James T. Cleland - "A Parable with a Twist" (February 16, 1969)
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| (choir sings indistinctly) | 0:03 | |
| ♪ Amen ♪ | 1:36 | |
| - | Let us unite our voice in our unison prayer | 1:44 |
| of confession and for pardon. | 1:47 | |
| Almighty and most merciful Father, | 1:51 | |
| we confess that we have sin against thy law | 1:54 | |
| and against thy truths, | 1:58 | |
| neither with heart nor soul nor strength | 2:00 | |
| have we loved thee, | 2:04 | |
| nor have we loved our neighbor as ourselves. | 2:06 | |
| We confess especially that we have not loved thee | 2:10 | |
| with all our minds. | 2:15 | |
| We have not honored thy (indistinct) or our thinking. | 2:17 | |
| Fearful we pray thee to have mercy upon us, | 2:21 | |
| forgive the sins we have done to please ourselves, | 2:26 | |
| and the sins we have done to please others. | 2:30 | |
| Forgive us those sins which we know | 2:34 | |
| and those sins which we know not. | 2:37 | |
| Forgive them all of thy great goodness, | 2:40 | |
| through Jesus Christ, our Lord. | 2:44 | |
| Amen. | 2:46 | |
| - | Let us say now the words of assurance. | 2:53 |
| The Lord is gracious and merciful, | 2:57 | |
| slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love. | 2:59 | |
| This is the message we have heard from him | 3:03 | |
| and proclaimed to you, that God is light | 3:06 | |
| and in him is no darkness at all. | 3:09 | |
| If we walk in the light, as he is in the light, | 3:11 | |
| we have fellowship with one another | 3:15 | |
| and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. | 3:17 | |
| If we confess our sins, he's faithful and just, | 3:22 | |
| and will forgive our sins | 3:26 | |
| and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. | 3:27 | |
| For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, | 3:31 | |
| that whoever believes in him should not perish | 3:35 | |
| but have eternal life. | 3:37 | |
| (gentle organ music) | 3:42 | |
| - | Let us stand and read responsibly | 4:24 |
| the prayer of thanksgiving number 627. | 4:26 | |
| Blessed be thou, Lord, the God of Israel. | 4:37 | |
| - | Our father, for ever and ever. | 4:41 |
| - | Thine, O Lord is the greatness, and the power, | 4:44 |
| and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty. | 4:46 | |
| - | For all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine. | 4:50 |
| - | Thine is the kingdom, O Lord. | 4:54 |
| - | And thou art exalted as head above all. | 4:56 |
| - | Both riches and honor come of thee. | 4:59 |
| - | And thou reignest over all. | 5:02 |
| - | And in thine hand are power and might. | 5:04 |
| - | And in thine hand it is to make great, | 5:08 |
| and to give strength unto all. | 5:11 | |
| - | Now we thank thee, our God. | 5:13 |
| - | And praise thy glorious name. | 5:16 |
| (gentle organ music) | 5:38 | |
| (choir sings indistinctly) | 6:06 | |
| - | The scripture lesson today is according to Luke 10:25-37. | 10:19 |
| And behold, a lawyer stood up to put him to the test, | 10:28 | |
| saying, "Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?" | 10:31 | |
| He said to him, "What is written in the Law? | 10:37 | |
| How do you read it?" | 10:40 | |
| And he answered, "You shall love the Lord your God | 10:41 | |
| with all your heart and with all your soul | 10:45 | |
| and with all your strength and with all your mind, | 10:48 | |
| and your neighbor as yourself." | 10:52 | |
| And he said to him, "You have answered right, | 10:56 | |
| do this, and you will live." | 10:59 | |
| But he, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, | 11:01 | |
| "And who is my neighbor?" | 11:06 | |
| Jesus replied, "A man was going down from Jerusalem | 11:08 | |
| to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, | 11:12 | |
| who stripped him and beat him and departed, | 11:16 | |
| leaving him half dead. | 11:19 | |
| Now by chance a priest was going down that road, | 11:23 | |
| and when he saw him he passed by on the other side. | 11:27 | |
| So likewise a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, | 11:31 | |
| passed by on the other side. | 11:35 | |
| But a Samaritan, as he journeyed, came to where he was, | 11:38 | |
| and when he saw him, he had compassion. | 11:43 | |
| He went to him and bound up his wounds, | 11:46 | |
| pouring on oil and wine. | 11:49 | |
| Then he set him on his own beast and brought him to an inn | 11:51 | |
| and took care of him. | 11:54 | |
| And the next day he took out two denarii | 11:57 | |
| and gave them to the innkeeper, saying, | 11:59 | |
| 'Take care of him, and whatever more you spend, | 12:03 | |
| I will repay you when I come back.' | 12:07 | |
| Which of these three, do you think, proved to be a neighbor | 12:10 | |
| to the man who fell among the robbers?" | 12:13 | |
| He said, "The one who showed mercy on him." | 12:16 | |
| And Jesus said to him, "Go, and do likewise." | 12:19 | |
| (cheerful organ music) | 12:29 | |
| ♪ Glory be to the Father ♪ | 12:36 | |
| ♪ And to the Son and to the Holy Ghost ♪ | 12:39 | |
| ♪ As it was in the beginning ♪ | 12:47 | |
| ♪ Is now and ever shall be ♪ | 12:51 | |
| ♪ World without end, amen, amen ♪ | 12:55 | |
| - | The Lord be with you. | 13:22 |
| - | And with your spirit. | 13:24 |
| - | Let us pray. | 13:25 |
| Worth art our Lord and God | 13:35 | |
| to receive honor, thanks and praise for by thy will | 13:38 | |
| were all things made. | 13:41 | |
| Look with favor, O Lord, upon this world, | 13:44 | |
| its nations and cultures, homes and schools, | 13:47 | |
| arts, commerce, and industry, | 13:51 | |
| the occupations and leisure of all, | 13:54 | |
| look with mercy, O Christ, | 13:58 | |
| upon all men and every human need, the joy and the triumph, | 13:59 | |
| the conflict and failure, | 14:05 | |
| the anxiety, fear, hate and despair. | 14:07 | |
| We set before thee our land and every nation. | 14:12 | |
| Grant wisdom, justice, and mercy to all leaders | 14:16 | |
| and all citizens that thy will may be fulfilled | 14:20 | |
| in fruitful peace. | 14:24 | |
| We set before thee the needs of every man. | 14:27 | |
| Have compassion upon those who call out to thee, | 14:31 | |
| and also upon those whose want is their only prayer. | 14:35 | |
| We remember and ask thy blessing upon all who are oppressed | 14:41 | |
| because of race, religion, or ideology, | 14:45 | |
| for all imprisoned by wealth or position, | 14:49 | |
| by poverty or insecurity, for our enemies and detractors, | 14:53 | |
| and our friends and families. | 14:59 | |
| We ask thy blessing and presence among us | 15:03 | |
| in times of work, rest, and play. | 15:07 | |
| And among all men whose present lot is suffering and dying. | 15:11 | |
| On this day, O Lord, | 15:18 | |
| we pray for all students everywhere in the world, | 15:20 | |
| for those who find their work too difficult, | 15:25 | |
| for those who are perplexed by the world in which they live, | 15:29 | |
| for those who are isolated and without friends, | 15:34 | |
| for those who suffer persecution hardship | 15:39 | |
| as a result of war, revolution or political upheaval, | 15:42 | |
| for those who are hungry and cold, | 15:48 | |
| for those whose freedom is endangered, | 15:52 | |
| for those who are persecuted and imprisoned, | 15:56 | |
| ill in body and mind, | 15:59 | |
| and hampered by intellectual opposition. | 16:02 | |
| Remember, O Lord, those among us who are in despair | 16:07 | |
| because their hopes have collapsed, | 16:11 | |
| those who are blinded by success or comfort, | 16:14 | |
| those who are looking for a cause to serve. | 16:18 | |
| Remember also and watch over all universities and colleges, | 16:23 | |
| centers of research | 16:28 | |
| and those who live, serve and administer these. | 16:29 | |
| We pray especially for this campus. | 16:33 | |
| Heal its divisions, bless its endeavors, | 16:37 | |
| watch over all its people, renew its life, | 16:42 | |
| that all men here may find truth, joy, and hope. | 16:47 | |
| All this we ask in this time of our common need | 16:53 | |
| and in our uncertain anticipation, | 16:57 | |
| uniting now and making bold to say, | 17:01 | |
| Our Father, who art in heaven, | 17:04 | |
| hallowed be thy name; thy kingdom come; | 17:07 | |
| thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. | 17:11 | |
| Give us this day our daily bread; | 17:15 | |
| and forgive us our trespasses | 17:18 | |
| as we forgive those who trespass against us; | 17:20 | |
| and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. | 17:24 | |
| For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory | 17:29 | |
| forever and ever. | 17:33 | |
| Amen. | 17:34 | |
| - | When one really grasps the intent and the import | 18:05 |
| of what Jesus was saying in that story | 18:12 | |
| about a certain Samaritan, and a woebegone traveler | 18:16 | |
| on the Jerusalem Jericho road, | 18:24 | |
| then a subject reflection is not why Jesus was crucified | 18:29 | |
| on a Bad Friday some centuries ago, | 18:37 | |
| but why he was not lynched much earlier | 18:43 | |
| in his public ministry. | 18:49 | |
| This parable, which was read as our scripture lesson | 18:52 | |
| is loaded with racial, cultural and religious dynamite, TNT. | 18:56 | |
| And it may not be inappropriate at this juncture | 19:07 | |
| in the life of our university to reflect upon it. | 19:10 | |
| The look and narrative opens, innocently enough, | 19:17 | |
| one of the experts in the Jewish law | 19:22 | |
| asked Jesus a test question: | 19:25 | |
| "Master, what must I do to be sure | 19:30 | |
| of inheriting eternal life?" | 19:36 | |
| Now, wouldn't you assume | 19:41 | |
| that Jesus would've been delighted to tell him? | 19:43 | |
| It's a good question. | 19:48 | |
| Kind of thing Jesus was dealing with all the time. | 19:51 | |
| But he didn't answer. | 19:55 | |
| He said, "What do you think yourself | 19:59 | |
| from your study of the law?" | 20:03 | |
| The lawyer was quick to reply, "Love God and neighbor | 20:06 | |
| as much as your love yourself," which answer by the way | 20:13 | |
| is the very one that Jesus himself gave on another occasion | 20:20 | |
| when he was asked what was primary in the law. | 20:26 | |
| And Jesus said to the legal expert, "You're right. | 20:31 | |
| Why don't you try it?" | 20:37 | |
| However, the questioner wasn't finished. | 20:42 | |
| He had another point for consideration, | 20:46 | |
| "But who is my neighbor?" | 20:50 | |
| Now here's a chance for a group discussion. | 20:55 | |
| A bull session or neighborliness, | 21:01 | |
| the beginning of a free university. | 21:03 | |
| But not for Jesus. | 21:06 | |
| He told a story about a man who was beaten up | 21:09 | |
| on the Jerusalem Jericho road, a 17-mile stretch | 21:15 | |
| which Josephus described as desolate and rocky. | 21:21 | |
| And Jerome about four centuries later described | 21:27 | |
| as the red or the bloody wave. | 21:30 | |
| Makes one think of the road | 21:35 | |
| from the Duke hospital to Hanes House after midnight. | 21:36 | |
| Now a priest saw the victim and passed by on the other side. | 21:45 | |
| So did a Levite, a kind of assistant priest. | 21:51 | |
| Now a third person is bound to turn up | 21:56 | |
| in this kind of a story. | 21:59 | |
| Do you know the kind of person he ought to be? | 22:02 | |
| Since the first two were Jewish ecclesiastics, more or less, | 22:06 | |
| the third character should be a Jewish layman. | 22:11 | |
| But he wasn't. | 22:16 | |
| And that's because an unusual storyteller | 22:19 | |
| was telling this story. | 22:22 | |
| We know the third person as the Good Samaritan, | 22:26 | |
| which is a contradiction in terms for any Jew. | 22:32 | |
| The Samaritans were to the Jews | 22:39 | |
| what the English would call "bloody bastards." | 22:42 | |
| And what Americans would label "lousy half-breeds." | 22:46 | |
| Their stock was not pure | 22:51 | |
| and their religion was a hodgepodge. | 22:54 | |
| When the Jews really wished to insult Jesus, | 22:57 | |
| here's how they taunted him: | 23:01 | |
| "Are we not right in saying that you are a Samaritan | 23:03 | |
| and that you're possessed of a demon?" | 23:08 | |
| That's what a Jew thought of a Samaritan. | 23:12 | |
| But this was the kind of man | 23:15 | |
| whom Jesus made the hero of his parable, | 23:17 | |
| despised, rejected, segregated, | 23:21 | |
| but outgoing, generous, even extra in his desire to help. | 23:27 | |
| Jesus turned an interesting academic query | 23:36 | |
| with theological and ethical overtones | 23:40 | |
| into a racial problem. | 23:45 | |
| He pictured a man, an outsider at that, | 23:48 | |
| who seemed to love his neighbor as much as he loved himself. | 23:55 | |
| And then Jesus twisted the questioner's question | 24:05 | |
| and asked him, "Which of these three acted like a neighbor | 24:10 | |
| to the gangsters' victim?" | 24:17 | |
| And so help me, the intelligent perplexed lawyer | 24:20 | |
| couldn't say the Samaritan. | 24:28 | |
| He would've choked on the word in such a context. | 24:32 | |
| And so he answered, "the one who showed kindness." | 24:39 | |
| Now, wouldn't you think | 24:45 | |
| that Jesus would've dropped the matter at that? | 24:46 | |
| Not he. | 24:51 | |
| He had one more sentence to say: "Go and do as he did." | 24:53 | |
| I wonder what he did. | 25:03 | |
| Now, let us go back to the lawyer's original question | 25:07 | |
| and let us ask it of two of the dramatic personae | 25:11 | |
| in the parable. | 25:15 | |
| It's a good question in the light | 25:17 | |
| of the campus disturbance of the past week | 25:20 | |
| and in view of the fact that today is designated | 25:24 | |
| as the World Day of Prayer for Students. | 25:28 | |
| Who is my neighbor? | 25:33 | |
| Let us ask the certain Samaritan first | 25:37 | |
| for we know his answer. | 25:39 | |
| It can be summarized and generalized in four words: | 25:43 | |
| He who needs me. | 25:48 | |
| He who needs me. | 25:53 | |
| It's a simple as that. | 25:54 | |
| CG Montefiore, the Jewish scholar of the New Testament, | 25:57 | |
| has put the matter very briefly and beautifully | 26:02 | |
| in his commentary on this parable, | 26:05 | |
| which he describes as one of the simplest | 26:08 | |
| and noblest among the noble gallery of parables. | 26:11 | |
| Here's what he says: | 26:17 | |
| "Love, it tells us, must know no limits of race | 26:18 | |
| and ask no inquiry," and ask no inquiry, | 26:24 | |
| "who needs me is my neighbor, | 26:32 | |
| when at the given time and place I can help, | 26:36 | |
| whom at the given time and place I can help with my love, | 26:40 | |
| he is my neighbor." | 26:44 | |
| Now the Samaritan is just an actor in a dramatic sketch, | 26:48 | |
| but he's not unlike Jesus. | 26:53 | |
| When Peter tried to sum up the character of Jesus | 26:56 | |
| very briefly in a sermon, | 27:00 | |
| he said without any other elaboration, | 27:02 | |
| "he went about doing good." | 27:05 | |
| He went about doing good. | 27:10 | |
| It's quite an epitaph. | 27:13 | |
| Now who would agree with it? | 27:14 | |
| Oh, there was a young couple at a wedding | 27:16 | |
| in Cana of Galilee. | 27:21 | |
| There was a Roman army officer whose servant was sick. | 27:24 | |
| There was a woman, an adulteress, | 27:30 | |
| rescued from death by stoning. | 27:34 | |
| And there was another woman | 27:38 | |
| beside a well in Samaria, another Samaritan. | 27:40 | |
| There was a dying thief on a cross. | 27:46 | |
| Now, what does this mean for us | 27:53 | |
| with so many foreign students in our midst? | 27:54 | |
| What does it mean for us with the Afro-American students | 28:00 | |
| in our midst, who have acted and yielded and cried | 28:03 | |
| "It ain't over"? | 28:08 | |
| And it ain't. | 28:11 | |
| There are men and women in need. | 28:16 | |
| The criterion is not that a man in need be worthy. | 28:20 | |
| It's dangerous to argue from silence. | 28:28 | |
| But I have my doubts that the Samaritan asked | 28:31 | |
| the beat up traveler if he liked Samaritans. | 28:35 | |
| Or if he'd be able to repay any expenses of the Medicare. | 28:40 | |
| Or if he really were worth saving. | 28:47 | |
| "Here is a man who needs me," is the only justifying answer. | 28:52 | |
| Now, the folk around here who know that | 28:57 | |
| are doctors and nurses, | 29:00 | |
| those who ministered to bruised policemen | 29:04 | |
| and gassed students last Friday. | 29:07 | |
| Their ministry has little to do with liking a patient. | 29:12 | |
| It has much to do with goodwill to a fellow creature, | 29:18 | |
| to any fellow creature, to all fellow creatures. | 29:24 | |
| It is this attitude so central in the Christian faith | 29:32 | |
| that I miss so much in student and faculty opinion, | 29:37 | |
| which I read and hear. | 29:41 | |
| Goodwill to all members of the community, | 29:44 | |
| to Allen building as well as to Flowers building, | 29:49 | |
| to the indoor stadium as well as to the library, | 29:54 | |
| to trustees as well as to janitors, | 30:00 | |
| the campus cops as well as the cheerleaders. | 30:04 | |
| Christian's job is to go about doing good | 30:10 | |
| and his ministry is primarily one of reconciliation, | 30:14 | |
| the restoration of harmony or the recreation of friendship. | 30:20 | |
| Now this may not be as exciting | 30:26 | |
| as leading an attack on injustice | 30:30 | |
| or even as defending an established position, | 30:33 | |
| but it is the sine qua non of groups | 30:39 | |
| who expect to live together | 30:44 | |
| other than in a perpetual cold war. | 30:48 | |
| Both sides polarized with temper strained | 30:53 | |
| need to see in gentle, but affirmative action | 30:58 | |
| the personal, individual ministry of reconciliation, | 31:03 | |
| as well as the necessary committee confrontations | 31:09 | |
| and the everlasting turn of many a (indistinct) directives. | 31:14 | |
| My neighbor is he who needs me, ordinary me. | 31:20 | |
| Now, let's ask the wounded traveler, "Who is your neighbor?" | 31:29 | |
| Now, assuming that the victim was a Jew, | 31:38 | |
| he has a most embarrassing story to tell. | 31:42 | |
| It was a Samaritan of all outcasts | 31:48 | |
| who dressed my wounds, transported me to an inn, | 31:53 | |
| paid for my lodging | 32:00 | |
| and guaranteed to underwrite any extra costs. | 32:03 | |
| What a humiliation. | 32:08 | |
| What an exquisite humiliation. | 32:13 | |
| What an exquisite life saving humiliation. | 32:19 | |
| Who is my neighbor? | 32:25 | |
| He who helps me. | 32:27 | |
| Anyone who helps me, Samaritan, Jew, Roman, Greek. | 32:30 | |
| He who puts his hand under my elbow. | 32:37 | |
| He who steadies me. | 32:42 | |
| He who picks me up. | 32:44 | |
| I'll never feel quite the same way about Samaritans again. | 32:48 | |
| Jesus himself knew this kind of neighbor. | 32:56 | |
| Peter who gave him a home and paid his temple tax | 33:01 | |
| on at least one occasion. | 33:08 | |
| The friendship of Martha and Mary and Lazarus at Bethany, | 33:11 | |
| especially during the last week of his life. | 33:17 | |
| Some Pharisees who warned him that Herod was asking for him, | 33:22 | |
| and so afforded Jesus the chance | 33:31 | |
| to escape across the border. | 33:34 | |
| The rich women who ministered unto him of their substance. | 33:38 | |
| I wonder if Jesus knew Joseph of Arimathea | 33:45 | |
| who gave the body of Jesus its last resting place. | 33:50 | |
| Who is my neighbor? | 33:55 | |
| He who helps me. | 33:58 | |
| I wonder if my attitude towards Jews | 34:03 | |
| is influenced, even molded by the fact | 34:06 | |
| that when I was 12, a Jewish fellow classmate | 34:09 | |
| saved me from drowning. | 34:14 | |
| He had the wonderful name of Jackie Paradise. | 34:18 | |
| Certainly, paradise fount for me. | 34:23 | |
| I wonder if my attitude toward Blacks | 34:28 | |
| is shaped by the huge Negro truck driver, | 34:32 | |
| as big as Mr. William Jones in the dining hall, | 34:38 | |
| who changed a wheel on my overloaded Chevrolet | 34:43 | |
| somewhere near Amherst, Virginia, | 34:49 | |
| as my wife and I were driving first to Duke | 34:53 | |
| in September, 1945. | 34:57 | |
| The fact that he would accept no money for his help | 35:01 | |
| still lingers with me. | 35:05 | |
| Who is my neighbor? | 35:08 | |
| He who helps me. | 35:10 | |
| And he has been Jewish and Black, | 35:14 | |
| as well as Scottish and white. | 35:19 | |
| Yet this kind of attitude all by itself | 35:24 | |
| is not going to solve academic problems for Afro-Americans | 35:27 | |
| or cultural difficulties for foreign students. | 35:33 | |
| That is going to require thoughtful student opinion | 35:38 | |
| and considered faculty recommendations | 35:44 | |
| and debated trustee decisions | 35:50 | |
| and detailed administrative policy. | 35:54 | |
| But the machinery of implementation | 35:58 | |
| may be lubricated by kindness, understanding, concern. | 36:03 | |
| And those of us who bear the name of Christian | 36:12 | |
| are going to have to work hard at it. | 36:16 | |
| It was Sydney Smith, the divine conversationalist, who said | 36:21 | |
| "You find people ready enough to do the Samaritan | 36:27 | |
| without the oil and the two pence. | 36:33 | |
| Kind words are not enough. | 36:40 | |
| It takes oil and a beast and two pence plus. | 36:44 | |
| That may be important to remember on a day of prayer. | 36:53 | |
| Words are not enough. | 36:58 | |
| There's still truth in the Latin adage, | 37:02 | |
| laborare est orare, to work is to pray, | 37:06 | |
| and it may well be that he who helps | 37:14 | |
| is in fact praying. | 37:18 | |
| Who is my neighbor? | 37:21 | |
| He who helps me. Ordinary me. | 37:24 | |
| So if Jesus had specifically spoken | 37:30 | |
| to the lawyer's question, | 37:33 | |
| he might have given a double answer. | 37:36 | |
| He who needs you. | 37:40 | |
| He who helps you. | 37:42 | |
| If the Lord loveth a cheerful giver, | 37:45 | |
| he probably also loves a cheerful receiver. | 37:48 | |
| We have all this double relationship to others | 37:53 | |
| giving and receiving, helping and needing. | 37:57 | |
| And some of us are able all to help | 38:03 | |
| because our needs have been so well supplied | 38:07 | |
| by God, by parents, by friends, by fellow Christians. | 38:11 | |
| And so as we enter another week | 38:21 | |
| not knowing what a day may bring forth, | 38:24 | |
| let us remember this par of unexpected boundless love, | 38:29 | |
| where a man is sketched for us | 38:37 | |
| who evidently did love his neighbor as he loved himself. | 38:41 | |
| And let us remember in our contacts with black and white, | 38:49 | |
| with native born and aliens, our neighbors, | 38:55 | |
| that God has given each of us two hands, | 39:03 | |
| one to receive with and the other to give with. | 39:09 | |
| Amen. Let us pray. | 39:19 | |
| Almighty God, God and Father of all folk, | 39:25 | |
| who see us thy angry puzzled children, | 39:32 | |
| living in trouble and troubled sometimes, | 39:37 | |
| teach us again and again the way of love, | 39:42 | |
| granting us the sense, common and divine, | 39:49 | |
| to spell it out for daily living right where we are, | 39:55 | |
| that this campus may be a community of neighbors | 40:02 | |
| who both give and receive | 40:08 | |
| in the spirit of Jesus, the Christ, our Lord. | 40:13 | |
| Amen. | 40:19 | |
| (bright organ music) | 40:24 | |
| (choir sings indistinctly) | 40:44 | |
| (light cheerful organ music) | 42:27 | |
| (dramatic organ music) | 45:00 | |
| (choir sings indistinctly) | 45:04 | |
| (bright organ music) | 46:31 | |
| ♪ Praise God, from whom all blessings flow ♪ | 47:23 | |
| ♪ Praise him, all creatures here below ♪ | 47:29 | |
| ♪ Praise him above, ye heav'nly host ♪ | 47:36 | |
| ♪ Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost ♪ | 47:42 | |
| ♪ Amen ♪ | 47:49 | |
| - | Of your own bounty, O Lord, we give to you. | 47:57 |
| Grant that the fruits of our labor | 48:02 | |
| rendered in love of thy cause may be by your blessing, | 48:05 | |
| be factual for the extension of your kingdom | 48:10 | |
| and the glory of your name, | 48:13 | |
| through Jesus Christ our Lord. | 48:15 | |
| - | O Lord, bless thee and keep thee, | 48:28 |
| the Lord make his face shine upon thee | 48:30 | |
| and be gracious unto thee, | 48:32 | |
| the Lord lift up his continents upon thee, | 48:34 | |
| and give thee peace. | 48:37 | |
| In the name of the Father and of the Son | 48:39 | |
| and of the Holy Ghost. | 48:41 | |
| ♪ Amen ♪ | 48:46 | |
| ♪ Amen ♪ | 48:53 |
