Albert Whiting - "A New Heaven and a New Earth" (July 7, 1968)
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| - | We bless and praise Thee, O God, | 0:05 |
| for the open door to the joy of loving and being loved. | 0:10 | |
| We bless and praise Thee, O God, | 0:17 | |
| for the open door to the opportunities of the everyday | 0:21 | |
| through which we may go in our leisure | 0:27 | |
| and in our work, and in all our ways | 0:30 | |
| the joy that we have found in Thee. | 0:35 | |
| We bless and praise Thee, O God. | 0:39 | |
| And let us offer two prayers of intercession. | 0:46 | |
| First for the World Council of Churches | 0:50 | |
| now meeting in Sweden. | 0:56 | |
| And secondly, for a world in trouble. | 0:59 | |
| Eternal God, the Father | 1:07 | |
| from whom the whole family in Heaven and Earth is named | 1:09 | |
| who are gathering out of every nation, one people in Christ. | 1:14 | |
| We remember before Thee those from many lands and races | 1:20 | |
| who meet at the assembly | 1:25 | |
| of the World Council of Churches in Uppsala. | 1:26 | |
| As they meet with one accord in one place, | 1:32 | |
| may the grace and power of Thy Holy Spirit be with them. | 1:37 | |
| May He who is the true light be the light of their worship | 1:43 | |
| and their decisions to the end | 1:49 | |
| that in their witness and service and unity, | 1:52 | |
| Thy people may glorify Thy name in the whole world. | 1:57 | |
| We remember before Thee all the churches | 2:05 | |
| represented at Uppsala, our own communions | 2:07 | |
| and our partners in obedience. | 2:14 | |
| As we are drawn together in prayer | 2:18 | |
| for those who represent us there, | 2:21 | |
| so may we be drawn by Christ into greater unity | 2:24 | |
| with one another and by His grace | 2:29 | |
| become more faithful witnesses to that light | 2:33 | |
| which is for the healing of the nations | 2:37 | |
| and the redemption of the world. | 2:40 | |
| Oh God, the Father who has made of one blood | 2:47 | |
| all the nations of the Earth. | 2:51 | |
| We pray that strength and courage abundant may be given | 2:55 | |
| to all who work for a world of reason and understanding. | 2:59 | |
| We pray that the good which lies in every man's heart | 3:06 | |
| may day by day be magnified. | 3:10 | |
| We pray that men will come to see more clearly | 3:15 | |
| not that which divides them but that which unites them. | 3:19 | |
| We pray that each hour may bring us closer | 3:26 | |
| to a final victory not of nation over nation, | 3:29 | |
| but of man over his own evils and weakness. | 3:36 | |
| All of which we pray for Jesus Christ's sake. | 3:42 | |
| And let us offer a prayer of supplication for ourselves | 3:49 | |
| in this university community. | 3:54 | |
| O God, the Judge of all who knowest what is in man | 3:58 | |
| and requirest truth in the inward parts. | 4:04 | |
| In times of doubts and questionings, | 4:10 | |
| when our belief is perplexed by new teaching, new thought, | 4:14 | |
| when our faith is strained by creeds, by doctrines, | 4:21 | |
| by mysteries beyond our understanding, | 4:25 | |
| give us the faithfulness of learners | 4:28 | |
| and the courage of believers in Thee. | 4:32 | |
| Give us boldness to examine and faith to trust all truth. | 4:37 | |
| Patience and insight to master difficulties. | 4:45 | |
| Stability to hold fast our traditions | 4:50 | |
| with enlightened interpretations. | 4:55 | |
| To admit all fresh truth made known to us. | 4:59 | |
| And in times of trouble, to grasp new knowledge | 5:05 | |
| and to combine it loyally and honestly with the old. | 5:10 | |
| Save us and help us, we humbly beseech Thee, | 5:16 | |
| through Jesus Christ in whom Thy truth is made manifest. | 5:21 | |
| Now, O Lord, we commend unto Thee our souls and our bodies, | 5:29 | |
| our minds and our thoughts, our prayers and our hopes, | 5:35 | |
| our health and our work, our life and our death, | 5:41 | |
| our parents and brothers and sisters, | 5:48 | |
| our benefactors and friends, our neighbors, | 5:52 | |
| our countrymen, all Christian folk. | 5:58 | |
| All folk for whom Christ died and was raised from the dead. | 6:04 | |
| We commend them all to Thee, O Lord, this day and always. | 6:13 | |
| Now as our Savior Christ has taught us, | 6:23 | |
| we humbly pray together saying, | 6:26 | |
| our Father who art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy name. | 6:30 | |
| Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done | 6:35 | |
| on Earth as it is in Heaven. | 6:39 | |
| Give us this day our daily bread | 6:42 | |
| and forgive us our trespasses | 6:45 | |
| as we forgive those who trespass against us, | 6:47 | |
| and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil | 6:51 | |
| for Thine is the kingdom | 6:56 | |
| and the power and the glory forever, amen. | 6:58 | |
| - | My good friends, I accepted the invitation | 7:21 |
| to speak here this morning in an atmosphere | 7:24 | |
| glowing with warmth and good fellowship. | 7:28 | |
| And at the same time I was unsuspectingly charmed | 7:32 | |
| by your very excellent chaplain, Dr. Wilkinson. | 7:36 | |
| And little did I realize at that moment | 7:41 | |
| the difficulty entailed in the preparation | 7:45 | |
| of one's first sermon or that this particular performance | 7:48 | |
| would be under the watchful eye of my former college teacher | 7:55 | |
| and freshman advisor, Dr. James Cleland, | 8:01 | |
| who even in those early days of his career in this country | 8:04 | |
| was a masterful lecturer and a spellbinding sermonizer. | 8:09 | |
| His reputation has grown to international proportions, | 8:15 | |
| and in the light of this, | 8:19 | |
| one understandably hesitates to enter a pulpit | 8:22 | |
| from which he has preached with some regularity. | 8:27 | |
| So I think that you can all understand | 8:29 | |
| my plight this morning. | 8:32 | |
| I wanna speak very briefly to you | 8:34 | |
| on the basis of the Scripture which were read this morning. | 8:38 | |
| And the title, if we must title this talk this morning is, | 8:43 | |
| "A New Heaven and a New Earth." | 8:47 | |
| Our society today is enmeshed in a conflict | 8:53 | |
| between traditional institutions and ideologies | 8:59 | |
| and the realities of the contemporary world. | 9:03 | |
| Man, the only culture-building animal | 9:07 | |
| on the face of the Earth not only adapts to environment, | 9:10 | |
| but he also creates an environment to which to adapt. | 9:16 | |
| Thus although he has created an urban | 9:21 | |
| and metropolitan society in an ever-shrinking world, | 9:27 | |
| he is still learning how to live in his creation. | 9:31 | |
| As a matter of fact, the frictions which have developed | 9:37 | |
| as man attempts to adjust from a pre-urban | 9:42 | |
| to an urban way of life are of such dimensions | 9:46 | |
| that they have been described by many | 9:52 | |
| as being revolutionary. | 9:54 | |
| There is no question about the fact that the winds of change | 9:56 | |
| are blowing vigorously at this very moment, | 10:00 | |
| and an old order is being displaced. | 10:03 | |
| And it seems to me | 10:07 | |
| that there are three elements in this change. | 10:08 | |
| First, the technological revolution | 10:13 | |
| with the impact of automation, | 10:16 | |
| computer technology, and cybernetics. | 10:19 | |
| And then second, the revolution in weaponry | 10:24 | |
| with the emergence and the dominance of nuclear weapons. | 10:28 | |
| And third, the revolution | 10:34 | |
| in human interaction and human rights. | 10:37 | |
| These revolutionary changes are worldwide, | 10:43 | |
| and the great question facing men and women | 10:47 | |
| all over this nation and in every nation | 10:49 | |
| on the face of the globe is whether they can develop | 10:52 | |
| the new attitudes and requisite mental outlooks | 10:56 | |
| for satisfactory and creative living | 11:02 | |
| in this rather agonizing period of social change. | 11:06 | |
| And at the risk of elaborating what ought to be obvious | 11:11 | |
| to this audience, let me attempt to suggest | 11:15 | |
| some major attitudinal changes | 11:20 | |
| which seem imperative to me for the future. | 11:23 | |
| First, because the world in which we live | 11:28 | |
| is geographically one, it seems to me we all must formulate | 11:30 | |
| and maintain a world perspective. | 11:38 | |
| Man's technological genius | 11:42 | |
| has enabled the dwarfing of distances | 11:44 | |
| and the chaining of time. | 11:48 | |
| It is possible, as you all know, to leave Tokyo, Japan | 11:51 | |
| by jet plane on a Sunday morning | 11:57 | |
| and arrive in Seattle, Washington | 12:01 | |
| before Sunday actually dawns in this country. | 12:04 | |
| We have compressed the world, in a sense, | 12:08 | |
| into a neighborhood through science and technology. | 12:11 | |
| But tragically, we have not yet developed | 12:17 | |
| the ethical commitment or formula for converting the world | 12:21 | |
| into a viable brotherhood or community of mutual respect. | 12:27 | |
| The world is rent asunder by the Cold War. | 12:33 | |
| Peace has been ruptured on at least two fronts, | 12:39 | |
| in Vietnam and Southwest Asia is one, | 12:42 | |
| and in Northern Africa is another. | 12:45 | |
| And conflicts of interest are still resolved largely | 12:48 | |
| by the employment of force. | 12:54 | |
| The League of Nations, we all know now, | 12:58 | |
| was a noble experiment that failed, | 12:59 | |
| and the World Court is used only sparingly. | 13:03 | |
| The United Nations appears more and more to be impotent | 13:08 | |
| as an instrument for a peaceful resolution | 13:14 | |
| of international conflicts. | 13:18 | |
| There is no solace to be found on the international front. | 13:21 | |
| This condition should make us all increasingly more aware | 13:27 | |
| that we better learn quickly to live together as brothers | 13:31 | |
| or we will condemn our ourselves | 13:36 | |
| to perish together as fools. | 13:38 | |
| No individual can live alone. No nation can live alone. | 13:41 | |
| We are inextricably bound | 13:46 | |
| in an interlaced, interdependent web. | 13:49 | |
| Starvation in India, political disorder in France, | 13:53 | |
| deliberate and threatening provocations in Berlin, | 13:59 | |
| Apartheid in South Africa, new politics in Canada, | 14:03 | |
| all of these in some way or other | 14:09 | |
| have an effect on all of us | 14:12 | |
| because we are all tied in a simple garment of destiny. | 14:15 | |
| I can never be. | 14:22 | |
| I can never be what I ought to be | 14:25 | |
| until you are what you ought to be. | 14:29 | |
| And you can never be what you ought to be | 14:32 | |
| until I am what I ought to be. | 14:36 | |
| This is the structure of reality. | 14:39 | |
| John Donne described it years ago | 14:44 | |
| with these impressive words. | 14:46 | |
| "No man is an island entire of itself." | 14:49 | |
| Every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. | 14:55 | |
| Any man's death diminishes me | 15:00 | |
| because I am involved in mankind. | 15:04 | |
| And therefore send not to know for whom the bell tolls. | 15:08 | |
| It tolls for thee." | 15:14 | |
| I respectively assert | 15:17 | |
| that this must be our perspective today | 15:19 | |
| if we are to live creatively and realistically. | 15:21 | |
| A voice echoing through the vista of time says to us, | 15:25 | |
| "former things are passed away, | 15:30 | |
| and behold, I make all things new." | 15:34 | |
| Now, the second change which we are challenged to facilitate | 15:39 | |
| is the hastening of moral progress | 15:44 | |
| to the point where it balances or coincides | 15:48 | |
| with scientific and technological progress. | 15:54 | |
| Today because of the many technological instruments | 15:59 | |
| at our disposal and as a result of their utilization, | 16:02 | |
| social changes have been wrought | 16:08 | |
| which have shattered our certainties | 16:10 | |
| and molded our perspectives so that emphasis today | 16:16 | |
| is on the material and on the means of life | 16:20 | |
| rather than the ends. | 16:26 | |
| So much of our modern life today can be summarized | 16:29 | |
| in Thoreau's shrewd dictum. | 16:34 | |
| "Improved means to an unimproved end." | 16:38 | |
| Because of the rapidity of the changes set in motion | 16:46 | |
| in our technologically-oriented society, some are led, | 16:49 | |
| as are many collegians today, to ask | 16:55 | |
| "What is there to which we can tie ourselves? | 16:58 | |
| What is there to which we can tie ourselves?" | 17:03 | |
| To be sure, a number of people thoughtlessly shrug off | 17:06 | |
| serious consideration of life's final significance. | 17:11 | |
| And these people go from day to day | 17:16 | |
| on what passing happiness they find. | 17:18 | |
| At some point, however, | 17:22 | |
| the ultimate question confronts most of us. | 17:25 | |
| What does life mean in a mess of a world like this? | 17:31 | |
| And in these days of national and international chaos, | 17:41 | |
| the number of persons facing this question multiplies. | 17:44 | |
| Browning, in an outburst of optimism, sang, | 17:51 | |
| "God's in his Heaven, all's right with the world." | 17:55 | |
| But an American soldier very recently | 18:01 | |
| changed that second line and said, | 18:04 | |
| "All's riot," R-I-O-T, "with the world." | 18:06 | |
| Now, there is no question about the fact | 18:12 | |
| that our contemporary society is in trouble. | 18:13 | |
| But it seems to me, as one author has written, | 18:18 | |
| that the highest use of a shaken time | 18:22 | |
| is to discover the unshakable. | 18:28 | |
| The highest use of a shaken time | 18:32 | |
| is to discover the unshakable. | 18:35 | |
| This, I believe, is the essential reason | 18:40 | |
| why it is imperative for us to keep our moral progress | 18:44 | |
| abreast of our scientific and technological progress. | 18:48 | |
| Only in this way can we be ever mindful | 18:53 | |
| of the buttressing stabilities of life | 18:59 | |
| and its eternal purpose and truth. | 19:03 | |
| And then we can all say with Arthur Hugh Clough, | 19:08 | |
| "It fortifies my soul to know | 19:13 | |
| that though I perish truth is so. | 19:16 | |
| That howsoe'er I stray and range, | 19:21 | |
| whate'er I do, Thou dost not change. | 19:25 | |
| I steadier step when I recall | 19:31 | |
| that if I slip, Thou dost not fall." | 19:35 | |
| The third and last attitudinal change | 19:42 | |
| is that we must struggle unrelentingly | 19:44 | |
| to create a metal condition in the world | 19:48 | |
| which will support the elimination | 19:52 | |
| of every aspect of racial injustice. | 19:55 | |
| If there is any single human problem | 20:02 | |
| that can bring down the curtain of doom | 20:05 | |
| on American civilization, I say to you that this is it. | 20:07 | |
| While no one can deny that recent years | 20:14 | |
| have brought large scale-improvements | 20:19 | |
| in race and ethnic group relations, | 20:22 | |
| there are still residues and pockets of racism in which, | 20:27 | |
| although perhaps subtly, the idea is communicated | 20:32 | |
| that one race is superior to another. | 20:37 | |
| When people are convinced that a particular group | 20:42 | |
| is not fit to live in their neighborhoods | 20:46 | |
| or to go to school with their children | 20:50 | |
| or join their country clubs or to be hired in certain jobs, | 20:53 | |
| at that very moment these people are saying consciously | 20:59 | |
| or unconsciously that that group of people | 21:04 | |
| does not have the right to exist. | 21:08 | |
| And concomitantly, that the existence of this group | 21:11 | |
| represents a creative error on the part of the Almighty. | 21:16 | |
| In addition, there are many good people sincerely interested | 21:22 | |
| in establishing a just society | 21:25 | |
| whose thinking has been victimized by historic myths. | 21:29 | |
| The first is the myth that only time can solve the problem. | 21:37 | |
| And this leads to the familiar admonition | 21:44 | |
| that American Negros have heard for well over 100 years. | 21:47 | |
| Namely, you're pushing things too rapidly. | 21:51 | |
| Only time can solve this problem. | 21:55 | |
| But I say to you that time is neutral so that it can be used | 21:59 | |
| either constructively or destructively. | 22:06 | |
| And many people are now convinced | 22:11 | |
| that the undemocratic forces have used time more astutely | 22:14 | |
| than the forces of goodwill. | 22:20 | |
| By now, it should be obvious that human progress in any area | 22:24 | |
| does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability. | 22:28 | |
| It only comes through the tireless and persistent efforts | 22:34 | |
| of many dedicated people. | 22:40 | |
| The Black Power movement about which you've all read, | 22:44 | |
| the Black Power movement, it seems to me, | 22:49 | |
| is a perfect illustration of a contemporary reaction | 22:51 | |
| to the line of thinking represented by this myth. | 22:58 | |
| The advocates of Black Power and their adherents | 23:02 | |
| feel that the institutions of the American nation | 23:06 | |
| can no longer be trusted. | 23:09 | |
| That these institutions always resort to the refuge of time | 23:13 | |
| and that therefore the outlook, | 23:19 | |
| if the status quo is not modified, | 23:22 | |
| is continued and deepened alienation. | 23:26 | |
| Consequently, what is sought | 23:33 | |
| through the Black Power movement, very simply, | 23:34 | |
| is a change in institutional practices | 23:38 | |
| and in some cases, a change in institutions | 23:43 | |
| if this is necessary in order to make participants | 23:46 | |
| rather than recipients out of a people | 23:50 | |
| who have been traditionally excluded | 23:54 | |
| from the fundamental political, economic, | 23:57 | |
| and social processes of this country. | 24:01 | |
| Now, so much for that myth. | 24:05 | |
| A second myth is one which we hear often emanating | 24:08 | |
| from the halls of Congress and which we heard most recently | 24:12 | |
| from a minority with reference to gun control legislation. | 24:18 | |
| And that is that since morals can cannot be legislated, | 24:23 | |
| new legislation cannot do anything | 24:31 | |
| to solve the problem of racial injustice. | 24:34 | |
| First, it is claimed the hearts of people must be changed. | 24:39 | |
| We all realize, of course, | 24:44 | |
| that morality as such cannot be legislated. | 24:46 | |
| But the point obviously is that behavior | 24:52 | |
| nevertheless, can be regulated. | 24:55 | |
| Law may not make a man love me, | 24:59 | |
| but it can restrain him from enslaving or beating me. | 25:04 | |
| Law can change habits of men. | 25:10 | |
| And when habits are changed, | 25:14 | |
| there just may well be accompanying attitudinal changes. | 25:16 | |
| This is the hope that I see in civil rights legislation | 25:21 | |
| if it is vigorously enforced. | 25:25 | |
| Through it, perhaps, Americans can be introduced | 25:28 | |
| to a more just society. | 25:33 | |
| Now, a third myth | 25:38 | |
| is the one which in essence proclaims | 25:43 | |
| that the Negro is so far behind in contrast | 25:45 | |
| to other immigrant groups | 25:49 | |
| because he has not learned to help himself. | 25:53 | |
| But the people who believe this myth | 25:58 | |
| have forgotten the circumstances | 26:03 | |
| under which the Negro was brought to this country | 26:07 | |
| as well as the circumstances under which he was emancipated. | 26:11 | |
| Suffice to say, after emancipation he was left penniless, | 26:17 | |
| illiterate, landless, and stigmatized by virtue of color | 26:26 | |
| and previous condition of servitude. | 26:33 | |
| Yet in that same period, in an emancipation period | 26:36 | |
| through an act of Congress, | 26:41 | |
| this nation gave away millions of acres of land in the West | 26:44 | |
| and the Midwest to undergird European peasant immigrants | 26:50 | |
| with an economic base. | 26:56 | |
| But this nation was unwilling to do anything | 26:59 | |
| for those kept in slavery for some 245 years. | 27:03 | |
| Not only did the nation give the land | 27:10 | |
| to the European immigrants, but it built land-grant colleges | 27:13 | |
| to teach the grantees how to use it. | 27:17 | |
| It provided county agents to give them greater expertise | 27:21 | |
| and provided low interest rates | 27:26 | |
| so that their farms could be mechanized. | 27:29 | |
| And today, further assistance is being granted | 27:34 | |
| by providing federal subsidies not to farm. | 27:38 | |
| Often and perhaps sometimes unwittingly, | 27:45 | |
| if one is to be charitable, the very persons whose parents | 27:49 | |
| or even themselves received such federal assistance | 27:56 | |
| are the very ones who say to the Black man | 28:01 | |
| that he must lift himself by his own bootstraps. | 28:04 | |
| The fact, ladies and gentlemen is, that that no one group | 28:10 | |
| in this country ever lifted itself by its own bootstraps. | 28:13 | |
| There are of course, of course, | 28:19 | |
| of course many things which one must do for himself. | 28:22 | |
| But to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself | 28:28 | |
| by his own bootstraps is ridiculous | 28:33 | |
| and is cruel and is unjust. | 28:37 | |
| And this is why I personally feel that federal | 28:41 | |
| and state programs are the only answers at this point | 28:44 | |
| to the problems of city blight, | 28:49 | |
| urban unemployment, and widespread poverty. | 28:52 | |
| America with its wealth and industrial capability | 28:58 | |
| and vast brainpower can do much | 29:03 | |
| to alleviate its own internal problems | 29:07 | |
| and also to launch the world into a worldwide fellowship | 29:11 | |
| beyond one's race, beyond one's tribe, beyond one's class, | 29:17 | |
| and beyond one's nation. | 29:23 | |
| There is need in the world for a call | 29:26 | |
| to a state of unconditional love for all mankind | 29:29 | |
| because otherwise human survival | 29:34 | |
| seems truly to be in jeopardy. | 29:37 | |
| I stand before you this morning | 29:42 | |
| concerned and fearful but not yet, | 29:44 | |
| not yet in a state of hopelessness and surrender | 29:48 | |
| because in the words of the Scripture | 29:53 | |
| which Reverend Dr. Cleland read this morning, | 29:55 | |
| St. John, the divine is speaking, and he said, | 30:00 | |
| "I see a new Heaven and a new Earth, | 30:04 | |
| and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow nor crying. | 30:09 | |
| Neither shall there be any more pain | 30:16 | |
| for the former things are passed away." | 30:19 | |
| Perhaps I am too optimistic. | 30:27 | |
| Perhaps the day of peace and brotherhood is but a dream. | 30:31 | |
| My faith, however, resides in the fact | 30:38 | |
| that though the arc of the moral universe is long, | 30:40 | |
| it bends toward justice and goodwill. | 30:45 | |
| My hope is that students and men of letters | 30:51 | |
| will all join as participants | 30:56 | |
| in an unrelenting struggle to make the world better | 31:00 | |
| and to hasten the day when every valley shall be exalted | 31:05 | |
| and every mountain and hill shall be made low | 31:09 | |
| and the crooked shall be made straight | 31:13 | |
| and the rough places plain, | 31:16 | |
| and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed | 31:19 | |
| and all flesh shall see it together. | 31:22 | |
| Let us pray. | 31:28 | |
| Grant, O Lord, we beseech Thee that the words | 31:33 | |
| which we have attempted to present here this morning | 31:39 | |
| may be so inwardly grafted in our hearts | 31:44 | |
| that they will bring forth in us | 31:50 | |
| the fruits of good living. | 31:53 | |
| Amen. | 31:56 | |
| (stirring organ music) | 32:02 | |
| (chorus singing indistinctly) | 33:29 | |
| (subtle organ music) | 35:45 | |
| (majestic organ music) | 37:02 | |
| ♪ How beautiful are the feet of them ♪ | 37:36 | |
| ♪ That preach the gospel of peace ♪ | 37:45 | |
| ♪ How beautiful are the feet ♪ | 37:53 | |
| ♪ How beautiful are the feet of them ♪ | 38:02 | |
| ♪ That preach the gospel of peace ♪ | 38:10 | |
| ♪ How beautiful are the feet of them ♪ | 38:28 | |
| ♪ That preach the gospel of peace ♪ | 38:36 | |
| ♪ And bring glad tidings ♪ | 38:45 | |
| ♪ And bring glad tidings ♪ | 38:53 | |
| ♪ Glad tidings of good things ♪ | 39:01 | |
| ♪ And bring glad tidings ♪ | 39:10 | |
| ♪ Glad tidings of good things ♪ | 39:18 | |
| ♪ And bring ♪ | 39:26 | |
| ♪ Glad tidings ♪ | 39:32 | |
| ♪ Glad tidings of good things ♪ | 39:36 | |
| ♪ Glad tidings of good things ♪ | 39:45 | |
| (majestic organ music) | 40:00 | |
| (exuberant organ music) | 40:28 | |
| ♪ Praise God, from whom all blessings flow ♪ | 40:56 | |
| ♪ Praise Him, all creatures here below ♪ | 41:03 | |
| ♪ Praise Him above, ye heavenly host ♪ | 41:09 | |
| ♪ Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost ♪ | 41:17 | |
| ♪ Amen ♪ | 41:26 | |
| - | Here we offer and present unto Thee, O Lord, | 41:34 |
| our silver and our gold, the symbol of ourselves | 41:37 | |
| to be a reasonable, holy, and living sacrifice unto Thee | 41:43 | |
| through Jesus Christ our Lord. | 41:49 | |
| And now unto God's gracious mercy and protection, | 41:55 | |
| do we commit you. | 42:00 | |
| May the blessing of God come upon you abundantly. | 42:03 | |
| May it keep you strong and tranquil | 42:07 | |
| in the truth of His promises | 42:11 | |
| through Jesus Christ, our Lord, Amen. | 42:14 | |
| (church bell ringing) | 42:22 | |
| (stirring organ music) | 42:35 | |
| (lively music) | 43:30 | |
| (singer singing indistinctly) | 43:36 | |
| (footsteps tapping floor) | 45:32 |