William Crompton Bennett - "What Threatens You?" (August 11, 1974)
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| (upbeat piano music) | 0:03 | |
| - | Let us prepare our hearts and minds, | 8:54 |
| for the worship of God, let us pray. | 8:57 | |
| Oh God of peace, who has taught us | 9:07 | |
| that in returning and rest, we shall be saved | 9:11 | |
| in quietness and confidence shall be our strength. | 9:15 | |
| By the might of life spirit lift us we pray thee, | 9:21 | |
| into thy presence where we may be still and know again, | 9:26 | |
| that thou art God. | 9:33 | |
| In this hour of worship grant us the amendment of life | 9:37 | |
| a far perspective on near events | 9:45 | |
| and the strength and consolation of thy Holy Spirit, amen. | 9:51 | |
| ♪ Praise to the God the Almighty the king of creation ♪ | 10:05 | |
| ♪ All might, so great for me is my eternal salvation ♪ | 10:15 | |
| ♪ Glory to Him now to His eternal glory ♪ | 10:26 | |
| ♪ Join me in my house of salvation ♪ | 10:35 | |
| (upbeat piano music) | 10:46 | |
| We come into the presence of the Holy one of Israel, | 13:46 | |
| anxious over many trivial things, | 13:51 | |
| blind to the needs of neighbor near and far, | 13:56 | |
| quick to blame others and excuse ourselves | 14:02 | |
| sinners who deface the very image of God in us. | 14:08 | |
| Let us therefore in honest contrition, | 14:14 | |
| join in the prayer of confession. Let us pray. | 14:18 | |
| We confess oh God, our lack of commitment to a better world. | 14:25 | |
| Our desire for gasoline and electricity and luxury, | 14:32 | |
| more than our love for people's lives and needs, | 14:38 | |
| are indifference in the midst of crisis in our country, | 14:42 | |
| our fear of change and our blind obedience to power. | 14:48 | |
| Our fatalism that all politics are immoral and unjust | 14:53 | |
| and our inability to fulfill our good intentions, | 15:00 | |
| have mercy on us oh God, we pray, amen. | 15:04 | |
| Oh God of grace, | 15:31 | |
| Whose mercy is from everlasting to everlasting, | 15:34 | |
| grant us we pray thee thy forgiveness, | 15:39 | |
| for those sins which corporately and privately, | 15:44 | |
| we hold in thought now before thee, | 15:48 | |
| and the cleansing assurance of thy pardon, | 15:53 | |
| through Jesus Christ our Lord, amen. | 15:59 | |
| (upbeat piano music) | 16:05 | |
| (singing inaudibly) | 16:29 | |
| The scripture lessons are selected versus, | 18:45 | |
| from the Psalm 27, | 18:52 | |
| and from the eighth chapter of Paul's letter to the Romans. | 18:55 | |
| "The Lord is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear? | 19:05 | |
| The Lord is the stronghold of my life, | 19:13 | |
| of whom shall I be afraid? | 19:17 | |
| One thing have I asked of the Lord, | 19:21 | |
| that will I seek after? | 19:25 | |
| That I might dwell in the house of the Lord | 19:29 | |
| all the days of my life to behold the beauty of the Lord, | 19:31 | |
| and to inquire in His temple. | 19:38 | |
| I believe that I shall see the goodness of the Lord | 19:43 | |
| in the land of the living. | 19:48 | |
| Wait for the Lord, be strong. | 19:52 | |
| Let your heart take courage. | 19:56 | |
| Yes. Wait for the Lord." | 20:00 | |
| And from Paul's letter to the Romans, | 20:09 | |
| "who shall separate us from the love of Christ? | 20:15 | |
| Shall tribulation or distress or persecution or famine, | 20:20 | |
| or nakedness or peril or sword? | 20:24 | |
| As it is written for thy sake we are being killed | 20:30 | |
| all the day long. | 20:33 | |
| We are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered. | 20:36 | |
| Know in all these things, | 20:40 | |
| we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us, | 20:44 | |
| for I am sure that neither death, nor life, | 20:50 | |
| nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, | 20:55 | |
| nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depths, | 21:00 | |
| nor anything else in all creation, | 21:06 | |
| will be able to separate us from the love of God, | 21:10 | |
| in Christ Jesus our Lord. Here the lesson ends. | 21:16 | |
| (upbeat piano music) | 21:23 | |
| Let us join in the affirmation of faith. | 22:05 | |
| We are not alone. | 22:13 | |
| We live in God's world. | 22:16 | |
| We believe in God who has created and is creating, | 22:18 | |
| who has come in the true man Jesus, | 22:25 | |
| to reconcile and make new, | 22:28 | |
| who works in us and others by His Spirit. We trust Him. | 22:32 | |
| He calls us to be in His church, to celebrate His presence, | 22:39 | |
| to love and serve others, to seek justice and resist evil, | 22:45 | |
| to proclaim Jesus crucified and risen, | 22:52 | |
| our judge and our hope in life, in death, | 22:56 | |
| in life beyond death, God is with us. | 23:02 | |
| We are not alone. Thanks be to God. | 23:07 | |
| The Lord be with you. | 23:12 | |
| Congregation | And with your spirit. | 23:15 |
| - | Let us pray. | 23:16 |
| Let us pray first in thanksgiving. | 23:34 | |
| Almighty God, the author of all life, | 23:41 | |
| and the guardian of all creation, | 23:47 | |
| Whose law reaching to the farthest star, | 23:51 | |
| and to the innermost depths of the heart of man, | 23:57 | |
| is the drive and the stay of the whole universe. | 24:03 | |
| We give thee thanks in You for thy gifts, | 24:12 | |
| which we enjoy at thy hand, | 24:17 | |
| for the holiness of thy beauty in earth and sky, | 24:23 | |
| and all the moving mystery of creation, | 24:28 | |
| for the beauty of thy holiness, | 24:32 | |
| in the lives of those who live by thy commandments, | 24:36 | |
| we would be grateful. | 24:42 | |
| Grant unto us we pray thee. | 24:46 | |
| Such a quickened sense of thy majesty, | 24:50 | |
| that we may learn to walk our ways with a reverent joy, | 24:56 | |
| and deal with our neighbor in justice and mercy, | 25:04 | |
| that in us thy laws may be honored and thy name be praised, | 25:10 | |
| through Jesus Christ our Lord. | 25:17 | |
| Let us pray for our nation. | 25:25 | |
| Almighty God, Lord of the nations, | 25:32 | |
| who's inexorable law it is that we are to do justly, | 25:39 | |
| love, mercy, and walk humbly before thee. | 25:44 | |
| We pray for our nation, in time of crisis, | 25:51 | |
| and loss of nerve. | 25:58 | |
| Renew in our public life we pray thee, | 26:04 | |
| The sense of integrity and civility, | 26:08 | |
| that words may be trusted, | 26:15 | |
| and deeds done accountably to thee and the common good. | 26:18 | |
| Grant to our new leader of state courage and calm, | 26:28 | |
| and open candor and a tender conscience, | 26:37 | |
| that our ship of state may move out of troubled waters, | 26:45 | |
| onto the sure course of our true destiny again, | 26:52 | |
| and that we may enjoy the blessings of responsible freedom. | 27:01 | |
| These things we ask in the spirit of Him who taught us | 27:11 | |
| now to pray. | 27:18 | |
| Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. | 27:21 | |
| Thy kingdom come. | 27:28 | |
| Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. | 27:30 | |
| Give us this day, our daily bread. | 27:35 | |
| And forgive us our trespasses, | 27:38 | |
| as we forgive those who trespass against us. | 27:41 | |
| And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, | 27:45 | |
| for thine is the kingdom and the power, | 27:51 | |
| and the glory forever, amen. | 27:55 | |
| - | I ask your indulgence for changing the direction | 28:18 |
| of the sermon from the topic listed this morning. | 28:26 | |
| The events of the past 10 days, | 28:32 | |
| rather preclude the personal nature of the topic | 28:35 | |
| listed in the bulletin, | 28:41 | |
| and seem to me at any right to call for a larger perspective | 28:44 | |
| let us pray. | 28:50 | |
| Almighty and most merciful God, | 28:54 | |
| grant us we beseech thee, the height and the light, | 28:57 | |
| and the insight of an honest faith, | 29:04 | |
| required for a true perspective, | 29:08 | |
| through Jesus Christ our Lord, amen. | 29:12 | |
| Some of us think that we have lived, | 29:26 | |
| through the most ruthless of times, ruthless. | 29:30 | |
| A great many of us see ourselves as cultural floaters, | 29:36 | |
| cut loose from the past, drift us into a blank future. | 29:43 | |
| We even call ourselves many of us now people, | 29:51 | |
| for that is all we firmly believe in, now. | 29:57 | |
| And indeed if one has no joy in one's heritage, | 30:04 | |
| and no faith in one's destiny, all one has left to go on | 30:09 | |
| is whatever's going on in the present. | 30:15 | |
| Which is the flimsiest of flimsies. | 30:21 | |
| No wonder therefore, so many of us run threatened. | 30:25 | |
| So many of us run skittering and helter-skeltering about | 30:32 | |
| like daffy dragonflies, trying to find, | 30:37 | |
| "where the action is," whatever that means. | 30:41 | |
| And therefore we have so very little to keep us steady. | 30:45 | |
| No believable past to inform us, | 30:49 | |
| no believable future to inspire us, | 30:52 | |
| just the shaky present to flounder around in, | 30:55 | |
| looking for something called love, joy, peace, | 31:00 | |
| three floating words that have lost their old meanings | 31:05 | |
| and haven't found any new ones. | 31:09 | |
| Therefore, Therefore many of us are threatened, | 31:12 | |
| by what we believe to be an era of making due, | 31:18 | |
| making out, a present tense time, a throwaway time, | 31:24 | |
| a scary time, calling for even seemingly demanding | 31:30 | |
| its multifarious and therefore uncontrollable narcotics. | 31:36 | |
| A time with small hope for, | 31:43 | |
| and even less desire for eternity, | 31:45 | |
| especially if there's any chance of eternity being a rerun, | 31:49 | |
| of our time. | 31:55 | |
| Now if it is viewed our time, | 31:58 | |
| if it is viewed as a cheap, junky, trashy time, | 32:02 | |
| with no heritage worth speaking of, | 32:07 | |
| and no destiny worth living for it is small wonder, | 32:09 | |
| That so many of us feel so threatened so much of the time. | 32:15 | |
| But I say to you here this morning, | 32:21 | |
| there have always been others. | 32:22 | |
| There have always been others who have refused to join in, | 32:26 | |
| the floating, the sort of flat some and jet some set. | 32:30 | |
| They have always been others who refuse to join in | 32:36 | |
| the I nothing but a trash bin routine. | 32:39 | |
| They have always been others who have said | 32:43 | |
| and said it very steadily, | 32:45 | |
| I come from a noble past. I do. | 32:48 | |
| I am headed into a purposeful future. I am. | 32:52 | |
| And I have both the intelligent faith and the common sense, | 32:56 | |
| to make it come true. | 33:02 | |
| Now because of these cuify old fashioned, | 33:08 | |
| but quality matters. | 33:11 | |
| We still have a most livable world and a viable hope. | 33:15 | |
| Indeed the last 10 days of American history, | 33:22 | |
| have confirmed my confidence in that. | 33:26 | |
| In short from the start, | 33:30 | |
| they have always been the clerical crowd | 33:33 | |
| the swill set on the way down the drain. | 33:35 | |
| Indeed there's not a century, | 33:40 | |
| in which you could not have joined them in the sewer, | 33:43 | |
| that is nothing new to mankind. | 33:46 | |
| But, But there's the other crowd too. | 33:48 | |
| And it's a moral choice you and I have to make. | 33:54 | |
| Old Testament to man's choosy this day whom you will serve, | 33:59 | |
| is as contemporaneous as it ever was. | 34:04 | |
| Indeed any day for the past some thousands of years, | 34:07 | |
| has been a perfectly good day to be down and out. | 34:10 | |
| And conversely any day, including and especially today, | 34:15 | |
| is a perfectly good day for courage to start anew. | 34:22 | |
| And the choice is as clear and open as it ever was | 34:28 | |
| both for persons and for the nation. | 34:33 | |
| You see there has never been a time | 34:38 | |
| when someone wasn't swan singing, | 34:40 | |
| you know stop the world I want to get off, | 34:43 | |
| or possibly carrying a placard reading | 34:46 | |
| "tomorrow is canceled, signed God," | 34:50 | |
| or agreeing with old G "The Whoop" song, | 34:55 | |
| that we are indeed creatures with ferocious ideas, | 34:58 | |
| and criminal prejudices which we have inherited | 35:02 | |
| from our Barbara's forefathers, | 35:05 | |
| or agreeing with Mark Twain who said that | 35:08 | |
| he wasn't worried about the future, | 35:11 | |
| because with politicians like ours, | 35:12 | |
| it can't possibly get any worse, | 35:14 | |
| or agreeing with Huxley Senior, | 35:17 | |
| who put it all succinctly in just three words, | 35:20 | |
| as he was most capable of doing. | 35:23 | |
| "Man he asked, man he's damned period." | 35:26 | |
| Well, what about it so? | 35:35 | |
| Is there no worthwhileness in our humanity? | 35:37 | |
| No stability to it? | 35:40 | |
| The pronouncements of world statesmen often seem uncertain. | 35:42 | |
| There is schemes for world peace, | 35:45 | |
| peace with anything resembling justice and honor, | 35:49 | |
| seem fraught with uncertainty. | 35:51 | |
| There is a great deal of anxiety | 35:54 | |
| about the outcome of the human race, ecologically, | 35:56 | |
| genetically, economically et cetera, et cetera. | 36:00 | |
| And always where there is anxiety, | 36:05 | |
| and you know this in your personal experience, | 36:07 | |
| where is anxiety there is inevitably indecision. | 36:09 | |
| As soon as you are all anxious and worried, | 36:13 | |
| you are indecisive, you cannot make up your mind, | 36:16 | |
| and wherever there is anxiety and indecision, | 36:19 | |
| there is inevitably fatigue. | 36:22 | |
| When you are worried and indecisive | 36:25 | |
| you are soon weary, bone weary, | 36:27 | |
| and you take yourself off to the physician, | 36:31 | |
| or the psychiatrist. | 36:34 | |
| Now then what is true for you? | 36:38 | |
| For your family is true for the great family of nations. | 36:40 | |
| That is to say too many hot and cold running wars | 36:44 | |
| for too long, Too many broken treaties, | 36:47 | |
| too many accords turning into discords. | 36:51 | |
| Too many small time crimes | 36:56 | |
| and too many scandals in high places. | 36:58 | |
| "So we are tired," writes the poet. | 37:04 | |
| "We are tired, we cannot reach the top. | 37:07 | |
| We are tired. We want to stop." | 37:10 | |
| Now I tell you, there is a sense of tiredness in the world. | 37:15 | |
| We are in it. | 37:17 | |
| And anxiety and indecision and fatigue lead where? | 37:19 | |
| Lead inevitably to despair. | 37:25 | |
| Anxiety and indecision and fatigue, | 37:30 | |
| they are always the forerunners of despair. | 37:33 | |
| To the feeling that we've will never reach the promise land, | 37:38 | |
| and that every struggle only brings a new defeat. | 37:41 | |
| One of our contemporary playwrights, | 37:45 | |
| wrote in a letter to a friend, | 37:48 | |
| "sometimes life wearies the hell out of me. | 37:50 | |
| And what about the christians? | 37:58 | |
| You do remember the christians? That's us. | 38:01 | |
| Or rather they are we, we are they. | 38:05 | |
| Therefore do we christians change our old hymn, | 38:09 | |
| rise up oh men of God to serve the king of kings? | 38:13 | |
| Do we change it into something like, | 38:16 | |
| sit down you old fools? You can never of a thing. | 38:18 | |
| Well it is a choice, a moral choice that you have to make. | 38:23 | |
| We can sing that swan song if we want to, | 38:28 | |
| we can believe that we are nobody, going nowhere, | 38:30 | |
| and join the crowd going down the drain if we like, | 38:34 | |
| and many will, and many do. | 38:37 | |
| Act on the assumption as a person or as a nation, | 38:42 | |
| that you are on the way down and out, and you are. | 38:47 | |
| But let me tell you something, | 38:55 | |
| that if you decide on despair. | 38:57 | |
| If you decide on despair let me tell you an open secret. | 39:01 | |
| If you decide on despair, history is against you. | 39:07 | |
| As a graduate student told me a couple of years ago | 39:12 | |
| when I was sort of doomsing all around the church, | 39:15 | |
| he said, "you listen to me buddy boy," | 39:19 | |
| graduate students have a way of talking to you like that. | 39:22 | |
| "You listen to me buddy boy," he said, | 39:25 | |
| "if the human race were ever going to run out on itself," | 39:28 | |
| he said, "it missed a fine fat chance, | 39:31 | |
| at the collapse of ancient Babylon, | 39:35 | |
| or the defeat of Egypt, or the fall of Greece, | 39:38 | |
| of the sack of Rome." | 39:39 | |
| But somehow he said, | 39:42 | |
| "the race has not listened to you doomsday boy, | 39:43 | |
| and has kept right on running, | 39:46 | |
| and isn't likely to quit in our time." | 39:47 | |
| And of course he was right. | 39:53 | |
| Even at so later date as the 15th century, | 39:56 | |
| the Nuremberg Chronicle. | 39:58 | |
| And there's a copy of the Nuremberg Chronicle, | 40:00 | |
| over in the rare book room. | 40:02 | |
| I hope you will go and look at it, if you haven't already. | 40:03 | |
| In the 15th century, the Nuremberg Chronicle, | 40:07 | |
| as many of you recall, | 40:10 | |
| left only a very few blank pages at the end of his history, | 40:11 | |
| just five or 10 blank pages. | 40:15 | |
| For he thought the poor old world of the 15th century, | 40:19 | |
| was about all over with and a page or two would suffice | 40:22 | |
| for all the history there was to be ripped. | 40:26 | |
| But no, the ailing world struggled on | 40:31 | |
| through the 16th to the seven 17th century. | 40:36 | |
| The 17th century which it would seem to me, | 40:39 | |
| saw more revolution and persecution and prejudice and plague | 40:42 | |
| more general blood letting and lawlessness, | 40:45 | |
| than the Nuremberg Chronicle I ever dreamed of. | 40:48 | |
| Indeed things were so bad in the 1650s, | 40:52 | |
| our ancestors who hadn't already died, | 40:55 | |
| should logically have all committed suicide. | 40:57 | |
| But here we are to prove they did not. They survived. | 41:01 | |
| And they did survive because they have always been | 41:07 | |
| men and women of courage, of honesty, of integrity, | 41:12 | |
| men and women who never give up, | 41:20 | |
| Who live and always hope against hope, | 41:23 | |
| so that for example in Leicestershire in 1653, | 41:27 | |
| there was a man who did a very curious thing. | 41:31 | |
| He built a church. | 41:35 | |
| There was no time for church building, but he built a church | 41:38 | |
| and there is a bronze marker to this day, | 41:40 | |
| to his memory which reads, | 41:42 | |
| "sacred to the memory of sir Robert Shirley Barnet, | 41:47 | |
| whose singular praise it was, | 41:52 | |
| to have done the best of things, in the worst of times, | 41:55 | |
| and hooked them in the most calamitous." | 42:00 | |
| To have done the best of things, in the worst of times, | 42:05 | |
| and hook them in the most Calamitous. | 42:08 | |
| You see, they have always been these Robert Shirleys. | 42:10 | |
| They have always been good men of sound mind | 42:16 | |
| and honest behavior, politicians included among them. | 42:20 | |
| They have always been aristocrats of the spirit | 42:25 | |
| plain ordinary people and world statesmen, | 42:30 | |
| aristocrats of the spirit, not created by the image makers, | 42:33 | |
| not promoted by the public relations people, | 42:38 | |
| but simple honorable men and women, | 42:42 | |
| because they were what they were, | 42:46 | |
| doing the best things in the worst of times, | 42:50 | |
| and filled with hope even in the midst of corruption, | 42:54 | |
| and or calamity. | 42:57 | |
| They have been like stubborn old Saint Paul, | 43:00 | |
| "redeeming the time just because the days are evil." | 43:04 | |
| They have like Robert Browning's happy warrior, | 43:11 | |
| been able to greet the unseen with a cheer | 43:14 | |
| As for the church. | 43:22 | |
| Well as for the church they have always of course | 43:24 | |
| been Voltaires ready to pronounce the church doomed or dead. | 43:27 | |
| But every age has provided for the church. | 43:34 | |
| Every age has produced men and women | 43:38 | |
| of lively and true character, | 43:43 | |
| based on an honest and humble faith who revived the church. | 43:47 | |
| I recall, let me recall to you | 43:52 | |
| a little bit of your church history. | 43:54 | |
| When the church was skeptical and worldly, | 43:57 | |
| and indifferent to the poor, | 43:59 | |
| there have always been those who brought it back | 44:01 | |
| to the Lordship and to the life of Jesus Christ. | 44:04 | |
| There were the Cluniacs in the 11th century | 44:08 | |
| and the 11th century was a bad century. | 44:10 | |
| There were the distortions in the 12th century, | 44:14 | |
| and the 12th century was bad century. | 44:16 | |
| They were the Franciscans in the 13th | 44:19 | |
| the brotherhood of the common life in the 15th | 44:20 | |
| there was Rasmus in the 16th that were Lutheran, | 44:22 | |
| there were Calvin, and the church is as alive and well, | 44:24 | |
| and living today around the world, | 44:28 | |
| in the midst of ferment and ceaseless change, | 44:31 | |
| as it has ever been. | 44:34 | |
| And as for the great world out there, | 44:39 | |
| as for this great world in which we live, | 44:43 | |
| there is the expanding universe of man himself. | 44:47 | |
| There is the never ending frontier of man's science, | 44:53 | |
| and of the human spirit. | 44:58 | |
| There is the never ceasing literary and artistic creation | 45:00 | |
| of the human mind. | 45:05 | |
| And to cap it all there is I do most firmly believe, | 45:08 | |
| there is very much alive today, | 45:14 | |
| among the plain people of the world, | 45:18 | |
| as among most of its leaders, | 45:20 | |
| a growing sense of the true brotherhood of nations. | 45:21 | |
| So one can be threatened and go down the drain, | 45:30 | |
| if one jolly well wants to. | 45:32 | |
| But I do indeed think as a christian and as a world citizen, | 45:36 | |
| that this is a great time to be alive. | 45:43 | |
| That this is as challenging a moment as in a century, | 45:49 | |
| in man's so short history. | 45:54 | |
| I only wish I could live a little longer, | 45:58 | |
| just to see, to see. | 46:03 | |
| Though I hope the promised land will always be | 46:08 | |
| just around on the bin that man's striving will never cease. | 46:13 | |
| Therefore if you are young, | 46:21 | |
| remember the words of words worth about another age? | 46:25 | |
| Bliss said he, it was to be alive, | 46:30 | |
| but to be young was very heaven. | 46:34 | |
| Well for the young I think to be alive today is very heaven. | 46:41 | |
| And if you are growing old hold onto the words of the aging, | 46:47 | |
| Victor Hugo, "winter is on my head," said the old man, | 46:54 | |
| "but spring," spring he said, "is ever in my heart." | 47:01 | |
| Now the christian can well do this, | 47:11 | |
| for we remember the words of the Sisson Cohan, | 47:16 | |
| "lift up your hearts." | 47:21 | |
| We lift them up unto the Lord. | 47:26 | |
| So may it be, Let us pray. | 47:34 | |
| Before Almighty God, | 47:48 | |
| let us remember the words of the 27th Psalmist, | 47:52 | |
| wait on the Lord. Be of good courage, | 47:57 | |
| and He shall strengthen thine heart. | 48:02 | |
| Wait I say on the Lord. | 48:05 | |
| And before Almighty God, | 48:11 | |
| let us recall the words of St. Paul, | 48:12 | |
| "for I am persuaded that nothing, | 48:16 | |
| neither life nor death, nor things present, | 48:21 | |
| nor things yet to come. | 48:26 | |
| Absolutely nothing shall ever be able separate us | 48:30 | |
| from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." | 48:36 | |
| In the name of the Father, and of the Son, | 48:45 | |
| and of the Holy Spirit, amen. | 48:49 | |
| (upbeat piano music) | 48:57 | |
| - | Accept oh Lord these gifts of our hands, | 1:00:50 |
| together with the renewed courage of our hearts, | 1:00:54 | |
| as token of our citizenship in thy kingdom, | 1:00:59 | |
| through Jesus Christ our Lord, amen. | 1:01:04 | |
| (upbeat piano music) | 1:01:09 | |
| Now may the peace of God, which passeth all understanding | 1:05:52 | |
| keep your hearts and minds, | 1:05:57 | |
| in the knowledge and love of God, | 1:06:00 | |
| and of the son Jesus Christ our Lord | 1:06:03 | |
| and the blessing of God Almighty Father, Son and Holy Spirit | 1:06:07 | |
| be among you and remain with you always, amen. | 1:06:13 | |
| ♪ Amen, amen, amen, amen, amen, amen ♪ | 1:06:24 | |
| (bell ringing) | 1:07:28 | |
| (upbeat piano music) | 1:07:42 |