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	(organ drowning out singers)	0:04
-	Dearly beloved, because we are imperfect people	0:53
	we need to confess our imperfections	0:57
	before all mighty God.	1:00
	Let us pray.	1:02
	Our heavenly father, who art rich in mercy	1:05
	toward all those who having missed the way	1:10
	still turn and seek thy face.	1:13
	We bow in contrite prayer to confess our guilt.	1:17
	We are guilty because we failed to do the right as well	1:21
	as we knew to do it.	1:24
	And because we failed to avoid evil as well as we knew how	1:27
	to avoid it.	1:30
	In thy presence, oh God, our customary disguises	1:33
	and comfortable pretenses which work so well	1:38
	with our fellow man do not avail in thy presence.	1:42
	And under the searching light of thy holiness	1:47
	we know ourselves for what we are,	1:49
	imperfect, wayward, who often seek our own wills	1:53
	in spite of our noble aspirations	1:58
	and not withstanding our previous high resolutions.	2:01
	We now admit that the sin of the world is often	2:07
	very much our own sin and that the greed which shocks us	2:09
	when we see it in others hides in our own hearts,.	2:14
	None of us loves justice and mercy enough.	2:18
	But may we receive the grace of humility	2:24
	here in thy presence so that we may cease to defeat thy will	2:27
	for the world by our selfish wills.	2:32
	And may the vision of what we honestly might be convict us	2:36
	of what we are so that thy mercy may redeem us	2:41
	of our sin through Jesus Christ, our Lord, amen.	2:46
	In the holy scriptures, we read words of assurance	2:54
	which were intended for people such as ourselves	2:58
	who are contrite about our sins.	3:02
	These words are as far as the east is removed from the west.	3:07
	So far has he removed our transgressions from us.	3:13
	Therefore be of good cheer.	3:18
	Our prayer of Thanksgiving will be led by coach Bob Bostons.	3:23
-	May we join in the prayer of Thanksgiving.	3:34
	Almighty God, our heavenly father,	3:37
	we bless and magnify the holy name	3:40
	for the gift of thy most dearly beloved son,	3:43
	Jesus Christ, our redeemer, and for all his apostles,	3:46
	prophets, martyrs, evangelists, teachers, and pastors	3:51
	whom he has sent abroad into the world	3:56
	for thy holy church universal.	3:59
	The ministry of the (indistinct),	4:02
	the ministry of the ordained.	4:04
	We do give thee hearty thanks for the privilege	4:06
	which each one of us has of bearing witness	4:10
	to the saving grace of our Lord.	4:12
	We express our gratitude.	4:15
	We thank thee for the life,	4:17
	for meaning of health, for friends, for food, for clothing,	4:19
	for all the purposes of Christ	4:25
	which give meaning to these earthly goods.	4:27
	We make our prayer of thanks in Jesus name.	4:30
	Amen.	4:34
-	This morning, there will be two lessons read	4:43
	from the holy scriptures.	4:45
	First, the Old Testament and then later the New Testament.	4:48
	They will be read by the Reverend Dr. James T. Cleland,	4:51
	the dean of the chapel.	4:55
-	The Old Testament lesson is taken	5:05
	from the Book of the Psalms.	5:07
	The first Psalm.	5:10
	Blessed is the man who walks not	5:15
	in the council of the wicked, nor stands	5:16
	in the way of sinners nor sits in the seat of scoffers.	5:20
	But his delight is in the law of the Lord and on his law	5:27
	he meditates day and night.	5:33
	He's like a tree planted	5:37
	by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season	5:40
	and its leaf does not wither.	5:46
	In all that he does, he prospers.	5:51
	The wicked are not so, but are like chaff	5:55
	which the wind drives away.	6:00
	Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment	6:03
	nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous	6:08
	for the Lord knows the way of the righteous	6:14
	but the way of the wicked will perish.	6:18
	Here endeth the first lesson.	6:24
	(warm organ music)	6:29
	(singer vocalizing)	7:15
	♪ Thanks to be thee ♪	7:23
	♪ Lord God of hosts ♪	7:28
	♪ Thy broughtest with thee ♪	7:38
	♪ Israel safe through the sea ♪	7:49
	(warm organ music)	8:01
	♪ Lord, like a shepherd ♪	8:44
	♪ Thou hast led us ♪	8:51
	♪ Thy hand leadeth us ♪	8:59
	♪ Whatever our sins has been (indistinct) ♪	9:07
	♪ Thanks be to thee ♪	9:26
	♪ Lord and God ♪	9:40
	♪ Thy regal hand has led with ye ♪	9:51
	♪ Israel safe through the sea ♪	10:02
	(warm organ music)	10:15
	♪ Thy has safely led ♪	10:34
	♪ Israel safe through the sea ♪	10:47
	The New Testament lesson is taken	11:45
	from the Gospel according to St. John,	11:48
	the 13th chapter, verses one to 17.	11:52
	Reading from the version which is known as	12:00
	good news for modern man.	12:02
	It was now the day before the feast of Passover.	12:08
	Jesus knew that his hour had come	12:14
	for him to leave this world and go to the father.	12:16
	He had always loved those who were his own in the world.	12:23
	And he loved them to the very end.	12:30
	Jesus and his disciples were at supper.	12:36
	The devil had already decided that Judas,	12:40
	the son of Simon Iscariot, would betray Jesus.	12:44
	Jesus knew that the father had given him complete power.	12:51
	He knew that he had come from God and was going to God.	12:58
	So Jesus rose from the table, took off his outer garment,	13:05
	and tied a towel around his waist.	13:14
	Then he poured some water into a wash basin	13:20
	and began to wash the disciples' feet	13:25
	and dry them with the towel around his waist.	13:29
	He came to Simon, Peter, who said to him	13:35
	"Are you going to wash my feet. Lord?"	13:41
	Jesus answered him,	13:47
	"You do not know what I am doing,	13:50
	"but you will know later."	13:54
	Peter declared, "You will never at any time wash my feet,	13:58
	"if I do not wash your feet"	14:09
	Jesus answered, "You will no longer be my disciple."	14:11
	Simon and Peter answered,	14:19
	"Lord do not wash only my feet, then.	14:21
	"Wash my hands and head too.	14:26
	Jesus said, "Whoever has taken a bath is completely clean	14:31
	"and does not have to wash himself except for his feet.	14:38
	"All of you are clean, all except one."	14:46
	Jesus already knew who was going to betray him.	14:54
	That is why he said, "All of you except one are clean."	14:59
	After he had washed their feet	15:10
	Jesus put his outer garment back on	15:13
	and returned to his place at the table.	15:16
	"Do you understand what I have just done to you?" He asked.	15:21
	"You call me teacher and Lord,	15:29
	"and it is right that you do so,	15:36
	"because I am, I am your Lord and teacher	15:39
	"and I have just washed your feet.	15:48
	"You then should wash each other's feet.	15:53
	"I have set an example for you	15:59
	"so that you will do just what I have done for you.	16:03
	"I tell you the truth.	16:11
	"No slave is greater than his master.	16:14
	"No messenger is greater than the one who sent him.	16:20
	"Now, you know this truth,	16:29
	"how happy you will be if you put it into practice."	16:35
	Here endeth under the second lesson	16:43
	and may God bless unto us	16:46
	the reading of his word.	16:49
	(bright organ music drowning out singers)	16:53
-	The Lord be with you.	17:37
-	And with your spirit.	17:39
-	Let us pray.	17:40
	Eternal God before whom the morning stars	17:48
	first sang together and who hold us in thy hands the destiny	17:52
	of every living thing, we worship thee.	17:58
	Blessed be the name of Jesus who tasted death for every man.	18:02
	And blessed be his glorious name	18:08
	that he is alive forevermore.	18:10
	Oh God who art the Lord of life,	18:15
	we pray thee to come close to each one of us	18:18
	and beyond the power of any spoken human prayer,	18:22
	meet our secret inner needs	18:26
	and especially come to those upon whose lips	18:30
	the song of triumph is very weak,	18:35
	who see no sunshine breaking	18:38
	through the clouds of their shadowed lives.	18:39
	Make their spirits radiant today,	18:43
	even if they had not expected it.	18:46
	Surprise them with hope who have not dared to hope,	18:49
	and bring life to some of us whose spirits are already dead.	18:54
	Oh thou to whom a thousand years	19:02
	are but as yesterday when it is passed	19:04
	and as a watch in the night,	19:07
	speak to us in this holy hour	19:10
	and refresh our souls with new hope.	19:13
	Lift our vision above the disappointments	19:17
	and the griefs of this life and this material world,	19:20
	until we can see and live in terms	19:25
	of thine glorious and eternal kingdom.	19:28
	We makr our prayer in the name of Jesus	19:33
	who has taught us when we come together	19:36
	to pray our father who art in heaven	19:38
	hallowed be thy name.	19:43
	Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth	19:45
	as it is in heaven.	19:49
	Give us this day, our daily bread	19:51
	and forgive us our trespasses	19:54
	as we forgive those who trespass against us and lead us	19:56
	not into temptation, but deliver us from evil,	20:00
	for thine is the kingdom	20:04
	and the power and the glory forever.	20:06
	Amen.	20:09
	We are happy that all of you are here	20:13
	for this football service today.	20:15
	We are grateful to members of the team	20:18
	for receiving the offering at the appropriate time.	20:21
	It is also fitting that we should have some	20:26
	of the coaches involved in our service	20:29
	as we do have two of them today in the leadership	20:31
	of the service.	20:34
	A former part time coach as the preacher.	20:36
	It is certainly appropriate	20:41
	that Jack Wilson should be our preacher for this service.	20:42
	He is no stranger to this chapel,	20:46
	having ministered in it for about three years.	20:47
	Following a distinguished athletic career here at Duke,	20:51
	he received his divinity training here	20:55
	and then served on the staff of the chapel,	20:59
	religious life.	21:02
	Gave excellent service here	21:04
	and then file followed that	21:05
	with a very unusual career at West Point.	21:07
	And now beginning a new phase of his ministry	21:12
	at St. Elizabeth Hospital in Washington.	21:14
	I am not at all sure	21:18
	that it is a good thing for us to have him	21:20
	on this particular year as our new head football coach	21:22
	Mike McGee begins his career as head coach here,	21:25
	'cause I remember that when Jack was my associate here	21:30
	he told me that when he was playing football	21:33
	Mike McGee gave him the worst punishment	21:37
	that he ever received from anybody	21:39
	in the line when he was playing halfback.	21:42
	And that he always knew	21:46
	if he could get past Mike during the week in practice	21:48
	he could handle anything that our opponents would give	21:50
	to him in the game on Saturday.	21:52
	I got to thinking about it the other day and it may be	21:55
	that Jack will try to even the score here today	21:57
	since he has the pulpit and Mike is in the pew	22:00
	but life is full of risks and we're taking that risk	22:04
	and having Jack Wilson as our preacher today.	22:07
	And Jack, we're very glad to have you	22:10
	and we'll call on you for the sermon.	22:12
-	It's a pleasure for me to be here this morning	22:26
	in which we give particular attention to the presence	22:32
	and the participation of members of the 1971 Duke team.	22:34
	It's a pleasure, not only because I once played	22:40
	and had a great deal to do	22:44
	with the training of the new head coach.	22:46
	I taught him the finer arts of how to smash halfbacks.	22:52
	But also it's a pleasure	23:02
	because I've had the opportunity to see old friends,	23:03
	former coaches who had a great deal to do	23:06
	with my being in the pulpit.	23:10
	Yesterday I had the chance to observe practice.	23:18
	The preparation for what many of us	23:22
	hope will be a successful season.	23:24
	And yesterday, as I attended practice, I was reminded	23:28
	of the fact that human beings tend to blot out	23:32
	the uncomfortable memories	23:38
	And only remember the good ones.	23:40
	I would give anything to be able to participate two weeks,	23:44
	less than two weeks now in Tampa, Florida.	23:49
	But I had real reservations	23:52
	about participating yesterday afternoon.	23:54
	We remember things in the way that we like to remember them.	23:58
	And time goes on.	24:05
	And 10 years later, one realizes	24:07
	that any similarity between what he says	24:10
	and what really happened might be purely coincidental.	24:13
	That's particularly true with regard	24:17
	to past victories and certainly personal accomplishments.	24:19
	This happens in all phases of life.	24:25
	You take, for instance	24:29
	the story of Little Red Riding Hood.	24:31
	Now everyone knows that story.	24:34
	But the story that you know is not the way	24:38
	that it really happened.	24:40
	You see, that's the product of years of myth.	24:42
	If you de mythologize the story,	24:47
	this is the way it really happened.	24:51
	Little Red Riding Hood was ill.	24:55
	And her dear old grandmother who lived alone	25:00
	across the dark forest in a little thatched house	25:02
	decided to visit her ailing grandchild.	25:06
	However, granny had heard that there was a big bad wolf	25:11
	in the forest and she decided to disguise herself	25:17
	as Little Red Riding Hood,	25:23
	so that she would look stronger and younger	25:27
	than she really was	25:29
	and would scare away the big, bad wolf.	25:31
	Pretty smart thinking.	25:34
	But about that time	25:37
	Little Red Riding Hood began to feel much better.	25:38
	She wanted to see granny who lived across the dark forest	25:42
	but having heard that there was a big, bad wolf	25:46
	she decided to disguise herself as a wolf,	25:49
	so that the big bad wolf would not bother her,	25:54
	thinking she was another wolf like himself.	25:57
	Meanwhile, the big bad wolf had had his eye	26:02
	on Little Red Riding Hood for a long time	26:05
	and he finally decided To make his kill.	26:07
	But in order to throw off suspicion, he disguised himself	26:12
	as Little Red Riding Hood's grandmother.	26:17
	So they started out on their respective journeys.	26:21
	Now all of you lineman try to stay with us.	26:23
	(congregation chuckles)	26:27
	The big, bad wolf disguised as grandmother,	26:31
	the grandmother disguised as Little Red Riding Hood,	26:35
	and Little Red Riding Hood disguised as a wolf.	26:38
	Well, the big, bad wolf disguised as grandmother	26:42
	met Little Red Riding Hood disguised as a wolf in the midst	26:44
	of the forest glade.	26:47
	However, the wolf disguised as grandmother was very	26:50
	surprised to see Little Red Riding Hood in wolf's clothing.	26:54
	He was very confused, especially when the wolf said,	26:57
	"Why hello, grandmother.	27:01
	"I was just coming to see you."	27:02
	The wolf didn't know what to say.	27:06
	And in the pause, the grandmother walked up disguised	27:09
	as Little Red Riding Hood.	27:12
	Immediately, everyone became suspicious.	27:15
	Little Red Riding Hood disguised as a wolf knew	27:22
	that she was Little Red Riding Hood	27:25
	and thinking that she was protecting the grandmother who was	27:28
	really the wolf pounced on her grandmother disguised	27:30
	as Little Red Riding Hood and killed her.	27:33
	At this the big, bad wolf disguised as grandmother	27:37
	became so confused because he knew	27:40
	he was really the wolf, that he turned tail and ran.	27:43
	Little Red Riding hood thought	27:49
	that the Big Bad Wolf was really her grandmother,	27:50
	started chasing after him into the woods.	27:54
	Well, a nearby hunter seeing a wolf chasing	27:57
	a little old lady shot and killed the wolf	28:03
	who was really Little Red Riding Hood.	28:07
	The big bad wolf was left, still disguised his grandmother.	28:12
	He fled into the woods where he was attacked	28:16
	and killed by his fellow wolves	28:20
	because they thought he was just another little old lady.	28:23
	That's the revised standard version	28:29
	of Little Red Riding Hood.	28:33
	The moral of that story?	28:38
	It is better to be yourself	28:42
	than to pretend you are someone else.	28:45
	It is better to be yourself	28:51
	than to pretend you are someone else.	28:53
	Being myself.	28:59
	That seems to be the watch word of today's generation.	29:03
	The question of how to live my life.	29:10
	None of us had anything to do	29:16
	with the place or the circumstances of our birth	29:17
	and very few of us will have anything to say	29:23
	about the place and the circumstances of our death,	29:24
	but we have a lot to say about life in between.	29:29
	To be myself.	29:37
	To find my potential, to find my creativity, to do my thing,	29:40
	to get it together.	29:50
	For some of us, our thing	29:54
	at some point in life is athletics.	29:56
	For some of us that becomes our thing	30:01
	for the rest of our life.	30:03
	For others, we shed that and take on new things.	30:06
	It is a burden of life to decide what to do with it.	30:15
	Sometimes it's such a burden that we avoid the question.	30:23
	That's one form of mental illness.	30:29
	I happen to be working now training in a mental hospital	30:34
	and the mentally ill people are people just like you,	30:42
	only more so, only more so.	30:47
	Life becomes for some people too much of a burden	30:55
	and so they create their own world, a world of delusion	31:01
	that perhaps they can handle.	31:05
	And so we search For the most meaningful,	31:10
	the most rewarding way to get ourselves together	31:14
	and make it.	31:18
	We only go around one time.	31:21
	And as one advertisement says,	31:27
	we wanna live it with all the gusto That we can find.	31:29
	Life is complex and it is complex	31:36
	because we are complex.	31:40
	Each of us has all kinds of needs	31:45
	and desires and hopes, and very often our needs conflict	31:49
	with one another.	31:54
	And so my point is that any intelligent person certainly	31:59
	will want to look at every angle and every pattern of life.	32:04
	And in doing that naturally, at some point, we will want to	32:14
	at least consider What Jesus of Nazareth	32:20
	had to say about life.	32:26
	And so in the next few moments,	32:32
	I want us to turn our attention to the scripture lesson	32:35
	that was read for the morning.	32:41
	For in it, we begin to see what Jesus had to say about life.	32:45
	The pattern, the secret, the key, the way.	32:51
	These words, knowing that he was come from God	32:58
	and that he went to God,	33:06
	Jesus arose and took a towel and a basin.	33:09
	And he began to wash their feet.	33:17
	The washing of feet was a common service that was provided	33:29
	in nearly every household of any means.	33:32
	It was done by servants as a courtesy	33:37
	because the people's feet would get dusty and dirty.	33:41
	And this was done as a way of making them	33:49
	feel more comfortable, but it was always done by servants.	33:50
	And surely the disciples were astonished	33:56
	to find their leader	33:58
	kneeling there, washing their feet.	34:02
	But the point is he was doing much more	34:06
	than just making their feet feel comfortable.	34:08
	He was saying something to them.	34:13
	He was non-verbally communicating.	34:18
	He was giving them a message	34:23
	about how to live their one life.	34:25
	This is the way you live life.	34:31
	You get personally involved with	34:36
	and give yourself to other human beings.	34:40
	"You do as I have done to you."	34:50
	Now, the disciples had a very difficult time	34:59
	handling this action.	35:01
	And the reason is because when we remember that so much	35:08
	of the peace of life, the purpose, the direction of life	35:11
	that getting it together comes to us	35:15
	when we begin to find out who we really are,	35:19
	and when we can accept that.	35:24
	That which is beneath the images that we carry around	35:31
	when we can begin to shed the masks and be ourselves.	35:33
	The emotions, the feelings, the desires, the needs.	35:43
	That's the person I'm talking about.	35:49
	That part of us that perhaps we would only share	35:53
	with someone whom we trusted very much.	35:57
	That part of us that is so personal,	36:03
	so deep that if it were to be exposed	36:06
	we would feel awkward and embarrassed.	36:10
	That's the part of us that I'm talking about.	36:16
	And it is that part of the disciples	36:21
	that Christ was able to get to, to reach.	36:22
	All that Peter could say was,	36:33
	"Lord are you going to wash my feet?"	36:35
	Yes, Peter, it's pretty obvious.	36:44
	That's what he's going to do.	36:47
	But that was all that he could say.	36:50
	Then he tried to get out of it.	36:56
	Now I think that helps us to understand the impact.	37:02
	And it has something to say to us.	37:06
	It says that down in the deepest recesses	37:11
	of every man's heart he desires to be loved.	37:13
	Not superficially, not because of what he can produce,	37:23
	but concretely.	37:30
	His weaknesses his needs.	37:34
	Perhaps because of what he cannot produce.	37:39
	He desires to be loved in that way	37:46
	and he desires to love someone else in that way.	37:51
	And so what Jesus was saying with his basin of water	37:59
	is Peter, James, Matthew, and the rest of you,	38:04
	I love that which is really you, that part of you	38:07
	that makes you feel awkward.	38:15
	If you will accept that and trust that I can love you	38:20
	in that way, you will be set free.	38:26
	You will be able to take great risks.	38:33
	You will be able to make changes in your life.	38:37
	You will be able to do good in the world.	38:41
	By becoming personally involved with	38:50
	and giving yourself to other human beings.	38:54
	God's love can come to us in many different ways	39:07
	but it always is a love	39:14
	which pierces through and loves us for who we are.	39:15
	And we usually experience the reality	39:23
	of his love through other persons, just as the disciples	39:26
	experienced it through the actual physical presence	39:37
	And touching of Jesus himself.	39:41
	And once we experience and accept the fact	39:51
	that we really are loved for who we are, we become awkward.	39:58
	But then we move out to embrace the world around us,	40:06
	to love others for who they are, to embrace them	40:17
	with concrete acts, specific action of love and healing.	40:28
	And so what I'm coming around to say is that	40:42
	with all the dichotomies of life	40:44
	and all of the unanswered questions	40:47
	and all of the confusion,	40:49
	somewhere, somehow a decision Is made.	40:51
	A decision to somehow live the most creative life possible.	40:58
	One life to live.	41:06
	One time around.	41:09
	One shot.	41:14
	And we thrust ourselves into life	41:20
	and try to put it together.	41:25
	So many people live waiting to live.	41:31
	When do we begin to get hold of life?	41:37
	Is it In two weeks in Tampa, Florida at 8:00?	41:46
	Is it at the end of this season?	41:55
	Is it the end of this academic year?	41:59
	Is it after I graduate?	42:02
	Is it after I am married?	42:06
	Is it after I have children?	42:08
	Is it after I've been on the job for 10 years?	42:11
	Is it after I retire?	42:15
	When do I begin to live?	42:17
	Many of us live waiting to live, but not so for the man	42:26
	who knows what it is to have had his feet washed.	42:33
	That's what the Christian gospel Is all about.	42:44
	He says, yes, yes to God	42:54
	and this means he says yes to life.	42:58
	He commits himself, his whole being to this pattern of life	43:03
	and is very specific in how he fulfills his call.	43:14
	Whether in athletics or anywhere else, this pattern of life	43:25
	is more than just a philosophy, a set of principles.	43:41
	It is a person.	43:50
	It is Christ himself.	43:55
	You see to tell me how to act and to tell me how to think	43:58
	in a complicated existence is well and good	44:03
	and I appreciate it, but it is not sufficient.	44:07
	It's like the coach keeping me	44:16
	in the locker room and drawing it up on the board	44:20
	but not going with me out there to try it out.	44:27
	Not showing me how.	44:33
	I need someone to show me and the message	44:41
	of the Christian gospel is that Christ	44:48
	shows us how to do it.	44:56
	I have one life to live.	45:03
	How do I live it?	45:08
	There are many answers.	45:13
	One of the answers comes with two words, follow me.	45:18
	I am the way, I am the truth.	45:33
	I am the life.	45:40
	And by this, Jesus meant that fulfilled	45:48
	and meaning full life will come	45:56
	when we get personally involved with	46:01
	and give ourselves to others.	46:07
	Follow me.	46:20
	Do as I have done to you.	46:25
	Let us pray.	46:37
	Almighty God, our father, we search for life.	46:47
	We search to know ourselves and to be ourselves.	46:58
	We search to reach our potential.	47:09
	Oh God, we search For a meaningful and fulfilled life.	47:17
	Help us to find it	47:29
	through Jesus Christ, our Lord.	47:38
	Amen.	47:45
	(warm organ music)	47:49
	(organ drowning out singers)	48:28
	(solemn organ music)	50:57
	(bright organ music)	54:06
	♪ Sing ye a joyful song unto the lord ♪	54:19
	♪ Who hath done marvelous, marvelous things ♪	54:26
	(bright organ music)	54:32
	♪ Praise the lord all the Earth ♪	54:35
	♪ Sing praises, shout and be joyful ♪	54:39
	♪ Let the sea roar and all that is therein ♪	54:57
	♪ The round world and all they that dwell there ♪	55:04
	♪ Lift your voices, floods and tempests ♪	55:13
	♪ Mountains, clap your hands for joy ♪	55:20
	♪ Let the fields laugh and sing with waving corn ♪	55:41
	♪ And let all the trees of the forest be joyful ♪	55:47
	(bright organ music)	56:24
	(organ drowning out singers)	56:50
-	Almighty God, because	57:52
	of what has been done for us through Jesus.	57:55
	We bring ourselves to attention here	57:59
	at this alter to dedicate this money and dedicate our lives	58:02
	to the service of Jesus Christ in his name.	58:08
	Now may the peace of God, which passes all understanding	58:16
	keep your hearts and minds and the knowledge	58:21
	and love of God and of his son. Jesus Christ, our Lord.	58:23
	Amen.	58:28
	(church bells tolling)	58:31
	(bold organ music drowning out singers)	58:45

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Title:

A. John Wilson III - Sermon Untitled (August 29, 1971)

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August 29, 1971

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Wilson, A. Jack III

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