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Duke University Baccalaureate Service
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May 11th, 1980, Duke Chapel.
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(choir singing)
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(organ music playing and congregation singing)
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(organ music playing and congregation singing continues)
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Be seated.
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There are a number of people standing,
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so as you're getting adjusted
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let me invite those of you who can
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to move toward the center aisle if you will
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so that persons who are standing
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may be seated if at all possible.
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How lovely is Thy dwelling place, oh Lord of Hosts.
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My soul longs, yea faints, for the courts of the Lord,
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my heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God.
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Blessed are those who dwell in the house of the Lord,
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ever singing praise to God.
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What a joyful, blessed, beautiful moment this is.
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The beauty of new day, the gladness of a time
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of worship and celebration.
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May grace, mercy and peace
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from the Lord our God be with you.
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Let us now with one voice confess
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our sin to the Lord our God.
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Let us pray.
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Oh God, in who's mystery we abide
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and by who's mercy we are redeemed
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we confess our sin against one another and against You.
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All our transgressions hidden and open,
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the evil done and the goodness left undone.
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We have deceived ourselves about our ourselves,
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and worn masks, and not trusted in love.
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We confess that we have been careful with things,
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careless with persons, adept in taking, awkward in giving,
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in love with our fears, and in fear of our loves.
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We confess before You that we are
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more prone to sin than to obedience,
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prompt to gratify our bodies, slow to nourish our souls,
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attached to the pleasure of sins,
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negligent of things spiritual,
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wuick in the service of self,
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slack in the service of others,
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eager to get, reluctant to give,
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full of good intentions, hesitant to fulfill them,
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severe with our neighbors, indulgent with ourselves,
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helpless apart from You, yet unwilling to be bound to You.
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Forgive us, lift us up, and heal us this day.
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We pray in Your holy name.
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Amen.
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As we continue in prayer let us offer to God
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our personal words of confession.
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Surely the Lord is in this place.
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How awesome is this place,
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for this is none other than the house of God
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and this is the gate of Heaven.
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Receive now, dear friends, the forgiveness and new life
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that the Lord our God offers us.
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As forgiven and reconciled people,
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let us serve the Lord our God
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and love one another as God in Christ loves us.
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Amen.
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May I welcome you this morning to this place
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and to this very special service.
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A special word of welcome to those of you who graduate
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and I do want to assure all of you mothers and fathers
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that this is where they sit every Sunday morning,
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it's just that they don't always wear caps and gowns,
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and they don't always have Myrtle Beach suntans either.
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(congregation laughing)
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We are delighted to have those who will be honored,
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not only in this service, but who will be honored again
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this afternoon by the conferring of degrees.
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This is your day, this is your occasion,
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and so we welcome you and we welcome all friends and family.
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Those of you who have shared in these years with them,
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given them your love, and support,
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and watched over and stayed with them
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through thick and thin,
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and come now to celebrate this good,
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and glad, and holy time.
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We are glad that you are here.
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Our preacher for the Baccalaureate Services this weekend,
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for all three of the Baccalaureate Services we are having,
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is the Reverend Dr. W. Kenneth Goodson,
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presiding bishop of the Richmond area
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of the United Methodist Church.
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Bishop Goodson is a native of North Carolina,
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he graduated from Catawba College
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and from the Divinity School of Duke University.
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He is a man whose life and ministry over the years
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has shown the significance of the place
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of the Church in higher education,
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and of higher education in the life of the Church.
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A man who has had the highest honors
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and has held the highest offices
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that the Church can confer upon anyone,
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at least can confer upon anyone in this life.
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He has been a bishop in
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the United Methodist Church for 20 years,
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served one term as the president of the Council of Bishops,
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as president of the Board of Global Ministries,
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and as president of the Board of Discipleship.
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He holds honorary degrees from a number
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of colleges and universities, including Duke University.
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I believe all of this has happened
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because one of our own has been
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a true preacher of the Word through the years
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and a genuine, caring, loving pastor,
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as he has related to lay people and clergy in his ministry.
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He loves Duke University and has given many hours
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of support and care to the Divinity School
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and to the University as a member
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of the Board of Trustees and in other ways.
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He serves now as a member of
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the Board of Trustees of the Duke Endowment.
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He has preached twice already,
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and will preach for us for this very special occasion.
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We welcome his wife, Martha Goodson,
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to this service and back to Duke.
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We welcome both of you, Bishop Goodson,
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and we look forward to the Word of God
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as you will bring it to us for this day.
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Let us pray.
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Prepare our hearts, oh Lord, to accept Your Word.
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Silence in us any voice but Your own,
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that hearing we may also obey Your will
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through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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Amen.
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The Old Testament lesson is the first Psalm.
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"Blessed is the man who walks not
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"in the counsel of the wicked,
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"nor stands in the way of sinners,
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"nor sits in the seat of the scoffers.
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"But his delight is in the law of the Lord,
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"and on His law doth he meditates day and night.
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"He is like a tree planted by the streams of water
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"that yields its fruit in its season
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"and its leaf does not wither,
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"in all that he does, he prospers.
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"The wicked are not so,
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"but alike the chaff which the wind drives away.
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"Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment,
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"nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous
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"for the Lord knows the way of the righteous,
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"but the way of the wicked will perish."
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Will the congregation please stand
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for the reading of the Gospel.
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The Gospel lesson is from John, chapter eight,
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verses 30 though 32.
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"As he spoke thus many believed in him.
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"Jesus then said, 'If you continue in my Word,
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"you are truly my disciples and you will know the truth,
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"and the truth will make you free.'"
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Here endeth the Gospel lesson.
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Amen.
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(choir and congregation singing)
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Be seated.
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President Sanford has given to me an unforgettable
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weekend,
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one that so long as I shall live
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I will remember and carry in the deep recesses
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of my own heart and of my own spirit.
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It not only has been an unforgettable weekend,
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for me it has been a frightening weekend,
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for anyone who has been a student,
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particularly in a theological seminary on this campus
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for as long as a single semester,
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immediately sets apart in his own mind
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and in his own heart the Duke Chapel
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and believes for the rest of his life,
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and in my case, for the rest of my ministry
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that there is no place anywhere on Earth quite like this.
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It was here that we sat as students.
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It was here that we brought some of
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the perplexing ideas of our own mind,
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and our own heart, and our own spirit,
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and listened to the quiet refrains of an organ
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more than 40 years ago as we tried to wrestle out
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in our minds and in our own spirits
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and the manner of our own lives
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and the manner of our own ministries,
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and all this comes fresh to me again
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as I come to what has almost come
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to be my home on a weekend.
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There will be many who will do far more excellent
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than I will do in the next 20 to 25 minutes,
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but there are none who would come to a higher privilege
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to be here and who would love Duke University more.
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For more than 40 years of my life,
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for almost 50 years of my life,
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I have yelled myself hoarse
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at the victories of the Blue Devils,
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and every now and again have gone off alone
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to cry at their misfortunes.
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But it's a real joy, and it's a great thrill,
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and it's a great honor to come.
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Let me read the text for the morning you would find it
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as President Sanford read it a minute ago
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in the 32nd verse of the eight chapter
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of the Gospel according to Saint John.
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Jesus said to those who were listening to him,
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if you continue in my Word then are ye my disciples
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and you shall know the truth,
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and the truth will set you free.
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When Edward Gibbon had completed his famous work,
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"The Decline and the Fall of the Roman Empire,"
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he laid down his pen and he went for a walk in his garden.
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At first, his emotions were of elation
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now that the task is over.
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"But my pride soon humbled," he wrote in his memoirs,
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"and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind,
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"by the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave
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"of an old and agreeable companion."
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Most of us, I believe, come to Commencements
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with mixed emotions like these.
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Happy and exalted, examinations are over,
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you don't have an eight o'clock in the morning,
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and there are no more examinations to be done.
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Hallelujah, 'tis done, that great transaction's done.
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You're through.
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(congregation laughing)
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And you can lay down your pens,
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and you can go for a walk across the campus,
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and like Edward Gibbon, you can be
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delighted and elated that the task is over.
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But you refuse to take an everlasting leave.
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You will come again, as I have come again,
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as others before you and before me have come again,
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in memory and in person to visit the campus again
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with our old and agreeable companion.
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In preparation of a Baccalaureate Address,
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the temptation is great for one to slip into
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the role of a teacher and try to make
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a scholastic approach to the subject.
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That would be all right for me,
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for whatever else religion must be,
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it must always be intellectually respectable.
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Or I might assume the role of a statesman
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and it would, I assure you, be a mere assumption,
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and talk about problems and panaceas of our time,
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and this would be proper and permissible
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for I do not know a moment in human history
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when which there have been more problems
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and there have been more panaceas,
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and the human family is crying out,
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is there any balm in Gilead.
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But I want you to know that I am
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thoroughly impressed with the thought
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that there is no time in my life
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when I should speak more as a minister of the Gospel
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than I speak to you now.
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I did not come to you, I have too much respect for that,
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and for you, I did not come to you today
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with a collection of pious platitudes
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to remind you that you're standing at the crossroads.
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I do not believe that your generation is standing anyplace.
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You're a generation constantly on the move.
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I didn't come to tell you that this is
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a momentous crossroads event in your own life.
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If you do not know that now,
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there is no need in my reminding you of it.
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I did not come to tell you that these are troublesome days.
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If you did not know that by now,
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there is no way that I can explain it.
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I did not come to remind you that moral values are on trial
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and that we're once more living
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in old arena of a new sophistication.
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If you did not know that,
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there is no way that I can explain it.
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I did come to talk to you a bit
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about your education and about you,
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and about the human equation in the world
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where the human equation is not always
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as important as we would want it to me.
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I came to talk to you about your life
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and about your relationship to your generation.
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Christian education is what Duke proposes to do,
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at its best must be an impulse,
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an impulse that shall determine the new
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and the better world than which we have,
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and where you have a stake, and where I have a stake,
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and where I have put out a claim.
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We fall into the error every now and again
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of thinking that education is merely
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the accumulation of facts.
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This is part of education to be sure,
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and no rationally-minded man would deny it,
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but it is only a half truth.
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Brilliance could be our salvation,
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but brilliance without morality and dedication
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could also be our doom.
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In popular current thought, there are really
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three ideas of education.
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One is that it's ornamental,
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it's the in thing to have a diploma.
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When I was in school, it was the in thing
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to have a fraternity pin.
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And when I came to this university I came out
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of a small, liberal arts, church-related college
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that had less than 400 students
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and there were no fraternities,
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and all my life I wanted to be in one,
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and I pledged when I was in theological school,
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and preachers don't pledge much to fraternities.
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But I did and had a perfectly delightful time.
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And then the time came for initiation and graduation,
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for initiation into the lodge itself,
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and I remember well the initiation fee was $90.
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$90 in 1935.
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$90 would have put a new roof on the chapel.
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It represented a fourth of what my little church
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paid me annually, so I couldn't do it.
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And I set a record,
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I was a pledge for 35 years.
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(congregation laughing)
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Which is a bit abnormal,
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and yet I never was allowed to do it
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because I didn't have the $90.
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And then in due season, when I was the bishop of the Church
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in Birmingham, Alabama 36 years later
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the officers of the Order of Kappa Alpha
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came to me and said, "We would like to have
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"a special initiation and initiate you
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"at long last into the Order,
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"and the National Chapter has given us
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"the privilege of doing it,
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"and your credentials are in order."
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And I was initiated a member of the Lodge.
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And immediately, though long since had I passed its glamor,
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bought myself a fraternity pin
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with all the jewels and all the diamonds.
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You needed one, you should have one, it was necessary to me,
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it was the ornamental part of education
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not entirely to be despised.
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It gave me a status.
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And then there is the feeling that education
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is not only ornamental, it's good to have a college diploma,
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and one that you can hang on the wall and show.
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It is also commercial.
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Every now and again, I get a bit weary
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of the rotary speakers who've been to our club
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to remind us of the advantages of college.
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You can get a better salary than if you did not go.
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I would not underestimate
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the meaning of the importance of it,
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I simply would remind you that education
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is infinitely more than this.
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But there is another idea of education traced back to Plato.
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Education is to create a craving for the good,
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and the true, and the beautiful.
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It is then, it appears to me, part of your task
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to recapture this ideal of education and life,
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and purify it by religious faith
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until it is built into our modern life.
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It is still a sad commentary on American life,
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with all of its towering cathedrals like this
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and with its great halls of learning,
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that we are thrilled and amused
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by the cheap, and the vulgar, and the unclean.
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Cannot fill the movie house unless it's X.
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Your generation would do well to remember
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what my generations seems to have forgotten.
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Woodrow Wilson put it in unusual terms,
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that civilization cannot be saved materially
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until it has been redeemed spiritually.
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The Baccalaureate Service is a unique service in our lives.
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The very fact that a representative of religion
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is invited to have one of the last words with you
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before you graduate symbolizes the truth
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that while religion does not dictate the curricular,
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it does gather up the threads of all the subjects
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and gives them unity, and purpose,
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and meaning for life.
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Now that you're about to receive the long-awaited diploma
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I think there's some obligations on your part
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and I come now to talk to you about your obligations
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rather than our gifts to you.
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I think there are some obligations on your part
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as a result of the education
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that you have received at Duke University.
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I wanted to say four things to you and then we shall go.
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First is the obligation to see clearly.
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Certainly the age in which we live
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calls for men of vision, people of vision,
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for as Daniel reminded us a good many years ago
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that where there is no vision, the people perish.
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While a later prophet reminded us
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that your old men shall dream dreams,
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and your young men shall see visions.
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A nonsense about the feeling that no person
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has a right to a diploma whose soul is locked up
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to all of the magnificent opportunities
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that await him or her when he or she
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walks across the college stage and onto life's stage.
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There is a line which Saint Paul writes,
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which Dr. Moffet translates,
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"The spiritual man is alive to all true values."
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After all, it isn't what you see with the physical eye,
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but that which flashes upon the inward eye
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that inspires our attitudes and gives us
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a wholesome outlook upon life.
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Educated, sure.
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You are now obligated to see clearly.
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I wish every now and again that education and religion
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both could appeal more to young people
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on the grounds of what they're missing,
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rather than on the grounds of what they mustn't.
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Young people have an idea that religion is a straitjacket
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put over them by their elders in order to make them behave.
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Religion and education go together.
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When the University called and asked me
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for a subject for today's message,
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over and over again in my own mind
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I've been wrestling with the seal of Duke University.
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I looked at it again this morning
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as I looked at it again on yesterday.
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A round circle and over the top of the circle two words:
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Eruditio et Religio.
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In the center of it a cross.
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Eruditio.
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How cold facts would be unless appropriated by a warm heart.
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How cold and unreasonable religion can get
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when it becomes unfounded on reality.
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Eruditio, all that you've learned, and all that you know,
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and all that you've accumulated,
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and all that you've brought together.
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As I came down the aisle, even this morning,
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as well as yesterday, I saw the disciplines
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out of which you have come, now to face your graduation.
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Among you there are engineers, and there are scientists,
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and there are physicians, and there are nurses,
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and there are theologians, and there are ministers
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and there are undergraduates
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getting their Baccalaureate degree.
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All of us are here together.
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Eruditio, what do you know?
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Well that is an inadequate question
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that can only bring an inadequate answer.
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Eruditio et Religio, not only what do you know,
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but who are you,
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and what is the faith that motivates and propels your life.
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What are the ideals
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that you would bet your life on?
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You see, the right and the wrong use of knowledge
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is strikingly illustrated in the life of Aaron Burr.
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Two well-known American characters,
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one would be Aaron Burr, and one would be Abraham Lincoln.
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Aaron Burr, one of the most brilliant minds
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that America has ever produced,
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still stands as one of Princeton University's
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highest academic accomplishments.
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But Aaron Burr was morally bankrupt.
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Abraham Lincoln, educated by the light of a pine knot,
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using borrowed books in a leaky cabin,
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broadened his spirit and deepened his sympathies
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that he became one of our best-educated men.
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I only came to remind you
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that there is no education without character.
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That's the message of the seal of your university.
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That not only is the obligation to see clearly,
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there is the obligation on the part
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of the intelligent man to think.
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Henry van Dyke was right when he said,
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"To think without confusion clearly should be
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"one of the prime goals of life."
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Man, with his mind has mastered the forces of nature
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and has made them his slaves.
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He touches the soil and makes it
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provide him food and nourishment.
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He speaks to the hills and they give up
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their ore and their precious gold.
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He commands the winds and the clippers
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carry him to the end of the Earth.
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He speaks to the lightning
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and his voice is heard in a hundred places.
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Ah, men,
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what potential thou hast.
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We lived once in Birmingham, Alabama
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and the department stores of that lovely city
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have an annual sale day,
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and they make you think they're reducing
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everything they have to a bare nothing,
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and maybe they are,
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and on that day annually I took
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my teenage high school daughter shopping.
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We'd gone over to the department store
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and had accumulated all the bargains
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that the Visa and the Master charge allow you to have.
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(congregation chuckling)
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And then we started out the door and there was a counter,
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a counter full of miscellaneous things.
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And then there was a counter
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that had a beautifully printed sign on it.
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I leave it with you.
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The sign said,
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"If dreams were for sale,
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what would you buy today?"
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A dream of a world at peace,
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a dream of a world of order,
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a dream of a world of moral decency,
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a dream of a world when men shall beat their swords,
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and the plow shears, and their spears,
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and their pruning hooks.
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I dream of a world when the nasty word of disease
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shall no longer frighten our people.
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I only wanted to ask this class,
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if dreams were for sale,
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what would you buy?
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Mere intellect is never enough,
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for another obligation of education
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is nobility of character.
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01:13:06.010 --> 01:13:09.010
Brilliant intellect may be just as cold as an icicle
529
01:13:09.010 --> 01:13:10.993
and quite as useless.
530
01:13:11.830 --> 01:13:14.860
The greatest danger we face in the world today
531
01:13:14.860 --> 01:13:17.623
is that our minds may outrun our spirits.
532
01:13:19.920 --> 01:13:22.470
Look in the field on atomic research.
533
01:13:22.470 --> 01:13:25.860
We're thrilled to think of its possibilities for mankind,
534
01:13:25.860 --> 01:13:30.860
we shudder to think of its possibilities for history.
535
01:13:33.670 --> 01:13:37.180
I climbed the narrow, little steps in houses of Parliament
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01:13:37.180 --> 01:13:40.300
more than a dozen years ago to hear Mr. Winston Churchill
537
01:13:40.300 --> 01:13:44.070
address the English government on England's preparation
538
01:13:44.070 --> 01:13:47.143
against the atomic bomb.
539
01:13:49.010 --> 01:13:53.310
The little man who so deeply mastered the English language
540
01:13:54.840 --> 01:13:57.050
and around whom the hopes of the free world
541
01:13:57.050 --> 01:13:58.883
were written for a while,
542
01:13:59.860 --> 01:14:03.533
looked out at his colleagues in Parliament and said to them,
543
01:14:04.867 --> 01:14:09.057
"We are gathered here to discuss ways of
544
01:14:09.057 --> 01:14:13.033
"protecting ourselves against atomic annihilation.
545
01:14:14.887 --> 01:14:18.347
"May I say to you that the only guarantee
546
01:14:18.347 --> 01:14:21.040
"against atomic annihilation
547
01:14:23.557 --> 01:14:28.557
"is in the character of the people who have the bomb."
548
01:14:32.720 --> 01:14:35.230
Just as sure as I can be,
549
01:14:35.230 --> 01:14:37.780
as I stand here with you this moment,
550
01:14:37.780 --> 01:14:40.580
that character and knowledge together are our only hope.
551
01:14:42.040 --> 01:14:44.420
As I am that knowledge without character
552
01:14:44.420 --> 01:14:47.050
can seal our doom and bring the end
553
01:14:47.050 --> 01:14:49.350
of decent civilization as we understand it.
554
01:14:49.350 --> 01:14:51.633
Eruditio et Religio.
555
01:14:55.690 --> 01:14:57.163
What do you know?
556
01:15:00.530 --> 01:15:04.193
What manner of person are you?
557
01:15:06.090 --> 01:15:07.513
What do you believe?
558
01:15:09.670 --> 01:15:12.540
In the middle of it there is a cross
559
01:15:13.880 --> 01:15:17.470
reminding us of the only solvent personality
560
01:15:19.240 --> 01:15:22.873
in the history of the world's bankruptcy.
561
01:15:27.160 --> 01:15:32.020
Education also imposes upon you, and I say it only briefly,
562
01:15:32.020 --> 01:15:34.420
education imposes upon you
563
01:15:34.420 --> 01:15:37.423
the obligation to serve sacrificially.
564
01:15:40.480 --> 01:15:45.000
You have been trained in one of America's great universities
565
01:15:47.720 --> 01:15:50.343
by one of America's great faculties,
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01:15:55.670 --> 01:15:57.543
what are you going to do with it?
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01:16:06.470 --> 01:16:09.170
Day before yesterday as we were riding here
568
01:16:11.380 --> 01:16:14.480
I was quietly in my own mind celebrating
569
01:16:16.540 --> 01:16:20.198
the 114th anniversary
570
01:16:21.274 --> 01:16:23.857
of my father's birth.
571
01:16:26.620 --> 01:16:28.970
Long since has he gone to what Dr. Paul Green
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01:16:28.970 --> 01:16:32.573
referred to last night as the Celestial City.
573
01:16:35.790 --> 01:16:37.150
He grew up out on the mud banks
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01:16:37.150 --> 01:16:38.610
of a little river in North Carolina
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01:16:38.610 --> 01:16:40.060
known as the Catawba River
576
01:16:40.930 --> 01:16:44.560
where the opportunities for advancement were not much
577
01:16:44.560 --> 01:16:48.110
and his education consisted of an occasional day
578
01:16:48.110 --> 01:16:52.200
in a one-room building where an itinerant teacher
579
01:16:52.200 --> 01:16:55.723
would come by and stake out his claim.
580
01:17:01.360 --> 01:17:05.170
I grew up in a town in the state that had the first,
581
01:17:05.170 --> 01:17:09.403
we thought it was, the first million-dollar high school.
582
01:17:13.270 --> 01:17:15.833
Our high school had a short-wave radio station,
583
01:17:17.210 --> 01:17:19.120
it had the makings of elevator shafts
584
01:17:19.120 --> 01:17:21.350
at each end of the hall,
585
01:17:21.350 --> 01:17:25.331
we had private lockers and revolving cafeterias,
586
01:17:25.331 --> 01:17:30.331
and everything that 50 years ago a modern high school had.
587
01:17:32.950 --> 01:17:35.430
People came from far and wide to see it
588
01:17:38.107 --> 01:17:40.513
and one day I took my father to see it.
589
01:17:43.890 --> 01:17:47.810
We rode in front of its yellow brick structure,
590
01:17:47.810 --> 01:17:51.337
and I parked the family car, and said, "There it is."
591
01:17:54.553 --> 01:17:57.923
Then I looked at my dad and said to him,
592
01:17:59.237 --> 01:18:03.840
"Old fella, what would you have given
593
01:18:05.297 --> 01:18:07.387
"to have gone to a school like that?"
594
01:18:10.751 --> 01:18:12.501
And I could tell that I'd hurt him,
595
01:18:14.170 --> 01:18:18.293
and all the regret of his life flashed to the surface.
596
01:18:21.110 --> 01:18:24.013
But he was too much the man to reply.
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01:18:24.890 --> 01:18:27.100
So after a while we rode on
598
01:18:29.450 --> 01:18:32.520
and in a few moments he laid his hand
599
01:18:32.520 --> 01:18:34.943
upon my knee as I drove,
600
01:18:36.820 --> 01:18:38.343
and he said, "Son,
601
01:18:40.257 --> 01:18:43.243
"may I remind you, and you never forget,
602
01:18:46.457 --> 01:18:51.263
"that to whom much has been given,
603
01:19:01.460 --> 01:19:06.027
Duke University has given you itself,
604
01:19:09.500 --> 01:19:11.773
blue and white will ever be yours,
605
01:19:13.600 --> 01:19:16.033
the Blue Devils will ever be yours,
606
01:19:17.700 --> 01:19:20.080
the brains and the intellect
607
01:19:20.080 --> 01:19:24.903
of the faculty and the administration will ever be yours.
608
01:19:27.020 --> 01:19:29.230
I only wanted to remind you
609
01:19:31.170 --> 01:19:33.443
that to whom much is given,
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01:19:37.693 --> 01:19:40.173
much shall be required.
611
01:19:44.930 --> 01:19:47.087
Would you bow your heads for a moment?
612
01:19:51.879 --> 01:19:55.662
In the beauty and in the quietness
613
01:19:55.662 --> 01:19:58.770
of this lovely place
614
01:20:03.100 --> 01:20:06.380
we commit ourselves to all that is good,
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01:20:07.900 --> 01:20:09.640
fine,
616
01:20:09.640 --> 01:20:10.473
decent,
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01:20:13.620 --> 01:20:16.040
and whatsoever things that of good report
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01:20:17.960 --> 01:20:21.043
enable us to think upon those things.
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01:20:29.070 --> 01:20:30.710
may we never forget
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01:20:34.010 --> 01:20:36.570
that in the midst of them is a cross
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01:20:38.000 --> 01:20:43.000
and he who hangs upon that cross is in the midst of history.
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01:20:44.960 --> 01:20:49.793
Hear our prayers through Jesus Christ our Lord.
623
01:20:51.490 --> 01:20:52.323
Amen.
624
01:21:00.560 --> 01:21:01.773
Will you stand please?
625
01:21:14.720 --> 01:21:18.560
With one voice let us affirm what we believe.
626
01:21:19.700 --> 01:21:24.660
We believe in God, who has created and is creating,
627
01:21:24.660 --> 01:21:27.750
who has come in the truly human Jesus
628
01:21:27.750 --> 01:21:29.863
to reconcile and make new.
629
01:21:30.810 --> 01:21:35.450
We trust God who calls us to be the Church,
630
01:21:35.450 --> 01:21:37.803
to celebrate life and its fullness,
631
01:21:38.890 --> 01:21:41.260
to love and serve others,
632
01:21:41.260 --> 01:21:44.390
to seek justice and resist evil,
633
01:21:44.390 --> 01:21:48.270
to proclaim Jesus, crucified and risen,
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01:21:48.270 --> 01:21:50.083
our judge and our hope.
635
01:21:51.010 --> 01:21:56.010
In life, in death, in life beyond death, God is with us.
636
01:21:58.050 --> 01:21:59.960
We are not alone.
637
01:21:59.960 --> 01:22:01.483
Thanks be to God.
638
01:22:02.940 --> 01:22:04.654
The Lord be with you.
639
01:22:04.654 --> 01:22:06.200
And with your spirit.
640
01:22:06.200 --> 01:22:07.290
Let us pray.
641
01:22:07.290 --> 01:22:08.543
Be seated please.
642
01:22:18.860 --> 01:22:20.343
Oh Lord, our God,
643
01:22:22.730 --> 01:22:26.343
it is good to come to a moment such as this,
644
01:22:27.940 --> 01:22:31.050
a moment of recognition, of accomplishment,
645
01:22:31.050 --> 01:22:33.023
of joy and celebration.
646
01:22:34.680 --> 01:22:39.140
We give thanks to You, oh Lord, for all that has been good,
647
01:22:39.140 --> 01:22:43.713
enlightening, maturing, and enriching in this place.
648
01:22:45.430 --> 01:22:48.610
These have been times and days filled with change,
649
01:22:48.610 --> 01:22:53.610
with questions, with unease, with good times, and sad times,
650
01:22:54.250 --> 01:22:59.140
with work and rest, with action and reflection,
651
01:22:59.140 --> 01:23:02.010
with movement and with calm.
652
01:23:02.010 --> 01:23:06.290
Times, oh God, that have bound us to one another
653
01:23:06.290 --> 01:23:09.283
in friendships that will last forever,
654
01:23:10.400 --> 01:23:15.070
that have stirred us and stretched us in such helpful ways
655
01:23:15.070 --> 01:23:18.070
that we dare not go back to our old selves,
656
01:23:18.070 --> 01:23:20.373
old thoughts, and old ways.
657
01:23:21.370 --> 01:23:24.610
Times filled with long days,
658
01:23:24.610 --> 01:23:28.150
difficult and yet rewarding hours of study,
659
01:23:28.150 --> 01:23:29.620
and struggles that have brought
660
01:23:29.620 --> 01:23:32.093
deep and lasting satisfaction.
661
01:23:33.260 --> 01:23:37.470
Times spent searching, oh God, for self,
662
01:23:37.470 --> 01:23:41.593
for others, for truth, and justice, and right.
663
01:23:42.560 --> 01:23:45.540
Times, oh God, for those who graduate
664
01:23:45.540 --> 01:23:49.443
that have reshaped, remolded and remade life.
665
01:23:50.520 --> 01:23:53.920
Help us all now to know that Commencement
666
01:23:53.920 --> 01:23:56.880
is not end, but beginning.
667
01:23:56.880 --> 01:23:58.620
That the end of this experience
668
01:23:58.620 --> 01:24:01.703
is where we being all over again.
669
01:24:03.590 --> 01:24:06.380
We give thanks for the efforts of all teachers
670
01:24:06.380 --> 01:24:10.600
who's lives have influenced these who graduate,
671
01:24:10.600 --> 01:24:14.270
for a staff of deans, counselors, president, and others
672
01:24:14.270 --> 01:24:17.103
who really do care about each one,
673
01:24:18.210 --> 01:24:21.630
for the support that has come from family, and friends,
674
01:24:21.630 --> 01:24:25.630
and often even from strangers unaware,
675
01:24:25.630 --> 01:24:27.870
for the commitment each graduate has had
676
01:24:27.870 --> 01:24:30.700
to reach this point in life,
677
01:24:30.700 --> 01:24:33.700
for their long hours of work and study,
678
01:24:33.700 --> 01:24:35.830
for determination and perseverance,
679
01:24:35.830 --> 01:24:40.593
and now for the much inner satisfaction which they know.
680
01:24:41.890 --> 01:24:46.890
Oh God, for each one make of learning a lifelong experience,
681
01:24:48.840 --> 01:24:52.080
make of serving a lifelong action,
682
01:24:52.080 --> 01:24:54.833
make of sharing a lifelong desire,
683
01:24:55.740 --> 01:24:59.703
make of being obedient to You a lifelong commitment.
684
01:25:01.230 --> 01:25:04.200
With gratitude that You have brought us this far
685
01:25:05.090 --> 01:25:08.890
we pray for Your help in the time to come
686
01:25:08.890 --> 01:25:12.640
that all our lives may add to the fullness,
687
01:25:12.640 --> 01:25:16.840
the goodness, and the wholeness of this world
688
01:25:16.840 --> 01:25:20.220
and of all we meet along the way.
689
01:25:20.220 --> 01:25:23.430
We pray, oh God, in the name of him who came
690
01:25:24.560 --> 01:25:29.260
teaching, learning, serving and loving,
691
01:25:29.260 --> 01:25:31.643
and hear us now as we pray together.
692
01:25:32.710 --> 01:25:36.000
Our Father, who art in Heaven,
693
01:25:36.000 --> 01:25:38.480
hallowed be Thy name.
694
01:25:38.480 --> 01:25:39.900
Thy kingdom come,
695
01:25:39.900 --> 01:25:41.780
Thy will be done,
696
01:25:41.780 --> 01:25:44.450
on earth as it is in Heaven.
697
01:25:44.450 --> 01:25:47.500
Give us this day our daily bread
698
01:25:47.500 --> 01:25:49.970
and forgive us our trespasses,
699
01:25:49.970 --> 01:25:53.690
as we forgive those who trespass against us,
700
01:25:53.690 --> 01:25:56.440
and lead us not into temptation,
701
01:25:56.440 --> 01:25:58.770
but deliver us from evil.
702
01:25:58.770 --> 01:26:02.110
For thine is the Kingdom, and the power,
703
01:26:02.110 --> 01:26:03.560
and the glory forever.
704
01:26:04.679 --> 01:26:05.512
Amen.
705
01:26:17.544 --> 01:26:20.711
(organ music playing)
706
01:26:22.957 --> 01:26:27.957
♪ Alleluia, amen, amen, alleluia, amen ♪
707
01:26:28.702 --> 01:26:33.702
♪ Alleluia, amen, amen, alleluia, amen ♪
708
01:26:33.948 --> 01:26:38.365
♪ Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, amen ♪
709
01:26:39.910 --> 01:26:43.410
(choir singing continues)
710
01:26:47.704 --> 01:26:52.704
♪ Alleluia, amen, amen, alleluia, amen ♪
711
01:26:53.575 --> 01:26:58.158
♪ Alleluia, amen, amen, alleluia, amen ♪
712
01:26:59.109 --> 01:27:02.609
(choir singing continues)
713
01:27:22.111 --> 01:27:27.111
♪ Alleluia, amen, amen, alleluia, amen ♪
714
01:27:28.303 --> 01:27:33.303
♪ Alleluia, amen, amen, alleluia, amen ♪
715
01:27:33.629 --> 01:27:38.046
♪ Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, amen ♪
716
01:27:39.154 --> 01:27:42.654
(choir continues singing)
717
01:27:46.879 --> 01:27:51.879
♪ Alleluia, amen, amen, alleluia, amen ♪
718
01:27:53.337 --> 01:27:57.920
♪ Alleluia, amen, amen, alleluia, amen ♪
719
01:27:58.920 --> 01:28:02.420
(choir continues singing)
720
01:28:21.394 --> 01:28:25.977
♪ Alleluia, amen, amen, alleluia, amen ♪
721
01:28:38.085 --> 01:28:43.085
♪ Alleluia, amen, amen, alleluia, amen ♪
722
01:28:44.791 --> 01:28:47.578
♪ Amen ♪
723
01:28:47.578 --> 01:28:50.355
♪ Amen ♪
724
01:28:50.355 --> 01:28:54.322
♪ Alleluia ♪
725
01:28:54.322 --> 01:28:56.239
♪ Amen ♪
726
01:29:10.060 --> 01:29:13.170
Will you join with me now as we offer to God
727
01:29:13.170 --> 01:29:17.393
a unison prayer of gratitude and of hope.
728
01:29:18.230 --> 01:29:19.193
Let us pray.
729
01:29:20.640 --> 01:29:23.960
Almighty God, who has granted us place
730
01:29:23.960 --> 01:29:26.840
and part in this university,
731
01:29:26.840 --> 01:29:31.480
hallow to us now this day when we dedicate ourselves
732
01:29:31.480 --> 01:29:35.733
to the life and work to which You have hear called us.
733
01:29:36.630 --> 01:29:39.110
That we may remember with gratitude
734
01:29:39.110 --> 01:29:42.740
the families and friends who have cared for us.
735
01:29:42.740 --> 01:29:47.740
We ask Your presence, oh God, that in the life ahead of us
736
01:29:48.200 --> 01:29:50.100
we may keep faith with those
737
01:29:50.100 --> 01:29:53.110
who have love us, and trusted us,
738
01:29:53.110 --> 01:29:55.510
and whose hopes follow us.
739
01:29:55.510 --> 01:29:57.923
We ask Your presence, oh God,
740
01:29:58.900 --> 01:30:03.230
that we may enter with good courage and constant purpose
741
01:30:03.230 --> 01:30:06.080
upon the tasks which await us.
742
01:30:06.080 --> 01:30:09.270
We ask Your presence, oh God,
743
01:30:09.270 --> 01:30:13.280
from all sense of strangeness, and loneliness,
744
01:30:13.280 --> 01:30:15.630
and from the fear that we may fail
745
01:30:15.630 --> 01:30:18.150
and may find no friends.
746
01:30:18.150 --> 01:30:20.140
Good Lord, deliver us
747
01:30:21.240 --> 01:30:25.680
from neglect of the opportunities which are all about us,
748
01:30:25.680 --> 01:30:28.220
and from distrust of our ability to meet
749
01:30:28.220 --> 01:30:31.040
the duties of each dawning day.
750
01:30:31.040 --> 01:30:34.910
Good Lord, deliver us, that the example
751
01:30:34.910 --> 01:30:38.960
of wise and generous people who have gone before us
752
01:30:38.960 --> 01:30:42.230
here at this university may save us
753
01:30:42.230 --> 01:30:45.160
from folly and self-indulgence.
754
01:30:45.160 --> 01:30:50.160
We ask Your presence, oh God, most especially
755
01:30:50.310 --> 01:30:54.010
that You would show to us and to all people
756
01:30:54.010 --> 01:30:57.880
the way of love in a time desperately in need
757
01:30:57.880 --> 01:31:00.030
of persons who care.
758
01:31:00.030 --> 01:31:02.493
We ask Your presence, oh God,
759
01:31:03.390 --> 01:31:05.900
these things and whatever else
760
01:31:05.900 --> 01:31:09.040
You see needful and right for us,
761
01:31:09.040 --> 01:31:11.780
we ask in Your holy name.
762
01:31:11.780 --> 01:31:12.613
Amen.
763
01:31:14.951 --> 01:31:18.201
(organ music playing)