Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam - "The Mission of the Church" (January 15, 1956)

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-	It is hard for us to realize, I think,	0:06
	but once upon a time there was neither a cross nor a church	0:09
	in all of Europe.	0:14
	That was a little more than 1900 years ago	0:16
	before the Apostle Paul entered Greece.	0:18
	Now many here who know, I think that	0:22
	the Greek government recently and the Greek Church	0:24
	decided to celebrate the 1900th anniversary	0:28
	of the coming of St. Paul to that country.	0:30
	Invitations were sent to the nations of the world,	0:34
	to the churches of the world.	0:36
	And if you were pardon me,	0:38
	I had the honor of representing our American churches	0:40
	upon that occasion.	0:42
	The delegates were received with the king and the queen,	0:44
	the Archbishop, the leaders of state and of the church.	0:46
	And then in an extraordinary expression of hospitality,	0:49
	the Greek Church chartered a steamship.	0:53
	And as the guests of the church, we sailed the seas	0:56
	the Apostle Paul had sailed 1900 years before us.	1:01
	I shall never forget the morning	1:06
	we came to the city of Kavala, the ancient city Neapolis,	1:07
	we docked about five o'clock in the morning	1:12
	and already upon either side of the avenue	1:14
	that led from the dock, up the hill toward the cathedral,	1:16
	soldiers had been posted.	1:20
	After the time the procession left the ship,	1:23
	it was met by our procession coming down the hill	1:25
	led by the Archbishop.	1:28
	There were the words of greeting.	1:30
	And then together we went to the cathedral	1:31
	and shared in the holy liturgy of the Greek Church.	1:33
	That is the way we were received	1:38
	in Greece a short time ago.	1:41
	But that's not the way Christianity came to Europe.	1:44
	There was no committee of welcome awaiting Paul and Silas	1:49
	when they came to that city 1900 years before us.	1:52
	You may remember that they walked over the old Roman road	1:56
	to the city of Philippi.	1:59
	We rode in comfortable automobiles,	2:01
	and we looked down upon the very stones	2:03
	their feet had touched 19 centuries ago.	2:05
	It's not my purpose this morning	2:09
	to relate the Philippian episode,	2:11
	but you'll remember the first convert to Christianity	2:13
	in all of Europe was one there, Lydia a seller of purple.	2:16
	And then you'll remember there was rioting,	2:21
	Paul and Silas was stripped and beaten	2:24
	and thrown into the inner prison.	2:26
	That night an earthquake, the doors fell out	2:30
	and the jailer fearful least he lose his prisoners.	2:32
	And you'll recall in those days,	2:35
	if a jailer lost a prisoner, he might be executed.	2:37
	The jailer rushed into the prison and Paul noting the man,	2:40
	said, "Do yourself no harm. We're still here."	2:44
	It seems incredible.	2:49
	But before very long,	2:51
	the jailer actually turns to the prisoner and says to Paul,	2:52
	"Sir, what must I do to be saved?"	2:55
	The answer then is now	3:01
	believe on the Lord, Jesus Christ.	3:03
	It is hard to believe the record,	3:07
	but before that day was over,	3:09
	these prisoners are seated at the table of the jailer,	3:11
	the jailer and his family baptized.	3:14
	That is the way Christianity came to Philippi.	3:17
	The early Christian was guaranteed no security.	3:22
	There was no certainty of comfort.	3:26
	This very man, Paul could write these words	3:28
	I quote him exactly,	3:30
	"I have been often at the point of death,	3:32
	five times that I got 40 lashes,	3:34
	all but one from the Jews,	3:36
	three times beaten by the Romans.	3:38
	Once pelted with stones, three time shipwrecked,	3:40
	drifted sea for the whole night and a day."	3:43
	And then he goes on through dangers of rivers	3:45
	and robbers of town and desert.	3:48
	Starving many a time, cold and little clad,	3:51
	and then lest he tires he says and all the rest of it.	3:53
	No Christianity did not bring security to these men,	3:58
	but it did something for them.	4:00
	It puts strength into their minds	4:03
	and sympathy into their hearts	4:05
	and steal into their will	4:06
	until this man Paul could actually say this,	4:07
	"None of these things moves me.	4:10
	I have been initiated into the secret	4:16
	for all sorts and conditions of life."	4:18
	It seems as though he is boasting.	4:20
	He says, "Wherever I go, thank God.	4:22
	He makes my life a constant pageant of triumph in Christ."	4:24
	And finally he climaxes with all with this,	4:29
	"I have fought a good fight. I've kept the faith."	4:33
	What was the faith? These men brought to Europe.	4:37
	It is the mission of the church.	4:41
	So to proclaim the faith that the faith comes alive	4:43
	in the practices of the common life,	4:46
	what was this faith?	4:50
	Will these early Christians really believed	4:52
	that this is our father's world.	4:55
	They believe that moral purposes	4:58
	written into the nature of things.	5:00
	They honestly believed	5:02
	that the eternal who keeps the stars and their courses	5:04
	notes the spirals fall.	5:07
	They believed that God's love wasn't an impersonal love	5:10
	for mankind in general.	5:14
	It was a personal love for each one of us in particular.	5:16
	These men would've found it a bit difficult	5:21
	to have understood Einstein in his statement.	5:23
	One of the great minds of all history,	5:26
	Professor Einstein contemplating the universe.	5:29
	One day, he wrote using a magnificent phrase.	5:33
	He spoke of the grandeur of reason incarnate,	5:39
	the regularities of the universe,	5:45
	the grandeur of reason incarnate.	5:48
	But these early Christians went beyond that.	5:51
	Beyond that they could not think in the terms of course,	5:54
	in which he thinks.	5:57
	But they could see more	5:59
	than the grandeur of reason incarnate.	6:01
	They beheld a glory of love infinite.	6:03
	These men and women so believe	6:07
	that when they sought to put the faith	6:10
	into a creedal statement, they said,	6:12
	I believe in God the Father Almighty.	6:14
	They believe that a man's relation to God is personal.	6:19
	It is direct. It is immediate.	6:22
	Nothing stands between a man and the eternal,	6:25
	nothing save his own will.	6:27
	They really believe that nothing can separate a man	6:30
	from the love of God, nothing.	6:33
	And when a man knows that he knows	6:35
	that in all matters affecting his eternal welfare,	6:37
	he's beyond the reach of any human dictator.	6:40
	He's not dependent upon any human institution.	6:44
	He can face the future unafraid.	6:47
	He can take anything that may happen to him	6:50
	and do it in the certainty and the serenity	6:53
	that categorized Jesus.	6:55
	It's all very easy to say this,	6:57
	I believe in God the Father Almighty.	7:00
	I don't know about you,	7:04
	but my faith has cost me nothing, nothing.	7:06
	I've never been in prison.	7:11
	Nobody's ever thrown a rock at me.	7:13
	I've never been hungry.	7:15
	I don't know the meaning of the word persecution.	7:17
	My faith has cost me nothing.	7:21
	It has come to me by way of heritage,	7:24
	just as my freedom has come.	7:27
	But during recent years,	7:30
	I've had the privilege of working with men	7:31
	whose faith has cost them something,	7:33
	in the executive committee	7:37
	of the Royal Council of Churches so often.	7:38
	I've had the privilege of sitting next	7:42
	to Berggrav of Norway.	7:44
	The former primate of the Norwegian church,	7:46
	one of the great ecclesiastic leaders of the world.	7:48
	You remember it was Berggrav who gave the word	7:52
	when the Nazis came into Norway?	7:54
	a Bayno dictated the Nazi and the realm of the spiritual.	7:57
	Of course he was thrown into prison.	8:00
	Suffered, health impaired, he'll not be with us much longer.	8:02
	His faith is costing something.	8:07
	There at the same table Martin Niemoller,	8:09
	eight years in the prisons of Hitler,	8:12
	and a man perhaps not so well known to you.	8:14
	I refer to Bishop Lilje, Bishop of Hanover,	8:17
	the President of the Lutheran World Federation.	8:21
	If you know him you will recall	8:24
	that he was a speaker of unusual power.	8:26
	Speaking to German students in the great universities,	8:30
	dealing with profound themes he had so mastered them	8:33
	that he could speak simply,	8:36
	but he was anti Hitler.	8:39
	He knew the day would come around the night,	8:41
	when there would be the knock upon the door.	8:43
	It came, it was a Saturday night.	8:45
	He was making ready for the great congregation	8:47
	he would face on the morrow.	8:50
	He's written a little book called,	8:52
	"In the Valley of the Shadow."	8:53
	It's going to take its place in the classics	8:55
	of the literature of courage.	8:58
	He writes,	9:00
	'The most terrible moment for me	9:01
	was when the steel door of my cell slam shut.	9:03
	There was an awful finality about it.	9:06
	Separating me from my home, my family, my church.	9:07
	It seems hard to believe with the Nazis	9:11
	actually fetted man at night.	9:13
	It wasn't enough to put him in a cell,	9:15
	chains from his wrists to his ankles at night.	9:18
	They took the punished man in the daytime.'	9:22
	One day he writes,	9:26
	I heard a prisoner whistling right down the cell block.	9:27
	Oh, for a thousand tongues to sing	9:31
	my great redeemers praise.	9:33
	He said, I rushed to the bars of my cell	9:35
	and I whistled back and definitely,	9:37
	and oh, for a thousand tongues to sing	9:38
	until the guards silenced us.	9:41
	Then came his first Christmas Eve in prison.	9:44
	He was thinking of his family,	9:46
	thinking of the congregation he had addressed	9:48
	the year before.	9:50
	He remembered even the text.	9:51
	The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light.	9:53
	It came from Isaiah.	9:56
	It was 11 o'clock at night and he heard his number called.	9:57
	He said, as a rule, that meant nothing good.	10:01
	The guard came unlocked the door,	10:03
	took the fetters from him and said, follow me.	10:05
	He walked down the cell block and came to the commandant.	10:08
	The commandant said to the guard roughly,	10:11
	bring number 212 also.	10:14
	212 was one of the great violinists of Germany.	10:17
	And he was under sentence of execution.	10:20
	Together they walked to another cell.	10:23
	The door was open standing there was a German Count,	10:25
	Bishop Lilia knew him.	10:28
	He wondered what it meant.	10:29
	And then he understood the Count was soon to go	10:30
	and had asked for the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper.	10:35
	Bishop Lilje writes,	10:39
	I had my congregation, the commandant, the Count,	10:41
	the violinist, the guards stood just outside the cell door.	10:45
	He said they brought a bit of bread and wine	10:50
	and it seemed to befitting to read the lesson	10:52
	for the Christmas day.	10:54
	Now it came to pass I went without a decree.	10:55
	The violin has played a Bach corral, exquisitely.	10:59
	Then writes the Bishop,	11:03
	The Count knelt down upon the hard stone floor,	11:06
	and as I prayed aloud the ancient prayer of confession,	11:09
	from Thomas Campbell which he himself had chosen,	11:14
	and pronounced absolution,	11:17
	the tears were streaming silently down his cheeks.	11:18
	It was a very quiet celebration of the Sacrament, he writes.	11:22
	Full of divine mercy,	11:26
	almost palpably we felt the wings of the divine mercy	11:27
	hovering over us.	11:31
	We we're prisoners of Gestapo Berlin,	11:32
	but the peace of God enfolded us.	11:35
	It was very real in prison,	11:37
	like a hand laid gently upon us.	11:39
	Nothing can separate a man from the love of God.	11:44
	It is the mission of the church.	11:47
	So to proclaim that,	11:48
	that God does in fact become relevant	11:50
	to all the activities of men.	11:52
	I believe in God the Father Almighty.	11:56
	But isn't it strange that when the jailer said to Paul,	11:59
	"Sir, what must I do to be saved?"	12:03
	Paul, didn't say, believe in God,	12:05
	that isn't what he said at all.	12:09
	He said, "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ."	12:10
	Why did he put it that way?	12:14
	I don't know.	12:16
	But we can surmise.	12:19
	Certainly the eternal has known from the beginning,	12:21
	what it takes us a long, long time to learn namely,	12:24
	that ideas are meaningful for most men	12:27
	when they are beheld incarnate in other men.	12:30
	If you want to know the meaning of an idea,	12:33
	you must see it alive in a person.	12:35
	Have you ever noticed this?	12:38
	Mother's Day.	12:41
	Some preacher takes a half an hour	12:42
	trying to tell somebody what a mother is.	12:45
	Most of these sermons are sentimental not to say silly.	12:49
	Why should an individual take a half an hour	12:53
	trying to tell anybody what a mother is?	12:56
	All that's necessary is to have a young woman	12:58
	come into the sanctuary with a baby in her arms.	13:01
	When you see a mother, you know the meaning of the term.	13:05
	At the very heart of the Christian faith is this belief.	13:10
	And it's the mission of the church to proclaim it.	13:13
	That the Eternal took upon Himself	13:15
	the limitations of humanity.	13:17
	The ultimate became intimate.	13:21
	Perfection came alive in personality,	13:23
	or as the book puts it, the Word became flesh.	13:26
	And dwell among us.	13:30
	If you would know the eternal,	13:32
	study the mast.	13:36
	I know we must undergird the faith with sound theology.	13:39
	I would not for a moment discount the theologian	13:43
	he has his necessary and proper place.	13:45
	Obviously there must be technical jargon	13:49
	in this field as in other fields.	13:51
	But for me, it is easier	13:54
	to turn to my blessed Lord.	13:57
	Let me suggest it.	14:00
	I know this isn't in the record.	14:01
	Would you imagine that when Jesus left Nazareth,	14:02
	perhaps Mary stood there in the doorway	14:05
	waving goodbye to him, not as we do,	14:07
	but perhaps with a gesture of the near East.	14:10
	They have an interesting gesture there.	14:12
	When someone goes, they wave like this.	14:14
	You're going away, come back.	14:16
	I don't know that she did that.	14:17
	He starts upon His ministry.	14:20
	Will you think	14:22
	that seated upon a great stone beneath a tree	14:23
	and a crowd about him? He's teaching,	14:25
	they're listening intently.	14:27
	As a little girl outside that crowd	14:29
	she's been caught by his voice.	14:30
	Perhaps she may have seen his eyes.	14:32
	She breaks the stem of a Palestinian Lily,	14:34
	and she's going to give it to Him.	14:36
	She makes her way in and out among the older people	14:37
	as only a child can,	14:39
	and she's about to give him the Lillian one,	14:40
	the older person's restrains her.	14:43
	I don't know that it was at that time that Jesus said,	14:46
	"Suffer the little children to come unto me,"	14:49
	but He might have.	14:51
	I think He would've taken that child into His arms	14:53
	and he might have said to her, "What's your name?"	14:55
	And she might have said, "My name is Mary."	14:59
	And if she had, I know that Jesus would've said to her,	15:02
	"Oh, that's a beautiful name. That's my mother's name."	15:05
	And she might have given Him the flower	15:08
	and Jesus might have said,	15:11
	"Mary, do you know who takes care of the flowers?"	15:13
	If she had said, "No," I think Jesus would've told her	15:16
	the one who cares for the flowers,	15:19
	but cares infinitely more for every child	15:21
	upon the face of the earth,	15:23
	white, black, red, yellow, brown,	15:25
	every child God's like that.	15:28
	I can understand that.	15:32
	I believe in Jesus Christ, His only Son our Lord.	15:33
	I see Him again this time in the great city,	15:37
	there's a crowd, they're going to stone a woman	15:40
	who is supposed to have made a mistake.	15:43
	When are we going to learn that you don't solve problems	15:46
	by throwing rocks?	15:48
	These hypocrites because mobs are always made up	15:50
	of cowards and hypocrites.	15:53
	Jesus stepping into the crowd.	15:56
	Know me and only Jesus,	15:58
	but I think a man with his eyes flashing turns upon them,	15:59
	He knows them.	16:02
	If any of you haven't sinned, you cast a stone	16:03
	her will you?	16:05
	In a moment, they've hidden the stones and they've gone.	16:07
	And Jesus looking down, "Woman where are thine accusers?"	16:11
	"O Lord, they've all gone."	16:15
	"Neither do I condemn you.	16:19
	You go your way and sin no more."	16:21
	God's like that.	16:23
	I can understand that.	16:25
	And when he kneels in the garden, yearning for life,	16:27
	loving it as you love it and I love it.	16:29
	Suddenly one realizes that God Himself suffers.	16:31
	Of course He does.	16:34
	He has to deal with you and with me,	16:36
	how can He do other? Than suffer.	16:38
	I did not come here today to repeat the creed,	16:42
	an entirely different purpose.	16:44
	I believe in God the Father Almighty.	16:46
	It's the mission of the church to proclaim it	16:48
	until it soul lives in the common life	16:50
	that it really it is regiment.	16:52
	I believe in Jesus Christ, His only Son our Lord.	16:55
	I am glad they climax that creed with the affirmation,	16:58
	I believe in the life everlasting,	17:01
	do you?	17:05
	I mean really.	17:07
	I know at the beginning of my ministry,	17:09
	when I was called upon to read those words,	17:11
	as we laid out dead away,	17:13
	there were times when I wondered,	17:15
	how can the power	17:17
	that directs the universe,	17:21
	these millions of suns,	17:25
	be interested in one individual	17:28
	who is here for a few years and gone.	17:32
	I was trying to compare out what cannot be compared.	17:36
	There is no statement to the creed	17:39
	that I can repeat with greater assurance today	17:41
	than the last one.	17:44
	I believe in the life everlasting.	17:45
	Well, you pardon me?	17:49
	During the world war, I flew over the Anzio Beachhead.	17:50
	I looked down upon that costly bit of sand.	17:53
	It seemed to me, it was like a face	17:55
	that had suffered from small pox.	17:56
	The German artillery fire so intense	17:58
	that every square yard had been turned up	18:00
	in the beachhead was Puck Bart.	18:02
	Later, I walked over the beachhead with my youngest son.	18:04
	He said,	18:08
	"Dad, of course the armies have gone to the north now."	18:08
	He said, "I'll take you to my foxhole."	18:11
	I said, "Nonsense,	18:13
	you can't find a foxhole on a beachhead like this."	18:15
	He said, "If you had been here for three and a half months,	18:18
	you could find it."	18:20
	We found it.	18:21
	And then after taking some pictures, he said,	18:22
	"I want you to come with me to the cemetery.	18:25
	It's nearby at a place called Letourneau.	18:27
	He took me to a certain cross and he said,	18:30
	"Dad, would you read a prayer here?"	18:32
	I said, "Why here?"	18:34
	But he said, "That's Danner.	18:36
	He was right beside me when he got it,	18:38
	just as we came ashore.	18:40
	They were the first outfits ashore."	18:42
	And so I read a prayer,	18:45
	the Chief Chaplain of the Mediterranean Theater,	18:47
	who was accompanying me said,	18:49
	"Bishop, will you read a prayer here?"	18:50
	I looked,	18:52
	it wasn't a cross, it was a Star of David.	18:53
	And I knelt down and read that little metal tag.	18:56
	I'll never forget that boy's name as long as I live.	18:58
	I think Louie Diamond,	19:00
	Brooklyn, New York.	19:03
	And it seemed to be fitting to read the 23rd Psalm.	19:05
	Whether he comes in the moment of the battlefield	19:09
	or whether it comes after three score years in 10 or more,	19:12
	it comes,	19:15
	it comes for all of us.	19:17
	Is this the end?	19:19
	It has been the Christian faith	19:21
	from the very, very beginning.	19:23
	I believe in the life everlasting.	19:25
	I believe in God the Father, Almighty.	19:29
	I believe in Jesus Christ His only Son our Lord,	19:31
	I believe in the life everlasting.	19:33
	Why have I mentioned these matters to you today	19:35
	for this reason?	19:37
	The mission of the church.	19:39
	I fancy our primary need is for competent laymen	19:42
	and competently women	19:46
	who within the realm of their competency	19:48
	will discover the concrete means to translate	19:51
	the ideals of the faith into the realities	19:54
	of the common life.	19:56
	It's a summon to engineers,	19:58
	summons to engineers and to educators and executives	19:59
	and economists call the role	20:03
	to men and to women	20:06
	of competency,	20:09
	to lay hold upon the faith that is proclaim	20:12
	by the church to the end that it does live.	20:15
	I happen to know Mr. John Foster Dulles is quite well.	20:20
	I know he's under very severe criticism at the moment.	20:23
	I'm not dealing with a current political matter.	20:25
	I'm dealing with a person,	20:28
	I'm talking about competency.	20:30
	He's a man of extraordinary intellect.	20:33
	I think of unquestioned integrity.	20:35
	And according to his light,	20:38
	of devotion to the Christian faith.	20:40
	For a long time,	20:42
	he served as chairman of the commission	20:43
	on a just and durable piece of the federal council	20:45
	of the churches of Christ in America.	20:47
	I had the privilege of becoming	20:49
	well acquainted with him there.	20:51
	When he was charged by the previous administration	20:53
	with drafting the Japanese Treaty,	20:55
	he called a little group of his friends	20:58
	and he said in humility, he said,	21:00
	"I'm, I'm going to try to take those principles	21:03
	we worked out together	21:05
	and apply them now in practical states craft.	21:07
	Mr. Dulles would be the last to say,	21:10
	"I think that the Japanese treaty is a perfect treaty,	21:12
	but I think it is the first term that any statesman,	21:16
	at least that I know about.	21:19
	Deliberately took the Christian principle of reconciliation	21:23
	and tried to write it into a treaty,	21:27
	instead of the pagan principle of revenge.	21:29
	Without debating the current situation at all.	21:33
	I am talking about competent layman,	21:36
	who is in the realm of their competency	21:38
	will take their faith and try to give it life.	21:40
	Do you know the reason we have Costello's in New York city?	21:42
	I think I know	21:47
	because Christians want uninterrupted weekends.	21:49
	We just can't be bothered.	21:54
	There is a sufficient number of Christian men and women	21:57
	of competency in every community in the	22:01
	United States of America.	22:03
	So to move in upon our civic life	22:04
	and demonstrate what the free way of life means	22:07
	to those who challenge it.	22:10
	Enough Christians in this land.	22:13
	So to demonstrate the meaning of the faith in civic service,	22:15
	that our communities can be transformed.	22:19
	And instead of having to face	22:20
	embarrassing questions overseas,	22:22
	we would be standing as an example to the entire world,	22:24
	but we just can't be bothered.	22:28
	Now I know there are some here who be saying this morning,	22:32
	well, Bishop don't you understand?	22:35
	I do not expect to become secretary of, to take soon.	22:37
	My work will not take me into social reform.	22:40
	Yes, i know.	22:42
	I was reading in some of the writings of the late	22:45
	Archbishop of Canterbury, William Temple recently.	22:47
	And right across this line,	22:50
	does it trouble you as it troubles me when	22:52
	a man say something that is so perfectly clear	22:57
	and you wonder why you never thought of it yourself.	22:59
	He said this, he was an educator you know?	23:03
	He said, the most important, of all educational factors	23:06
	is the conversation in the home.	23:12
	I never thought of that.	23:16
	Make no plea for artificial or stilted conversation	23:18
	in the home, not at all.	23:21
	But I am suggesting that everyone	23:22
	who is to have a home.	23:25
	A mother processes the most important of all	23:28
	educational factors conversation in the home,	23:33
	that faith itself can come alive	23:36
	in thinking of the child,	23:38
	as the child moves in to til eternity	23:40
	because of the conversion in the home.	23:43
	The mission of the church,	23:46
	so to proclaim the faith.	23:47
	The faith is incarnated in the person's who profess it.	23:49
	So to proclaim the faith will come alive	23:52
	and the practices of the common liar	23:54
	so do proclaim the faith of tomorrow.	23:56
	The world itself is able to say,	23:59
	"I believe God the Father Almighty.	24:02
	I believe in Jesus His Only Son our Lord.	24:06
	I believe in the life everlasting.	24:09
	May I close with an illustration?	24:12
	Centuries ago when Augustine was about to leave Africa,	24:15
	not St. August, but Augustine dissipated the sense	24:18
	satiated with a sensual.	24:22
	He goes to the boat	24:25
	and he's about to walk up a gangplank	24:27
	and His friend Martiano standing beside him	24:28
	and says this to him,	24:31
	"This day that brings another life to Thee,	24:33
	demands that thou, another man must be.	24:37
	Augustine never forgot it.	24:42
	He went to Milan and heard the great Ambrose preach	24:44
	then one day walking up and down in the garden	24:46
	in sprint into a struggling scene	24:48
	to hear someone say, "Take up and read it."	24:49
	And he took a book, written by the Apostle Paul	24:51
	and he ran across the words.	24:54
	Put it on the Lord Jesus Christ.	24:56
	It is the mission of the church,	24:59
	so to proclaim the faith	25:01
	that men become new men	25:04
	in Christ Jesus.	25:10
	I believe in God the Father Almighty.	25:12
	I believe in Jesus Christ His only Son our Lord.	25:16
	I believe in the life everlasting.	25:21
	May we pray?	25:26
	Our Father we thank you for the men and women,	25:34
	whose faith has cost them something.	25:40
	We pray that we may be worthy of them	25:43
	and in the days to come.	25:46
	May the faith be so evident in each one of us.	25:48
	But others may behold it,	25:52
	living in a person.	25:54
	Bless this institution and from it,	25:57
	we pray that come those who will counter the faith	26:01
	to the world's itself.	26:07
	O Lord bless Thee and keep Thee.	26:11
	The lord makes His face to shine upon and be gracious	26:15
	on to Thee.	26:19
	Lord lift up the light in the covenant upon Thee,	26:20
	and give Thee peace.	26:26
	Amen.	26:30
	(choir singing "Amen")	26:35
	(church bells ringing)	27:01
	(organ playing)	27:10

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Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam - "The Mission of the Church" (January 15, 1956)

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January 15, 1956

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Oxnam, G. Bromley

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