Lee F. Tuttle - "It's Still a Big World" (July 29, 1962)
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| - | "In newness of life to the honor and glory." | 0:03 |
| (inaudible) | 0:08 | |
| These words of scripture | 0:09 | |
| which have been read in your hearing | 0:11 | |
| are not only among the more familiar passages | 0:16 | |
| of our New Testament, but also have been the marching orders | 0:21 | |
| of heroism in the great cause of mission around the world. | 0:32 | |
| I think it was Dr. Kenneth Scott Latourette, | 0:42 | |
| who has said that the missionary cause is the most heroic | 0:45 | |
| of the past 200 years of human history. | 0:50 | |
| And when these who have heard and heeded the call | 0:56 | |
| have taken their marching orders, so to speak, | 1:02 | |
| and have gone out into the world, | 1:07 | |
| they have gone out into belief that it was a big world, | 1:09 | |
| a world tremendous in all of its challenge | 1:16 | |
| and all of the problems which were to be faced. | 1:19 | |
| And I think that they made no mistake. | 1:25 | |
| I realize of course, that in the present time, | 1:30 | |
| almost everyone thinks of our world as a shrinking world, | 1:35 | |
| that it is becoming smaller and smaller | 1:42 | |
| with the passing of, not only each year, | 1:45 | |
| but almost with the passing of each month. | 1:48 | |
| It's popular to say that we live in a small world. | 1:53 | |
| And yet that is only one of the part truths | 1:59 | |
| by which we choose many times to deceive ourselves. | 2:03 | |
| It is true, of course, that science and technology | 2:10 | |
| are constantly making our world smaller | 2:13 | |
| from their point of view. | 2:16 | |
| If what you mean is that | 2:22 | |
| you can get to some part of the world and get back quickly, | 2:24 | |
| certainly that is true these days. | 2:29 | |
| Many of you I'm sure have seen on television | 2:35 | |
| the victorial account of Mrs. Kennedy's trip to India, | 2:40 | |
| probably you were interested | 2:48 | |
| as I was interested in her visit to the Taj Mahal. | 2:50 | |
| At first thought it seemed so far away, | 2:55 | |
| and yet I knew in seeing that, that it was possible | 3:00 | |
| for her to go leisurely back the same night | 3:05 | |
| she saw the Taj Mahal in full moonlight, | 3:09 | |
| to the city of New Delhi, to get a Pan American jet clipper | 3:15 | |
| and be in New York at three o'clock on the next afternoon. | 3:19 | |
| And that can happen any day of the year, | 3:27 | |
| because such a commercial plane | 3:31 | |
| leaves New Delhi at 45 minutes past midnight, | 3:34 | |
| and on the same date can put you in New York. | 3:38 | |
| Yes, you can get there and get back quickly, | 3:44 | |
| if that's what you mean by a small world. | 3:47 | |
| But if you mean something more, | 3:52 | |
| if you mean that there is a task to be performed, | 3:55 | |
| that there is a responsibility to be engaged in | 4:01 | |
| and to accept, then it's still a big world, | 4:05 | |
| a very big world in which we live. | 4:11 | |
| Because remedying the world's needs | 4:16 | |
| is a tremendous and a terrifying task. | 4:19 | |
| We like to set records in the United States, | 4:28 | |
| we like to speak of the speed with which we can do things. | 4:31 | |
| And yet, if we are only being busy, | 4:37 | |
| if we are only acting, | 4:41 | |
| we don't actually do the thing that we set out to do. | 4:43 | |
| It's that difference between the small world of space | 4:48 | |
| and the great world of Christian responsibility. | 4:54 | |
| Many of you read sometime ago, I'm sure, | 5:00 | |
| of the experience of one of our jet pilots. | 5:03 | |
| There was a very sick person in Innsbrook. | 5:09 | |
| A particular serum was needed to save | 5:14 | |
| the life of this person, | 5:17 | |
| that serum could be secured only in the United States. | 5:21 | |
| And so our government released one of our fastest jets | 5:26 | |
| and one of our best pilots. | 5:31 | |
| And he started out for Innsbrook, | 5:35 | |
| and he set a record in getting there | 5:37 | |
| because time was of the essence. | 5:39 | |
| And yet when he had arrived and turned over the package | 5:44 | |
| which he had brought to the physicians, | 5:48 | |
| they found he had brought the wrong serum. | 5:53 | |
| Another jet had to be started from the United States | 5:59 | |
| with the right thing for the saving of this man's life. | 6:03 | |
| So you see it doesn't always make too much difference | 6:08 | |
| how many records we set, or what kind of records we set. | 6:14 | |
| If we are not going in the right way, | 6:19 | |
| if we are not carrying with us the answer to the needs | 6:21 | |
| which must be faced in this day. | 6:26 | |
| Someone was telling not long ago of a group of carpenters, | 6:31 | |
| workmen putting up prefabricated houses, | 6:36 | |
| trying to set a record. | 6:40 | |
| I think this happened in Chicago. | 6:41 | |
| They set a record in putting up this prefabricated house. | 6:44 | |
| They did it quicker than anyone had ever done it before. | 6:48 | |
| But when they were through, | 6:52 | |
| they got to looking around for one of the carpenters, | 6:53 | |
| they couldn't find him and realized | 6:56 | |
| that in setting the record, | 6:57 | |
| they had sealed him up in in the house | 6:59 | |
| and had to tear down one of the walls | 7:01 | |
| in order to get him out. | 7:05 | |
| It's just a way of reminding us, | 7:09 | |
| I think that the spiritual seldom yields itself | 7:11 | |
| to speed, high efficiency and mass production. | 7:19 | |
| Just 10 days ago some of us were sitting in the restaurant | 7:27 | |
| of the Royal Symphony Hall on the Embankment of the Times. | 7:31 | |
| And it reminded me of something | 7:36 | |
| which I had read in one of our magazines. | 7:39 | |
| An American had gone | 7:45 | |
| to a concert in the Royal Festival Hall there. | 7:46 | |
| And it happened that he was a work engineer, | 7:52 | |
| and you know, of course, | 7:55 | |
| that that is something that no institution, | 7:56 | |
| no industry or business can operate in America without. | 7:59 | |
| We must have these authorities | 8:04 | |
| in efficiency and mass production and speed. | 8:06 | |
| I'm sure he did not enjoy the concert | 8:12 | |
| because he was writing his efficiency report | 8:14 | |
| on it all of the time he was there. | 8:17 | |
| And when he came out, this is what he had written. | 8:21 | |
| "For a considerable periods, | 8:25 | |
| the four oboe players had nothing to do. | 8:26 | |
| The number should be reduced and the work spread more evenly | 8:31 | |
| over the whole of the concert, | 8:35 | |
| thus eliminating peaks of activity. | 8:37 | |
| All of the 12 violins were playing identical notes. | 8:41 | |
| This seems to be unnecessary duplication. | 8:46 | |
| The staff of this section should be drastically cut. | 8:50 | |
| And if a larger volume of sound is required | 8:54 | |
| it could be obtained by the means of electronic apparatus. | 8:57 | |
| Much effort is absorbed in the playing of demi-semiquavers." | 9:03 | |
| Now, I have no idea in the world what a demi-semiquaver is, | 9:06 | |
| but he evidently knew. | 9:10 | |
| And he said, "This seems to be an unnecessary refinement. | 9:13 | |
| It is recommended that all notes should be rounded up | 9:17 | |
| to the nearest semiquaver. | 9:20 | |
| If this were done, it would be possible to use trainees | 9:22 | |
| and lower grade operatives more extensively. | 9:25 | |
| There seems to be too much repetition of musical passage, | 9:30 | |
| scores should be drastically pruned, | 9:34 | |
| no useful purpose is served by repeating | 9:37 | |
| on the horns of passage, | 9:40 | |
| which has already been handled by the strings. | 9:41 | |
| It is estimated that if all of the redundant passages | 9:45 | |
| were eliminated, the whole concert time of two hours | 9:48 | |
| could be reduced to 20 minutes | 9:53 | |
| and make the theater mission unnecessary. | 9:54 | |
| It was noticed also, that many of the violinists | 9:58 | |
| were using very old stradivarion violins. | 10:02 | |
| This is unfortunate. | 10:06 | |
| These old instruments should have been depreciated | 10:08 | |
| many years ago, making it possible to supply the artist | 10:10 | |
| with new and modern instruments." | 10:15 | |
| And that was how he saw a great concert, | 10:19 | |
| and that's what he got from it. | 10:24 | |
| I feel sometimes that we take the same attitude | 10:28 | |
| into our relationships with the rest of the world. | 10:31 | |
| Now, I think we have a a pretty good plan of life | 10:37 | |
| in America, and I'm all for it, I believe in it. | 10:39 | |
| But I do not believe as some do, | 10:44 | |
| that what is good for America is always good | 10:48 | |
| for all of the rest of the world, | 10:51 | |
| and the rest of the world | 10:54 | |
| doesn't feel that way about it either. | 10:56 | |
| I don't know what happens between the good intentions | 10:59 | |
| with which we set out, and the suspicion with which | 11:03 | |
| so much of what we propose. | 11:08 | |
| And this is true, not only in the field of religion, | 11:11 | |
| but in all of our relationships with other nations | 11:14 | |
| and other parts of the world. | 11:17 | |
| But something does happen, | 11:19 | |
| that gremlin somehow get in on it, | 11:21 | |
| and sometimes disturb it greatly. | 11:24 | |
| I think an example of the thing that happens | 11:29 | |
| maybe in State Department affairs, that happens in the work | 11:31 | |
| of the Christian mission around the world | 11:35 | |
| and in many other things could be described | 11:36 | |
| by a thing that I heard Bishop Paul Garber | 11:39 | |
| saying only a little while ago, | 11:42 | |
| that went after the war, | 11:45 | |
| he went back into Poland, | 11:46 | |
| where those people had suffered so greatly, | 11:48 | |
| thinking that probably the Methodist Church there | 11:52 | |
| had been destroyed and completely eliminated. | 11:55 | |
| He was amazed when he went to the conference | 12:00 | |
| that was to reorganize that work | 12:03 | |
| and found that no building would hold the people | 12:05 | |
| who wanted to come. | 12:08 | |
| That grand throngs of people overflowed. | 12:11 | |
| And when he organized the conference, | 12:17 | |
| he'd have to send one group outside of the church | 12:18 | |
| in order to organize one particular part of the work. | 12:22 | |
| And he mentioned setting up the work of the lay activities. | 12:25 | |
| And he sent everyone out of the church, except the layman. | 12:32 | |
| They organized the work of the lay activities | 12:36 | |
| of the church in Poland, and they elected a lay leader. | 12:38 | |
| This man was called to the front of the auditorium, | 12:45 | |
| and he said, "Bishop, I appreciate the honor | 12:50 | |
| but I don't know what a lay leader is supposed to do." | 12:53 | |
| And Bishop Garber told this man, | 12:58 | |
| "Well, you're supposed to visit | 13:00 | |
| all of the churches in Poland. | 13:01 | |
| How will you do it?" | 13:04 | |
| "Well," he said, | 13:06 | |
| "I'll have to walk, that's the only way I can do it." | 13:06 | |
| But he said, "I'll try." | 13:10 | |
| And when he mentioned that he'd have to walk, | 13:13 | |
| he looked down at the man's feet | 13:15 | |
| and saw that he didn't really have shoes at all, | 13:17 | |
| they were just tatters. | 13:20 | |
| And he said to himself, | 13:24 | |
| now there's something I can do for this man, | 13:25 | |
| I've given him this job. | 13:28 | |
| When I get back to the United States | 13:30 | |
| I will send him some shoes. | 13:32 | |
| Well, since numbers are not the same, he asked the man | 13:36 | |
| if he would put his foot on a piece of cardboard | 13:40 | |
| and draw around it, the shape of his right foot. | 13:46 | |
| He did this and turned it over to Bishop Garber, | 13:52 | |
| and when he got back to Richmond, | 13:54 | |
| he ordered three pairs of shoes for this man | 13:56 | |
| and turned over this piece of cardboard | 14:00 | |
| to the person from whom he had ordered them. | 14:02 | |
| He went about feeling good about the thing | 14:07 | |
| until his next visit to Poland, | 14:09 | |
| and he saw this man and he was still wearing | 14:11 | |
| what remained of the taters of that pair of shoes | 14:13 | |
| that he had first seen. | 14:17 | |
| And he said, "What about your shoes?" | 14:19 | |
| "Oh," he said, "Bishop, I appreciate what you did, | 14:21 | |
| or what you thought you were doing," but said, | 14:25 | |
| "You know, they sent me six shoes | 14:27 | |
| from my right foot and none for my left, | 14:30 | |
| and I've had to stay with the others." | 14:33 | |
| It's that sort of thing | 14:36 | |
| that is a parable of what so often happens | 14:38 | |
| between the good intentions that we have | 14:41 | |
| and the way in which this is represented and takes form | 14:45 | |
| in the mission of the Christian Church around the world. | 14:50 | |
| It is for that reason that I would remind you again, | 14:56 | |
| that this is still a big world | 14:59 | |
| in the things that count most in human relations. | 15:02 | |
| When I was in seminary, | 15:09 | |
| I remember one particular term paper | 15:10 | |
| that I was called upon to write. | 15:14 | |
| It was on the subject, | 15:21 | |
| "What do you believe about missions?" | 15:22 | |
| And from pure theory, classroom theory, | 15:27 | |
| I wrote a term paper. | 15:30 | |
| I thought it was a pretty good term paper. | 15:37 | |
| I put down a lot of words that came out of books, | 15:41 | |
| and I wasn't too sure sometimes what all of them meant. | 15:44 | |
| But that was my answer to that classroom assignment. | 15:49 | |
| More recently, in the work I do, I've had the opportunity | 15:55 | |
| of seeing some of the things about which I then wrote. | 16:00 | |
| I confess that there is a considerable amount of difference. | 16:06 | |
| And yet having seen, I still believe with conviction, | 16:12 | |
| in the essential necessity | 16:18 | |
| of the Christian mission around this world | 16:20 | |
| if we are to find the solution to some of the problems | 16:23 | |
| which vex mankind. | 16:26 | |
| I've seen how these heroic men and women | 16:31 | |
| who have gone out from their homes | 16:34 | |
| to perform a task delegated to them by their church, | 16:37 | |
| I've seen the effective work which they have done. | 16:44 | |
| I've seen of how that work has changed | 16:50 | |
| by the year and almost by the month, | 16:53 | |
| in order to meet the needs that are constantly changing. | 16:55 | |
| I've seen how wisely these people are able to adjust | 16:59 | |
| as they live with people in other nations around the world. | 17:07 | |
| And as they see somewhat through their eyes | 17:12 | |
| and not only through Western eyes. | 17:15 | |
| I've seen the strength of the work, | 17:20 | |
| I've seen how local it can be, | 17:24 | |
| and how effective, and how important. | 17:28 | |
| And there's something inspiring about it all. | 17:31 | |
| And yet, along with the inspiration which comes from it, | 17:35 | |
| there comes yet, the certain knowledge | 17:38 | |
| of the untouched teaming millions of people, | 17:43 | |
| and of the needs of people in nations about the world, | 17:49 | |
| for what we believe is the answer to their greatest need, | 17:53 | |
| and how we are not yet doing it. | 18:01 | |
| And how we do not always seem to know how to do it, | 18:04 | |
| even if the resources were at hand. | 18:08 | |
| For instance, we are dealing with a more assertive people. | 18:14 | |
| In every nation, the spirit of independence | 18:21 | |
| and of nationalism is on the rise. | 18:23 | |
| And whatever it is which comes from America, | 18:30 | |
| whether it may is true or not, | 18:34 | |
| so often has to undergo that period of suspicion | 18:37 | |
| of colonial domination, | 18:42 | |
| which is so distasteful, particularly to the new nations | 18:44 | |
| and the new church around the world. | 18:50 | |
| It's a little like the thing that you saw | 18:54 | |
| in the current issue of Readers Digest, I imagine, | 18:57 | |
| when it said that there will always be | 19:01 | |
| a certain amount of tension between the generations, | 19:04 | |
| because youth and age have all the answers | 19:08 | |
| and the rest of us in between are stuck with the questions. | 19:10 | |
| Well, so often we still have only of the questions, | 19:14 | |
| and the answers do not always correspond | 19:20 | |
| to the question that needs to be asked, | 19:23 | |
| and the answer given, or even the answer expected. | 19:25 | |
| So that when we see the heroism of what is being done | 19:32 | |
| in the Christian mission throughout our world, | 19:35 | |
| that we recognize still again, and that it is a big world, | 19:38 | |
| because we still only scratch the surface | 19:43 | |
| in our ability to meet the great commission, | 19:48 | |
| "Go ye into all of the world | 19:54 | |
| with the gospel of Jesus Christ." | 19:58 | |
| I think sometimes our church makes a great mistake | 20:03 | |
| in the information which is given to the local, | 20:08 | |
| the home church, makes a mistake because sometimes, | 20:12 | |
| and I suppose there is a need for this sort of thing, | 20:18 | |
| we give the impression that we just about on the verge | 20:24 | |
| of a breakthrough in certain lands and in certain areas. | 20:27 | |
| That we are winning against the tremendous problems | 20:34 | |
| and in meeting the challenge of our day. | 20:40 | |
| I think it's a mistake to believe that. | 20:44 | |
| As important and as great, and as wise, | 20:48 | |
| and as strong as the work of Christian mission | 20:52 | |
| around the world today, it's a mistake to think | 20:55 | |
| we've just about won, we have not. | 20:57 | |
| And it's a big world in which we must continue to work | 21:03 | |
| with great problems. | 21:07 | |
| Sometimes if you look at on the one side, | 21:10 | |
| you can understand that it is a dark and dismal picture. | 21:13 | |
| But I think there are some bright sides too, | 21:20 | |
| there are some bright points, there are some hopeful signs. | 21:23 | |
| And I think one of them is in the rise | 21:29 | |
| of the great ecumenical movement symbolized | 21:32 | |
| by the World Council of Churches, | 21:35 | |
| in which the new nations | 21:38 | |
| may speak as they do in the United Nations, | 21:41 | |
| and with that same lack of timidity. | 21:44 | |
| And in the recent conference in New Delhi | 21:50 | |
| of the World Council of Churches, the assembly there, | 21:54 | |
| one of the hopeful things that give us the reason | 21:58 | |
| to believe that progress is being made and can be made, | 22:02 | |
| is the merging or the integration | 22:07 | |
| of the International Missionary Society | 22:09 | |
| in the World Council of Churches, | 22:11 | |
| reassuring some that there is a depth | 22:14 | |
| and a dimension to the world council | 22:18 | |
| that it has not had before, | 22:20 | |
| that it recognizes this mission | 22:22 | |
| and is committing itself to it. | 22:25 | |
| I think when we finally meet the demands | 22:29 | |
| of the great commission, it will have to be | 22:32 | |
| in the leadership of that which makes of all our groups one, | 22:37 | |
| until we are able to see and to appreciate, | 22:44 | |
| and to cooperate in the unity that is being sought today, | 22:47 | |
| even as Christ prayed, that it might be so. | 22:52 | |
| That's one of the hopeful signs, there are others too. | 22:56 | |
| In our recent world executive committee | 23:03 | |
| which happened this time to be meeting in London, | 23:07 | |
| our English friends decided that one night should be given | 23:10 | |
| to a formal dinner. | 23:16 | |
| But many important people would be invited in | 23:19 | |
| to meet with the members of this committee. | 23:24 | |
| And because-- | 23:28 | |
| And this turned out | 23:30 | |
| to be a very interesting meeting, | 23:31 | |
| in view of the late political developments | 23:33 | |
| of the following week. | 23:36 | |
| Because the Chancellor of the Exchequer, | 23:38 | |
| the honorable Selman Lloyd, was a Methodist layman, | 23:41 | |
| he was invited to be one of the speakers. | 23:45 | |
| And because Prime Minister Harold McMillan | 23:49 | |
| had an American Methodist mother, | 23:53 | |
| he was invited to be one of the speakers. | 23:56 | |
| The two speakers on that occasion then | 24:01 | |
| were very close friends, or appeared to be. | 24:04 | |
| Now, some of us began to wonder in a week or so, | 24:08 | |
| when we saw the accounts in the newspaper, | 24:11 | |
| that some heads had been rolling in the cabinet, | 24:14 | |
| and the first one to be severed | 24:17 | |
| was that of the honorable Selman Lloyd, | 24:19 | |
| who had followed the prime minister | 24:22 | |
| in his message that evening. | 24:23 | |
| But the thing that was reassuring about it all, | 24:30 | |
| was that a person who is as close | 24:35 | |
| to the heart of the problems of our world today, | 24:37 | |
| as the prime minister of England. | 24:41 | |
| And I think there's reason why he's very close to it, | 24:44 | |
| because he's spans between stronger forces, probably. | 24:47 | |
| And to hear him with that quiet confidence | 24:54 | |
| which somehow gets over to you, | 24:58 | |
| say, "We are going to win out | 25:02 | |
| in these problems in the world. | 25:04 | |
| It's going to take a lot of wisdom. | 25:07 | |
| It's going to take a lot of patience, | 25:10 | |
| but we are going to find the solution | 25:13 | |
| if we don't lose our patience, | 25:15 | |
| and we are not about to lose it." | 25:17 | |
| I came away from that dinner that evening | 25:22 | |
| With the feeling that that too was a hopeful sign | 25:26 | |
| in this tremendously big world of ours, | 25:30 | |
| that there was the reason for encouragement. | 25:36 | |
| Another experience within the year | 25:44 | |
| was in having the opportunity of talking | 25:49 | |
| with Madame Chiang Kai-shek, in nationalist China. | 25:52 | |
| And the place in which I met her was | 26:00 | |
| the last place that I ever expected to meet | 26:03 | |
| an important person in the life of our world today. | 26:06 | |
| It was in her office, a few minutes before she was to go | 26:14 | |
| into her five o'clock Wednesday afternoon prayer service. | 26:18 | |
| Our Supreme Court, I'm sure, hasn't heard about this yet, | 26:27 | |
| but they have one. | 26:31 | |
| And in that prayer service, which lasts for an hour, | 26:35 | |
| at five o'clock every Wednesday afternoon, | 26:37 | |
| organized and has always the presence | 26:40 | |
| of the wife of the president of nationalist China. | 26:44 | |
| They have there 60 women. | 26:50 | |
| They are the wives of all of the heads | 26:54 | |
| of the the various branches of the government. | 26:56 | |
| There are women there who are congressmen | 27:00 | |
| and senators and Supreme Court justices | 27:02 | |
| of nationalist China in their own right. | 27:04 | |
| The leadership of the nation is there. | 27:08 | |
| It was interesting to me | 27:12 | |
| that someone led that meeting for a while | 27:13 | |
| and then they listed on a blackboard, | 27:16 | |
| all of the things about which they thought | 27:18 | |
| they ought to pray that day. | 27:20 | |
| And then, not like those of us, | 27:25 | |
| who may be comfortable church members, | 27:29 | |
| they got down on their knees from Madam Chiang | 27:32 | |
| onto the last person there, on their knees for 20 minutes, | 27:36 | |
| and prayed around that room about these things | 27:42 | |
| which concerned them. | 27:44 | |
| I came away impressed, to me it was a hopeful sign. | 27:48 | |
| And in speaking of that to a friend | 27:52 | |
| who has an important place in our own government, | 27:55 | |
| he said, "Yes, of course. | 27:58 | |
| There are two nations in the world today | 28:01 | |
| who know they're in the last ditch, | 28:03 | |
| and they have turned to their religious faith." | 28:06 | |
| He said, "We do not know it yet, | 28:10 | |
| but we are in the same condition." | 28:14 | |
| But to me, it was hopeful | 28:17 | |
| that here was a solid pressed government, | 28:19 | |
| and whatever your idea may be about nationalist China, | 28:21 | |
| there's something that came out of that meeting | 28:26 | |
| that made a difference, at least as I saw it. | 28:28 | |
| These things are going on about the world. | 28:35 | |
| The great commission given to us by our Christ | 28:40 | |
| has not been repealed, it's still our challenge. | 28:43 | |
| And it is my opinion that the church of Jesus Christ | 28:50 | |
| around the world, | 28:53 | |
| as it works to meet its own problems within, | 28:55 | |
| and as it works to represent our Christ, | 28:59 | |
| is capable of meeting all of this challenge, | 29:02 | |
| until a new day that maybe we have talked about before | 29:08 | |
| but despaired of seeing, may yet began to dawn. | 29:12 | |
| Now, it isn't that easy that we are going to see it probably | 29:19 | |
| all completely realized, but to see the progress. | 29:22 | |
| It's still a big world with big problems and great needs. | 29:30 | |
| But over against it is the greatness | 29:39 | |
| of the gospel of our Christ if we are faithful. | 29:41 | |
| Let us stand for prayer. | 29:49 | |
| Give to us, our father, | 29:56 | |
| a new consciousness and concern | 29:59 | |
| for the needs of our world, | 30:02 | |
| for a new openness of mind and heart and spirit | 30:07 | |
| that we may understand thee and thy way for us, | 30:10 | |
| before we are too certain in presenting the way | 30:17 | |
| that we have always thought to those about us. | 30:22 | |
| And in consultation and in working together | 30:28 | |
| and with a devotion to thee and a sacrifice to thy course | 30:32 | |
| that can come only from thy inspiration, | 30:36 | |
| enable us to meet this day | 30:42 | |
| and to solve problems of a great, big world. | 30:46 | |
| And now, may the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ | 30:54 | |
| and the love of God, | 30:57 | |
| and the communion of the Holy Spirit | 30:59 | |
| rest and abide with us all now and forevermore. | 31:02 | |
| (inaudible hymn) | 31:10 |