James T. Cleland - "The Pew - Person" (September 9, 1973)

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	(organ music)	0:03
	(choral music)	2:06
-	Can we be seated, please?	7:12
	God is more ready to forgive,	7:27
	than we are to confess.	7:31
	The prayer of confession gives us the opportunity	7:36
	to confess to God,	7:41
	our willfulness and our weakness.	7:45
	Let us together, offer unto God this prayer of confession.	7:52
	Let us pray.	7:59
	Oh God,	8:02
	we confess that in the thoughts of our minds,	8:03
	in the desires of our hearts,	8:07
	in the words of our lips, and the deeds we have done,	8:10
	we have sinned against you.	8:15
	We acknowledge also our sins of omission and negligence,	8:19
	the duties we have shirked,	8:24
	the opportunities we have missed,	8:27
	the words of encouragement and witness we have not spoken,	8:30
	the deeds of healthfulness and law	8:35
	we have not performed.	8:37
	We are truly sorry for all, wherein we have displeased you.	8:40
	Have mercy upon us, and forgive us our sins,	8:45
	as we freely forgive those who have sinned against us.	8:50
	Cleanse our hearts,	8:55
	and so strengthen us by your Holy spirit,	8:57
	that we may henceforth walk in newness of life,	9:00
	through Jesus Christ our Lord.	9:04
	Amen.	9:07
	Let us continue with a moment of private,	9:09
	personal confession.	9:13
	Our Lord said,	9:31
	"Let the person who is without sin cast the first stone.	9:34
	"And not a rock was cast."	9:43
	Our sinS, which are many,	9:48
	when confessed to God are forgiven in Christ's name.	9:53
	Let us go and sin no more.	10:02
	And now let us pray the prayer which our Lord has taught us,	10:10
	praying...	10:14
	Our father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name,	10:16
	thy kingdom come.	10:21
	Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.	10:24
	Give us this day, our daily bread,	10:27
	and forgive us our trespasses,	10:31
	as we forgive those who trespass against us.	10:33
	Lead us not into temptation,	10:37
	but deliver us from evil.	10:40
	For thine is the kingdom,	10:43
	the power, and the glory, forever.	10:45
	Amen.	10:48
	(gentle organ music)	10:51
	(choral music)	12:01
	Let us hear the word of God as it was recorded first,	16:12
	in the gospel according to St. Mark,	16:18
	the 12th chapter, at the 28th verse.	16:22
	"And one of the scribes came up	16:30
	"and heard them disputing with one another.	16:33
	"And seeing that Jesus answered them well,	16:37
	"asked him, "Which commandment is the first of all?"	16:41
	"Now that was not really his question.	16:50
	"He knew which the first commandment was.	16:53
	"What he's asking is,	16:57
	"what kind of commandment is the first of all?"	16:59
	""Jesus answered, "The first is hear, Oh Israel,	17:07
	""the Lord, our God, the Lord is one.	17:10
	""And you shall love the Lord, your God with all your heart	17:14
	""and with all your soul, and with all your mind,	17:19
	""and with all your strength."	17:23
	"The second is this.	17:27
	"You shall love your neighbor as yourself.	17:29
	"There is no other commandment greater than these."	17:34
	"What Jesus did	17:41
	"was to put together a verse from Deuteronomy,	17:42
	"and part of a verse from Leviticus.	17:46
	"And the scribe said to him, "You're right, teacher.	17:52
	""You truly said that God is one,	17:58
	""and there is no other, but He.	18:01
	""And to love Him with all the heart,	18:04
	""and with all the understanding, and with all the strength.	18:06
	""and to love one's neighbor, as oneself	18:10
	""is much more than all whole burned offerings	18:14
	""and sacrifices."	18:19
	"And when Jesus saw that he answered wisely, he said to him,	18:21
	""You are not far from the kingdom of God.""	18:28
	Now the same story is told also,	18:37
	in the gospel according to St. Luke, the 10th chapter,	18:41
	with one important variation.	18:46
	Luke 10, verse 25.	18:51
	"Behold, a lawyer stood up to put Jesus to the test saying,	18:54
	""Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?"	18:59
	"Jesus said to him,	19:07
	""What is written in the law?	19:09
	""How do you read?"	19:13
	"And he answered.	19:16
	""You shall love the Lord, your God with all your heart	19:17
	""and with all your soul, and with all your strength,	19:21
	""and with all your mind,	19:25
	""and your neighbor as himself."	19:28
	"This is not Jesus' unique discovery.	19:34
	"The lawyer knew it.	19:36
	"Someone in the synagogue	19:39
	"had put those two verses from the Old Testament together	19:43
	"before Jesus.	19:48
	"And Jesus said unto him, "You have answered right.	19:51
	""Do this and you will live.""	19:58
	And may God bless unto us the reading of His word.	20:06
	(organ music)	20:13
	(choral music)	20:21
	Please remain standing.	20:55
	Let us in unison, affirm our faith.	20:57
	We are not alone,	21:03
	we live in God's world.	21:05
	We believe in God who has created and is creating,	21:08
	who has come in the true man, Jesus	21:13
	to reconcile and make new.	21:16
	Who works in us and others, by His spirit.	21:19
	We trust Him.	21:23
	He calls us to be in his church,	21:25
	to celebrate His presence,	21:28
	to love and serve others, to seek justice and resist evil,	21:30
	to proclaim Jesus crucified and risen.	21:36
	Our judge and our hope.	21:40
	In life, in death,	21:43
	in life beyond death, God is with us.	21:45
	We are not alone.	21:49
	We believe in God.	21:52
	Thanks be to God.	21:54
	The Lord be with you.	21:57
-	And with your spirit.	21:59
-	Let us pray.	22:01
	It is a new day, Oh God,	22:13
	and we thank you for it.	22:17
	It is good to be alive,	22:21
	to see the dawning of another Lord's day,	22:25
	when we gather in remembrance of our Lord's resurrection.	22:27
	This is the Lord's day.	22:32
	Let us rejoice and be glad in it.	22:37
	We offer you, Oh God, these and other words of thanks.	22:46
	We thank you for difficult situations, to make us strong.	22:54
	For sinful and dangerous possibilities,	23:05
	which keep us alert.	23:09
	For enemies we have made	23:14
	when we have stood for right and just causes.	23:19
	For demanding opposition,	23:25
	which calls for the best from us.	23:29
	For pain, which keeps us sensitive	23:35
	to the needs of our body and spirit.	23:40
	For friends who care for us,	23:47
	who really care in spite of what they know.	23:51
	For Jesus Christ, and the love with which He loves us.	23:59
	Since you have said, "Ask, seek, knock,"	24:10
	we offer this prayer of intercession right now,	24:17
	Oh God, in this chapel.	24:25
	For listening to these words,	24:29
	someone feels lonely.	24:31
	He's hurting.	24:34
	He's sad.	24:36
	He's in pain.	24:39
	He's near death.	24:42
	He's crying.	24:44
	He's scared.	24:47
	He's disturbed.	24:49
	He's worried.	24:52
	He's guilt-ridden.	24:54
	Hear our cries for ourselves and for others.	24:58
	This day, this week,	25:05
	some of us must make difficult decisions.	25:08
	Must face new and disturbing ideas.	25:13
	Must to meet hard and demanding opposition.	25:18
	Must face the unknown.	25:22
	Hear our cries for ourselves and others.	25:26
	We pray for those who teach,	25:34
	and those who learn.	25:38
	For those who wear our ill, and those who treat illness.	25:41
	For all those who make decisions about our lives	25:47
	and our futures,	25:50
	for the president, and Congress, and judges.	25:53
	For all who have worldly authority over us.	25:59
	Hear our prayers for ourselves and others.	26:06
	It is reassuring, Oh God,	26:13
	to read your word, which says,	26:18
	"My grace is sufficient for you."	26:20
	Supply us now, Oh, merciful Lord,	26:27
	with your forgiving spirit,	26:34
	your loving concern,	26:39
	your continued presence.	26:43
	For we pray in the name,	26:50
	and in the spirit of Jesus Christ, our Lord.	26:53
	Amen.	26:58
	You have heard Him break for us the bread of life,	27:08
	by the reading of the lessons from God's word this morning.	27:14
	And momentarily,	27:23
	we shall hear the Reverend Dr. James T. Cleland,	27:23
	Dean of the Chapel Emeritus preach.	27:30
	It's been some time now since he preached in this place,	27:36
	because officially, anyhow, he retired several months ago,	27:43
	but actually it appears to me	27:51
	that he has been just as hard at work	27:53
	and will continue to be as ever.	27:56
	For those who have heard him,	28:01
	and for those of us who would hear this morning,	28:06
	his word, as he shares God's word.	28:10
	Let me say Dean Cleland, we welcome you back,	28:14
	back home to your place here.	28:19
	And we hear you gladly and joyously,	28:24
	as on this day, you bring God's message to us.	28:29
-	Thank you, Bobby Young.	28:45
	I never thought I'd come back.	28:51
	I begin to feel like that manager of the Pirates,	28:54
	who has come back for the fourth time.	28:57
	Before we turn to the sermon,	29:02
	may I suggest that those of you, especially the men,	29:05
	or anybody else who are in jackets, take them off.	29:09
	I'm going to.	29:14
	(congregation laughing)	29:16
	Goes for the choir too, if they want to.	29:25
	(congregation laughing)	29:28
	The administration deems it proper	29:29
	that we worship in this black hole of Kolkata	29:33
	in the summer,	29:36
	but let's recognize that it is the house of God,	29:39
	and not Schrafft's in New York,	29:41
	so we can take our jackets off, it's all right.	29:43
	I'm glad to be back.	29:48
	In some ways, I'm glad to help, if I'm any use.	29:51
	Let us pray.	29:57
	Let the words of my mouth, and the meditations of our hearts	29:59
	be acceptable in thy sight.	30:04
	Oh Lord, our strength, and our redeemer.	30:09
	Amen.	30:14
	Last December, Duke University granted me leave of absence	30:22
	from January until June of this year.	30:28
	Prior to my coming of age retirement, on June 30th.	30:33
	Where upon my wife suggested for my own sake,	30:40
	that I stay away from the pulpit for these six months.	30:45
	I agreed.	30:53
	And I have abided by the decision with July and August,	30:55
	except for the last Sunday, thrown in for good measure.	31:00
	Now, what does one preach about	31:06
	after so long a voluntary absence from the pulpit?	31:12
	There's one simple answer.	31:18
	One of the Royal chaplains in Scotland	31:21
	asked Edward the seventh,	31:24
	what his majesty would like the chaplain to preach about	31:27
	the following Sunday.	31:31
	The king replied in three words,	31:33
	"About 20 minutes."	31:38
	(congregation laughing)	31:41
	I wish my answer were just that simple.	31:43
	My first thought was to concentrate	31:48
	on what I would like to say after so long,	31:50
	a homiletical absence.	31:53
	It didn't take me any time to scrap that suggestion.	31:56
	So conceited, so egocentric,	32:01
	and probably so irrelevant to your needs and longings.	32:05
	And yet the idea kept haunting me.	32:11
	So I turned it round about, and upside down, and inside out.	32:15
	And the question became,	32:21
	what would I like to hear about in a sermon	32:24
	after a long absence from the pew?	32:29
	I tried to think like a pew person,	32:35
	instead of a pulpit person.	32:39
	Supposing I sat where you sit,	32:43
	as I did during those eight months,	32:48
	sometimes gladly, sometimes sadly,	32:51
	what would I want in and from a sermon?	32:56
	Let's look at the idea together.	33:02
	First of all,	33:06
	the sermon should have something to say about God.	33:07
	It should be penetrated with theology,	33:16
	which is the doctrine of God.	33:21
	What is God?	33:23
	Who is God?	33:27
	God is the more of themself,	33:31
	to which each one of us commits the self.	33:37
	The more than self takes all kinds of forms:	33:43
	Nationalism, racism, humanism, pacifism,	33:48
	denominationalism.	33:58
	Even denominationalism within the denomination,	34:00
	if one happens to be a Southern Presbyterian.	34:05
	Since we are worshiping here of our own choice,	34:10
	our God is,	34:16
	should be the one revealed in the Judeo-Christian heritage.	34:19
	Creator, sustainer, redeemer.	34:28
	He is easier to apprehend, than to comprehend.	34:35
	William E Hocking, the philosopher spoke one sentence,	34:43
	"To which each of us can say, Amen at some time,	34:48
	"I shall always be more certain	34:54
	"that God is than what God is."	34:59
	And yet there are sometimes clear glimpses of him.	35:09
	I once asked a surgeon what crossed his mind	35:13
	when he was in the middle of a person's heart.	35:18
	He answered, "You opt to know.	35:23
	"I think it comes from the Bible."	35:28
	And then he quoted Psalm 139, verse 14.	35:32
	"I will praise thee,	35:38
	"for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.	35:41
	"Marvelous are thy works,	35:47
	"and that my soul knoweth right well."	35:50
	That's what went through his mind	35:55
	as he was doing open heart surgery.	35:58
	"I will praise thee,	36:00
	"for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.	36:02
	"Marvelous are thy works,	36:05
	"and that my soul knoweth right well."	36:06
	Now that doctor has not as yet operated on me.	36:10
	If he does and the operation is unsuccessful,	36:17
	I know that I shall die in grace,	36:23
	not so much because of my faith, but because of his.	36:28
	Now as Christians,	36:36
	we add a second library to the library of the Old Testament.	36:37
	We possess the New Testament, with it's focus	36:42
	on one of the most soberly God-intoxicated men in history,	36:49
	Jesus of Nazareth.	36:58
	We believe that in Jesus,	37:02
	we have seen the word God become flesh,	37:04
	in so far as the human frame can encompass in any degree.	37:09
	The creative force behind, and in, and through the universe.	37:16
	As a little Italian-American boy put it,	37:24
	"Jesus is the best picture God ever had took."	37:28
	The best picture God ever had took.	37:38
	That's why we celebrate God's love at Christmas,	37:42
	and God's power at Easter.	37:45
	And every Sunday, the Lord's day,	37:48
	can be both, a little Christmas and a little Easter.	37:51
	Last Sunday,	37:55
	the recessional was made up of two Christmas hymns.	37:56
	We also believe that the spirit of God revealed in Jesus	38:01
	can dwell in our spirits, if we let him.	38:05
	It is because of Jesus that we say,	38:11
	God is personal.	38:14
	In that he is more like a person	38:18
	than like any other analogy in our experience.	38:22
	But let us remember this.	38:28
	God is of little importance,	38:33
	unless he is off Supreme importance.	38:37
	I want to hear that in a sermon when I sit in the pew.	38:45
	You know inevitably,	38:51
	what the second point of this sermon has to be, man.	38:52
	Now you who are acquainted with Latin,	38:59
	will realize that I'm talking of Hummel, mankind,	39:01
	and not just of Ver, the male of the species.	39:08
	I'm thinking of the Pupus, who is, if you like,	39:14
	man embracing woman.	39:19
	This is a person in the light of the God	39:23
	whom he/ she considers to be of supreme importance.	39:28
	For us in the church, that God is as was said,	39:35
	the one revealed in the Bible	39:39
	and primarily made known for Christians in Jesus.	39:41
	Then what kind of Christians should we be?	39:46
	We're aware of what a mixture each one of is,	39:52
	Karl Barth, the Swiss theologian, who made such a dent	39:58
	on both Protestantism and Roman Catholicism	40:04
	after the Second World War,	40:08
	talks about the personal crisis common to all of us,	40:11
	which arises from the contradictions	40:19
	inherent in human nature.	40:22
	Crisis which arises from the contradictions	40:28
	inherent in human nature.	40:31
	We are self-centered of necessity.	40:35
	And yet we are other-regarding,	40:41
	which ought also to be of necessity.	40:44
	We are tough minded,	40:50
	yet a concern for others also motivates us.	40:53
	We say, yes, to the God of our heritage,	40:58
	and we also say no,	41:03
	because of the demands of lesser gods.	41:07
	There's nothing new about this.	41:10
	Paul worried about it in his letter to the Romans.	41:13
	And it's interesting to notice	41:18
	that he was talking as much about his own condition	41:19
	as that of his readers.	41:24
	Listen to him.	41:26
	"I do not do the good I want,	41:28
	"but the evil that I do not want, is what I do."	41:34
	And what's his general conclusion?	41:41
	"All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God."	41:43
	We are sinners even as youngsters.	41:50
	I recall defending myself as a young teenager	41:54
	to my mother, regarding something I had done.	41:58
	I said, "Doesn't it show the breadth of my mind?"	42:03
	She gave me an immediate answer.	42:11
	"No, it shows the elasticity of your conscience."	42:14
	Breadth of mind, elasticity of conscience.	42:23
	What she said still haunts me 55 years later.	42:28
	Jesus and Paul both hammered on the solution	42:34
	to this tendency to sin.	42:37
	Remember that God is to be thought of as, like a father.	42:39
	He cares for us, and therefore He understands.	42:44
	We've only to tell Him, we're sorry, He'll do two things,	42:48
	He'll forgive.	42:54
	He'll give us strength	42:57
	the next time we're on to this kind of personal problem.	42:59
	This is known technically, as salvation by grace.	43:04
	By graciousness, through faith, through our accepting it.	43:10
	I'd like to hear about that when I sit in the pew.	43:16
	There's another point to be stressed.	43:22
	In the Christ's Theology of Karl Barth,	43:25
	"These contradictions in human nature,	43:29
	"are not only in the individual person,	43:32
	"they're in the social order."	43:36
	And now as I ask the advice of a colleague	43:40
	in the department of religion,	43:42
	about this point in the sermon,	43:44
	he responded, "Ignore Watergate."	43:47
	"I shall." (chuckling)	43:54
	But keep it in the back of your mind.	43:57
	(all chuckling)	44:00
	And when we leave this service,	44:02
	think of it as an illustration	44:05
	of the contradictions in our social order.	44:08
	The cause of the underlying opposition is very simple.	44:14
	We are citizens of two kingdoms.	44:19
	In so far as we recognize ourselves as sinners,	44:25
	not in the hands of an angry God,	44:30
	but saved, that is made healthy by grace.	44:33
	By the graciousness of one whom we call, Father,	44:39
	we are citizens of the kingdom of God.	44:43
	But by birth or naturalization,	44:46
	we are all but citizens of an earthly kingdom.	44:49
	Most of us are the United States of America.	44:53
	That double-citizenship is often a contradiction,	44:57
	sometimes a problem.	45:04
	And maybe even at tragedy.	45:07
	Moreover, it is constantly with us.	45:12
	We are split personalities.	45:17
	We are pulled this way and that,	45:20
	both within ourselves and in our relationship to others,	45:23
	in a world which is becoming one neighborhood,	45:29
	without becoming one brotherhood.	45:37
	we live per force	45:43
	but not necessarily equally in two kingdoms,	45:44
	with allegiance to both.	45:48
	So we compromise,	45:50
	wondering if it's a sign of a valid breadth of conscience.	45:52
	Breadth of mind or the outcome of elasticity of conscience.	45:58
	The churches are not of one mind	46:03
	in answering the valid questions from the pew,	46:05
	about Indo-China.	46:08
	About the tension among the races and within the races.	46:10
	About the contradictory fact of poverty, amid abundance.	46:14
	About the ethic of sex.	46:19
	Let me share just one example.	46:21
	A friend, a road scholar,	46:23
	distinguished headmaster,	46:27
	a state legislator in New England,	46:30
	an intelligent Christian keeps in touch with me	46:33
	by letters and visits.	46:36
	He is now to use his own words,	46:39
	"Utterly disillusioned with Christendom."	46:42
	Utterly disillusioned with Christendom.	46:48
	Why?	46:52
	Because of North Ireland.	46:54
	When neither side seems to have heard	47:00
	of the late Pope John, the 23rd,	47:03
	that 20th century Martin Luther,	47:07
	who managed to stay inside the Roman church.	47:11
	Now what this man in New England	47:16
	wants in a sermon on this topic,	47:19
	is that a recognition of the political-religious shambles.	47:23
	Plus a sensitivity, both to the conflicting backgrounds	47:32
	and to the frightful difficulty of reconciliation.	47:40
	With some Christian pointers to a reasonable solution	47:47
	spoken in goodwill.	47:53
	I'd like to hear about that in other areas too,	47:58
	when I sit where you sit.	48:02
	For if the church has nothing to say	48:06
	by way of social reconciliation,	48:08
	then it would be better for it to admit	48:11
	that it has no message for society.	48:15
	Whatever it has to say to the individual	48:20
	in his aloneness with God.	48:24
	There's a fourth and final thought.	48:27
	I told another friend about this sermon,	48:31
	and asked her on what I should focus.	48:34
	Her reply was instant and brief.	48:37
	"Preach on Armageddon."	48:41
	Armageddon.	48:44
	Now, according to the book of The Revelation,	48:46
	Armageddon is the place in Palestine	48:49
	where the final battle will be fought between good and evil.	48:52
	It is the symbol of the awful fact of judgment.	48:59
	When God moves in with power.	49:03
	Now, the suggestion made me think	49:08
	of a Roman Catholic Army Chaplain's comment	49:10
	on one of my sermons, which he had just heard.	49:14
	All he said was, "You didn't give him enough hell."	49:18
	That may be a valid analysis	49:25
	of all my preaching down the years.	49:27
	Have I any defense? Yes.	49:30
	From the viewpoint of the pew,	49:33
	what I want to hear is the gospel,	49:35
	which is not the threat of hell.	49:38
	It's not even good advice.	49:43
	It's etymologically good news.	49:46
	It has never seemed to me that the job of the preacher	49:51
	is to blast the worshiping congregation as sinners,	49:54
	to scare folk into heaven,	49:59
	but rather to woo them and win them into the kingdom.	50:04
	That was the basic message of Jesus in His teaching.	50:08
	And did it not receive God's implementer at Easter?	50:12
	Oh, I appreciate the awareness	50:17
	of sending the individual in society.	50:20
	It will always be there.	50:23
	It'll always have to be dealt with.	50:24
	But the sermon should have a note of hope,	50:27
	a word of encouragement,	50:31
	an emphasis on good news.	50:34
	It's because of the resurrection,	50:38
	whether it's gospel of the defeat of sin,	50:41
	the defeat of death,	50:44
	and the hope of continuing life with God	50:47
	and with those we have loved long since and last awhile,	50:50
	that Christianity is alive at all.	50:54
	That I want to hear about again and again,	50:58
	when I am a pew person.	51:02
	There was a memorial service at Duke some months ago.	51:05
	The widow had but one insistent request, just one.	51:08
	That the "Hallelujah chorus"	51:15
	be played on the organ before the benediction.	51:18
	It was in the frontal cloth on the altar,	51:22
	whereas the Easter cloth, gold and white.	51:26
	And the congregation left in a mood of exultation	51:32
	and triumph.	51:37
	Still, whether I were in the pew, it's in these areas	51:42
	that I would like to hear the Minister reflect aloud.	51:45
	God, man, society, continuing life... (chuckling)	51:49
	Though not all at once. (chuckling)	51:57
	I have dealt with too much this morning.	52:00
	God would always be primary.	52:03
	The God who for us, Christians	52:05
	is basically, though not solely revealed in Jesus.	52:07
	I think that's what Abraham Lincoln was getting at	52:15
	when he's reported to have said,	52:17
	"If the church would ask simply for ascent	52:19
	"to the savior statement of the substance of the law,	52:24
	"Thou shall love the Lord, thy God, with all thy heart	52:29
	"and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind,	52:31
	"and thy neighbor as thyself.	52:34
	"That church would I gladly unite with."	52:37
	And do you know who says, "I'm into that statement?"	52:44
	George Bernard Shaw, of all people.	52:49
	In the preface to "Andrew CLees and the Lion,"	52:55
	listen to the gospel according to Saint Bernard,	52:59
	just three sentences.	53:03
	"This man that is Jesus has not been a failure yet,	53:08
	"for nobody has been sane enough to try his way.	53:14
	"We've always had a curious feeling,	53:21
	"that though we crucified Christ on a stick,	53:24
	"He somehow managed to get hold of the right end of it.	53:29
	"And if we were better men/ persons, we might try his plan.	53:34
	"I see no way out of the world's misery,	53:42
	"but the way which it would have been found by Christ will,	53:46
	"if He had undertaken the work	53:51
	"of a modern, practical statement."	53:53
	And do you think that Jesus might be saying to Shaw	53:59
	what he said to the lawyer,	54:03
	in our scripture lesson from Mark?	54:04
	"You are not far from the kingdom of God."	54:08
	Or what He said to the lawyer,	54:15
	in our scripture lesson from Luke?	54:17
	"You have answered right.	54:20
	"Do this and you will live."	54:24
	And in the background, Abraham Lincoln is saying,	54:29
	"Amen."	54:35
	So to each of you and to myself,	54:38
	this early, and another academic year,	54:41
	I say the only three Spanish words I know,	54:45
	and cannot really pronounce.	54:49
	(speaking Spanish)	54:52
	Which being interpreted is, "Go with God."	54:54
	Go with the God of Jesus, and of Lincoln,	54:59
	and even of Shaw.	55:04
	The God whom I hope you will hear about from this pulpit,	55:08
	as you worship in the Duke Chapel.	55:13
	Amen, let us pray.	55:18
	We believe in thee God, who has created and is creating,	55:23
	who has come in the true man, Jesus	55:28
	to reconcile and make new, who works in us and others,	55:32
	through thy spirit.	55:37
	In life and in death, and life beyond death,	55:41
	thou are with us, we are not alone.	55:43
	Thanks be to thee.	55:49
	Amen.	55:53
	(organ music)	55:57
	(choral music)	56:42
	(organ music)	58:30
	(choral music)	1:00:05

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Title:

James T. Cleland - "The Pew - Person" (September 9, 1973)

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September 9, 1973

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

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Duke University. Chapel

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