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He is now in his eighth year of service there.
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He went there from serving
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as senior minister of Trinity United Methodist Church,
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here in Durham.
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Bill and I were classmates in divinity school
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and everywhere Bill has been in his ministry,
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he has provided creative and outstanding leadership
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for the churches that he has served,
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from Bahama, to Zebulon, to St. James Church in Greenville,
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to Trinity Church here in Durham,
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to Metropolitan Church in Detroit.
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Wherever he has gone,
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he has been known as a very effective administrator,
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a caring pastor, and a very good preacher.
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Bill, we're delighted to have Bobby and you
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back here with us today
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and we look forward to the word of God
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which you will bring to us on this very special day.
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Let us pray.
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Almighty and most merciful God,
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you have given the Bible
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to be the revelation of your great love to us
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and of your power and will to save us.
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Grant that our study of it may not be made in vain
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by the callousness or carelessness of our hearts,
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but that by it we may become confirmed in penitence,
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lifted in hope, and made strong for service,
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and above all, filled with the true knowledge
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of you and of your Son, Jesus Christ, amen.
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The epistle lesson is from 1 Thessalonians,
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chapter one, the first eight verses.
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"Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy
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"to the church of Thessalonians
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"in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ,
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"grace to you and peace.
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"We give thanks to God always for you all,
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"constantly mentioning you in our prayers,
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"remembering before our God and Father
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"your work of faith and labor of love
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"and steadfastness of hope
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"in our Lord Jesus Christ.
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"For we know, brethren beloved by God,
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"that he has chosen you.
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"For our gospel came to you not only in word,
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"but also in power and in the holy Spirit
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"and with full conviction.
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"You know what kind of men we proved to be among you
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"for your sake
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"and you became imitators of us and of the Lord.
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"For you received the word in much affliction,
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"with joy inspired by the holy Spirit,
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"so that you became an example to all the believers
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"in Macedonia and in Achaia.
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"But not only has the word of the Lord
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"sounded forth from you in Macedonia and Achaia,
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"but your faith in God has gone forth everywhere,
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"so that we need not say anything."
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Here ends the reading from the epistle.
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♪ For a long time I have held my peace ♪
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♪ But now will I speak ♪
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♪ I will lead the blind ♪
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♪ In a way they know not ♪
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♪ In paths that they have not known ♪
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♪ I will guide them ♪