Howard C. Wilkinson - "The Guilty Conscience" (February 1, 1970)

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-	Be of good kind.	0:05
	(light music)	0:16
	♪ The lord is my shepherd ♪	1:05
	♪ No want shall I know ♪	1:14
	(indistinct singing)	1:23
	♪ He leadeth me where waters, waters flow ♪	1:34
	♪ My (indistinct) ♪	1:54
	♪ And wine, he is the way (indistinct) ♪	2:05
	♪ Oh lord, divine he is ♪	2:16
	♪ And oh, he (indistinct) ♪	2:35
	♪ I hear him shine on me ♪	2:55
	♪ Oh lord, I need thee ♪	3:05
	(indistinct)	3:20
	♪ Revelation fall over me ♪	3:33
	The scripture lesson this morning is the 51:1-12.	4:12
	#Have mercy upon me oh God,	4:19
	according to thy steadfast love.	4:20
	According to thy abundant mercy,	4:22
	blot out my transgressions.	4:24
	Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity	4:26
	and cleanse me from my sin.	4:29
	For I know my transgressions and my sin is ever before me.	4:32
	Against thee, thee only have I sinned and done	4:36
	which is evil and by sight.	4:39
	So that though art justified in thy sentence and blameless	4:41
	in they judgment.	4:45
	Behold, I was brought forth in inequity	4:47
	and in sin did my mother conceived me.	4:50
	Behold, thou desires truth in the inward being,	4:53
	therefore teach me wisdom in my secret heart.	4:57
	Purge me with thyself and I shall be clean.	5:00
	Wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.	5:03
	Fill me with joy and gladness.	5:06
	Let the bones which thou hast broken rejoice.	5:09
	Hide thy face from my sins and blot out	5:13
	all my iniquities.	5:16
	Create in me a clean heart, oh god,	5:18
	and put a new and right spirit within me.	5:21
	Cast me not away from thy presence and take not	5:24
	thy holy spirit from me.	5:28
	Restore me to the joy of their salvation and uphold me with	5:30
	a willing spirit.	5:35
	Here endeth the first lesson.	5:36
	(bright organ music)	5:40
	(organ drowning out singers)	5:50
-	The Lord be with you.	6:26
-	And with you.	6:28
-	Let us pray.	6:29
	Let us offer unto God our prayers of thanksgiving.	6:39
	Almighty God, our heavenly father.	6:47
	We give thee thanks for unnumbered gifts.	6:50
	Thou has given us parents and teachers from whom to learn,	6:57
	thou was given us books and laboratories	7:02
	to enlighten our mind.	7:06
	We thank thee for our times of testing by which we can learn	7:09
	where we are strong and where we need to be strengthened.	7:15
	We thank thee for thy grace in our trials.	7:21
	We're grateful to thee for giving us light in darkness,	7:27
	strength in weakness, health to overcome illness,	7:32
	love to dispel loneliness, and hope to erase despair.	7:39
	For all these favors,	7:47
	we give thee hearty thanks	7:48
	through our Lord Jesus Christ.	7:52
	Let us offer one special prayer of thanksgiving	7:56
	for service workers on the campus.	8:00
	We thank thee oh God for the faithfulness	8:06
	of those who care for us	8:08
	in this university,	8:11
	for those who cook and serve our food,	8:14
	for those who tidy rooms and halls.	8:18
	For those who scrub and paint and clean.	8:23
	For all who ease our life with endless daily chores,	8:28
	grant to them, joy in what they do,	8:35
	grant to us graciousness to show our thankfulness to them	8:40
	through him who came not to be served,	8:47
	but to serve, even Jesus Christ, our Lord.	8:51
	And let us offer one prayer of intercession,	9:00
	particularly this morning for the whole hospital complex.	9:04
	We commend unto thee oh father all who hallow suffering.	9:11
	Those who in their thoughts for others	9:18
	leave no room for pity of themselves.	9:22
	Those whose patience inspires others to hold on.	9:27
	We commend unto thee all who endure suffering.	9:33
	Those whose bodies, our minds are distressed.	9:38
	Those who cannot be themselves because of pain.	9:44
	Grant to all who are bound.	9:52
	one to another in the fellowship of suffering,	9:54
	the sense of comradeship, the knowledge of thy presence,	9:58
	and give them thy peace, which passes understanding.	10:05
	Now, let us offer prayers of supplication,	10:15
	first for the athletic aspects of our life.	10:21
	Oh God who has made a world where struggle brings strength	10:27
	and indolence leads to weakness,	10:31
	grant us the best rewards in all our contests of strength	10:35
	and skill in the realm of athletics.	10:39
	Deliver us from vain glory and eager wisdom,	10:44
	from spite and the harboring of any grudge.	10:48
	Make us thoughtful winners and gracious losers.	10:54
	Keep our rivalries from becoming obsessions.	11:00
	Make us grateful for the discipline of playing	11:05
	with and against others, but earn control of muscle,	11:08
	mind, and eye.	11:14
	And for the fraternity	11:16
	of coaches and players and supporters.	11:18
	And let us offer the prayer of supplication for the military	11:25
	aspects of our life.	11:28
	Almighty and eternal God who has set our lives	11:33
	in a time of war,	11:38
	enable us to convert to a good purpose,	11:41
	whatever military demands are laid upon us.	11:45
	If we undergo training,	11:51
	may it strengthen our discipline	11:55
	and lift our ideals of service.	11:57
	If we face comeback, may it not wrench away	12:02
	our Christian sympathy, nor harden our heart.	12:06
	If we refuse the military way,	12:13
	may our decision be made with insight and humility so that	12:17
	whatever our response to the violence of men and nations,	12:24
	we may continually fight the good fight of faith	12:30
	in him whose kingdom is not of this world.	12:34
	Even Jesus Christ, our Lord.	12:40
	And let us offer a short application for ourselves.	12:45
	Oh God, may there be nothing done this day	12:52
	of which we shall be ashamed when the sun has set.	12:56
	Nor in the eventide of our life, when our task is done	13:03
	and we come home to see the face to face.	13:10
	And now, as our savior Christ has taught us,	13:18
	we humbly pray together saying our father who art in heaven,	13:21
	hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come,	13:28
	thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.	13:33
	Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us	13:38
	our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us,	13:42
	and lead us, not into temptation,	13:48
	but deliver us from evil for thine is the kingdom	13:51
	and the power and the glory forever.	13:55
	Amen.	14:00
-	Shakespeare has King Richard to say,	14:23
	"My conscience half a thousand several tongues,	14:28
	"and every tongue brings in a several tail and every tail	14:35
	"condemns me for a villain."	14:41
	King Richard's problem was that he had a guilty conscience.	14:47
	Now in this, he was not alone, certainly.	14:55
	Every person old enough to listen to a sermon	14:59
	has that problem.	15:04
	This is true of the religious person.	15:07
	It's also true of the irreligious person.	15:10
	If in the home of an atheist	15:16
	the radio was inadvertently left on while	15:19
	the Duke Chapel Service came on the air	15:23
	just a little while ago,	15:26
	the atheist may now be thinking that he doesn't have	15:29
	the problem of a guilty conscience	15:33
	the way those religious people have.	15:36
	If he thinks that he doesn't know what is going on in his	15:41
	own subconscious mind,	15:46
	for whether we conceive of it as being an outraged	15:50
	conscience formed and informed by the revelations	15:54
	of supernatural religion or whether we conceive of it	15:59
	as being a violated and painful superego inlaid	16:03
	with the mores of society,	16:09
	we all have to deal with the sense of guilt.	16:13
	We may repress it by denial and force it to fester	16:20
	underneath the surface,	16:25
	or we may openly face it and constructively deal with it.	16:27
	This sermon is one attempt to do the latter.	16:35
	You know, this might be thought of	16:42
	as being a particularly good time	16:44
	to examine our guilty conscience because Ash Wednesday	16:46
	is only 10 days away.	16:50
	Ash Wednesday inaugurates the season of Lent,	16:54
	a 40 day period during which we Christians	16:59
	have traditionally inspected our consciences	17:01
	and have sought to make amendment	17:06
	at the points where we are guilty.	17:08
	Actually, however, anytime is a good time	17:12
	to come to terms with a sense of guilt.	17:17
	For as much as we may sympathize with Ogden Nash in in his	17:22
	impulsive wish to have either a clear conscience	17:27
	or none at all,	17:31
	our realistic choice is not quite that simple.	17:35
	We cannot merely by wishing have no conscience at all.	17:41
	Whether our religious commitment or lack of it	17:48
	is Christian or whatever.	17:52
	Now, in the case of the religious person,	17:56
	his or her conscience is formed largely by the teachings	17:58
	of the religious body to which he or she gives allegiance.	18:02
	In the case of the non-religious person,	18:07
	his or her conscience is foreign by the standards and mores	18:10
	of the groups in which he or she finds meaning.	18:14
	Now in this latter view, (indistinct)	18:19
	mom defined the conscience simply as the guardian	18:22
	in the individual of the rules	18:26
	which the community has evolved for its own preservation.	18:30
	Dr. Dayton Vandusen says that a man's guilt feeling is	18:37
	immediately connected with his own sense of values	18:41
	from what he expects of himself.	18:48
	And it is an empirical fact that all of us discover pretty	18:56
	early in life that we have outreached our own accepted code	19:01
	enough times, and with sufficient seriousness,	19:07
	that we feel guilty by our own standards.	19:12
	Now, this is often a rather big problem to us.	19:21
	So much so that we come at last to agree	19:25
	with Huckleberry Finn that our conscience takes up more room	19:27
	than all the rest of a person's insides.	19:32
	Let's be very blunt about it.	19:37
	No one of us enjoys feeling guilty.	19:39
	It's quite uncomfortable.	19:44
	Now, it makes us uneasy enough when another person	19:47
	declares we are guilty.	19:50
	But when we ourselves bring in that verdict,	19:52
	the pain is very excruciating.	19:55
	Our minds go to work at once to solve the problem,	19:58
	one way or another,	20:02
	hoping to get relief from the lash of a nagging conscience	20:04
	and to restore our better self image	20:09
	to a state of self-respect.	20:14
	But watch out, watch out.	20:18
	How we enterprise the doing of this	20:27
	is of the greatest importance.	20:34
	As understandable as it is to desire freedom	20:41
	from the awareness of guilt, the route that we take toward	20:44
	that freedom may lead to a heartbreaking	20:49
	tragedy or to great bliss, depending.	20:52
	Some of the escapes we attempt are not only unsuccessful,	20:59
	but terribly destructive,	21:05
	so that our sense of guilt itself becomes a problem to us.	21:09
	It may even lead to the compounding of our guilt.	21:17
	Accordingly, we often observe a person struggling	21:23
	to free himself from guilt, only to find himself	21:26
	the more ensnared,	21:29
	like a fly struggling to free itself from flypaper.	21:31
	Now there is a Christian solution to the problem	21:38
	of the guilty conscience.	21:41
	And I wish at this point merely to mention it and then	21:43
	contrast it with some of the non-Christian attempts	21:47
	at the solution of this problem.	21:51
	Christian faith, as was hinted at	21:55
	in the reading from Psalms earlier in this service,	21:58
	declares that anyone who wishes to be free	22:02
	from his guilt should whole heartedly acknowledge his sin.	22:05
	Be truly sorry about it.	22:12
	Ask in faith for the forgiveness of God	22:15
	and of any human he has wronged,	22:20
	turn his back on sin and make such an amendment	22:26
	of past wrongs as are within his power.	22:29
	All who will do these things have been fully assured	22:35
	of complete pardon by God,	22:41
	and are entitled to be en entirely free	22:45
	from all feelings of past guilt.	22:49
	A sense of guilt	22:55
	which leads to this kind of action is wholesome and good for	22:56
	it is unlikely that we would even seek forgiveness	23:00
	for our sins without a painful prick from our consciences.	23:03
	But a sense of guilt,	23:11
	which does not lead to such action as that	23:12
	can be extremely destructive.	23:16
	This is the case because even if a person is unwilling	23:20
	to admit his guilt and to seek forgiveness,	23:23
	he nevertheless cries out to be free from the awareness	23:26
	of his guilt,	23:30
	from the guilty feeling and his subconscious mind continues	23:31
	to work in an effort to achieve that freedom	23:37
	and the things which a guilty conscience will do to us	23:42
	and in turn make us do to ourselves and to others	23:47
	are truly frightening.	23:51
	A man going through life with a guilty conscience	23:55
	is like a mack truck without a driver,	23:59
	rolling downhill on a street crowded with pedestrians.	24:02
	There is no way in advance to calculate the damage	24:08
	which will be done,	24:11
	but it is certain that the agony will be extensive.	24:13
	One thing a guilty conscience does is to cause us	24:20
	to resent other people,	24:25
	to perceive them in distorted fashion and therefore	24:29
	to misrepresent them.	24:34
	You see, if I have done you an injury,	24:37
	and I really know that I have,	24:42
	if I am unwilling to acknowledge it,	24:45
	make amends and ask your forgiveness,	24:50
	the very thought of you is going to make me uncomfortable.	24:55
	I begin to resent you.	25:01
	And finally, I come to hate you.	25:03
	You probably have heard the old saying	25:09
	that one of the surest ways to make a man hate you	25:10
	is to loan him $10.	25:13
	Now the thought behind that old adage is that the man who	25:16
	does not soon repay the money	25:19
	finds that the sight of you reminds him of the debt he owes.	25:23
	And he resents the fact that he's obligated to you	25:30
	and finally comes to resent you personally.	25:33
	Unfortunately, the process does not stop there.	25:38
	The next step is that he begins to tell himself	25:42
	that he really does not owe you that $10	25:46
	because you once did something bad to him,	25:49
	or you're a cruel person who does not deserve	25:53
	to be repaid the $10.	25:55
	During my ministry	26:00
	I have counseled a number of women who have been having	26:02
	illicit affairs with men who were married to other women.	26:07
	Each one of these paramours said that the man told her	26:12
	his wife did not try to understand him or his wife	26:18
	was mean to him or had broken a promise,	26:23
	which was important.	26:27
	Whatever may have been the truth about those reports,	26:30
	the likelihood is that these men did not notice	26:32
	how great these supposed defects were	26:36
	in their wives until they began the illicit affairs	26:39
	and their consciences began to torment them	26:43
	about their broken marriage vows.	26:47
	Then they tried to ease their bruised consciences	26:50
	by a distorted perception of their wives.	26:53
	And the result was to heap character misrepresentation	26:58
	on top of unfaithfulness so that their guilt	27:04
	was heavily compounded.	27:09
	Second, a guilty conscience can make us poor judges	27:14
	of what is wise and right.	27:19
	Dr. Hubert C Noble, executive director of the division of	27:23
	Educational Institutions of the National Council of Churches	27:29
	has recently pointed out	27:33
	how destructive a sense of guilt can be	27:35
	in the whole area of race relations.	27:38
	He said that some white churchmen who in the past have done	27:41
	very little to bring about racial justice now find	27:46
	that they have a huge unrelieved sense of guilt regarding	27:51
	their black brothers, as indeed they should have.	27:56
	They therefore he says will support any idea or scheme	28:02
	proposed to them by any black man,	28:07
	whether it is wise or foolish,	28:11
	constructive or destructive.	28:13
	They therefore run the risk of adding to their past guilt	28:16
	caused by inaction.	28:20
	The present guilt of supporting unworkable and utterly	28:23
	stupid schemes, merely to be able to tell themselves	28:27
	that they're helping some black man or some black group	28:31
	get what they say they want.	28:35
	Many parents fall into this variety of trap because of their	28:42
	guilt feelings toward their children.	28:47
	Fathers who come home from the office and take out the day's	28:51
	frustrations on their children,	28:54
	socialite mothers who spend almost no time	28:57
	with their children, drinking parents,	29:01
	whose children regularly discovered them drunk,	29:04
	divorced parents who fight a tug of war over their children,	29:07
	all these and many others find themselves with an unrelieved	29:12
	burden of guilt with regard to their children.	29:17
	Now, and all too typical and destructive tendency therefor	29:21
	is for the parent to grant any request	29:30
	which comes from the child,	29:33
	even though the granting of the request might be the most	29:36
	harmful thing the parent could do for the child.	29:39
	But the load of guilt which the parent has	29:44
	so impairs his judgment	29:48
	that he cannot understand what is wise or unwise.	29:51
	Third, a guilty conscience unrelieved can cause us	29:59
	to make the innocent suffer because of our sins.	30:05
	The concept of a scapegoat is very old.	30:11
	Human beings have busied themselves in this way	30:16
	for a great many centuries.	30:19
	In the days of the priest, Aaron,	30:22
	the children of Israel followed the practice	30:26
	of ceremonially placing their own guilt upon the head	30:28
	of a live goat,	30:33
	and then seeing to it that the goat escaped	30:36
	into the wilderness,	30:40
	thinking that the sins and guilt would go with the goat	30:43
	and the goat would be devoured by the wild beast.	30:48
	At some risk, I pointed out	30:54
	that we see how this works in basketball.	30:57
	Get ready.	31:03
	The referee has a very hard job at best,	31:07
	trying to call the plays fairly,	31:10
	but in the hustle of the game,	31:15
	he makes a call, which almost as soon as he has made,	31:17
	he realizes was unfair to player A on the blue team and all	31:21
	the supporters of the blue teams see that the call was	31:28
	unfair and they are mighty vocal about it.	31:31
	Now the referee isn't going to change his call,	31:36
	but he feels guilty about his erroneous call	31:40
	against the blue team.	31:46
	Now, what does he do?	31:49
	Very soon he calls a foul against player B	31:52
	on the white team.	31:56
	This satisfies the outraged blue fans	31:59
	and eases the referee's conscience.	32:02
	Ah, but instead of easing his conscience,	32:06
	it should make him feel doubly guilty in that he made	32:09
	a scapegoat of a player on the white team who had committed	32:13
	no foul and who did nothing to deserve	32:18
	having a foul charged against him.	32:21
	And yet this kind of thing happens.	32:25
	It's the shame of the game.	32:28
	Wellforth, a guilty conscience can make us sick.	32:32
	Physicians who practice in psychosomatic medicine	32:38
	bear testimony to the power of guilt to make the flesh sick.	32:43
	Psychiatrists tell us how unrelieved guilt	32:51
	can make us emotionally ill.	32:54
	Dr. Carol Wise has explained it in this way.	32:58
	Because feelings of guilt are so painful,	33:02
	and because they're often too strong for an individual	33:06
	to face and handle openly by himself,	33:09
	they're pushed back to deeper levels of the mind.	33:13
	Technically this is called repression.	33:17
	Repression is a protective process of the mind	33:21
	which makes one unaware of feelings that are painful.	33:25
	Dr. Wise says, one may not be aware of guilt feelings,	33:31
	but unconsciously may feel very guilty.	33:34
	If this is the case,	33:39
	the feelings of guilt will find some disguised	33:40
	form of expression,	33:43
	such as a symptom of physical illness or a compulsive need	33:46
	to wash his hands or engage	33:50
	in some other unexplained activity.	33:52
	Or he may have the idea that other people	33:55
	are always watching.	33:57
	These symptoms, he says,	33:59
	serve as a defense against allowing the feeling of guilt	34:01
	to become conscious again.	34:06
	This is where the illness comes in.	34:09
	The person finds himself forced by feelings of which he is	34:13
	not aware to act or think in certain ways that produce	34:18
	unhappiness and destroy his capacity for effective living.	34:23
	He is sick because he does not consciously know what makes	34:29
	him do what he consciously does not want to do,	34:34
	and because he cannot control his behavior.	34:39
	Part of him is controlling all of him.	34:43
	There is a fifth kind of damage that comes	34:49
	from a tortured conscience.	34:52
	It causes us to fail.	34:55
	It makes us defeat ourselves.	34:57
	Subconsciously we feel that we deserve to be defeated.	35:02
	Detectives say that many criminals are caught by clues	35:08
	which they left themselves.	35:11
	Some of these clues seem almost to have been planted as	35:15
	though the criminal were saying, please catch me.	35:20
	I deserve to be punished.	35:24
	Some people who appeared to be accident prone have been	35:28
	known to have fewer accidents	35:31
	after their guilt was relieved.	35:34
	Well, a guilty conscience often causes us	35:39
	to major in minors, to make mountains out of molehills,	35:42
	magnify small issues into great ones.	35:47
	A Casper Milquetoast whose conscience troubles him because	35:52
	he's wrong on a great issue will sometimes become a zealot	35:56
	about a petty issue to salvage his conscience.	36:01
	Jesus noted how this was true of the Pharisees in his day,	36:05
	they had a guilty conscience about big issues	36:09
	so they compensated by being zealous over small ones.	36:12
	They strained at gnats	36:16
	after having already swallowed camels.	36:19
	A seventh possible difficulty resulting	36:25
	from a tortured conscience	36:28
	is what psychologists call projection.	36:29
	We try to ease the pain of knowing that we are bad by	36:33
	reporting that the whole world is bad.	36:36
	Dr. Fosdick said,	36:40
	"The bully thinks the world is full of bullies.	36:42
	"The homosexual perceives homosexuality everywhere.	36:45
	"The bad tempered man is always discovering	36:50
	"bad temper in others.	36:52
	"The liar says all men are liars."	36:55
	Believe it, beloved,	37:02
	there are other harmful effects of an unrelieved guilty	37:04
	conscience, which could be described if time permitted.	37:07
	But today these seven are enough to suggest that the damage	37:12
	which can be done is indeed formidable.	37:18
	The pained conscience, which can be good,	37:23
	and which is a necessary step toward repentance, confession,	37:27
	and forgiveness, can also be destructive if we stop short	37:31
	of such a remedy as that.	37:37
	The good news of the gospel is that there is forgiveness	37:41
	for every repentant sinner.	37:46
	That no one needs to suffer under the weight	37:50
	of a burden of guilt.	37:53
	This is true because of the love revealed in Jesus Christ	37:56
	and the forgiveness and grace which he offers.	38:01
	It's even true of the person whose emotions	38:06
	and whose mental processes have been twisted by guilt long	38:08
	sustained and often compounded.	38:12
	In the year 1878,	38:16
	William C Gladstone said, "The disease of an evil conscience	38:18
	"is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all	38:22
	"the countries in the world."	38:25
	Now I will not argue whether that statement was true	38:29
	or untrue at the time he made it.	38:31
	But I am to be able to say it certainly is not true in 1970.	38:34
	There are many physicians whose successful practice includes	38:40
	the disease of an evil conscience.	38:46
	Dr. Albert Adler in his book	38:52
	"Psychotherapy and the Christian Message"	38:55
	has said these words,	38:59
	which pack a great deal of wisdom	39:01
	and Christian insight into them.	39:05
	"The Christian experience of forgiveness	39:07
	"is not an earned acquittal,	39:10
	"nor an indulgent dismissal of the guilty.	39:13
	"Man, repentant, phases the transforming reordering impact	39:19
	"of God's grace on his disorder.	39:25
	"The moral law is neither relaxed nor violated.	39:29
	"Man comes to know that God's love has made cost to himself	39:34
	"in reconciling his estranged	39:41
	"but beloved children to himself."	39:43
	"The distinction between sin and the sinner	39:47
	"is firmly maintained."	39:52
	Thus, the Christian man forgiven can cast away the guilt	39:55
	and shame of his sins without any self-indulgent sense	39:59
	of complacency.	40:05
	So the most effective cure of all is the therapy	40:08
	of regular worship,	40:14
	in which the sinner confesses before God and man	40:17
	that he is guilty.	40:20
	That he's sorry for his sin,	40:22
	that he asks the heavenly father through Christ to pardon	40:25
	his sin and dissipate his guilt.	40:28
	And he asks for grace to repair the damage	40:32
	that has been done, to rise above sin in the future.	40:35
	And then even as Dean Cleland led us in our worship today,	40:42
	he hears the comforting words of scripture	40:46
	assuring him that if his repentance was genuine,	40:50
	his pardon is indeed secured, not on the word of man,	40:54
	but on the word of God.	41:01
	He then goes out into the world a free man,	41:04
	ready for a new and clean beginning.	41:08
	With joy he witnesses to the love of Christ	41:12
	and he is liberated from all the hangups of guilt	41:17
	and the sicknesses of guilt	41:20
	and the bad perceptions of guilt	41:23
	and the resentments.	41:26
	His perceptions are clear.	41:27
	His relationships are genuine and loving,	41:30
	and he is a real asset to the world.	41:35
	To the glory of Christ and in his name.	41:40
	Amen.	41:45
	(bright organ music)	41:52
	(organ drowning out singers)	42:13
	(solemn organ music)	43:39
	(singer singing in foreign language)	45:17
	♪ All that I do, where might I find him ♪	47:29
	♪ That I might see your loving, warm (indistinct) ♪	47:35
	♪ Oh, that I might know, where I might find him ♪	47:44
	♪ That I might (indistinct) for his grace ♪	47:52
	♪ Oh, (indistinct) ♪	47:59
	♪ Oh, that I knew, where might I go to him ♪	48:09
	(indistinct)	48:28
	♪ Where he might find me ♪	48:41
	(indistinct)	48:48
	♪ He shall everlast, 'til he find me ♪	48:58
	(singer singing in foreign language)	49:10
	(vigorous organ music drowning out singers)	49:38
-	Oh God in whom we live and move and have our being,	50:58
	here we offer and present onto thee	51:03
	our silver and our gold,	51:07
	the symbol of ourselves,	51:10
	to be out a reasonable, holy and living sacrifice	51:13
	unto thee through Jesus Christ, our Lord.	51:19
	And unto God's gracious mercy and compassion,	51:27
	do we commit you?	51:32
	May the blessing of God come upon you abundantly.	51:34
	May it keep you strong and tranquil in the truth	51:40
	of his promises through Jesus Christ our Lord.	51:46
	Amen.	51:54
	(bells ringing)	51:59
	(dramatic organ music)	52:15
	(silence)	55:59
	(people speaking faintly)	57:29

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Title:

Howard C. Wilkinson - "The Guilty Conscience" (February 1, 1970)

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February 1, 1970

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Wilkinson, Howard C.

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