Milton S. Carothers - "From Hopelessness to Hope" (June 3, 1973)

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Man	Testing testing one, two, three, four	0:04
	testing testing one, two, three, four.	0:06
	(congregation singing)	0:09
Woman	Hear these words from Jeremiah.	1:58
	For thus says the Lord,	2:03
	"When 70 years are completed for Babylon,	2:05
	I will visit you and I will fulfill to you my promise	2:09
	and bring you back to this place.	2:14
	For I know the plans I have for you" says the Lord	2:17
	"plans for welfare and not for evil.	2:21
	To give you a future and a hope."	2:25
	"At that time," says the Lord,	2:35
	"I will be the God of all the families of Israel	2:37
	and they shall be my people."	2:42
	Thus says the Lord,	2:45
	"The people who survived the sword	2:47
	found grace in the wilderness."	2:49
	When Israel stopped for rest,	2:52
	the Lord appeared to him from afar,	2:54
	"I have loved you with an everlasting love.	2:57
	Therefore, I have continued my faithfulness to you.	3:01
	Again, I will build you	3:06
	and you shall be built O virgin Israel.	3:08
	Again, you shall adorn yourself with timbrels	3:12
	and shall go forth in the dance of the merry makers.	3:16
	Again, you shall plant vineyards	3:20
	upon the mountains of Samaria.	3:22
	The planters shall plant and shall enjoy the fruit.	3:25
	For there shall be a day when watchmen will call	3:29
	in the hill country of Ephraim	3:32
	'Arise and let us go to Zion, to the Lord our God.'"	3:35
	For thus says the Lord, "Sing aloud with gladness for Jacob	3:41
	and raise shouts for the chief of the nations.	3:47
	Proclaim, give praise and say,	3:50
	'The Lord has saved His people, the remnant of Israel.'	3:54
	Behold, I will bring them from the north country	3:59
	and gather them from the farthest parts of the earth,	4:03
	among them the blind and the lame,	4:08
	the woman with child and her who is in her veil together,	4:11
	a great company.	4:16
	They shall return here, with weeping they shall come	4:18
	and with consolations I will lead them back.	4:23
	I will make them walk by brooks of water	4:26
	in a straight path in which they shall not stumble	4:30
	for I am a father to Israel and Ephraim is my firstborn."	4:34
	"Behold the days are coming," says the Lord,	4:43
	"when I will make a new covenant	4:46
	with the house of Israel and the house of Judah.	4:48
	Not like the covenant which I made with their fathers	4:53
	when I took them by the hand to bring them out	4:56
	of the land of Egypt, my covenant which they broke	4:59
	though I was their husband" says the Lord.	5:04
	"But this is the covenant which I will make	5:07
	with the house of Israel after those days" says the Lord.	5:10
	"I will put my law within them	5:15
	and I will write it upon their hearts	5:18
	and I will be their God and they shall be my people	5:21
	and no longer shall each man teach his neighbor	5:27
	and each his brothers saying,	5:30
	'Know the Lord' for they shall all know me	5:33
	from the least of them to the greatest," says the Lord.	5:38
	"For I will forgive their inequity	5:42
	and I will remember their sin no more."	5:45
	And that ends the reading from the Word.	5:50
	(piano playing)	5:54
	(congregation singing "Alleluia!")	6:04
	And now with Thanksgiving, let us affirm our faith.	6:37
Unison	We believe in God who has created	6:41
	and is creating, who has come in the poor man Jesus	6:45
	to reconcile and make new,	6:49
	who works in us and others by His spirit.	6:52
	We trust Him.	6:55
	He calls us to be in His church, to celebrate His presence,	6:57
	to love and serve others, to seek justice and resist evil,	7:02
	to proclaim Jesus crucified and beaten	7:07
	at the church and at home,	7:10
	in life, in death, in life beyond death.	7:13
	God is with us.	7:16
	We are not alone.	7:18
	Thanks be to God.	7:20
Woman	The Lord be with you.	7:23
Unison	And also with you.	7:24
Woman	Let us pray.	7:26
	O God, we bring you our joy and the beauty	7:36
	and opportunity of this day,	7:39
	in friends and family who love and support us,	7:43
	in all that we can smell, touch, hear, see and taste.	7:47
	We give thanks for laughter that bubbles in us	7:54
	and breaks out to be shared,	7:57
	for friendships just beginning,	8:00
	for memories of persons who have become woven	8:03
	into the fabric of our lives,	8:06
	for bad times lived through,	8:09
	for the singing of all creation.	8:12
	We thank you for moments of insight,	8:16
	periods of struggle and growth,	8:19
	and for life entrusted to our care.	8:23
	Some of us cannot rejoice in this hour with light	8:28
	and singing hearts for we have experienced	8:31
	unbearable separation or loss that deadens our senses.	8:35
	Some of us are anxious or fearful for ourselves	8:41
	or those we love.	8:45
	Some are angry over ill treatment and injustice,	8:48
	and some of us are too exhausted to care.	8:52
	Yet we dare to believe that you are hope	8:56
	in the midst of our hopelessness.	9:00
	Please help us rejoice in your presence	9:03
	no matter what our condition is at the moment.	9:06
	Father hear our prayer for all the people	9:12
	who inhabit this earth, for government leaders	9:15
	and all persons in responsible positions.	9:20
	For those who are disillusioned and bitter,	9:24
	for people who can't seem to communicate with one another	9:28
	and find their relationships crumbling,	9:33
	for people who dream dreams	9:37
	and try to make their visions a reality,	9:40
	for those so crushed by circumstances of living	9:44
	that they have lost all hope and feeling,	9:48
	for those who take and crush	9:53
	and give no thought to the damage they do.	9:55
	For those who give and build and are seldom thanked,	9:59
	for children who do not laugh	10:05
	and will never be allowed to develop their potential,	10:08
	for all people who are never allowed to control their lives.	10:13
	For the sick, the handicapped,	10:19
	the desperately lonely, the tired who cannot stop to rest	10:22
	and for those who are really hungry.	10:29
	O God help all your people become what you created us to be	10:33
	and fill our lives with a strong awareness of your presence.	10:40
	Amen.	10:46
	We welcome to the pulpit today in this university service,	10:51
	the Reverend Milton Carruthers,	10:56
	Presbyterian youth university chaplain at Chapel Hill.	10:59
Reverend	The Watergate Scandal	11:20
	it is clear now is different, truly different,	11:22
	different in kind from all the scandals	11:27
	that have preceded it in American history.	11:29
	It is this difference that makes Watergate so frightening.	11:33
	So wrote Stewart Alsop.	11:38
	Mr. Alsop is noted as a conservative columnist	11:40
	who doesn't scare easily.	11:43
	"Just as the Vietnam war shattered the hope of many of us	11:47
	that we could be a moral example to the world	11:50
	in foreign affairs, even so the Watergate Scandal	11:53
	has shaken our confidence in our political processes.	11:57
	The Watergate has been an attempt to alter the very nature	12:02
	of the ancient American political system."	12:05
	concluded Mr. Alsop.	12:08
	Now, this is not a sermon about Watergate or Vietnam,	12:12
	but about hopelessness and the basis for our hope.	12:15
	But it is for a time like this and a people like us	12:21
	who have lost our way that Jeremiah's words are meant.	12:24
	And in our religious tradition,	12:31
	it is always the hope of the church	12:33
	that God's spirit will take these ancient words	12:35
	and give them new meaning and fresh vitality	12:39
	for those of us who have ears of faith.	12:42
	Jeremiah wrote to a people separated from the place	12:47
	of their birth, in confusion about the ideals	12:50
	of their nation and uncertain about	12:54
	which direction to take in the future.	12:57
	They were in exile.	13:01
	You and I know that there are other kinds of exiles	13:03
	other than those who are geographically displaced persons.	13:06
	Those people, like us, were spiritual exiles too	13:12
	and they had used up all their hope.	13:16
	For them the future looked like the kind described	13:20
	by an old man in the Western part of North Carolina	13:23
	who recently was talking about the future	13:27
	to some friends of his and is reported to have said this,	13:29
	"You know the future just ain't as good as it used to be."	13:34
	Of course they've placed their hope in themselves.	13:40
	The future wasn't as good as it used to be	13:44
	to those Jews in Babylon.	13:46
	So the prophet pointed them to a different kind of hope	13:49
	when he wrote this.	13:52
	'Well, thus says the Lord,	13:55
	"When 70 years are completed for Babylon,	13:58
	I will visit you and will fulfill to you my promise	14:01
	and bring you back to this place	14:07
	for I know the plans I have for you" says the Lord,	14:10
	"plans for welfare and not for evil,	14:13
	to give you a future and a hope."	14:17
	1st Jeremiah held out the hope of return.	14:22
	'Well, thus says the Lord,	14:26
	when 70 years are completed for Babylon,	14:27
	I will bring you back to this place.'	14:30
	And the Jews had a love for that place, Jerusalem,	14:35
	which colored their lives wherever they wandered	14:38
	and influenced and even dominated their thoughts	14:41
	in whatever location they were driven.	14:44
	It must've been a feeling somewhat like that described	14:48
	by William Morris in his book "North Toward Home",	14:50
	in which he wrote,	14:54
	"Mississippi may have been the only state in the union	14:56
	which had produced a genuine set of exiles	15:01
	almost in the European sense,	15:04
	alienated from home yet forever drawn back to it,	15:07
	seeking some form of personal liberty elsewhere	15:13
	yet obsessed with the texture and complexity of a place	15:17
	from which they had departed".	15:21
	Now the Jews in Babylon were in another kind of exile, yes,	15:25
	but perhaps we and they, along with Willie Morris	15:29
	all know what it means to be alienated from home	15:33
	and to long for a place where we feel at one with ourselves	15:37
	and with our environment.	15:41
	Christopher Morley once wrote,	15:45
	"To be deeply rooted in a place that has meaning	15:48
	is perhaps the best gift a child can have.	15:52
	If that place has beauty and a feeling of permanence,"	15:58
	he wrote, "it may suggest to him that sense of identity	16:02
	with this physical earth, which is the humblest	16:06
	and happiest of life's intuitions".	16:10
	For us restless Americans who frantically move	16:16
	from place to place, from job to job,	16:18
	these words have a special poignancy.	16:22
	In the new culture emerging in our midst,	16:26
	there are signs of new appreciation for places of beauty	16:28
	and a fresh regard for the importance of our environment,	16:33
	and this can be a source of hope for us.	16:37
	But this return to which Jeremiah pointed	16:41
	is more than a journey back to a place	16:45
	like Jerusalem or Mississippi.	16:48
	The German philosopher Heidegger once wrote,	16:52
	"Homecoming is the return into the proximity of the source".	16:55
	Or to use less heavy words,	17:02
	to return home means not only a physical trip	17:05
	back to a place,	17:07
	but a mental journey back to those memories	17:10
	which have shaped our lives and which color our future.	17:15
	When you and I return to our birth place	17:22
	or a place in which we lived and love,	17:24
	the emotions are stirred and the soul is restored	17:28
	not only by what we see, but also by what we remember	17:31
	of memories of people we have loved and who loved us,	17:37
	of homes where we knew security and satisfaction,	17:43
	of experiences which contributed to our growth as persons.	17:47
	Jeremiah had this kind of homecoming in mind	17:53
	when as he remembered these exiles	17:57
	and acted as spokesman for the God who had given freedom	17:59
	and hope to their ancestors	18:02
	says this in the name of their God,	18:05
	'I will gather you from the ends of the earth.	18:09
	You will come home weeping as you come,	18:12
	but I will comfort you and be your escort	18:15
	for I have become a father to Israel	18:19
	and Ephraim is my eldest son.'	18:21
	Jeremiah was holding out hope of a return,	18:25
	not only to a promised land,	18:28
	but also to the promised security,	18:31
	which was still available to the covenant people.	18:33
	Once again, these people, Jeremiah hoped	18:37
	would be at home spiritually as well as physically.	18:40
	I don't know about you,	18:47
	but I know for myself this word from the prophet	18:49
	is one I desperately need to hear.	18:52
	There are times like those ancient Jews	18:55
	when I myself had given up hope on this promise	18:57
	and can only pray, Lord, I believe help out my own belief,	19:03
	but then faith is not necessary if it is easy to hold.	19:08
	Secondly, Jeremiah held up the hope of reunion.	19:15
	'"At that time," says the Lord,	19:20
	"I will become God of all the families of Israel	19:22
	and they shall become my people."	19:26
	Listen to the word of the Lord you nations.	19:30
	He who scattered Israel shall gather them again	19:33
	and watch over them as a shepherd watches his flock.'	19:37
	Originally there were those 12 tribes	19:42
	there in the promised land,	19:46
	it then united under Saul and David and Solomon.	19:49
	And then after the death of Solomon	19:53
	the empire split into two kingdoms, Israel and Judah.	19:55
	These two nations existed side by side for centuries,	20:01
	sometimes at peace but often at war	20:06
	and Israel was carried away captive in 722 B.C.	20:11
	and Jeremiah was preaching about 150 years later	20:15
	just before Judah met a similar fate.	20:18
	And yet Jeremiah could look forward and hope	20:23
	to the time when the old breaks would be healed	20:25
	and God's people would be united again.	20:29
	You and I are a divided people living in the same land	20:35
	sometimes at peace, but often at war with each other.	20:41
	Vietnam and Watergate are only two of the many things	20:46
	that divide us and symptoms of how deep the divisions run	20:50
	at home and abroad.	20:55
	We're divided by race, by class, by poverty and wealth,	20:57
	by generations and by expectations.	21:03
	Sometime ago, one of the editors of Time Magazine	21:09
	toured our country surveying what America was really like	21:12
	and concluded in an essay that the real polarization,	21:18
	the crucial struggle is not between middle America	21:24
	and all the rest of us,	21:29
	it is everywhere.	21:32
	It is within middle America.	21:34
	It is within America's heart.	21:37
	Our heart is divided and no one,	21:42
	certainly not our president has brought us together yet.	21:44
	And there is increasing hopelessness about the possibilities	21:49
	of real reunion among our people.	21:54
	Later there arose in Palestine	21:59
	a prophet who was compared with Jeremiah.	22:01
	His name was Jesus of Nazareth.	22:05
	He too dreamed of a day when all of God's people	22:08
	would be reunited.	22:11
	And He prayed to His father at the end of His life,	22:13
	that they may all be one as thou Father art in me	22:17
	and I in thee.	22:23
	So also may they be in us	22:25
	that the world may believe without it's ending.	22:29
	And this was a hope that we see all through His life.	22:35
	Expressed in another way on this occasion	22:40
	when he stated to His friends,	22:43
	"And I shall draw all men to myself,	22:46
	when I am lifted up from the earth."	22:49
	Now for those of us in the Christian tradition,	22:55
	there is the obligation to live as a community of hope	22:59
	and in our dealings with each other,	23:05
	both within the church and without	23:07
	we are acting out whatever hope or hopelessness	23:10
	we harbor in our hearts.	23:14
	A contemporary theologian has written	23:18
	that what we do to our brothers and sisters,	23:22
	especially to the least of them,	23:25
	we are doing to our hope	23:28
	because in our brothers and sisters,	23:31
	we are faced with the challenge	23:33
	of giving expression to our hope.	23:34
	Our actions toward them stands concretely	23:38
	under His judgment.	23:41
	The last day, he says, will not be the only judgment.	23:43
	It will only bring to life what we have become	23:47
	in the encounter with our brothers and sisters.	23:51
	Jesus our hope cared for all men and women,	23:55
	but particularly for the poor, the outcast,	24:01
	those who had no clue as to what life was really all about.	24:05
	He came to sinners that all	24:10
	might recognize themselves as sinners.	24:12
	He came to the lame, to the withered,	24:17
	the deaf, the blind, that in their disabilities	24:19
	you and I might recognize our own.	24:25
	That in their hope we may discover our own.	24:28
	This Jesus will come again	24:34
	and in this Jesus we claim to believe	24:36
	He has promised to draw all men unto Himself	24:40
	in a glorious reunion.	24:43
	This Jesus we claim to be our hope	24:46
	and before this Jesus we shall one day stand	24:50
	or so we say we hope, and then it will be revealed to us	24:53
	whether as a matter of fact, He has been our hope.	24:58
	Now it's difficult for me to believe that we Americans	25:05
	will experience a sense of oneness with each other	25:09
	much less with the Russians, with the Chinese.	25:12
	Hard for me to believe that we Christians	25:17
	shall ever be reunited with each other	25:19
	much less with all mankind.	25:22
	Yet I have to hold to this hope	25:25
	and work for its fulfillment.	25:27
	While I'm in a mood of confession,	25:31
	I confess that the reunion just to the Presbyterian	25:33
	and Reformed Family of Faith	25:36
	seems to me hopeless at the moment	25:38
	and yet I cannot give up that dream.	25:41
	I believe the apostle Paul was correct in his emphasis	25:45
	on Christian unity and that this is the basis for it.	25:48
	For there is one body and one spirit	25:53
	just as you were called to that one hope	25:57
	that belongs to your call.	25:59
	One Lord, one faith, one baptism,	26:02
	one God and father of us all who is above all	26:06
	and through all and in all.	26:10
	I need the word of Jeremiah to encourage me in	26:15
	and to sustain my hope for the reunion	26:20
	of all of God's people.	26:22
	Finally, Jeremiah held out the hope	26:28
	of the renewal of the covenant.	26:31
	"Behold, the days are coming," says the Lord,	26:34
	"when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel	26:36
	and the house of Judah."	26:41
	This new covenant or agreement	26:44
	would not be like the old treaty which the people broke.	26:45
	The old covenant had failed because it depended	26:49
	upon the faithfulness and the obedience of the people.	26:52
	And when they failed, there seemed to be no hope	26:56
	and no future for Israel and for Judah.	27:01
	But Jeremiah could not believe	27:05
	that God was through with His people.	27:07
	He believed that somehow somewhere	27:10
	the Lord had a future and a hope for them.	27:12
	This new covenant would be different.	27:17
	It would be a law written upon the people's hearts.	27:20
	It would be more meaningful than a code carved on stone,	27:24
	for it would be engraved upon the soul of the believer.	27:27
	Thinking about the insistence of those in the new culture	27:33
	upon inner feeling and fulfillment,	27:37
	I recall that Jeremiah promised that this covenant	27:41
	would be one we would feel in our hearts,	27:44
	this new covenant would not be based upon our ability	27:48
	to teach it to one another,	27:51
	or even to learn from one another.	27:53
	For the Lord says, "I will set my law within them	27:56
	and write it on their hearts.	28:01
	I will become their God and they shall become my people.	28:04
	And all of them shall know me,	28:10
	from the least of them to the greatest."	28:13
	Rich and poor, young and old, educated and uneducated	28:16
	all of us will be recipients of the spirit of God	28:20
	and it will be a part of our personality	28:24
	because it is a gift of God	28:26
	and not the achievement of men and women.	28:28
	And in this new covenant	28:32
	there will be the forgiveness of sins,	28:33
	which holds out the hope of community with one another	28:35
	and with our Creator.	28:39
	"For I will forgive their inequity	28:41
	and I will remember their sin no more," says the Lord.	28:44
	This new covenant did not guarantee freedom from sin	28:49
	but it did promise the forgiveness of sins	28:53
	which assures the center of fellowship with God	28:55
	and with one another within that community of hope.	28:58
	Jeremiah could not have foreseen	29:03
	what these words would mean, but they're clear to us	29:05
	because Jesus must have remembered them himself	29:10
	when He said to His friends,	29:13
	"This cup is the new covenant in my blood,	29:15
	which is poured out for many, for the forgiveness of sin."	29:18
	And as you and I drink that cup,	29:25
	we acknowledge that God is still at work in us	29:28
	hopefully enabling us to become new persons in Christ,	29:32
	upon whom and upon whose heart divine law is inscribed.	29:36
	Now my problem with Jeremiah's word of hope is this,	29:44
	he doesn't seem to have any confidence	29:49
	in the power of the people.	29:52
	I still want to be able to hope that we can pull it off	29:56
	and bring in the kingdom and build the new Jerusalem.	29:58
	As a social activist, it's a blow to my pride	30:04
	not to have the Lord and His prophets	30:07
	recognize my contribution as a more significant item	30:12
	in the list.	30:16
	But Jeremiah was at the end of his rope, humanly speaking.	30:19
	He could see no earthly reason for hope	30:24
	and yet he did not lose hope	30:29
	because he did not lose faith in God.	30:31
	His nation was ruined,	30:36
	but he could not believe that God, the Lord	30:38
	who had gone through so much with this people,	30:41
	who had brought them to freedom,	30:45
	carried them through the centuries,	30:47
	that this Lord would desert them now.	30:49
	Jeremiah was willing to go against his better judgment	30:53
	and invest in real estate at a time when the enemy	30:57
	was already occupying the country	31:01
	and knocking at the gates of Jerusalem.	31:03
	And he did this because of his faith	31:07
	that that country had a future.	31:09
	Jeremiah saw no reason for hope	31:13
	as he surveyed the human scene,	31:17
	and yet he held on to hope because of his faith	31:21
	that with God all things are possible	31:25
	and so the prophet proclaimed the word of the Lord	31:30
	which is 'I will bring you back,	31:32
	not you and I, but I will bring you back	31:35
	and I will give you a future and a hope.'	31:38
	Now both the current situation and the word of Jeremiah	31:45
	drives me back to the foundations of our faith.	31:49
	If this is God's world, then it looks as if	31:53
	He'll have to bring in His kingdom on earth	31:57
	if it is to be like that in heaven.	32:00
	I'd like to help, I'd still like to help,	32:04
	but I realize that God will have to take	32:08
	the major responsibility.	32:10
	I'd really like to believe that the eternal spirit	32:14
	were more dependent upon you and me	32:17
	but if I thought that probably	32:21
	I'd be driven to even more depths of despair.	32:24
	Now, Jeremiah did not know about	32:30
	that baby born in Bethlehem,	32:32
	who is the confirmation of our hope and his,	32:34
	but Jeremiah could still hope	32:39
	because he believed in the father of our Lord, Jesus Christ.	32:41
	No one knows how or when, but because of Jesus	32:46
	you and I can hope that the God who is in Christ	32:51
	is preparing some event in our times,	32:55
	which will result in a great homecoming	32:58
	in which there will be a grand reunion,	33:01
	as the covenant is renewed,	33:04
	binding us to one another and to our Creator.	33:05
	And maybe, just maybe this is already happening	33:10
	in the events through which we are passing.	33:13
	Jeremiah challenges you and me to live by faith,	33:18
	to live by faith in the God	33:23
	with whom all things are possible	33:25
	and therefore we can have hope for the future.	33:26
	W. H. Auden in his poem "For the Time Being"	33:31
	calls us to undertake the journey of faith	33:35
	in the spirit of Christ.	33:38
	So make your own translation in your own experience	33:42
	and with your own words of the direction Auden offers us,	33:46
	for it leads from hopelessness to hope.	33:51
	"He is the way, follow Him through the land of unlikeness.	33:56
	You will see rare bees and have unique adventures.	34:02
	He is the truth.	34:08
	Seek Him in the kingdom of anxiety.	34:10
	You will come to a great city	34:14
	that has expected your return for years.	34:16
	He is the light.	34:21
	Love Him in the world of the flesh.	34:23
	And at your marriage, all its occasions	34:26
	shall dance for joy."	34:30
	Let us pray.	34:34
	O Lord God Almighty drive us	34:39
	from our fool's hope of security apart from you	34:43
	into hopelessness and then and only then,	34:47
	help us to find hope again in your love and in Him	34:53
	who is the way, the truth and the light.	34:56
	Make us the kind of people who shall dance for joy	35:01
	because our hope is in your grace.	35:04
	For we pray in Jesus name.	35:07
	Amen.	35:11
	(piano playing)	35:14
	(congregation singing)	35:57
	(piano playing)	38:37
	(congregation singing "Gloria")	39:32
	(piano playing)	40:21
	(congregation singing)	40:30
	(piano playing)	41:37
	(singing continues)	41:42
	(piano playing)	44:04
	(congregation singing)	44:35
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	44:47
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	44:50
	(singing continues)	44:54
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	45:07
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	45:09
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	45:13
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	45:16
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	45:19
Woman	O God, we offer you all we can give this morning.	45:39
	Our time, our money, our willingness to be your people.	45:44
	We give thanks for all that we have been given	45:50
	and joyfully offer you our lives.	45:54
	Amen.	45:58
	(piano playing)	46:01
	(congregation singing)	46:28
	(piano playing)	47:34
	(singing continues)	47:46
	(piano playing)	51:34

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Title:

Milton S. Carothers - "From Hopelessness to Hope" (June 3, 1973)

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https://idn.duke.edu/ark:/87924/r4mw2dg0m

Date:

June 3, 1973

Speaker:

Carothers, Milton S.

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Duke University. Chapel

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UA.17.01.0003 RR-0658
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ark:/87924/r4mw2dg0m
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