James T. Cleland - "Be - Na Gliff'd" (December 7, 1969)

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	(choir singing indistinctly)	1:56
	(church organ music)	2:18
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	(church organ music)	5:56
	(church organ music)	6:43
	(choir singing indistinctly)
	♪ Amen ♪	7:42
-	Beloved, let us turn to the heavenly Father	8:11
	and offer our prayers of confession.	8:16
	Oh God,	8:24
	you are rich in mercy toward all those	8:26
	who having missed the way,	8:31
	still turn and seek your face.	8:34
	We therefore are bold,	8:39
	to come in contrite prayer to confess our guilt.	8:41
	We are indeed guilty, because we have failed to do the right	8:48
	as well as we knew to do it	8:53
	and because we failed to avoid the evil	8:57
	as well as we knew how to avoid it.	9:02
	As a new Christmas season approaches,	9:08
	we are uncomfortably mindful	9:12
	that our high resolves	9:16
	which we made last Christmas have not been carried out.	9:19
	We still have done little to achieve the values	9:26
	for which Christ was born into the world.	9:29
	Peace on earth still sounds merely like a distance song	9:35
	from the angels, not like a present human experience.	9:40
	Good will among men is still too much talk	9:47
	and too little action.	9:52
	We yet would make Christmas a time of greedy getting	9:56
	rather than of unselfish giving.	10:02
	For wise men of old who adored the Christ	10:07
	with gifts of gold	10:11
	we have substituted crafty men	10:14
	who know how to make Christmas yield gold to ourselves.	10:17
	Oh Lord, we have failed at so many points.	10:24
	Men look upon women	10:28
	as primarily being sex targets	10:31
	rather than persons.	10:35
	Women look on man as being primarily sources of paychecks	10:38
	and status rather than persons.	10:43
	Employers look upon employees as being primarily cogs	10:48
	in a money machine,	10:54
	rather than persons whom God loves.	10:56
	Employees care not what happens to the employer	11:01
	so long as he pays them their salary.	11:05
	We are sinners, oh God,	11:11
	save us by your power.	11:15
	Forgive us the past	11:20
	and help us to make the future a great deal better	11:23
	than the past	11:26
	so that Christmas	11:29
	may really come, Amen.	11:31
	Perhaps the most comforting word	11:42
	that has come to us from all mighty God concerning Christmas	11:46
	was the announcement of the name	11:52
	of the child who was to be born.	11:55
	The heavenly announcement was,	12:02
	"You shall call his name Jesus,	12:04
	for he will save his people from their sins."	12:09
	Amen.	12:16
	(church organ music)	12:24
	(church organ music)	13:13
	(choir singing indistinctly)
-	Our scripture lesson for the morning	17:09
	comes from the Gospel of Saint Luke,	17:13
	the second chapter	17:18
	eight to the 20th verses.	17:20
	"And in that region there were shepherds out in the field,	17:28
	keeping watch over flocks by night.	17:34
	An angel of the Lord appeared to them,	17:39
	and the glory of the Lord shown around them,	17:45
	and they were filled with fear.	17:49
	And the angel said to them, 'Be not afraid,	17:54
	for behold I bring you good new of a great joy	17:58
	which will come to all the people.	18:02
	For to you is born this day in the city of David	18:07
	a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.	18:10
	And this will be a sign for you.	18:15
	You will find the babe wrapped in swaddling cloths	18:18
	and lying in a manger.'	18:23
	And suddenly there was with the angel	18:27
	a multitude of the heavenly host praising God	18:30
	and saying, 'Glory to God in the highest,	18:34
	and on earth peace among men	18:39
	with whom he is pleased.'	18:42
	When the angels went away from them into heaven,	18:46
	the shepherds said to one another,	18:52
	'Let us go over to Bethlehem and see this thing	18:56
	that has happened,	18:59
	which the Lord has made known to us.'	19:01
	And they went with haste and found Mary and Joseph	19:06
	and the babe lying in the manager.	19:09
	When they saw it they made know the saying	19:13
	which had been told them concerning this child.	19:15
	And all who heard it wondered	19:19
	at what the shepherds told them.	19:23
	But Mary took all these things,	19:26
	pondering them in her heart.	19:31
	And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God	19:34
	for all they had heard and seen,	19:38
	as it had been told them."	19:43
	May God add his richest blessings	19:49
	to the reading of his word.	19:52
	(church organ music)	19:57
	(church organ music)	20:08
	(choir singing indistinctly)
	♪ Amen, Amen ♪	20:40
-	The Lord be with you.	20:51
-	And the Lord be with you.	20:54
-	Let us pray our Unison Prayer of Thanksgiving.	20:56
	all praise and Thanksgiving be unto you,	21:03
	oh God, merciful Father	21:07
	for you have given us souls to know and love you	21:11
	and you care for the life you have given,	21:16
	and remember what things we need.	21:20
	Glory be to you that when, by our sins,	21:24
	we were lost and ruined you sent your only son	21:28
	into the world to redeem our life from destruction	21:33
	and to create us anew unto life everlasting.	21:38
	Praise and thanks be unto you	21:43
	that you have shed abroad in our hearts,	21:47
	the Holy Spirit, who helps our infirmities	21:49
	and makes intercession for us,	21:55
	according to the will of God.	21:57
	Merciful Father, let no unthankfulness	22:01
	or unworthiness of ours deprive us of these,	22:05
	your unmerited blessings.	22:10
	But continue your mercy toward us	22:13
	and guard us from stumbling	22:16
	that finally we may be presented	22:19
	before the presence of your glory	22:22
	faultless and with exceeding joy,	22:25
	through Jesus Christ, our Lord, Amen.	22:29
	Heavenly Father, we now offer our prayers	22:50
	for our fellows and for ourselves.	22:54
	We ask that understanding may be given to those	22:59
	who are now wrestling with great choices in their lives,	23:05
	the choice of whether, really to choose Christ as Lord,	23:12
	the choice of whether to be honorable,	23:19
	the choice of a life vocation,	23:25
	and the kind of preparation which must be made for it.	23:29
	Grant unto them the grace of patience	23:37
	and at last a firm and resolute mind.	23:42
	We intercede also for those who are planning for marriage,	23:48
	who are hoping that by their decisions,	23:55
	by the quality of their character,	23:59
	they may make a good marriage	24:03
	and a sound home.	24:08
	We intercede for those who are new in marriage,	24:12
	for those who have young children.	24:16
	We offer unto you, our earnest petitions,	24:22
	for those who were sick,	24:25
	your children in the hospital	24:30
	and those at home.	24:35
	We intercede for those who care for the sick,	24:39
	for those who have trained themselves	24:44
	through years of study and research	24:46
	to know what to do for the sick,	24:50
	what medicines, what treatments are needed,	24:54
	for those who nurse by the bedside.	24:59
	We pray for those who are confused,	25:05
	for the bereaved, for the lonely,	25:10
	those who've been shocked by an accident or a new grief.	25:15
	Oh God, while we are assembled here for worship,	25:24
	for spiritual profit,	25:28
	enable us by thy grace to gain high ground.	25:33
	Grant unto us the gift to see ourselves	25:38
	the way others see us.	25:42
	More importantly, give us the vision to see ourselves	25:46
	as Jesus Christ views us.	25:52
	Grant unto us the blessing of hearts	25:57
	that are intelligently dedicated to the right.	26:00
	Not because of the fear of hell	26:06
	but because we feel the grip of honor and of love.	26:10
	Help us all to stand courageously for justice,	26:17
	for purity, for decency,	26:23
	and thereby be useful in overcoming	26:27
	our inhumanity to one another.	26:31
	Oh God, as we draw near to the Christmas season	26:39
	we're mindful that we also draw near	26:43
	to the end of this semester.	26:46
	We pray that we may be given light,	26:52
	may be given truth and wisdom	26:57
	to make the most of the academic opportunities,	27:00
	which are at hand.	27:03
	Deliver us, oh God, from thinking of your ways	27:10
	as being separate from our daily living,	27:14
	of our studies and of our extracurricular activity	27:21
	as being in some way separate from the chapel.	27:27
	By your power keep us from trying to be Christian here,	27:34
	and pagan outside.	27:40
	Give us grace to acknowledge your way in all our ways.	27:44
	Help us to know the purpose of all of your creation,	27:52
	our money, our bodies,	27:57
	our university, our talents,	28:01
	our very lives which are before us.	28:06
	And may we not seek to exclude you from any of the plans	28:10
	which we're making.	28:14
	Give unto us those blessings which come only to those	28:18
	whose lives are lived within your will.	28:25
	To enable us to do this	28:32
	help us thoughtfully and intelligently	28:36
	to pray the prayer which Christ has taught us to pray,	28:41
	saying, "Our father who art in heaven,	28:45
	hallowed be thy name.	28:50
	Thy kingdom come, thy will be done	28:53
	on earth as it is in heaven.	28:57
	Give us this day, our daily bread	29:01
	and forgive us our trespasses	29:04
	as we forgive those who trespass against us	29:07
	and lead us not into temptation,	29:12
	but deliver us from evil	29:15
	for thine is the kingdom and the power	29:18
	and the glory forever, Amen."	29:22
-	The grace of the Lord, Jesus Christ,	29:55
	be with you all.	29:59
	There cannot be more than a handful of you	30:05
	in my congregation who are not	30:09
	somewhat baffled by the sermon title,	30:14
	"Be-na Gliff'd."	30:19
	Thereby hangs a tale	30:24
	and he that hath ears to hear	30:28
	will now hear what occasioned this sermon.	30:31
	As you are too well aware	30:39
	the Duke residential system	30:42
	has women on a separate east campus	30:46
	at the far end of a meandering drive,	30:52
	once named Myrtle,	30:56
	far away from the male dormitories.	31:00
	We have co-education	31:06
	with a two mile hyphen.	31:09
	Now for nigh on 20 years,	31:14
	Brown House on East has invited me	31:18
	to be its Santa Claus	31:23
	at 10:30 of an evening,	31:26
	just before vacation.	31:30
	This is a faculty fringe benefit.	31:34
	So I wear a Father Christmas outfit,	31:43
	well padded with pillows to my middle,	31:47
	and then my kilt.	31:53
	(laughs)	31:58
	And my brownies call me Sandy MacClaus.	32:02
	Now parents of Brown House girls who live in Durham	32:09
	are invited and one or two very special guests,	32:14
	But the party is Brown House's own.	32:21
	Almost every year I receive voluntary offers	32:27
	from west campus males	32:33
	who want to be my reindeer,.	32:36
	(laughs)	32:40
	But I travel incognito,	32:44
	unknown even to the campus cops.	32:47
	The format of the evening changeth not.	32:53
	It is stacked by demand.	32:59
	Its ingredients are carol singing,	33:05
	an open letter to Sandy MacClaus	33:12
	rich in mortal color,	33:17
	the public recognition of engagement rings	33:22
	secured in the year now ending,	33:26
	a few official presents	33:32
	and refreshment.	33:37
	The evening closes with family worship,	33:41
	the reading of the Nativity Lessons,	33:46
	prayers, the Lord's Prayer,	33:51
	the blessing.	33:55
	One year I tried to omit	33:58
	the formalized religious portion of the festivity,	34:02
	lest it was merely a courtesy on the part of the girls	34:08
	to the Preacher to the University,	34:15
	as my official title then was.	34:19
	A senior raised her had and asked,	34:24
	"If I get my Bible,	34:30
	will you read us the Christmas story?"	34:33
	I sat rebuked,	34:39
	embarrassed, and overjoyed.	34:43
	By the way, she was editor of the Chronicle,	34:50
	changed days.	34:57
	(laughs)	34:59
	I consented to read then and I have since,	35:07
	but there is one continuing problem.	35:10
	How can the impact	35:15
	and the import of the birth of Jesus	35:18
	be kept fresh year after year?	35:24
	Now one aid is to read the stories	35:30
	from different versions of the new Testament.	35:34
	And there is quite a number, Laus Deo.	35:39
	One such is the New Testament in Braid Scots,	35:46
	rendered by the Reverend William Y. Smith	35:53
	and published in Scotland	35:59
	in 1901.	36:02
	An old Scottish dominie	36:07
	gave it to me in 1951	36:10
	as I was leaving to set forth in this country	36:16
	where, as he inscribed it,	36:22
	"No Braid Scots will be found	36:25
	as a living language."	36:32
	Now, let me sample it with you	36:35
	as I have with Brown House.	36:38
	I didn't dare ask the lecturer this morning	36:42
	to read it from this version.	36:45
	Here are four versus, eight to 11	36:50
	from the rendition of the Frighten Shepherd's story	36:54
	in Luke 2, which was our morning lesson.	36:59
	"And thar war in the same kintra side	37:06
	herds bidin i' the fields,	37:11
	and keepin gaird ower their flocks by nicht.	37:15
	And sae!	37:21
	An Angel o' the Lord cam till them,	37:23
	and the glorie o' the Lord	37:29
	glintit roond aboot them;	37:32
	and they war sair gliff'd.	37:37
	And the Angel said, 'Be-na gliff'd;	37:42
	For I bring ye gude tidins o'muckle joy	37:48
	to the hail warld!	37:53
	For that is born t'ye this day,	37:56
	in Dauvid's toun,	38:00
	a Savior, wha is the Anointit Lord'."	38:04
	Now that heavenly broadcaster	38:11
	must've been an embryonic	38:15
	Caledonian Angel.	38:19
	Maybe by the name of Hammish Octalone	38:22
	or Angus MacFungus.	38:28
	Now let's look at the message he brought	38:32
	to the shepherds from that first Christmas morning	38:35
	in far away Bethlehem.	38:40
	Be-na gliff'd,	38:45
	be not afraid, fear not.	38:49
	Don't be frightened.	38:54
	Gliff'd means to surprise,	38:57
	startle, frighten.	39:01
	You can find it in Webster.	39:06
	Now, the reaction of the shepherds is understandable.	39:10
	Wouldn't you be gliff'd if an angel appeared to you	39:16
	in mid air?	39:21
	Mary was gliff'd too when Gabriel,	39:25
	the angel of the enunciation, appeared to her.	39:29
	She had to be told fear not.	39:33
	Neither Mary nor the shepherds	39:39
	had the presence of mind	39:42
	of the Negro farm hand of many years ago,	39:47
	who saw for the first time	39:52
	an unexpectedly downed aviator	39:55
	approaching him across a plowed field.	40:00
	And he respectfully said to the Birdman,	40:05
	"Good morning, master Jesus.	40:10
	How's your pa?"	40:13
	But he had the advantage of 19 centuries	40:17
	of Christian culture behind him.	40:21
	Now there are two aspects of the shepherds' fear	40:26
	with which we must reckon.	40:30
	The first is the fright	40:34
	caused by the unexpected	40:37
	especially if it be startling or sudden.	40:40
	Such fear may be quieted by kindness,	40:46
	by recognition	40:52
	and is usually short lived.	40:55
	The Angel's first words were words of assurance.	41:00
	"Be-na gliff'd."	41:05
	Carrying the message, steady on,	41:09
	as you were, hold well.	41:13
	But this is hardly the Christmas message.	41:18
	The Christmas message, which was such good news,	41:24
	that it had a choral accompaniment and refrain,	41:29
	listen to what the messenger says next,	41:35
	in English (pleased snort).	41:39
	"I have good news for you.	41:42
	There is great joy coming to the whole people	41:47
	today in the city of David,	41:54
	a deliverer has been born to you."	41:58
	Now these words deal with another kind of fear.	42:04
	This fear is dismay	42:12
	at the state of the world.	42:16
	Dismay which implies loss of spirit	42:20
	and courage, and initiative	42:26
	in the face of the disconcerting claims of our time.	42:31
	From that may follow consternation,	42:38
	terror, dread,	42:44
	even panic.	42:49
	It is the fears of all the years	42:53
	and of the centuries.	42:59
	Now it's no new message	43:03
	which the angel brings.	43:06
	"Fear not" occurs over and over again	43:10
	in the Old Testament to quiet both	43:16
	temporary fright and perennial dismay.	43:21
	The angel repeats it yet again	43:27
	on that first Christmas morning.	43:30
	Jesus picks it up as his good news.	43:34
	And its echos are heard by us.	43:40
	Be-na gliff'd is a Christmas slogan	43:46
	for all seasons.	43:52
	But you asked me what is the reason	43:58
	for this seeming confidence.	44:00
	Is the hearer who accepts the angelic advice,	44:04
	just whistling aloud to keep his courage up,	44:10
	or is he a spiritual macabre	44:17
	just waiting for something good to turn up?	44:21
	No, there are two reasons	44:28
	for being unafraid,	44:33
	without anxiety.	44:36
	The first is the simple Christmas message	44:41
	that God sent himself	44:48
	or his son	44:53
	or his Messiah	44:57
	or his messenger.	45:01
	There are all four interpretations of the Christmas.	45:05
	He sent them into this bedlam of a world	45:10
	to give it fresh direction,	45:17
	new hope, restored impetus.	45:21
	Why?	45:26
	Because he still cares for man,	45:30
	still saves him	45:37
	from being too much of a consummate ass,	45:40
	or benighted villain.	45:47
	The message of the Angel	45:51
	is that God has identified himself	45:53
	with human destiny on this planet.	45:58
	God is for us	46:04
	even though he has to give us	46:08
	the freedom to make fools of ourselves	46:13
	and a mess of his creation.	46:18
	This is our Christmas hope,	46:23
	real in quality	46:26
	if not in quantity,	46:30
	here and now for the Christian.	46:33
	But the gospel of the incarnation	46:43
	is incomplete without the good news	46:48
	of the resurrection.	46:53
	Christmas needs Easter	46:57
	to authenticate it.	47:02
	The real beginning of the Christian year	47:04
	is Easter Sunday,	47:08
	and not the first Sunday in Advent.	47:12
	Christmas would not be celebrated	47:18
	as a Christian festival	47:23
	if it were not for the defeat of death	47:26
	and wickedness at Easter.	47:31
	But granted a fate in Easter	47:36
	then one can gladly celebrate the birth of him	47:41
	upon whom God placed his imprimatur,	47:47
	his nihil obstat	47:51
	two days after the crucifixion.	47:56
	The Easter hope is anticipated	48:00
	in Advent.	48:08
	We rejoice at the coming of the Christ child	48:10
	because we have confidence in the outcome.	48:16
	The good news is one of expectation and reliance,	48:22
	a pledge of which was given in the incarnation	48:28
	and the symbol of it in the resurrection.	48:34
	So be-na gliff'd.	48:40
	Let such hope,	48:45
	so filled with the love of God	48:48
	cast out fear.	48:52
	The fear of which begets consternation,	48:56
	terror, dread.	49:01
	Now, what are we going to do with this	49:07
	good news of Christmas	49:11
	which encourages us to be-na gliff'd?	49:15
	We can accept it gratefully,	49:20
	wish it were true,	49:26
	and pay some homage to the child on Christmas Eve	49:29
	and Christmas day,	49:34
	sincerely glad that	49:38
	such a festival of promise	49:41
	does occur	49:45
	once each year.	49:47
	We may behave like the two little girls in Toronto	49:52
	who gazed earnestly at the babe	49:59
	in the nativity scene,	50:03
	outside of a church,	50:05
	then knelt down	50:09
	and spontaneously and together sang,	50:13
	"For He's a Jolly Good Fellow".	50:19
	And, that's probably better than nothing.	50:27
	It's not wise to be cynical about belief,	50:32
	which even suspends warfare,	50:39
	once a year.	50:44
	We can catch the spirit of goodwill and make sure	50:49
	that our Christmas is centered	50:53
	neither in what gifts we receive,	50:56
	nor in what we gift to others who gift to us.	51:00
	There are valid charities which know how	51:07
	to organize goodwill	51:11
	so that the unfortunate or the incapable	51:14
	may have some reason to be joyous	51:20
	because of unknown benefactors.	51:24
	And we can make individual visits	51:29
	to some such folk	51:33
	as a personal symbol	51:37
	of our concern and care.	51:40
	But as university folk I would suggest another approach.	51:44
	Let us read the testimony of a university man,	51:51
	who wrote what some would judge	51:57
	to be the best play	52:00
	from the period of World War II.	52:04
	He is Thornton Wilder	52:10
	and his play is,	52:14
	"The Skin of Our Teeth".	52:16
	This is one of three plays published in paperback,	52:21
	a Bantum book.	52:27
	In it's 17th printing	52:31
	in 1966,	52:34
	and you can get it for 75 cents	52:38
	over in the Gothic Bookstore.	52:41
	It is the story of Mr. George Antrobus.	52:48
	Now Antrobus is just anthropos,	52:54
	the Greek word for man.	53:01
	And of his wife, Maggie,	53:05
	who is Eve of the garden.	53:09
	They survive in succession and over centuries	53:14
	an ice age, a cosmic flood,	53:20
	and a catastrophic war.	53:27
	As one critic succinctly writes,	53:31
	"It is a panoramic view of all history	53:35
	reduced to the experiences	53:42
	of a New Jersey suburban family."	53:45
	Listen to George and Maggie talk in the ruin	53:51
	of their home toward the end of the play.	53:55
	"Maggie, I lost it.	54:01
	I've lost it."	54:07
	"What, George? What have you lost?	54:10
	"The most important thing of all:	54:18
	the desire to begin again,	54:24
	to start building,	54:30
	I've lost it."	54:34
	Mrs. Atrobus helps him to regain it,	54:39
	the good hope which carried them through ice,	54:44
	and flood, and war.	54:49
	How?	54:54
	They call to mind	54:56
	what had steadied them before	55:00
	the need of confused people,	55:06
	the memory of home and family,	55:14
	and the voices in books.	55:20
	And so he rallies.	55:29
	All I ask is the chance to build new worlds	55:33
	and God has always given us that.	55:38
	And he has given us voices to guide us	55:44
	and the memory of our mistakes	55:50
	to warn us.	55:55
	And then he begins to to quote from Spinosa,	55:57
	from Plato, from Aristotle,	56:03
	and from the Bible.	56:08
	And the Lord said, "Let there be light,"	56:11
	and there was light.	56:18
	Do any of you happen to remember when Verlais	56:21
	read the morning lesson from years ago	56:25
	and it was the first chapter of Genesis?	56:30
	And I'll never forget it, how he read that verse.	56:34
	And God said, "Let there be light."	56:38
	And there was, light!	56:46
	Yes, under God and under the word	56:55
	which has become words in every age	57:00
	and in every place Mr. and Mrs. Antrobus	57:04
	may recover their faith in humanity	57:10
	and in its ability to survive,	57:15
	even go at times	57:19
	only by the skin of its teeth.	57:21
	But the play doesn't end there.	57:26
	It ends with Sabina, the servant girl,	57:31
	coming to the foot lights	57:37
	and telling the audience	57:40
	"this is where you came in.	57:45
	We have to go on	57:51
	for ages yet.	57:54
	You go home.	57:58
	The end of the play isn't written yet.	58:02
	Mr. and Mrs. Artrobus	58:08
	told me to tell you good night."	58:11
	The end of the play isn't written yet,	58:19
	the job under God is ours, too,	58:24
	for we are Mr. and Mrs. Antrobus.	58:30
	So, let us go too,	58:37
	but first let's sing about the angels	58:42
	who sang and about the Scottish one	58:47
	whose message from God was be-na gliff'd.	58:52
	It's hymn 394,	58:57
	"While shepherds watched their flocks by night,	59:01
	all seated on the ground,	59:06
	the angel of the Lord came down,	59:09
	and glory shone around."	59:12
	Now you might even try to begin the second stanza	59:16
	be-na gliff'd	59:23
	instead of fear not.	59:26
	Hymn 394.	59:29
	("While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night")	59:34
	♪ While shepherds watched their flocks by night ♪	59:57
	♪ All seated on the ground ♪	1:00:02
	♪ The angel of the Lord came down ♪	1:00:08
	♪ And glory shone around ♪	1:00:14
	♪ Fear not he said for mighty dread ♪	1:00:20
	♪ Had seized their troubled minds ♪	1:00:26
	♪ Glad tidings of great joy ♪	1:00:32
	♪ I bring ♪	1:00:36
	♪ To you and all mankind ♪	1:00:38
	♪ To you in David's town ♪	1:00:44
	♪ This day ♪	1:00:48
	♪ Is born of David's line ♪	1:00:50
	♪ The Savior who is ♪	1:00:56
	♪ Christ the Lord ♪	1:01:00
	♪ And this shall be the sign ♪	1:01:03
	♪ The heavenly babe ♪	1:01:09
	♪ You there shall find ♪	1:01:13
	♪ To human view displayed ♪	1:01:15
	♪ And meanly wrapped ♪	1:01:21
	♪ In swaddling bands ♪	1:01:24
	♪ And in a manager laid ♪	1:01:27
	♪ This spake the seraph ♪	1:01:34
	♪ And forthwith appeared a shining throng ♪	1:01:39
	♪ Of angels praising God ♪	1:01:46
	♪ Who thus addressed ♪	1:01:49
	♪ Their joyful song ♪	1:01:52
	♪ All glory be ♪	1:01:59
	♪ To God on high ♪	1:02:02
	♪ And to the earth be peace ♪	1:02:05
	♪ Good will henceforth ♪	1:02:12
	♪ From heaven to men ♪	1:02:15
	♪ Begin and never cease ♪	1:02:18
	♪ Amen ♪	1:02:26
	(church organ music)	1:02:45

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Title:

James T. Cleland - "Be - Na Gliff'd" (December 7, 1969)

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Date:

December 7, 1969

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Cleland, James T. (James Tough), 1903-1974

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Duke University. Chapel

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