Roy D. Nichols - "The Promised Land" (March 10, 1968)

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-	Pureness of God's presence.	0:03
	Eternal God in whom is our health and our peace.	0:08
	How may we utter our need of thee.	0:12
	Our minds need thee, to give them poise.	0:16
	Our wills need thee, to give them strength.	0:23
	Our hearts need thee, to give them quiet.	0:28
	We need thee, as we labor for a better world.	0:34
	Very urgent is our need of thee,	0:39
	if we are to face persistent evil	0:41
	with hopeful determination.	0:44
	Oh, thou who understand the stars	0:48
	better than we do ourselves.	0:51
	Grant unto us a healing heartening consciousness	0:54
	of thy presence as revealed in Jesus Christ, our Lord.	0:59
	And now, as our savior Christ has taught us,	1:07
	we humbly pray together saying,	1:09
	our father, Who art in heaven,	1:13
	Hallowed be thy name.	1:17
	Thy kingdom come.	1:19
	Thy will be done,	1:21
	on earth as it is in heaven.	1:23
	Give us this day our daily bread.	1:26
	And forgive us our trespasses,	1:29
	as we forgive those who trespass against us.	1:31
	And lead us not into temptation,	1:35
	but deliver us from evil.	1:38
	For thine is the kingdom	1:40
	and the power and the glory forever.	1:42
	Amen.	1:47
-	Let us pray.	2:13
	Make acceptable in thy sight oh Lord our God,	2:20
	all that we say and do in the name of the Father,	2:25
	and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.	2:28
	Amen.	2:32
	Jewish religion began with both a command and a promise.	2:43
	And the Lord spoke unto Abraham and said,	2:54
	get thee out into a land that I will show thee.	2:57
	And I will make of thee a great nation.	3:04
	But captivity in the land of Egypt frustrated the dream	3:10
	of fulfillment for the children of Israel.	3:15
	And the Lord spoke again to Moses and said,	3:20
	"I will bring these children out of the country	3:27
	of affliction, and I will lead them into the land of Canaan,	3:31
	which is the land of promise."	3:38
	And so Moses went and did as the Lord had instructed him	3:43
	and there was set in motion one of the most astounding	3:48
	and interesting pilgrimages in the whole history of man.	3:52
	It continues to this day and in spirit, it always will.	3:59
	Prevailing theories of the progress and growth of men	4:06
	give great credence to the present pressure of necessity	4:11
	and the fear.	4:15
	The mother of progress is the environmental challenges	4:18
	that fall hard upon the pathway of men, forcing us to accept	4:24
	new changes and to reach toward new stages of adjustment.	4:30
	And no students of history or of the social scene	4:37
	would deprecate or in any measure make small this portion	4:41
	which analyzes the movement of man.	4:46
	For in a substantial degree, we are the products	4:51
	of the pressures of necessity and of fear.	4:54
	But there is another kind of necessity too frequently	5:01
	in this modern day ignored,	5:04
	the pull of a great goal.	5:08
	The beckoning of a dream.	5:14
	The vision of a promised land.	5:18
	This too makes it's incursions within the being	5:25
	of human creatures and spurs us,	5:28
	pulls us, beckons us, inspires us.	5:33
	Currently in the city of New York on Broadway	5:39
	there is an interesting modern portrayal of Saavedra's	5:42
	16th, 17th century story of Don Quixote.	5:46
	They call it the Man from La Mancha.	5:54
	Most of you have heard the popular song,	5:58
	which has emerged out of that musical,	6:00
	which has now become dissociated from the portrayal	6:02
	on stage itself.	6:06
	But basically it tells the story of the brash dealings	6:09
	of reality with a man who had fanciful ideas of fulfillment,	6:14
	which never really came to pass.	6:20
	And the song, pays a sort of passing tribute to this man	6:23
	who possesses what it calls	6:29
	the desire to reach the unreachable stars.	6:32
	The man who holds on to the dream that cannot be realized.	6:40
	But this morning I want to speak with you briefly	6:48
	on promises that can be fulfilled	6:51
	and dreams that can come true.	6:53
	Goals that can be reached.	6:58
	For the strength of the holy scripture and the inspiration	7:03
	it has projected over the centuries to man,	7:06
	especially as it is lifted up in the ancient saga	7:08
	of the movement of the Jews from captivity into freedom	7:13
	and toward the land of promise.	7:17
	It's in the central fact that they were journeying	7:21
	toward a promised land that was real.	7:23
	It was not a fantasy.	7:26
	It was a genuine hope which they expect to fulfill.	7:29
	It involves movement and response,	7:33
	adjustment, challenge, and change.	7:37
	And this is why no doubt in spite of all the critics	7:43
	and the attempts to sidetrack the content of the scripture,	7:47
	men keep returning to it because it speaks in history to men	7:51
	who were dealing genuinely with historical circumstance	7:56
	and who hope and prayed and work for great achievement.	8:00
	Let us take, for instance,	8:10
	the political promise in which we are involved.	8:13
	A few centuries ago, a group of pilgrims looking over	8:22
	toward the new world from the continent of Europe saw here,	8:26
	the prospect that something which man had longed	8:30
	and hoped for, could be fulfilled.	8:34
	A place where men could be free	8:38
	and where they could stretch.	8:40
	And so they came.	8:43
	But as the years have passed, we have seen the frustration	8:47
	of these early urgings,	8:51
	cynicism, and corruption, slavery, and prejudice,	8:54
	the embellishment of abundance and its effect	9:00
	upon the psyche of the people,	9:03
	the unconcerned of those who possess for those who have not.	9:06
	And for this reason, some men now look upon	9:12
	those early statements as being prosaic hopeful phrases	9:16
	that were never really meant to be	9:22
	nor could ever be fulfilled.	9:26
	In the great harbor of New York,	9:30
	there stands a gift from the old world	9:31
	that had been enslaved and its own traditions,	9:34
	a hope projected to the new,	9:37
	the great statue of the lady who stands	9:39
	with hands extended in the Harbor,	9:41
	holding the torch of Liberty and beneath	9:45
	words to this effect,	9:48
	"Bring me your tired, your poor,	9:50
	your huddled masses longing to be free.	9:54
	I lift my lamp beside the golden door."	9:59
	For a long time men in distant parts of the world,	10:06
	as well as those who live within the confines	10:09
	of our own nation have hoped that here in this place,	10:12
	we would be able to prove something	10:20
	that has never been before,	10:22
	at least in the proportions of our experiment.	10:24
	A place where men with different points of view	10:29
	and religious creeds and skin pigmentation,	10:31
	and at various levels of readiness and development	10:37
	could commit their loyalties together	10:41
	and provide a place where men could grow	10:45
	in prosperity and peace.	10:47
	This is still a promise.	10:53
	But of all of the achievements of this America,	11:00
	there is no product we have produced that is greater	11:02
	in its effect upon the long view of man's hopes	11:07
	than this one.	11:14
	And there is no dream which requires and demands	11:20
	greater sacrifice that men of this concern	11:25
	shall join their hands in spite of cynicism	11:29
	and apparent contradiction, the mistakes of administrations,	11:32
	even the ominous blame of imperialistic aggressiveness,	11:40
	we still can not desert the promise.	11:47
	It is the only thing about this thing that we are doing here	11:51
	that is worth the devotion and sacrifice that we can give.	11:55
	Then there is the other, for instance, the church	12:05
	about which some of us have almost despaired.	12:11
	In the fifth century when Rome was dying, St. Augustine	12:16
	wrote his Civitas Dei.	12:20
	It was the expression of a hope that the church would become	12:24
	a kind of precedent of a new dominion	12:28
	in which there would be righteousness and truth.	12:33
	And indeed the church did perform a significant function.	12:39
	She was, and still is the matron of Western civilization.	12:42
	But too quickly, the institutional church went on to imitate	12:48
	the monolithic failings of her predecessor, Rome.	12:53
	And in the 16th century, there came one by the name of	12:59
	Martin Luther who still held the hope that pregnant	13:01
	within the loins of this institution,	13:05
	there was the wherewithal for man's revival.	13:08
	And he tried to reform her.	13:14
	And even though Luther may have been guilty of some failings	13:18
	and the reformation may have slipped short	13:22
	of what it ought to have been,	13:24
	it did leave us with the spiritual foundations,	13:26
	which did provide for the common man, a new awakening	13:29
	to the possibilities of this promise	13:35
	and the fulfillment of this hope.	13:37
	His notion, for instance, which when confined	13:41
	just to the creeds or to the inner sanctums of theologians	13:45
	seems not to be relevant, but when expounded makes sense.	13:48
	His notion of salvation or justification by faith	13:54
	restored again to the consciousness of man,	14:00
	the notion of God's sovereignty.	14:04
	If God is the giver of grace	14:06
	and of salvation,	14:11
	then to him belongs man's singular loyalty and gratitude.	14:14
	I remember a few years ago, visiting Tuskegee Institute	14:24
	to preach there at a morning chapel service.	14:28
	And just before entering into the great hall,	14:31
	I saw inscribed on the wall, a little verse,	14:34
	which each member of the choir hopefully would read	14:38
	before entering the sanctuary.	14:41
	And it said these words,	14:43
	"Whose bread I eat,	14:46
	his praise I sing."	14:49
	Luther in the establishment of this first principle	14:54
	of faith gave man once again a feeling	14:57
	that his ultimate loyalty was and always must be	15:02
	to the ultimate giver and sustainer of all life,	15:10
	lesser loyalties to earthly institutions, not withstanding.	15:14
	The greatness of man somehow broke loose again	15:19
	when his allegiance finally rested at the footstool of God.	15:23
	Then Luther spoke of the priesthood of all believers,	15:31
	which once again, too much I think,	15:37
	is confined to the discussions within	15:40
	the ranks of seminarians.	15:43
	But actually provided the new birth for individuals	15:47
	who had been cowered by earthly authority for so long	15:53
	that they lacked the confidence even to conceive a notion	15:57
	of real democracy.	16:01
	Let the notion of the priesthood of all believers revive	16:03
	gave the common man a new sense of boldness,	16:07
	which spiritually liberated him.	16:10
	And I would contend and could defend, I think, in the face,	16:13
	even of good opposition,	16:17
	that without this liberating influence	16:21
	the notion of democracy as presently conceived	16:24
	as a possible achievement in the mind of a common man	16:28
	could not have been.	16:32
	Then Luther gave us the opened Bible.	16:39
	And for theologians too frequently, it has been simply	16:50
	a subject for study and review.	16:53
	But what Luther really did was, he presented	16:57
	to the common man for the first time in history	17:01
	a feeling for the objective pursuit of truth,	17:05
	which began with the reading of the scripture,	17:08
	but which extended itself into all of the empirical	17:11
	and pragmatic disciplines, which are now so common	17:15
	in the modern world.	17:17
	Medieval man was tethered by the spiritual presuppositions	17:21
	of the dominant influence of his age,	17:28
	and out of the bowels of Christian faith	17:32
	there came a gain through the institutional expression	17:34
	of the church and its true prophets, a liberating influence,	17:38
	which has made us strong in our determination to fulfill	17:44
	the hope, the dream, the promise of God.	17:49
	An ancient Greek philosopher once said,	17:57
	man is the measure of all things.	17:59
	He was simply calling to our attention that	18:04
	whereas institutions and society so organized may seem	18:06
	to be the door to the land of promise, the key and the clue	18:12
	is still individual man and his condition,	18:17
	spiritual and physical and social.	18:25
	That is why the confrontation between Jesus and Nicodemus	18:30
	is always really up to date and would never be confined	18:35
	simply to discussions among the saints or just interchanges	18:39
	between presumptuous saints and sinners.	18:46
	Jesus said to Nicodemus,	18:51
	unless you are born by the spirit of God,	18:54
	you cannot see, you cannot comprehend,	18:59
	you cannot even grasp the notion of the kingdom of God.	19:04
	Unless a man is born by the spirit of God,	19:12
	awakened and enlivened in the inner man,	19:16
	the notion of the promise to him is fanciful.	19:22
	Unreachable.	19:27
	Unrealizable.	19:33
	But for us, who have felt the ruminations of the spirit	19:37
	and our hearts and the promptings and urgings of holiness,	19:42
	which is not of men, we are committed to the quest.	19:48
	We shall unalterably follow the road,	19:54
	that leads from wherever we are to wherever	19:59
	by the grace of God in his illumination,	20:03
	we should and must be.	20:07
	What I'm trying to say is that the promised land	20:12
	is not just a fanciful dream,	20:16
	and unreachable star.	20:22
	It is the homing instinct of the soul of man.	20:24
	It is the true reality.	20:27
	It is not just something that is far, far away,	20:31
	a long, long road, but it is more as Jesus described it,	20:36
	it is at your elbow.	20:42
	It is within you. It is at hand.	20:44
	And the notion of its fulfillment falls heavily	20:50
	on the conscience and prompts the urgings of every student	20:53
	and true disciple of learning and of truth.	20:57
	For we, through the inspiration of God's spirit	21:02
	have discovered in that promise the true reality	21:10
	which guides the destiny of man.	21:13
	And even though at times we despair	21:21
	and saints turned to cynicism because of the failings	21:23
	of their brethren or the knowledge of their own sins.	21:26
	And especially at this point in human history	21:31
	where every aspect of public and private life	21:33
	is under challenge and men confused by the hypocrisy	21:37
	of those who propose to be, what in fact, they are not.	21:40
	Nonetheless, we refuse to be dissuaded	21:45
	and if we ourselves have failed,	21:52
	then we shall return again and again,	21:57
	to the scene of action, perfecting our purposes,	22:00
	finding renewal, recovering the meaning of the dream.	22:03
	I'm sure you've heard the story that they tell	22:14
	of the Huntsman who was bragging with his fellows	22:16
	about his exploits in distant places.	22:19
	He was surrounded by ardent admirers	22:23
	and he began to tell them of his exploits.	22:25
	He spoke of one occasion when he was trapped	22:31
	in a lonely place all by himself,	22:34
	his comrades had gone on beyond him and he was busy working	22:36
	with his gun when suddenly, he said he looked,	22:40
	and about 30 feet away he saw an ominous looking animal,	22:45
	a wild boar, which growled first	22:49
	and then bounded toward him.	22:52
	He raised his gun and fired one barrel	22:55
	and the animal dropped before he could destroy.	22:58
	Then he said, he looked to the right and he heard	23:03
	a low growl and there he saw in the thicket coming out,	23:05
	a lion, fierce and roaring.	23:09
	He said, "Then I took my gun, I raised it to my shoulder	23:14
	and I fired that second barrel," he only had two.	23:17
	And the lion dropped in his tracks and he was dead.	23:22
	Then he said, "I looked off to my far left."	23:27
	And then he said, "I saw another ominous creature	23:31
	already in motion almost upon me."	23:34
	"The nearest thing," he said, "I could move to for rescue	23:37
	was a tree."	23:40
	"And that," he said, "was 20 feet away.	23:41
	And the closest limb from the ground was 15 feet."	23:43
	At this point, his comrades looked at him and smiled	23:47
	and said, "Now you're gonna tell us,	23:49
	that you ran to the tree and jumped 15 feet from the ground,	23:52
	caught the limb and saved yourself."	23:56
	"No," he said, "I missed it going up.	23:58
	But I caught it coming down."	24:00
	There is a sense in which	24:06
	we do what we must,	24:09
	even though to some, it may seem fanciful and dreamy	24:15
	and distant and unreachable.	24:19
	But man always has been able under the inspiration	24:21
	of God to accomplish those things which the urgings	24:25
	of conscience and the visions which he possesses	24:30
	call him toward.	24:35
	And let us hope that we, in the 20th century	24:40
	equipped with all of the modern media of communication,	24:44
	the fund of knowledge which tells us of the up and downhill	24:48
	failure and fortune of men, will not despair	24:51
	because in this particular inning, in which we live,	24:55
	there is a multiplicity of confusion.	25:00
	Shall we then join the confused or shall we reaffirm	25:04
	the fact that we are disciples of the promise	25:08
	and that what we have failed to do and what the world	25:14
	has failed to accomplish, we shall by the grace of God	25:16
	and the strength of our limb and loin we shall achieve.	25:20
	Well, there is nothing in these commitments	25:27
	to which we have given ourselves	25:29
	that could be spoken of as fanciful.	25:31
	They are all possible.	25:34
	As possible as the promised land was for the ragged pilgrims	25:39
	who followed Moses, hopefully seeking a place,	25:45
	a land, a home.	25:50
	The Moses story has, it seems to me a tremendous flavoring	25:56
	that always needs to be updated so that we who walk the way,	26:01
	removed from the simplicity of its early happening	26:05
	will not miss the lesson, the moral,	26:11
	the inspiring, moving influence of the story.	26:17
	The Israelites, to find their hope	26:25
	had to give up their past.	26:28
	I suppose there is nothing more painful in the story	26:34
	of the leadership of Moses than the crying of the people	26:36
	in the wilderness, that at least we were in Egypt	26:40
	we had food, a kind of security.	26:43
	Which when they went up against a little opposition	26:47
	and found a few days without bread and without water,	26:50
	led them to look nostalgically upon the past,	26:53
	which they in reality, despised.	26:58
	And we too, like them because of our frailty,	27:02
	find ourselves the older we are, I suspect,	27:05
	talking about the good old days and hoping	27:10
	we might return to them.	27:13
	But they were not so good,	27:15
	except as our memory is impaired,	27:18
	or our moral sensitivities are dulled.	27:20
	These days with all their perils are better than any	27:24
	we have seen in human history so far.	27:28
	The breaking of a new day of awakening for the poor,	27:34
	the rousing of peoples who were once under the heel	27:39
	of great imperialistic powers and nations,	27:43
	the new media of communication,	27:48
	which makes possible the sharing of knowledge,	27:50
	travel, the benefit of interchange.	27:53
	Times have never really been bad.	27:59
	Shaking loose, realizing that whatever it was good	28:04
	in the past, it was not as good as it should have been.	28:11
	And that we must not nostalgically think of returning	28:17
	to the good old days.	28:22
	For these are the days my brethren in the face of God	28:25
	and man upon this planet that are now being condemned.	28:29
	And so the children of Israel	28:37
	set their sites then to continue.	28:39
	And the other extreme point of the story is	28:44
	what happened to them when they arrived.	28:46
	Now and then we do get a toehold in the promised land,	28:49
	a little success somewhere, which seems to be a suggestion	28:53
	of the final thing that we hope to achieve.	28:57
	But the scripture keeps reminding us, their leaders kept	29:02
	whispering in the ears of the Israelites saying,	29:06
	"You must watch the borders."	29:08
	For there is nothing on this planet,	29:11
	in the land of the living, by the very nature of our kind	29:13
	that is forever.	29:19
	Unless man continually is working	29:20
	at its re perfection and renewal, even the promised land,	29:23
	in so far as it represents the fulfillment	29:28
	of the whole vision of man on earth will always be something	29:30
	man will have to work at.	29:37
	And this suggests, as the Bible always has, that degree	29:42
	of human responsibility, which always accompanies	29:46
	the fulfillment of these holy urges within us.	29:50
	Whoever made the complaint, who knows anything	29:55
	about the substance of this book we read,	29:58
	or the faith that we share and said that we were	30:00
	pie-in-the-sky people,	30:03
	who skip the existential aspects of experience.	30:06
	The only men who can make that claim are those	30:11
	who are ignorant of the content of our calling,	30:14
	the nature of our history, the inners of our faith.	30:19
	But the blazing instant that I want to place before you now,	30:25
	which stood between the beginning and the fulfillment	30:31
	of that dream was the red sea.	30:33
	The red sea.	30:38
	You have to pass through the red sea	30:41
	to reach the land of promise.	30:46
	Just this week I was reading a rather interesting	30:48
	little quip in one of our national publications.	30:51
	I suppose, in other periods,	30:57
	I might have thought it sacrilegious,	30:58
	but it seemed quite witty.	31:00
	I share it with you.	31:03
	A public relations, man ran up to Moses	31:06
	at a very critical juncture in his leadership.	31:12
	The Egyptians with their chariots and their horses	31:17
	were bounding like mad toward these defenseless people.	31:20
	And before them, there was a great body of water,	31:24
	the red sea.	31:27
	And the PR man ran up to Moses and said,	31:28
	"Moses, what are you gonna do?"	31:31
	And Moses said, "if they get too close I'll call upon my God	31:36
	and I'll wave my hand and he will open the sea for us.	31:38
	And we will walk over a dry shard and we shall be saved."	31:44
	And the PR man says, "but Moses, suppose the Egyptians	31:50
	follow you through the sea.	31:52
	Then what will you do?"	31:55
	Moses said, "I will call upon my God	31:57
	and I will raise my hand toward heaven.	31:59
	And he will then close up the sea and they shall be buried	32:03
	in the sea and we shall be saved."	32:06
	And the PR man with a look of enthusiasm on his face,	32:11
	he said, "Moses, if you can do that, I'll get you 10 pages	32:14
	in the new Testament."	32:19
	Well, the fact is,	32:24
	he has more than that.	32:28
	Not only the new Testament, but he still,	32:31
	at the significance of that instance,	32:36
	still dominates the experience of man.	32:39
	For along with the crawling efforts of human beings	32:45
	to shape their future and to fulfill their hopes,	32:49
	the ultimate achievement is an act of God.	32:54
	He who framed us and sustains all that is	33:03
	meets the effort of his children in the midst of the fray	33:09
	and beyond their limitations, provides that	33:14
	which is necessary to complete the journey.	33:18
	And whether it is in the private experience of an individual	33:23
	who has interposed in his path,	33:27
	some perplexing personal trial, or the movement of a prophet	33:29
	or the pilgrimage of a traveler	33:37
	who is seeking a far country.	33:41
	It always comes a time when the enlivening of that hope	33:44
	requires an act of God.	33:49
	And man can never, nor he shall never complete the quest	33:55
	until that sense of identification with the infinite	34:02
	is so present that he is willing to use up the whole length	34:06
	and breadth of his own powers and then still believe	34:11
	that there is more at his disposal to be used in the clutch	34:15
	at the moment of necessity.	34:20
	This I think is what we have called faith in God.	34:24
	What I am trying to say, my brethren here in the heart	34:32
	of the academic community, that the substance of faith still	34:37
	is depending upon disciples, believers.	34:46
	There may be some changes in particular points of view	34:55
	on some part of the substance or the content,	35:00
	but the promise is so real and the frustration of man	35:08
	is so evident that how can we hope or expect	35:12
	for better days, unless cynics who have almost gone	35:18
	to the doldrums of despair find some renewal	35:25
	within themselves, some confidence in promises,	35:29
	fixed in the discovery of new ones yet to be.	35:35
	And above all else, a sense of our dependence	35:42
	upon the ultimate for that final unction	35:46
	and act of deliverance,	35:50
	which is the cure for man.	35:56
	I'm rejoicing really in this season of history.	36:07
	My only discomfort is that I meet so many who are so young,	36:14
	who seems so seriously despondent.	36:19
	I'm excited.	36:25
	I know that there are things that we shall pass through	36:29
	that may be worse than what we have seen,	36:32
	but there is no genuine prospect of better things,	36:36
	except that in the eagerness of the tender young	36:41
	who now emerge.	36:45
	Unless there is some grasp of goodness that is strong,	36:47
	some sense of urgency that prompts us, some faith	36:51
	that is larger than the obstacles that we confront,	36:55
	then I must share your pessimism with you.	36:59
	But if out of this company and springing	37:05
	out of like communities across the nation,	37:08
	in spite of riots and black and white power,	37:11
	the interchanges of force, the perils of the bomb,	37:16
	the confusion over personal morals and private ethics,	37:22
	in spite of all of these, I cast upon your shoulders	37:26
	that degree of responsibility which I'm willing to accept	37:31
	for myself under God.	37:33
	We are still pilgrims of the promise.	37:38
	I remember the words of an old spiritual	37:44
	that we used to sing with gusto, which I share with you,	37:46
	"oh, don't you want to go	37:51
	to the gospel feast	37:56
	that promised land where all is peace."	38:00
	And the Lord said unto Abraham, get thee up into a land	38:08
	that I will show thee.	38:17
	Let's pray.	38:21
	Father, we come in deep humility of spirit.	38:30
	Recognizing our failures.	38:37
	For we have not seriously as we were, counted the equipment	38:43
	thou hast given unto us.	38:47
	Grant, we pray that in these hours of rededication,	38:55
	that we may each make a pledge that may commit us	38:58
	to the path of rediscovery and renewal.	39:03
	That we may once again believe in the dreams	39:12
	and seek the promises and labor for the fulfillment	39:14
	of the highest and holiest hopes of man.	39:19
	In the name of the Father, and of the Son,	39:24
	and of the Holy Spirit.	39:27
	Amen.	39:29
	(lively music)	39:34

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Title:

Roy D. Nichols - "The Promised Land" (March 10, 1968)

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March 10, 1968

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Nichols, Roy D.

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