Terry Sanford - "Hold Fast What Is Good" (December 10, 1972)

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	(liturgical music)	0:05
-	Grace be to you and peace from God, our Father	7:00
	and the Lord, Jesus Christ.	7:04
	Christians are people who would be men and women	7:07
	who see things as they are,	7:10
	who call things by their right name,	7:13
	whose work is valid and whose world is whole.	7:16
	Here, worshiping together as Christians	7:20
	we hear the word that tells us what we were meant to be.	7:23
	We stand before the one who has created us	7:27
	and given us light.	7:31
	And here, before the presence of His holiness,	7:33
	we confront our own denied discipleship,	7:36
	our weak idolatries and our faithlessness.	7:40
	But it is also here that we hear the word of repentance	7:44
	and the word of hope, for Jesus' words speak to us,	7:49
	"I am not come to call the righteous,	7:53
	but sinners to repentance."	7:56
	Believing his declared promise to hear,	8:00
	to forgive and to restore,	8:02
	let us confess our sins against God and our neighbor.	8:05
	Let us pray.	8:09
	Almighty and ever living God,	8:12
	thou who has so wondrously created us	8:16
	and who does daily sustain us, we give thanks to thee	8:19
	for this opportunity of worship.	8:24
	Thy majesty, oh Lord, is shrouded in mystery	8:28
	and thy ways are far beyond our knowing.	8:32
	Yet thou has come to us in the gift of the advent season	8:36
	and has offered us thy graceful and faithful love	8:42
	and has called us to live and to come before thee	8:47
	in adoration and in praise.	8:50
	With heaven's angels and shepherds all,	8:54
	we praise and bless thy Holy name, oh Lord.	8:57
	Almighty God whose mercy brought thee to earth	9:01
	and the coming of our Lord,	9:03
	deepen and widen our vision of thy presence among us,	9:06
	we ask, that thou may us not be turned away	9:09
	from our crowded, busy hearts,	9:13
	but welcomed with joy and thankfulness.	9:16
	Our hearts, oh Lord, as ever rejoice	9:20
	in the advent message of the glad tidings of Christ	9:23
	who was born in Bethlehem to be the savior of all the world	9:27
	yet with all our joy and the long centuries behind us,	9:32
	our hearts made glad by his coming.	9:36
	We know there is much in us that deafens our ears	9:39
	to the sound of angel anthems,	9:43
	much that blinds us	9:46
	to the sight of guiding stars amid the darkness,	9:47
	much that crowds our hearts and minds,	9:52
	leaving little room for the arrival of thy gift.	9:55
	Even in the midst of our preparations for Christmas,	10:01
	we are as lonely as shepherds, as wayfaring as Kings,	10:04
	as busy as the innkeeper.	10:09
	Forgive us, oh God, and turn us again	10:12
	to the quietness of thy peace.	10:17
	Oh God whose justice demands truth in our inward parts,	10:21
	we pray thy forgiveness for the sins of our hearts and wills	10:25
	for the lack of feeling and intercession	10:30
	for the needs of our families, the oppressed, the hungry,	10:32
	those in temptation and those without hope.	10:38
	We ask thy pardon for an uncritical attitude	10:42
	to our own membership in a society of affluence.	10:46
	We ask thy pardon for ignoring other people	10:51
	and for often taking ourselves too seriously.	10:54
	We ask thy forgiveness for a failure to think and pray	10:59
	and act deeply for the mission and unity of thy church.	11:03
	We ask thy forgiveness for trying to imprison thy holiness	11:08
	in our words and our institutions.	11:13
	Oh Lord, forgive what we have been, sanctified what we are,	11:17
	and order what we shall be, that we may delight in thy will	11:23
	and walk in thy ways all the days of our life,	11:29
	in the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord, amen.	11:34
	Hear these good news, Christ died for us	11:41
	while we were yet sinners, that is God's own proof	11:44
	of his love toward us,	11:48
	in the name of Jesus Christ, you are forgiven.	11:50
	Glory to God, amen.	11:54
	Let us continue in a spirit of thanksgiving and prayer	12:08
	as we offer our unison prayer of thanksgiving unto the Lord.	12:12
	Oh Lord, our God, the author and giver of all good things,	12:18
	we thank thee for all thy mercies	12:24
	and for thy loving care over all thy creatures.	12:26
	We bless thee for the gift of life,	12:30
	for thy protection round about us,	12:33
	for thy guiding hand upon us	12:36
	and for the tokens of thy love within us.	12:39
	We thank thee for friendship and duty,	12:42
	for good hopes and precious memories,	12:45
	for the joys that cheer us	12:48
	and the trials that teach us to trust in thee.	12:51
	Most of all, we thank thee	12:54
	for the saving knowledge of thy son, our savior,	12:56
	for the living presence of thy spirit, the comforter,	13:00
	for thy church, the body of Christ,	13:04
	for the ministry of word and sacrament	13:07
	and all the means of grace.	13:10
	In all of these things, oh heavenly Father,	13:12
	make us wise unto a right use of thy benefits	13:15
	that we may render an acceptable thanksgiving unto thee	13:19
	all the days of our life,	13:23
	through Jesus Christ, our Lord, amen.	13:25
	Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name,	13:30
	thy kingdom come,	13:35
	thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.	13:37
	Give us this day our daily bread	13:41
	and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those	13:44
	who trespass against us and lead us not into temptation,	13:47
	but deliver us from evil.	13:52
	For thine is the kingdom	13:54
	and the power and the glory forever, amen.	13:56
	(liturgical music)	14:01
-	The scripture lesson this morning	14:51
	is taken from selected portions of the word of God,	14:53
	as it appears in the first 21 verses,	14:57
	1 Thessalonians chapter five.	15:01
	"But as to the times and the seasons,	15:05
	"you have no need to have anything written to you,	15:08
	"for you, yourselves know well	15:11
	"that the day of the Lord will come	15:13
	"like a thief in the night.	15:16
	"When people say there is peace and security,	15:18
	"then sudden destruction will come upon them.	15:22
	"But since we belong to the day,	15:26
	"let us put on the breastplate of faith and love	15:29
	"for God has not destined us for wrath.	15:34
	"Therefore, encourage one another and build one another up.	15:38
	"And we exhort you, brethren, admonish the idle,	15:42
	"encourage the faint-hearted, help the weak,	15:46
	"be patient with them all.	15:50
	"See that none of you repays evil for evil,	15:53
	"but always seek to do good to one another and to all.	15:57
	"Rejoice always, give thanks in all circumstances,	16:02
	"do not quench the spirit, do not despise prophesying,	16:08
	"but test everything.	16:13
	"Hold fast what is good."	16:16
	(liturgical music)	16:23
-	The Lord be with you.	22:06
Congregation	(indistinct answer)	22:08
-	Let us pray.	22:09
	Let us offer unto God our litany of commemoration.	22:13
	Almighty and eternal God, in whom our fathers trusted,	22:21
	we, their children on this day of remembrance	22:27
	offer unto thee our litany of commemoration,	22:30
	hear us, we beseech thee, Oh Lord.	22:35
	For the men and women of this state,	22:39
	Methodists and Quakers, farmers and merchantmen,	22:41
	teachers and administrators who believed in education	22:46
	and made their belief prevail,	22:51
	we give thee thanks and praise.	22:53
	For the embodiment of their dreams,	22:57
	private school, academy, college, university,	23:00
	founded in hope, continued with perseverance,	23:05
	growing in outreach, established in assurance,	23:10
	we give thee thanks and praise.	23:14
	For educators, whose vision was matched by their courage,	23:17
	whose patience was tempered by their indignation,	23:22
	whose idealism was moderated by their awareness of sin,	23:25
	we give thee thanks and praise.	23:30
	For the Duke family, father, sons, and their wives,	23:33
	grandchildren, and continuing generations	23:39
	who with wonder and surprise,	23:42
	bewilderment and tenacity laid a good foundation,	23:45
	built a worthy school and provided for exciting growth	23:49
	beyond their kin in years unseen,	23:53
	we give thee thanks and praise.	23:56
	For the continuance of good ideas,	23:59
	the union of truth and reverence,	24:03
	the freedom of responsible academic thought	24:06
	and the right of public concern,	24:10
	the joined care of the body and the spirit,	24:13
	the linking of science and humanities,	24:16
	the realization that the old order changer,	24:20
	we give thee thanks and praise.	24:24
	For the future of our university established to thy glory	24:27
	and for the relief of man's state,	24:32
	for the consecration of the discontent of the young,	24:35
	for wisdom in the conservatism of the middle-age,	24:40
	for resiliency and the obstinacy of the old,	24:44
	for understanding, cooperation	24:48
	and a sense of humor within our community,	24:51
	hear us, we beseech thee, oh Lord.	24:54
	And to thee we shall ascribe as is most due,	24:58
	all praise and glory, world without end, amen.	25:02
	(liturgical music)	25:12
-	Oh God, most merciful and gracious,	33:03
	of whose bounty we have all received,	33:07
	let your blessing rest, oh Lord, upon our living,	33:11
	our teaching, our learning and this, our giving.	33:15
	Accept this offering of thy people,	33:21
	remember in thy love those who have brought it	33:24
	and those for whom it is given.	33:28
	And so follow it with thy blessing	33:31
	that it may promote peace and goodwill among men	33:33
	and advance the kingdom of our Lord and savior,	33:37
	Jesus Christ, amen.	33:40
-	One of my favorite church stories	34:05
	is about a woman named Barbara Heck.	34:08
	She left her native England in the 18th century	34:13
	to come to the new world of America	34:16
	and she settled in the budding city of New York	34:21
	in the section, which is now Lower Manhattan.	34:23
	The England she had left	34:28
	was a country full of disillusionment, ripe with immorality,	34:29
	lacking in direction and sense of purpose.	34:34
	Most citizens of her day had become generally dispirited	34:38
	and were alienated from most of their institutions.	34:43
	In one of the institutions,	34:46
	the church of England had become cold and impersonal	34:48
	and ritualistic.	34:52
	And to use the terminology of our day,	34:55
	the people generally were turned off by the church.	34:57
	It had become so introverted upon its own affairs	35:01
	that it had generally forgotten	35:05
	about people in their society	35:06
	and the conditions of English life	35:09
	and the historic mission of the church of Christ.	35:12
	Many secular historians have suggested	35:16
	that the decay of the church of England	35:19
	was a principle cause for the decay	35:22
	of that society's morality.	35:24
	And they have concluded that in time,	35:27
	the reviving force for the nation was John Wesley	35:30
	and his Methodist.	35:34
	That satisfied with the attitude and the purpose	35:36
	and the lack of influence of the church,	35:39
	John Wesley, a priest of the church of England	35:42
	had moved into the fields and the streets and the coal mines	35:45
	to carry a message of personal salvation.	35:49
	He also sought to influence the character	35:54
	and morality of the community	35:57
	and the manner of Christian history	35:58
	concerned not only with man's soul and salvation,	36:01
	but with his conduct toward other men.	36:05
	Before Barbara Heck had left England for America,	36:09
	she had come under the influence of John Wesley.	36:12
	She had come to believe in the saving grace	36:15
	that John Wesley preached.	36:18
	She had become convinced that this religion could reinforce	36:20
	the morality that influenced society.	36:24
	And then she saw in her new world,	36:28
	the signs and signals of whole world corruption.	36:31
	She believed her faith could set the tone	36:36
	and the standards of community and nation.	36:39
	And as she looked around at where she was,	36:42
	she saw readily that this new society of the new world	36:45
	could go either way.	36:50
	And if this truly was to be the new world she insisted,	36:52
	it should be new and more than name only.	36:57
	She wanted this new nation to represent a new morality,	37:01
	and she set herself to the task of establishing	37:06
	the influence of Christianity in her neighborhood	37:10
	in her new land.	37:13
	With the help of her cousin, Phillip M. Berry	37:15
	and a British army captain Thomas Web,	37:18
	both of whom had served John Wesley as lay-leaders,	37:22
	she became the principal force	37:26
	in establishing a meeting house,	37:28
	in the pattern of the Methodist societies	37:30
	founded by John Wesley in England.	37:32
	She hoped this Methodist gathering would be the instrument	37:35
	for teaching the old but easily forgotten values.	37:39
	When the Methodist became a church,	37:44
	her meeting house became a church.	37:47
	And today in the Financial District of New York,	37:51
	you can turn off of Wall Street and walk over to John Street	37:53
	and find there in the shadows of the skyscrapers,	37:57
	a tiny building that is John Street United Methodist Church.	38:00
	This church stands today as a reminder of the ageless values	38:06
	that helped shape the character of a new nation.	38:11
	But not only in New York, but all over the colonies,	38:15
	there were new citizens like Barbara Heck,	38:19
	who would determine that this new world	38:22
	must have a solid foundation of religion	38:24
	as the beginning of a new society.	38:27
	There were Methodist meeting houses springing up	38:31
	almost everywhere	38:34
	that land was cleared for a new settlement.	38:35
	It was not only Methodist, but Scotch Presbyterians,	38:38
	and Quakers and Moravians	38:41
	and religions brought by other settlers	38:44
	that were taking root on a new land	38:45
	to shape the character and the purpose of a new nation.	38:48
	And in the early 19th century, about 1830,	38:54
	a group of Methodists and Quaker farmers had a related idea	39:00
	about their community.	39:04
	A community in the undeveloped rural area	39:07
	of Central North Carolina in Randolph County.	39:09
	These families already had churches in their region,	39:14
	but they wanted to extend the church's influence	39:17
	beyond Sunday services.	39:20
	They wanted common schools for their children.	39:22
	So they joined their outlets and organized classes,	39:25
	which would educate their children	39:29
	and which would develop religious understanding	39:31
	for society at large.	39:33
	The one room log house where the classes were held,	39:37
	had no formal name, but it was called Brown's Schoolhouse	39:40
	because it was located nearest to John Brown's farmhouse.	39:45
	And in the next year,	39:49
	the farmers built a larger schoolhouse,	39:50
	which was formally named Union Institute,	39:52
	to signify the union between the Quakers and the Methodists.	39:56
	I think we should pause on this day of remembrance	40:00
	to be thankful for the vision and for the energy	40:03
	that this work in that time represented.	40:06
	The sponsors of that new academy	40:10
	adopted a statement of purpose,	40:12
	declaring that ignorance and arrow	40:14
	are not only the theme of religious society,	40:17
	but also of civil society.	40:20
	Within a dozen years, the school had grown	40:23
	to the extent that principal Braxton Craven	40:26
	had added college level courses for teacher training.	40:30
	And then when the North Carolina legislature	40:34
	chartered the school as Normal College,	40:36
	another statement of principles reasserted	40:39
	they found this belief and moral training	40:42
	and the development of moral attitudes	40:45
	as an essential part of education.	40:47
	The college they said shall be theoretically	40:51
	and practically religious.	40:55
	Religious in creed and in heart,	40:57
	it must be denominational without being sectarian.	40:59
	The intellect must material in the light	41:04
	and warmth of a pure heart.	41:06
	More than any other place on earth,	41:10
	a college needs the whole force of practical bourbon party.	41:12
	And still later, that institution strengthened its ties	41:18
	with organized religion by affiliating directly	41:22
	with the Methodist church.	41:25
	The affiliation brought with it a new name for the school,	41:28
	Trinity College.	41:31
	And it also led to Trinity's association	41:33
	with one of the most influential families	41:36
	in North Carolina Methodism, Washington Duke, and his sons,	41:38
	Benjamin Newton and James Buchanan Duke.	41:43
	And that association in turn,	41:46
	led ultimately to a pair of developments	41:49
	which defined the school's destiny.	41:51
	The first was its move from Randolph County	41:54
	to the Duke family's hometown of Durham,	41:57
	and the second was its endowment	42:00
	as a major American university.	42:02
	When James B. Duke announced his historic endowment in 1924,	42:05
	he took the opportunity again to publicly declare	42:10
	the school's ties to religion.	42:13
	Listing the professions	42:16
	which should be served by the new university,	42:18
	Mr. Duke named preachers ahead of all the rest,	42:21
	including teachers and lawyers and physicians,	42:24
	chemistry and economics and history.	42:27
	Moreover, he used the occasion to declare his belief	42:30
	that education is next to religion,	42:34
	the greatest civilizing influence.	42:37
	Throughout its history,	42:41
	this institution has essentially represented an outlet	42:43
	to bring the church's influence into our society	42:47
	in the most profound and enduring way.	42:50
	Since the days of the 19th century,	42:54
	our motto has been Eruditio et Religio,	42:56
	the combination of knowledge and religion.	42:59
	And each year on this anniversary of our founding,	43:04
	as we do again, this weekend,	43:08
	we gather to express our respect	43:11
	to the memory of the many people	43:14
	who have contributed to the building of Duke University.	43:15
	We should take the opportunity also to remind our generation	43:19
	that Duke University is here	43:24
	because of earlier generosity and faith,	43:26
	and that our gifts are necessary for the building	43:30
	and continuation of the institution gifts	43:32
	that today will have continuing and significant meaning	43:35
	down through all the tomorrows of Duke University.	43:39
	But more to the spirit of this Sunday morning,	43:43
	we gather to acknowledge to ourselves	43:46
	the principle of learning related to faith,	43:49
	a principle that exists like bedrock	43:52
	under the river of our history.	43:55
	Today, the Christian Church often seems ineffective.	43:59
	Religious principles are being acutely questioned.	44:04
	Young people are not quite sure about the church,	44:07
	or worse, they are sure.	44:11
	The church has been slow to respond,	44:14
	but the church is making an effort to reach out	44:17
	in new directions,	44:19
	hoping to re-engage the interest of our young people,	44:21
	hoping is it work to bring them into the fold.	44:24
	So we see services conducted to the scores of rock music,	44:29
	we see the modernized rituals,	44:32
	and if these new techniques are effective	44:36
	in conveying the Christian message,	44:39
	then certainly we should be willing	44:41
	to share the older rituals with the newer ones.	44:43
	But these innovations in any event are superficial	44:47
	to the deeper meaning of the Christian message,	44:50
	but so were the older styles and rituals.	44:54
	The present travail the church have	44:58
	runs much deeper than form.	45:00
	Many people feel that the church is in John Wesley's day,	45:03
	has lost direction and its vital relationship	45:07
	to individual needs.	45:10
	The church today is making many admirable attempts	45:12
	to make its message as meaningful as it was in the past,	45:16
	to get itself involved again, as an integral part of life,	45:20
	churches are reaching out into the community.	45:25
	They are beginning to accept responsibility	45:27
	for the complex problems of race relations.	45:30
	They are sponsoring such social services as public housing.	45:33
	They are establishing new programs for young people	45:37
	ranging to such urgent new areas as drug abuse.	45:40
	They are moving into our inner city ghettos	45:45
	with satellite projects, in short,	45:47
	they are trying to re-discover and hold what is good	45:49
	to create new application of old values.	45:54
	And similarly, higher education has been accused	45:59
	in recent years of irrelevance.	46:02
	In many cases, learning has become so specialized	46:06
	that our most competent graduates	46:08
	are focused on an exclusive area of knowledge,	46:10
	to the extreme that they spend their intellectual lives	46:14
	locked in a small cubicle of mental activity.	46:17
	The proficiencies of science and technology	46:21
	seem to have taken us into an age so mechanical	46:23
	that it grinds on toward its destiny	46:26
	with little regard for human influence.	46:29
	And in too many institutions of higher learning,	46:32
	knowledge has become a pure commodity to be transmitted	46:35
	and valued for its own sake	46:40
	without regard to its social or moral consequences.	46:43
	American education must express	46:48
	a new humanistic attitude towards society	46:50
	and toward its various problems	46:54
	and toward its even more various people.	46:57
	Consequently, many colleges and universities	47:00
	are seeking new ways to re-humanize higher education.	47:02
	I have no argument with new explorations	47:08
	by either our churches or our universities,	47:10
	and we do need to exert creative outlets	47:14
	in finding valid new directions.	47:16
	But I suggest that we might do well	47:20
	to build upon a strong proven foundation,	47:22
	a valid old direction.	47:26
	The principle expressed in Duke University's motto,	47:30
	which it inherited from Trinity College,	47:33
	intellectual learning template	47:36
	by the moral influence of religion.	47:38
	In our script lesson this morning,	47:43
	we heard the apostle Paul challenge us,	47:44
	hold fast what is good.	47:48
	In our energetic efforts to adapt our institutions	47:51
	to the demands of a rapidly changing world,	47:54
	there is no cause to abandon the strengths of our past.	47:58
	We need to hold fast to what is good in these institutions	48:02
	and to depend on the values that have sustained our history.	48:07
	Saint Paul spoke in another letter about a potter.	48:12
	A potter being able to mold two kinds of vessels	48:16
	out of a single lump of clay,	48:19
	one honorable and the other dishonorable.	48:22
	In other words, we can take our talent or our learning	48:25
	and turn it into achievement with skill and proficiency,	48:29
	but what will make our achievement honorable or dishonorable	48:33
	will be the purposes it will serve.	48:38
	Duke University has never been satisfied with learning	48:42
	in its isolated form.	48:45
	And we continue to insist on enriching our learning	48:47
	with the morality that directs our service.	48:50
	In his epistle to the Corinthians,	48:54
	Saint Paul virtually discounted the value of anything	48:57
	unless it was combined with charity,	49:01
	and in that sense as you know, he meant love.	49:03
	So learning moves toward love.	49:07
	Education should enhance service.	49:10
	The life of the mind must be guided by moral responsibility.	49:13
	It is all the more important to reassert these attitudes	49:19
	in an age when so many of our institutions	49:23
	are infected with cynicism.	49:26
	We must not let the cynics tempt us away from our respect	49:28
	for combining moral consciousness with education.	49:32
	We must never let them turn us into doubting the timeliness	49:37
	or the relevance of infusing educational institutions	49:41
	with the influence of religion.	49:46
	Indeed, I believe it is likely that the cynic himself	49:49
	is a classic example of the product of education	49:51
	insulated from moral or religious influence.	49:54
	In the words of Oscar Wilde,	49:57
	"Such people seem to know the price of everything	49:59
	"and the value of nothing."	50:02
	Even the cynic must admit	50:05
	that the most vital problems now facing us	50:07
	are those which are rooted in moral considerations,	50:11
	world strive, racism, inhumanity, imperialism,	50:15
	disregard for human life, war, environmental waste,	50:21
	all the most important problems	50:26
	which confront us will require of us	50:28
	an expression of moral conscience	50:31
	as well as intellectual creativity,	50:33
	or else our outputs will profit us nothing.	50:37
	Yet many have insufficient faith	50:40
	even to approach these complex problems	50:43
	with any realistic hope.	50:45
	Doomsday prophets warn us	50:48
	that our planet will soon be uninhabitable,	50:50
	paranoid world leaders boast of their formidable weapons	50:53
	as they glare across the globe at one another,	50:56
	racist demagogues contrived new code words and terms	51:00
	to disguise and legitimize and rationalize our basis	51:04
	to feelings toward our fellow man.	51:09
	In the face of such a situation, knowledge is not enough,	51:12
	intellectual competence is not enough,	51:19
	mental brilliance is not enough.	51:22
	Indeed, suggesting to students	51:26
	that they might face these problems	51:28
	with intellectual training alone	51:30
	is like sending them out to run a race blindfolded.	51:33
	We need moral vision to guide the intellect.	51:38
	Let us then on this occasion, affirm our faith	51:43
	in the combination of knowledge and religion.	51:47
	As a place of intellectual inquiry of course,	51:53
	it is not for us to force any kind of religion on anyone,	51:56
	but in the spirit of the trustees of normal college,	52:02
	121 years ago, we can impart training,	52:05
	which is denominational without being sectarian	52:09
	our better moral without even being denominational.	52:13
	We're not going to teach Christian English	52:18
	or Judaeo Christian physics or Mormon geology	52:20
	or Presbyterian biology or Hindu chemistry.	52:23
	We are going to nurture a campus environment	52:28
	that sees purpose in life,	52:32
	that acknowledges soul as well as body,	52:34
	that believes faith is fundamental	52:38
	and that knows education is more than learning.	52:41
	Of course we expect to continue	52:46
	and accelerate our institutional pursuit of excellence.	52:48
	Duke University is academic excellence,	52:53
	but we are not to be satisfied with sterile intellectuality.	52:58
	We seek a campus that will allow our graduates,	53:03
	if they will, to go out into their world	53:07
	with both the sureness of knowledge	53:11
	and the strength of morality.	53:13
	In a world as confused and confusing as ours has become,	53:16
	it will be knowledge that provides power	53:21
	to propel us through the difficult seas,	53:23
	but faith will be the beacon that guides us to our destiny.	53:26
	As centuries ago Saint Paul advised,	53:33
	today we need to hold fast what is good.	53:37
	Seek peace among nations,	53:42
	be gentle with one another in Christian Love.	53:46
	Let the strong lift up the weak, keep the faith.	53:50
	This was the religion Barbara Heck sought for her new world.	53:55
	The faith of the Randolph farmers	54:00
	hope to impart to their younger generation.	54:04
	The faith that sustained Washington Duke	54:08
	and Warren devastation.	54:10
	The tradition engraved in Duke University's charter	54:13
	and the good that is hidden in all of us.	54:19
	Let us pray.	54:23
	Our most gracious heavenly Father,	54:28
	along with learning we pray, grant us thy wisdom, amen.	54:32
	(liturgical music)	54:53
-	Go forth now to be God's people in his will	59:17
	and may you have peace with the deep restlessness of God,	59:22
	grace, that paradox of freedom and discipline	59:27
	and joy to fill the cup of all your celebrations,	59:31
	may the blessing of God almighty the Father, the Son,	59:36
	and the Holy Spirit be always with you.	59:40
	(liturgical music)	59:49

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Title:

Terry Sanford - "Hold Fast What Is Good" (December 10, 1972)

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December 10, 1972

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Sanford, Terry, 1917-1998

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Duke University. Chapel

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