Waldo Beach - Music Building Weekend - The Ministry of Music (October 20, 1974)

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	(gentle organ music)	0:05
	(gentle organ music continues)	1:05
-	Dear friends in Christ, will you join with me as we pray?	2:01
	Almighty God,	2:07
	in whose presence are pleasures forever,	2:10
	we pray that as redeemed and forgiven children,	2:14
	we may always rejoice in singing your praises.	2:18
	Grant that what we sing with our lips,	2:22
	we may believe in our hearts,	2:24
	and what we believe in our hearts	2:27
	we may practice in our lives,	2:29
	so that we may be doers of the Word and not hearers only,	2:31
	and may receive life everlasting.	2:37
	Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.	2:40
	(choir vocalizing)	2:52
	(organ music)	4:01
	(organ music continues)	4:33
	(choir vocalizing)	4:50
	(organ music continues)	5:21
	(choir continues vocalizing)	5:40
	(organ music continues)	6:13
	(choir continues vocalizing)	6:57
	(organ music continues)	7:29
	(choir continues vocalizing)	8:01
	(organ music continues)	8:29
	Grace to you and peace	9:19
	from God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ.	9:23
	As we have sung the praises of God,	9:29
	it is fitting now that we should accept our humanness	9:33
	as we confess our sins, individually and corporately,	9:38
	in the presence of God, and to God.	9:44
	Let us pray.	9:48
	O God, we are people who live as icebergs.	9:51
	Most of our creativity, our feelings, our love,	9:56
	our potential, lies dormant, submerged.	10:01
	We hide our talents, we have been frozen people	10:05
	living in the narrowly confining security	10:10
	of our present existence.	10:13
	O eternal God, when our eyes are too full of our own vision,	10:16
	when our ears are too full of our own sounds,	10:21
	when our mouths are too full of our own wisdoms,	10:25
	when our hearts are too full of our own concerns,	10:29
	break through. Liberate us from the narrow worlds,	10:33
	which constrict our souls.	10:38
	Liberate us from the fear,	10:40
	which blinds us to the newness of your work.	10:42
	Liberate us from the preoccupation with the trivial	10:46
	and uneasiness with the great.	10:50
	Liberate us into your Kingdom, O God, we pray. Amen.	10:53
	Let us continue with our individual conversations	10:59
	with God Almighty.	11:05
	May the almighty and merciful God grant us pardon,	11:25
	forgiveness, and renewal of life	11:30
	through the remission of our sins.	11:35
	Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.	11:39
	(soft organ music)	11:56
	(soft organ music continues)	12:44
	♪ Hallelujah, hallelujah ♪	13:02
	♪ Hallelujah, hallelujah ♪	13:21
	♪ Hallelujah, hallelujah ♪	13:36
	♪ Hallelujah, hallelujah ♪	13:42
	♪ Hallelujah, hallelujah ♪	13:45
	♪ Praise be the Lord ♪	13:58
	♪ Praise God in his temple ♪	14:02
	♪ Praise be the Lord ♪	14:08
	(choir singing)	14:13
	(soft organ music continues)	14:18
	♪ And the greatness of his wonders ♪	14:24
	♪ Oh praise him, praise him ♪	14:30
	♪ According to his majesty ♪	14:36
	♪ Praise the Lord, praise the Lord ♪	14:42
	♪ Praise the Lord with the sound of the drum ♪	14:46
	♪ Praise the Lord, praise the Lord ♪	14:49
	♪ Praise the Lord ♪	14:51
	(choir vocalizing)	14:54
	(soft organ music continues)	14:57
	♪ Praise him, praise him ♪	15:19
	(choir vocalizing)	15:23
	(soft organ music continues)	15:31
	♪ Praise him, praise him ♪	15:36
	(choir vocalizing)	15:40
	♪ Praise, praise the Lord ♪	15:58
	♪ Praise, praise the Lord ♪	16:01
	♪ Oh praise be the Lord, ♪	16:10
	♪ Praise God in his temple ♪	16:15
	♪ Praise be the Lord ♪	16:20
	(choir vocalizing)	16:26
	(soft organ music continues)	16:31
	♪ And the greatness of his wonders ♪	16:37
	♪ Oh praise him, oh praise him ♪	16:42
	♪ According to his majesty ♪	16:47
	♪ Praise the Lord, praise the Lord ♪	16:53
	♪ Praise the Lord ♪	16:55
	♪ Praise the Lord with the sound of the drum ♪	16:57
	(choir vocalizing)	17:00
	♪ Praise the Lord, praise the Lord ♪	17:03
	(choir vocalizing)	17:06
	(organ music continues)	17:09
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	17:14
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	17:18
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	17:22
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	17:29
	Oh, sing to the Lord a new song.	17:49
	Sing to the Lord, all the Earth.	17:53
	Sing to the Lord, bless his name.	17:56
	Tell of his salvation from day to day.	17:59
	Declare his glory among the nations,	18:04
	his marvelous works among all the peoples,	18:07
	for great is the Lord and greatly to be praised.	18:11
	He is to be feared above all gods,	18:16
	for all the gods of the peoples are idols,	18:20
	but the Lord made the Heavens.	18:25
	Honor and majesty are before him.	18:28
	Strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.	18:32
	Ascribe to the Lord, O families of the peoples.	18:37
	Ascribe to the Lord glory and strength.	18:41
	Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name,	18:44
	bring an offering and come into his courts.	18:48
	Worship the Lord in holy array,	18:52
	tremble before him all the Earth.	18:55
	Say among the nations, the Lord reigns.	19:00
	Ye, the world is established. It shall never be moved.	19:03
	He will judge the peoples with equity.	19:07
	Let the Heavens be glad and let the Earth rejoice.	19:11
	Let the sea roar and all that fills it.	19:15
	Let the field exalt and everything in it.	19:19
	Then shall all the trees of the wood sing for joy	19:23
	before the Lord, for he comes,	19:27
	for he comes to judge the Earth.	19:31
	He will judge the world with righteousness	19:34
	and the peoples with his truth.	19:38
	(organ music)	19:44
	(choir vocalizing)	19:52
	Together, let us affirm our faith.	20:26
	We are not alone. We live in God's world.	20:30
	We believe in God, who has created and is creating.	20:35
	Who has come in the true man, Jesus,	20:40
	to reconcile and make new.	20:43
	He works in us and others by his spirit.	20:46
	We trust him.	20:50
	He calls us to be in his church,	20:52
	to celebrate his presence,	20:55
	to love and serve others, to seek justice and resist evil,	20:58
	proclaim Jesus crucified and risen,	21:04
	our judge and our hope in life, in death,	21:08
	in life beyond death, God is with us. We are not alone.	21:13
	Thanks be to God.	21:19
	The Lord be with you.	21:22
All	Let us pray.	21:25
-	Let us pray.
	Lord God eternal, giver of all good gifts,	21:37
	we thank you for the world about us.	21:42
	A sheltering roof, a plate of food, a friend.	21:45
	This university with its concerned and sensitive students,	21:51
	faculty, administration, and supporting staff.	21:56
	For the beauty of the buildings and trees and flowers,	22:00
	but especially for this place,	22:04
	where we can be together with our friends and family	22:08
	and neighbors to sing and play and pray and hear your word.	22:10
	We thank you, O God, for the world within our consciences,	22:18
	bothered when things are wrong, assured when they are right.	22:24
	Our hearts, troubled when we or another hurt,	22:29
	but joyful when victory comes.	22:34
	Our minds, dormant when not used,	22:38
	but alive when stimulated or challenged.	22:41
	Our spirits, low when we are burdened,	22:45
	but radiant when we are sure of our strength and yours.	22:50
	Our wills, passive before the small things of life,	22:57
	but determined before the larger demands.	23:02
	For life without and within,	23:06
	we give you, O God, thanks and praise.	23:09
	In this service of worship now, O God,	23:14
	we give thanks for the presence on this campus	23:18
	of the Mary Duke Biddle Music Building.	23:20
	Warm the hearts, inspire the spirits,	23:24
	and enlighten the minds of all who work	23:27
	and study and learn and are inspired there.	23:31
	For those who give this building,	23:36
	for those who planned it and saw it come to reality,	23:38
	for all those and for all students and others	23:43
	who have long for this day and now rejoice in it.	23:48
	We give you thanks and praise.	23:52
	You have taught us in Christ, O God,	23:57
	to care for our neighbors.	24:00
	Now we remember those on the pew beside us,	24:05
	across the hall or across the street from us,	24:10
	or the stranger around the world.	24:14
	Rule our lives in class, in home, in dormitory,	24:20
	in work and in play.	24:24
	Keep, O God, troubling our consciences	24:27
	about the needs of others as long as they have need.	24:31
	Please heal the sick by holding them in your peace.	24:37
	Give the sorrowing great confidence	24:44
	because of your ever present love.	24:47
	Help us now, O God,	24:52
	to answer our own prayers as best we can,	24:54
	and to trust you for answers only you can give.	25:00
	Through Jesus Christ who loves us,	25:07
	cares for us and sustains us,	25:10
	who teaches us to pray as we pray together.	25:14
	Our Father who art in Heaven, hallowed be thy name.	25:19
	Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on Earth	25:24
	as it is in Heaven.	25:29
	Give us this day our daily bread	25:31
	and forgive us our trespasses,	25:34
	as we forgive those who trespass against us.	25:37
	And lead us not into temptation,	25:41
	but deliver us from evil.	25:44
	Thine is the kingdom of power and the glory forever. Amen.	25:46
	On this weekend,	25:56
	which has seen so many moving and enriching experiences in	25:59
	the life of this university,	26:04
	I think it is most appropriate,	26:08
	and those who have planned this weekend also feel	26:12
	it most appropriate,	26:14
	that the service of worship in this place	26:17
	should relate in a meaningful way to	26:21
	all that has gone before and, trusting God,	26:24
	all that will come after.	26:29
	In this place, where week after week, Sunday after Sunday,	26:32
	Ben Smith and Lloyd Dooley, and now Finner Douglas,	26:37
	lead us with organ music and with choral music	26:42
	and a choir the likes of which I doubt	26:48
	that any of us have seen or heard.	26:51
	Share themselves and share the beauty	26:54
	and the majesty of music with us.	26:56
	It is fitting that we should worship God in praise	26:58
	and in thanksgiving and in commemoration	27:01
	of the dedication of the Mary Duke Biddle Music Building.	27:04
	We're pleased to have members of the family here,	27:09
	members of the board of trustees,	27:13
	and others who have made it possible for us	27:16
	to come to this high moment.	27:19
	Dr. Waldo Beach, an artist in his own right,	27:22
	in music and in poetry.	27:28
	Professor of Christian ethics and the divinity school will	27:31
	proclaim God's word to us.	27:34
	And we hear you with anticipation and joy, Dr. Beach.	27:38
-	As all of you are more than fully aware,	27:59
	by this time this weekend,	28:02
	we are celebrating the place of music	28:06
	in the life of this university,	28:11
	as we dedicate a new major building	28:15
	for the music department.	28:18
	But since music goes on at many other centers	28:22
	of this campus also, and especially in this chapel,	28:27
	it is fitting to try to frame into words	28:34
	the relation of music to worship	28:39
	in our common university life.	28:44
	Really this service were better sung than said throughout.	28:50
	For what is said in the prose of words	28:58
	cannot do full justice to what the poetry	29:02
	of song would express.	29:06
	But let me try.	29:10
	Why is this chapel at the center of this campus?	29:13
	Not only architecturally, but as a center of	29:19
	emotional attachment for those who come here?	29:26
	And what is it in its worship in organ music, in song,	29:34
	in word proclaimed in prayer?	29:40
	What is it is crucial to our sanity and our health?	29:44
	Worship is the celebration of the power and grace of God	29:53
	in and for our common life together.	30:00
	It is much more than the conventional,	30:05
	often sterile routine of the 11 o'clock Sunday service	30:09
	of nice, comfortable middle-aged people in suburbia,	30:17
	the weary sequence of hymns and announcements	30:22
	and preliminaries leading up to a 20 minute moral daydream,	30:26
	and the closing hymn and escape	30:33
	to pleasant chit-chat with friends at the door.	30:36
	High worship, rather,	30:44
	is the encounter of man with a transcendent source	30:47
	and ground of his existence.	30:52
	It may take a great variety of forms.	30:56
	The high sacramental form of Eastern orthodoxy	31:01
	or of the Roman Catholic mass,	31:06
	or the many Protestant forms with emphasis	31:09
	on congregational participation and the centrality	31:13
	of the word and its interpretation in preaching.	31:18
	Whatever be the variety,	31:25
	there is a constant,	31:29
	a certain dramatic structure in the encounter	31:32
	of God with man,	31:37
	for which a plausible analogy might be	31:41
	a concerto of three movements.	31:45
	The first movement of worship is praise and wonder.	31:52
	The spirit is that of adoration,	31:57
	thanksgiving, honor, reverence, awe.	32:01
	As one comes into the presence of the majesty	32:06
	and the beauty and the power of God	32:09
	and knows that he is standing on holy ground	32:13
	in the midst of the mysterium tremendum,	32:18
	the most apt medium of praise is song.	32:23
	The surging spirit of praise breaks the confines	32:30
	of the spoken word.	32:35
	It bursts into song,	32:38
	(speaking Latin)	32:41
	It is not thus at all strange that worship and music	32:47
	have gone together all the way down through	32:52
	the history of the church.	32:55
	It goes way back.	32:58
	Moses after the Exodus.	33:02
	The Lord is my strength and my song.	33:05
	The legends of David and his harp.	33:09
	Many of the Psalms are songs of David.	33:13
	The sound of trumpets, flutes, stringed instruments,	33:18
	all are hertz striking the notes of praise.	33:23
	There's a mixed choir of 200 voices in the book of Ezra.	33:28
	The New Testament opens with angels singing over Bethlehem	33:35
	in a starlit night.	33:40
	Glory to God in the highest on Earth, peace, goodwill,	33:43
	it ends with the choirs of angels	33:49
	of Heaven singing hallelujah before the throne of God.	33:53
	The medieval church develops the plain song	34:02
	and the mass sung in Latin.	34:05
	With the reformation, there was a great burst of music.	34:09
	The hymns of Luther,	34:16
	the contatas, the motets,	34:20
	and the masses of Johann Sebastian Bach,	34:23
	who took the folk tunes of his day, often,	34:28
	and made them into the chorals.	34:33
	No other musician ever equaled	34:36
	his output of doxologies.	34:40
	I must confess to a personal prejudice here,	34:47
	though it may be one shared by those	34:52
	who are sitting behind me.	34:55
	To say that there is no ecstasy,	34:58
	no Heaven like the continual praise of God in song.	35:03
	The nearest analogy to hell on Earth that I can imagine	35:12
	would it be to be stuck forever in the middle	35:20
	of the Baltimore tunnel with trucks roaring	35:24
	by day and night,	35:28
	consigned to listen to muzak in perpetuity.	35:30
	(congregation laughs)	35:36
	The nearest analogy to Heaven, on the other hand,	35:41
	would be an unending choir rehearsal	35:46
	around the Heavenly throne,	35:50
	singing all of the 295 cantatas of Bach	35:55
	and the masses and the motets and the passion music.	35:59
	If we ever came to the end of the cycle,	36:06
	we would just start all over again.	36:09
	Of course, when I say we,	36:15
	I may be presuming an early admission decision	36:20
	not warranted by my credentials.	36:24
	(light laughter)	36:27
	Be that as it may,	36:29
	there's a wonderful comment of Carl Bart, the theologian.	36:34
	"In Heaven", he said,	36:40
	"on official occasions,	36:42
	"the angels always sing Bach to God.	36:46
	"But", he added, "when off duty,	36:52
	"they play Mozart for each other.	36:56
	" And God sometimes comes in to listen	37:00
	"because they're having so much fun".	37:02
	The first book published in north America, in English,	37:09
	was a hymn book. The Bay Psalm Book. 1640.	37:16
	A translation of the Psalms into metrical form	37:23
	for the congregation to sing.	37:27
	The Puritans of Massachusetts Bay	37:32
	were strictly biblical, of course.	37:35
	Excluding anything that embellished	37:39
	or departed from God's word.	37:41
	As Richard Mather's preface to the book says,	37:47
	"God's alter needs not our polishings.	37:52
	"By attending conscience rather than elegance,	37:59
	"We may sing in Zion the Lord songs of praise,	38:03
	"according to his own will,	38:08
	"until he takes us from hence and wipes away	38:12
	"all our tears and bids us enter into our master's joy	38:16
	"to sing eternal hallelujahs".	38:22
	There is a sparse but lyrics swing in the Bay Psalm Book.	38:27
	It really has to be sung to be felt.	38:34
	The Lord to me a shepherd is,	38:39
	want therefore shall not I.	38:43
	He in the foals of tender grass doth cause me down to lie.	38:47
	To waters calm me gently, leads restore my soul, doth he.	38:53
	He doth in paths of righteousness,	39:02
	for his name's sake lead me.	39:05
	And it ends.	39:11
	Goodness and mercy surely shall all my days follow me.	39:14
	And in the Lord's house,	39:21
	I shall dwell so long as days shall be.	39:23
	Music accompanied the church as it moved in America west	39:31
	with the great revivals,	39:38
	and Charles Wesley's hymns put into song,	39:40
	the fervor of his brother, John Wesley's,	39:44
	revival in England and in America.	39:47
	The romantic movement found in the classic forms	39:54
	of the masses and requiems,	39:57
	the highest expression of religious feeling.	39:59
	Schubert, Brahms, Verdi. Cesar Franck.	40:05
	Negro spirituals voiced the faith of the oppressed.	40:11
	In our own era,	40:17
	we hear tediums cast in the idiom of abrupt angular,	40:20
	even harsh style.	40:27
	Folk music, jazz, jarring atonalities. Yes.	40:31
	But whether it be the jazz mass	40:37
	or the more formal structures of a Poulenc,	40:39
	or Benjamin Britain or Ian Hamilton,	40:43
	the theme always is that of praise.	40:47
	The key is major, the tempo a brisk.	40:52
	Allegro Con Brio.	40:57
	The mood, a joyous wonder that in the presence of	41:00
	the great mystery and the great goodness	41:04
	that surrounds our little life,	41:09
	we are impelled to bow in reverence and sing loud.	41:12
	(speaks Latin)	41:17
	The second movement of worship is subjective.	41:24
	It is the celebration of the human condition,	41:30
	in its needs, it's confusion,	41:34
	it's loneliness, it's sorrow, it's despair.	41:36
	Or for the confession of the sins of petty pride,	41:44
	arrogance, deceit, or deranged devotions.	41:50
	Usually here the mode shifts from major to minor.	41:58
	We come into the house of God,	42:05
	into the presence of the holy one of Israel	42:08
	in praise and wonder,	42:11
	then by the light of infinity,	42:15
	we are made aware of our finitude,	42:19
	as put in the prayer of the Breton Fishermen,	42:27
	O God, thy sea is so great.	42:32
	My boat is so small.	42:37
	The subjective movement of worship is the one in which I	42:44
	acknowledge that I am over anxious for my life,	42:48
	angry with my neighbor,	42:52
	confused about what I'm here for,	42:56
	caught in a bramble of many trivial details,	43:00
	feeling all grungy and messed up inside.	43:05
	What we are most aware of in this movement	43:12
	is the dissonance of our secular existence.	43:16
	It may be the sharp jabbing dissonance of pain.	43:24
	The death or sickness of one dear to us.	43:30
	It may be the dull dissonance of listless living.	43:35
	The vacant tedium of middle years.	43:42
	When the bright shoots of glory	43:48
	and color have faded into gray,	43:51
	it may be a petulant sullen dissonance,	43:55
	evoked by the D in the mid-semester chemistry quiz.	44:02
	Or the quarrel with a roommate,	44:10
	or the nasty political hassle in the fraternity,	44:12
	or a love affair strained or broken.	44:16
	Whatever it is, the structure of full worship contains	44:22
	the confession of sins,	44:29
	the prayers of petition, intercession,	44:33
	the acknowledgement of need, of uncertainty,	44:36
	of despair, in the presence of one who looks on the heart.	44:40
	And music again becomes the fitting medium	44:49
	to voice human need.	44:54
	(speaks Latin)	44:57
	Have mercy.	45:01
	Yet justice shadow cannot be seen for shadow,	45:06
	except by reference to light,	45:12
	just as in architecture we cannot describe	45:17
	something as asymmetrical,	45:23
	except by a prior norm of symmetry.	45:25
	Or as in music,	45:31
	dissonance is heard for such by a prior ear for harmony.	45:33
	So to here is an analogy for the human experience,	45:41
	celebrated in worship.	45:47
	For the awareness of disorder carries	45:49
	also the memory of what was ordered.	45:52
	Estrangement remembers a prior concord	46:00
	of trusted friendship.	46:03
	Prodigal loneliness and lostness recalls how it feels	46:07
	to be at home.	46:15
	In the presence of God,	46:18
	the second movement of worship, the subjective movement,	46:21
	is not then just private disgruntled thumb sucking,	46:26
	or naval gazing.	46:32
	It is the experience of sin, sorrow, and confusion	46:36
	in the light and presence of	46:40
	God's holiness, majesty and order.	46:43
	The third movement in the divine human encounter of worship	46:51
	is where the grace of God comes to meet us	46:57
	at our point of need, and where we are restored.	47:03
	It moves back to a major key.	47:09
	The tempo is bright.	47:12
	For the God of the Christian faith,	47:17
	the God known in Jesus Christ,	47:20
	is a God who heals and restores,	47:24
	who redeems and renews,	47:28
	who provides resources of grace sufficient for every need.	47:31
	Forms in which God's grace meet human need	47:41
	are as varied as the many needs and complexes	47:44
	of everyone in this worshiping congregation.	47:49
	Grace may come as insight of moral guidance	47:58
	on a difficult ethical choice.	48:02
	It may come as solace to loss.	48:07
	It may come as renewal of strength of will	48:10
	to one dispirited and discouraged.	48:16
	To pick up Monday's task with new inspiration and hope.	48:21
	Grace may come as a far perspective on a near event,	48:30
	setting priorities straight again	48:36
	about what is important in life and what is insignificant.	48:40
	In whatever form it comes,	48:48
	grace is the assurance that there is a great yes	48:51
	at the end of all the little nos	48:58
	and little yeses which make up the tangle of our days.	49:03
	Through grace we are made whole by a power not ourselves.	49:11
	Who redeems your life from destruction,	49:17
	who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy,	49:20
	who satisfies you with good,	49:25
	as long as you live,	49:28
	so that your youth is renewed like the eagles.	49:30
	Grace resolves the dissonance.	49:38
	Life does not forever go on hung up	49:43
	as though on a dominant seventh in second inversion,	49:47
	or with an A sharp grating against the A natural.	49:53
	By grace it is resolved into a major triad, the tonic,	50:01
	so worship closes with a Gloria or a (speaks Latin).	50:07
	And then amen.	50:16
	This gracious final movement in worship	50:21
	is beautifully put in a poem of Amos Wilder called	50:26
	Discard and Resolution.	50:33
	As in a snow fall,	50:39
	the Vesper bells that call men from the fields	50:42
	to the evening meal come dissonant and muted,	50:46
	their changes jumbled in the swarming dust.	50:52
	As through a swirling fog,	51:00
	the dead clangs of the bell boy swinging to	51:03
	the surges reach us muffled and awry,	51:09
	deranged in the smother.	51:15
	So the totaling of being is damped and untuned.	51:21
	The chime of creation and the diapason of	51:27
	the heart jangled by a swarm, a fate of lesser things,	51:32
	until by some hertless ban,	51:41
	that old world weather clears and	51:46
	that old encroachment is dispelled.	51:50
	And we hear again the clamor of the angelic choirs	51:55
	on true pitch, and their well tempered accords,	52:00
	as when the morning stars sang together	52:08
	and all the sons of God shouted for joy.	52:13
	Amen. Let us pray.	52:23
	All mighty God who has given us minds to know thee,	52:34
	hearts to love thee, and voices to sing thy praise,	52:41
	sustain us ever, we pray thee,	52:50
	by the might of thy grace and renew us daily	52:55
	by thy Holy Spirit,	52:59
	that the work of our hands,	53:03
	the searches of our minds,	53:06
	and the songs of our hearts,	53:11
	may be acts of worship brought to thine alter	53:15
	and found fitting and acceptable in thy sight.	53:23
	Who are the strength and the song of our life.	53:29
	Through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen.	53:36
-	Let the congregation stand for	53:52
	the response through dedication.	53:55
	Creativity is inherent in human nature.	54:03
	(overlapped confirmations)	54:07
	In a sense, every person is to be an artist.	54:10
	(overlapped confirmations)	54:14
	We are told to go to work and subdue the Earth.	54:16
	(overlapped confirmations)	54:19
	Groaning in travail, waiting to be saved and made whole.	54:24
	(overlapped confirmations)	54:29
	The world is waiting to receive our work.	54:32
	(overlapped confirmations)	54:36
	Because creation was just the beginning.	54:40
	(overlapped confirmations)	54:42
	And it is part of the artist to bear witness to the	54:44
	potential of all people.	54:47
	(overlapped confirmations)	54:50
	To evoke in our century of vision of human conditions,	54:56
	more worthy of the development of the potential	55:00
	of all people.	55:03
	(overlapped confirmations)
	By lifting up our hearts,	55:09
	by reminding us of the courage and honor	55:11
	and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice	55:13
	which have been the glory of the past.	55:19
	(overlapped confirmations)	55:22
	May the universe offer to us the symbol and	55:27
	the form of true harmony and beauty.	55:30
	(overlapped confirmations)	55:34
	What is at stake, Lord?	55:37
	Is the element wherein you will to dwell here on Earth?	55:39
	(overlapped confirmations)	55:45
	(upbeat organ music)	55:50
	(choir vocalizing)	56:33
	(upbeat organ music continues)	56:51
	(choir continues vocalizing)	57:22
	(upbeat organ music continues)	57:48
	(choir continues vocalizing)	58:30
	(organ music continues)	58:58
	(organ music continues)	59:42
	(fast paced organ music)	1:00:34
	(choir vocalizing)	1:00:58
	(choir continues vocalizing)	1:01:39
	(fast paced organ music continues)	1:02:08
	(choir continues vocalizing)	1:02:16
	(fast paced organ music continues)	1:03:00
	(choir vocalizing)	1:03:27
	(fast paced organ music continues)	1:03:59
	(organ music)	1:04:28
	(choir vocalizing)	1:04:35
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	1:04:45
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	1:04:48
	(choir vocalizing)	1:04:51
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	1:05:02
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	1:05:05
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	1:05:08
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	1:05:11
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	1:05:16
	(choir vocalizing)	1:05:26
	(preacher talking distantly)	1:05:34
	Which we now bring before you.	1:05:41
	consecrate us for the experiences and the needs of this day,	1:05:44
	and lead us in the way of true understanding	1:05:49
	and faithful service,	1:05:52
	through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen.	1:05:54
	(organ music)	1:06:01
	(choir vocalizing)	1:06:40
	(choir continues vocalizing)	1:07:18
	(organ music continues)	1:07:30
	(choir continues vocalizing)	1:08:11
	(organ music continues)	1:08:31
	(choir continues vocalizing)	1:09:10
	(organ music continues)	1:09:33
	The grace of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ,	1:10:05
	the love of God,	1:10:10
	the communion and fellowship of the Holy Spirit	1:10:13
	be with you this day and forever.	1:10:18
	(choir vocalizing)	1:10:27
	(choir continues vocalizing)	1:11:02
	♪ Amen ♪	1:11:14
	♪ Amen ♪	1:11:21
	(bell tolling)	1:11:39
	(fast paced organ music)	1:11:52
	(fast paced organ music continues)	1:12:45

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Title:

Waldo Beach - Music Building Weekend - The Ministry of Music (October 20, 1974)

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Date:

October 20, 1974

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Beach, Waldo

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Duke University. Chapel

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