Hugh Anderson - "The High Demands of Church Going" (September 27, 1959)

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-	In the name of God the father, God the son,	0:18
	and God the holy spirit.	0:21
	Amen.	0:24
	I have just returned from three months in Europe.	0:30
	I had the privilege of preaching in a number of churches.	0:36
	And particularly in Britain, I had that privilege.	0:40
	One's observations lead one	0:44
	to believe that what has been true	0:46
	for the last several years is still true,	0:49
	that by and large, today,	0:53
	the churches in Britain are not nearly so well attended	0:55
	as the churches in America.	1:00
	And that is noticeably so,	1:04
	especially, of university chapels in Britain.	1:06
	The congregation in university chapel services	1:10
	Sunday by Sunday in Britain,	1:13
	in these times,	1:15
	usually consists of a rather small and formal procession	1:16
	of the senatus academicus and a handful of students,	1:21
	usually those belonging to the Student Christian Movement	1:25
	or the intervarsity fellowship.	1:29
	In the main, we are going through in Britain,	1:32
	in these days,	1:35
	a period of decline,	1:36
	as far as the numbers attending church,	1:38
	or the numbers interested in the Christian Church,	1:41
	are concerned.	1:43
	But over here in America,	1:46
	the contrast with that is tremendous,	1:48
	because the churches strike one	1:52
	as being tremendously well attended today.	1:54
	Witness the vast congregation	1:58
	in a university chapel like this, this morning.	2:01
	What is one to say about this contemporary contrast	2:06
	in the numbers attending church	2:10
	in Britain and in America?	2:12
	No doubt, the factors involved in this situation	2:16
	are many and complex.	2:19
	All I would say today, however, is this:	2:24
	that never in the whole course of Christian history,	2:27
	never in the whole course of Christian history,	2:31
	have numbers or statistics as such	2:34
	been of any ultimate significance.	2:38
	The supremely important thing	2:43
	for the Church of Jesus Christ in any age	2:45
	lies not in the numbers who attend it.	2:49
	The important thing	2:52
	is whether those who do attend the church,	2:54
	they may be many, they may be few,	2:56
	the important thing	3:00
	is whether those who do attend the church	3:01
	derive from their churchgoing	3:04
	sustenance, support, encouragement, strength,	3:07
	and stimulus for daily living.	3:12
	I don't want to discuss this question of churchgoing today	3:16
	in any general or remote or academic way.	3:20
	I want you who are here to ask yourself	3:25
	some intensely personal questions.	3:29
	I want you to ask yourself whether, in fact,	3:33
	in the past you have derived real, genuine strength	3:37
	for daily living out of your churchgoing.	3:42
	Has your churchgoing meant	3:46
	something very deep and vital to you?	3:49
	Is your churchgoing through this year	3:53
	in the Duke chapel likely to mean something	3:56
	of vital significance and importance to you?	3:59
	Or is your attitude to these services	4:04
	in this lovely university church	4:07
	going to be like this.	4:10
	Are you going to regard these services	4:12
	as a pleasant diversion	4:14
	from the hardness and rigor of class attendance?	4:17
	At worst, the sermon cannot be as long as a class lecture.	4:22
	At best, it may not be a lecture at all,	4:27
	but at any case,	4:30
	the university chapel provides us	4:31
	a pleasant diversion week by week.	4:34
	You know as well as I do, of course,	4:39
	that if that is our attitude	4:41
	to what we do here this morning,	4:43
	then it just won't do.	4:46
	There's something radically wrong, something very far wrong.	4:48
	You know, too, as well as I,	4:54
	that it's an axiom of human life,	4:57
	an axiom of human life	5:00
	that if you want to get the best out of it,	5:02
	you simply have to put the best into it.	5:05
	And what is true of life in general	5:10
	I certainly take to be true of this matter of churchgoing.	5:12
	You will only get the best out of attendance	5:17
	in a chapel like this	5:20
	if you are prepared to put the very best into it,	5:22
	heart and body and mind and soul.	5:26
	In other words, I believe with all my heart	5:31
	that churchgoing, whether it relates	5:34
	to a little highland church in the hills and glens	5:37
	or whether it relates to a chapel service like this,	5:41
	I believe that churchgoing	5:45
	has its own very high and insistent demands to make upon us.	5:47
	And these demands are searching, challenging, compelling.	5:53
	I want to put before you this morning	6:00
	what I conceive to be the highest	6:03
	and most insistent demands of churchgoing,	6:07
	and I want to do it at the risk	6:11
	of being accused of oversimplification.	6:13
	I want to do it in a quite practical and concrete way.	6:16
	I want to suggest that if our churchgoing	6:22
	is to be something really effective in our life,	6:25
	if we are to get something of real positive value	6:29
	out of our attendance at the worship services	6:33
	of the church,	6:36
	we shall need first a right perspective	6:38
	on the meaning of what we do here this day.	6:42
	We shall need, secondly, preparation.	6:46
	Thirdly, we shall require participation.	6:50
	And lastly, we shall need expectation.	6:55
	Let us describe and discuss each of these in turn.	7:01
	If our church services are to be	7:06
	in any ways effective for us,	7:08
	we shall need to have a right perspective,	7:13
	a right slant, on their meaning.	7:15
	Now in our time, for all the numbers that attend the church,	7:19
	there are a great many of them still laboring	7:24
	under misapprehensions as to what church attendance,	7:26
	what going to worship in the sanctuary of the Lord,	7:31
	really means.	7:34
	I imagine there are a great many people	7:36
	throughout America today who mistakenly see the church	7:39
	as an opportunity for the idolization	7:46
	of the popular preacher, the man in the pulpit.	7:49
	He may have a reputation abroad among the people	7:53
	for possessing a smooth personality.	7:56
	He may be a genial soul,	8:00
	a clap-you-on-the-back sort of fellow when he meets you.	8:02
	He may have a reputation as being a wit,	8:06
	a rhetorician, an entertainer,	8:10
	and the people come to do him homage.	8:14
	And oh, how wrong that is.	8:17
	Because you know, men and women,	8:21
	those of us who are commissioned	8:23
	to preach the blessed gospel of the blessed Christ	8:25
	do not, in our heart of hearts,	8:29
	want the plaudits of the crowd or of the congregation.	8:32
	Our motto is, "more of Christ and less of self."	8:36
	And our great, passionate and burning ambition	8:43
	is that we ourselves with our personalities	8:46
	might stand back in the shadow	8:49
	and let the Christ instead shine through	8:52
	in bright, effulgent light.	8:57
	It is our hope, our aim, our prayer,	9:00
	that in us who preach the gospel,	9:04
	you might not see our gifts, our qualities,	9:07
	our characteristics,	9:11
	but that you might see Jesus the Christ instead.	9:13
	That is a wrong perspective, then,	9:19
	on the meaning of what we do in church,	9:22
	we come to do homage to a preacher.	9:24
	Never, never, never that.	9:26
	We are also quite mistaken about the meaning	9:30
	of the services of the church week by week	9:34
	if we put them through as a mere convention.	9:37
	Suppose you imagine it's the done thing	9:42
	on the campus at Duke to come to these services	9:44
	in this lovely chapel Sunday by Sunday.	9:47
	Well, there are good habits and bad habits,	9:51
	and that is, of course, a good habit.	9:54
	But if you merely put these surfaces through	9:57
	on your part as a routine piece of business,	9:59
	as a habitual, conventional thing,	10:04
	then they're going to remain for you a futility.	10:07
	Instead of bringing you into close direct encounter	10:12
	with the living God,	10:15
	they will then be driving you away from him.	10:17
	You will be running away from reality	10:21
	if you put this through as a mere convention or habit.	10:23
	These are only two of the possible wrong perspectives	10:29
	on the meaning of churchgoing.	10:34
	You will want to ask me though, positively,	10:36
	what is the right perspective?	10:39
	Let me begin by describing the matter this way.	10:43
	In these days, the structure, the tone,	10:49
	the demeanor of American society in particular	10:54
	seems to be that every individual	10:58
	is dramatically and intensely busy.	11:03
	This is a very feverish country in which to live.	11:08
	My word, it's good to go to some quiet old corners	11:10
	of old Europe to have a rest.	11:14
	But here you're busy folk, very, very busy.	11:18
	This is no doubt why, in this country today,	11:23
	there are all kinds of anxiety and neuroses	11:26
	abroad among the people.	11:28
	This is an intensely busy society,	11:31
	and people give the impression	11:33
	that they love their work so much	11:35
	that they never enjoy a moment for rest or relaxation.	11:37
	And if you will pardon me for saying so,	11:43
	I suggest to you this morning	11:45
	that the life of this campus seems in many ways	11:48
	to partake of that sheer, hectic, feverish busy-ness.	11:51
	People are always rushing to and fro.	11:59
	No doubt, they have somewhere to go,	12:01
	and they know where they're going,	12:02
	but they're busy.	12:05
	You know that in his book "Inside U.S.A.,"	12:07
	John Gunther compares the quietness	12:12
	of the cloistered, leafy lanes of Chapel Hill	12:16
	with the chromium-plated powerhouse down the road at Duke.	12:21
	This is a busy place.	12:29
	What is the meaning of these chapel services, then,	12:32
	in this context, where all of us are so busy?	12:34
	I believe that these services of worship Sunday by Sunday	12:39
	come like clearings in the jungle of our lives,	12:44
	come into the midst of our feverish panic and busy-ness	12:49
	like great clearings, where we can look up	12:53
	and see the stars of God again	12:56
	and feel the fresh wind of God blowing in our faces,	12:58
	and God knows, in those panic times,	13:02
	we need these services for that reason alone.	13:05
	Back home in Scotland,	13:11
	there is the lovely old seaside city of Aberdeen.	13:13
	It lies about a mile and a half from the North Sea,	13:17
	but during the day when the noise of the city is great,	13:21
	and the traffic is busy on the city streets,	13:25
	you'd never imagine you were in a seaside town.	13:28
	You don't know that you're near the sea,	13:31
	but then in the nighttime,	13:35
	when the day's noisiness has died away,	13:38
	over the quietness, you can hear the call	13:41
	of the mighty ocean and the break of the waves on the shore,	13:46
	and you know that the great deep is near.	13:51
	And so, here, in the quietness of the sanctuary,	13:56
	with the carking care of the big world behind,	14:02
	you know that the deeps of God are near,	14:06
	and they come refreshing, stimulating,	14:10
	uplifting, encouraging.	14:15
	Here, away from the busy-ness and panic of life,	14:18
	you can see the stars of God in their glory	14:22
	and their beauty,	14:27
	and you know what the mystery and the secret of life	14:29
	at its profoundest really is, at last.	14:33
	The old fisherfolk of Brittany have a lovely legend,	14:38
	that sunken off the Brittany coast	14:42
	is the legendary city of Atlantis.	14:46
	And they tell you that sometimes	14:49
	in the silence of the waking hours,	14:52
	if a man's heart is right,	14:55
	he can hear the pealing of the bells of Atlantis.	14:58
	And again, I say to you	15:03
	that here in the sanctuary of the living God,	15:04
	if your heart is right,	15:08
	you can hear the pealing of the bells of God.	15:10
	In other words,	15:15
	I think we are meant to understand	15:17
	that these services of the church, Sunday by Sunday,	15:20
	offer us a glorious and thrilling opportunity	15:24
	to gear our little lives	15:28
	into a power far bigger and better and higher	15:31
	than our own.	15:35
	And in the deeps of our own souls,	15:38
	you and I this morning know	15:39
	that we need a power bigger than ourselves	15:41
	to see us through in tremendous challenging days like these.	15:44
	The old humanistic picture of man,	15:49
	self-reliant, self-sufficient master of his fate,	15:52
	captain of his soul,	15:56
	that is, today, in these disillusioning times	15:58
	a fearful anachronism.	16:01
	And we only need to search our own lives	16:05
	to realize how weak frail we are	16:07
	if we are dependent only	16:11
	on our own animal heat and energy.	16:12
	We know in our hearts this morning,	16:16
	our own moral failures in the battle of life.	16:19
	We know that we are haunted by temptations,	16:24
	which seem too strong for us.	16:27
	Our lives are haunted too by burning regrets	16:31
	of what might have been and of what we might have done.	16:35
	We need a power bigger than our own, believe me,	16:39
	to see us through.	16:43
	And here is the golden opportunity	16:45
	to come into close contact with that power,	16:48
	for the living God himself is verily present here.	16:52
	Evelyn Underhill once said	16:57
	that to come close to the holy God	17:00
	is like plugging your life in	17:04
	to the great electrical grid system	17:07
	of the mighty universe.	17:10
	Here is power.	17:12
	Here is confidence, strength, hope, encouragement	17:14
	for for daily living,	17:18
	if only our lives are open to the flood tides of God	17:20
	in this service of the church.	17:24
	I want to say to you that it's no accident	17:27
	that one of the most familiar words in the New Testament	17:30
	is the word "dunamis."	17:34
	Dynamism, power.	17:37
	The New Testament is a book instinct with power.	17:40
	The men of the New Testament,	17:44
	when they gathered themselves together,	17:46
	were invaded by the spirit of Christ to such an extent	17:49
	that they were conscious of a dynamic new power,	17:54
	intellectual power, moral power, spiritual power.	17:58
	They had learned to gear their little lives	18:03
	into a power bigger and higher than their own.	18:06
	And I wish that we could do that	18:11
	in these services when the opportunity is offered to us.	18:14
	That's what I mean, then,	18:19
	by a "right perspective"	18:21
	on the meaning of what we do here.	18:23
	We need, secondly,	18:27
	if our churchgoing is to be more effective and dynamic,	18:28
	we need preparation.	18:32
	You know how ardently we prepare	18:35
	for life's more mundane activities.	18:37
	You know how we prepare a dinner party at our homes,	18:41
	if we've friends coming and make all kinds	18:46
	of meticulous readiness.	18:48
	You know how we prepare with all due diligence	18:50
	for examinations.	18:54
	You know how we prepare ourselves for athletic contests	18:56
	for the football field, and so on.	19:01
	Don't you think it's rather a shameful thing	19:05
	that we prepare ourselves so ardently	19:09
	for life's more mundane activities,	19:12
	but when it comes to the very peak and crown	19:16
	of human enterprise,	19:19
	the worship of the creature for the creator,	19:21
	then the days of the ordinary week just slip by us	19:26
	without a thought given to the things of God	19:29
	or the deep things of men.	19:32
	What do I mean by preparation through the week	19:36
	for Sunday worship?	19:39
	I don't mean that every one of us here in Duke	19:41
	is to cultivate an attitude of conscious religiosity.	19:44
	That's the last thing anyone would want to ask for,	19:50
	that people throughout the week	19:54
	would try to be consciously religious,	19:55
	because the people who try that	19:58
	are usually either eccentric or mad.	20:00
	What we do need in the way of preparation	20:06
	for the services of the church on a Sunday	20:09
	is the cultivation of depth in the mind and in the soul.	20:13
	I believe that we are here in any case	20:19
	to attain to death.	20:23
	That means that when we are finished	20:27
	with the technicalities of the subjects	20:30
	in which we are specializing at a university like this,	20:33
	we must go on every day of the week	20:37
	to ask ultimate questions	20:39
	about the nature and destiny of man,	20:42
	about the meaning of life, and about God.	20:46
	We are, in the words of modern existentialists,	20:50
	to cultivate what they call a passionate inwardness,	20:53
	so that coming face-to-face	20:58
	with the problems of our own personal existence,	21:01
	we are face-to-face also with the problems of all existence.	21:05
	This is the kind of preparation we need,	21:10
	preparation in depth.	21:12
	And I believe, too, that if we have an attitude	21:15
	of prayerful concern in the ordinary days of the week	21:18
	for our fellow men,	21:22
	if we have in our heart a flaming desire	21:24
	that the world might be a happier and a lovelier	21:27
	and a better place,	21:31
	we are preparing for Sunday worship	21:32
	in the most real and active way,	21:35
	an attitude of steadfast love and prayerful concern	21:39
	towards all men	21:43
	is the best kind of preparation one could ever think of	21:45
	for worship of the living God in the sanctuary on a Sunday.	21:49
	If we undertake this kind of preparation,	21:55
	there is far more likelihood	21:59
	that when we do come to church on a Sunday,	22:01
	deep will call unto deep,	22:04
	that the deeps of God will match the deep things	22:07
	of our own personal thoughts,	22:11
	and that is why we need preparation.	22:14
	We need, thirdly, participation. Participation.	22:17
	I've always had the opinion, I wonder if you have it too,	22:22
	that it's not nearly so good in any of life's activities	22:26
	to be a spectator as it is to take part.	22:30
	Only those know about football or golf	22:35
	who have partaken of the sport, who have participated.	22:38
	The passive onlooker never gets really very much	22:44
	out of anything	22:47
	because he doesn't know very much about anything.	22:48
	We must participate.	22:52
	This is a general truth of life,	22:54
	but it's even more pointedly true	22:55
	of the worship services of the church.	22:58
	If we are to get anything out of them, we must participate.	23:01
	How can you participate in the service?	23:07
	You who are here, how can you participate?	23:11
	You can take part in the most concrete ways.	23:13
	And this service is not going to mean anything	23:17
	unless you do take part.	23:19
	If you are merely listening to the voice	23:22
	of a priest or preacher intoning at a distance,	23:24
	then nothing big or wonderful is likely	23:28
	to come of these services.	23:31
	But if you are participating with heart and soul,	23:33
	unexpectedly glorious results might follow for you	23:37
	and for all the people.	23:42
	I take it when you come into church,	23:44
	you bow your head in a gesture of reverence.	23:47
	It can be more than a gesture of reverence.	23:50
	You can be praying at that point with all earnestness	23:54
	that this service will be filled with glorious sequels,	23:58
	both for minister and people under God in Christ.	24:03
	Take the congregation who's singing.	24:09
	By and large, American congregations don't sing as well	24:12
	as Scottish congregations.	24:16
	But then we have that delightful set of the metrical sounds,	24:18
	and our people sing them in the most beautiful	24:24
	and touching fashion.	24:26
	But American congregations don't strike one	24:28
	as being too good at singing themselves.	24:30
	One observes that they sometimes tend	24:34
	to give one the impression that they are here instead	24:38
	to listen to a performance,	24:42
	a performance on the part of the organist, perhaps,	24:44
	the choir.	24:47
	Wonderful and all and beautiful as these might be,	24:49
	that is not ultimately why you're here.	24:51
	You're here to take part.	24:55
	And one of the essential ways in which you can take part	24:57
	is by singing your head off.	25:01
	One of the great divines of the Christian church	25:04
	once said that in the congregational singing	25:07
	all the people have a glorious opportunity	25:10
	to raise a sanctified shout of thanksgiving	25:14
	to almighty God.	25:17
	And I'm willing to bet my life	25:19
	that there isn't a man or woman here this morning	25:22
	but what has something great to be thankful for.	25:25
	You know best yourselves	25:30
	that for which you can thank your God this morning	25:32
	from the deeps of your own heart.	25:36
	You have many lovely things that have followed you	25:39
	through your human pilgrimage.	25:43
	You could raise a shout of sanctified praise	25:46
	to God in thanksgiving	25:50
	for all his mercies lavished upon you	25:52
	even when you have not deserved them.	25:55
	You can take part not only in the singing of the service,	25:59
	you can take part in the minister's prayers.	26:02
	You are not to listen to these from afar.	26:07
	When the minister prays, for instance,	26:11
	for somebody who is tempted	26:15
	with consecrated imagination,	26:18
	I believe you should feel it like a stab in your own heart,	26:20
	as though somebody very dear and precious to you	26:24
	were tempted to take a wrong turning in life.	26:28
	If the minister prays in intercession for the mourning,	26:33
	it does not take much imagination	26:36
	to put yourself beside people in that position	26:39
	in love and in sympathy and radical concern.	26:42
	Only in this way, do the prayers of the sanctuary	26:48
	rise on wings to almighty God,	26:51
	if you take part with holy and consecrated imagination,	26:55
	giving yourselves, giving more of yourself	27:00
	than you've done perhaps before.	27:03
	And then in the offerings,	27:07
	this is not an occasion for a pause in the service.	27:09
	Here is your chance to offer up your material gift	27:13
	as a symbol of your own dedication	27:17
	to the highest and the loveliest and the best in life.	27:20
	Here is your own promise made to God	27:25
	that you will go out to do what you can under God	27:27
	to make the world a better and a happier	27:31
	and a more peaceful place.	27:34
	In all these many ways,	27:37
	you can participate in the services of the church.	27:38
	And only if we learn to participate	27:43
	are these services going to become truly meaningful	27:46
	and worthwhile for us.	27:50
	And then lastly.	27:52
	Oh, lastly, but most important, perhaps, of all	27:54
	for churchgoing, we need expectation.	27:59
	It's absolutely no use believing	28:04
	that if you come here	28:07
	in a dull and listless and unenthusiastic frame of mind,	28:09
	you are going to get anything vital for your life.	28:14
	But if you come expecting much,	28:18
	the probability is that you will go away with much.	28:21
	We need great expectations on the part of the people	28:24
	for these services of the Christian church, week by week.	28:28
	You need to come as it were	28:32
	with a spring in your step and a lilt in your heart,	28:34
	glad because you're going to the temple of the living God,	28:39
	glad because from your experience	28:45
	you know that the living Christ himself	28:48
	in all his power and love	28:51
	has ever been present there.	28:54
	That is, in fact, the central truth of Christianity,	28:57
	that Christ is the risen Christ,	29:01
	and since he is risen, he is always present with his people.	29:04
	The one real heresy within Christendom is to speak	29:09
	in the past tense about Jesus Christ,	29:13
	for he is here today.	29:16
	His presence fills the temple.	29:19
	If we are sensitive in mind and heart,	29:22
	we can feel it, just as Peter and James and John felt it.	29:24
	The living Christ is here, real,	29:30
	present, close, alive,	29:34
	warm, palpitating, nearer than breathing,	29:37
	closer than hands and feet.	29:42
	And oh, you know, to come to such a one as that,	29:46
	we should have the same thrill in our hearts	29:50
	as a lover has when comes to his lass	29:53
	at love's first, fun, careless rapture.	29:57
	For we are coming here	30:01
	to meet the great lover of men's souls, the Christ himself.	30:03
	Come expectantly, then.	30:09
	Come with a stead of enthusiasm in your mind and heart,	30:11
	because the likelihood is that if you come expecting much,	30:16
	you will go away with much.	30:21
	When the poet Dante lost his beloved Beatrice,	30:24
	he was heartbroken.	30:28
	He drifted away from the church,	30:30
	but then, long after, he found his way back	30:32
	into the fellowship of Christ,	30:36
	and the church made all the difference to him,	30:39
	so that at the end,	30:42
	he was able to say with a rapture in his heart:	30:43
	I came to the church looking for silver, and I found gold.	30:47
	I came looking for consolation, and I found faith.	30:54
	Well, if we come looking even only for silver,	31:00
	it may well be upon a golden morning	31:05
	that we shall find the gold.	31:09
	For there is gold here.	31:12
	The unsearchable riches of the living Christ	31:15
	give us an atmosphere of expectation.	31:19
	Do what the people in that gospel incident did.	31:23
	You know when Christ first came to Gennesaret	31:25
	the rumor went abroad that he was here,	31:28
	and they said, Christ is here!	31:31
	And what happened?	31:33
	They ran to meet him.	31:34
	They didn't wait to walk!	31:36
	They ran!	31:38
	And not only did they run themselves,	31:40
	but they took their sick folks up on stretcher beds.	31:42
	And they ran, poor souls, no doubt breathless and panting.	31:46
	And they said, if only we can touch	31:50
	the border of his garment,	31:53
	we will be made whole and healthy again.	31:56
	And if you come believing that,	32:01
	your great expectations will undoubtedly be met	32:03
	through this same living Christ.	32:07
	These then, I think, are the high demands of churchgoing.	32:10
	We need a right perspective on its meaning.	32:14
	We need preparation. We need participation.	32:17
	We need expectation.	32:21
	If only we could rise to meet these great objectives	32:23
	and make them effective in our own lives,	32:29
	I believe that our own personal existence,	32:33
	the life of the whole Duke campus,	32:38
	and the life of the world around us	32:41
	would be immensely enhanced and enriched and ennobled.	32:44
	God give us grace, then.	32:51
	God give us grace to rise	32:54
	to the high demands of churchgoing	32:58
	for his love's sake.	33:02
	Let us pray.	33:04
	O mighty and ever-blessed God,	33:09
	enable us on every occasion	33:12
	when we prayed upon holy ground	33:14
	to come with a high sense of expectancy	33:17
	in the knowledge that we are come to the temple	33:20
	of the living God.	33:23
	We are come to an innumerable company of angels.	33:24
	We are come even to the living Christ himself,	33:28
	and to him be the honor and the glory forever and forever.	33:32
	Amen.	33:38

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Hugh Anderson - "The High Demands of Church Going" (September 27, 1959)

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September 27, 1959

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Anderson, Hugh

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