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First Preacher	Oh God,	0:46
	we wait now before your presence.	0:48
	Uncloud our hearts	0:55
	that we may hear your good news.	0:58
	Steal our inner turmoil	1:02
	that we may possess ourselves	1:06
	undistracted for these moments,	1:09
	waiting with all our hopes,	1:13
	listening for your word to us, Amen.	1:16
	(choir singing)	1:24
	We have been given life,	7:52
	but we have not always lived responsibly.	7:55
	We have been called to freedom,	7:59
	but we have found the burden too heavy.	8:02
	We have turned from God	8:06
	to live in self-deception,	8:09
	and to serve faults gods.	8:12
	Let us now confess our sin before God	8:15
	and our neighbor.	8:19
	Let us pray.	8:21
	Almighty God, your son cleanse the temple.	8:24
	We confess that on chaos of our time	8:29
	begins in your church.	8:33
	What right have we to condemn the world?	8:36
	We have built great shrines while	8:40
	(mumbles)	8:43
	and pleaded for our larger budgets while the poor go hungry	8:45
	and prepared are reverent prayers while bombs falls,	8:50
	then we pretend to be happy with cash and comfort	8:56
	though we know in secret that our day is a barren.	9:01
	We are always on the go	9:06
	because we are trying to run away from you	9:09
	as if we could.	9:13
	Though we make our bed in hell, you are there	9:15
	cleanse us though by fire,	9:21
	wash us that we may be whiter than snow.	9:25
	In silence we wait your coming	9:29
	through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen.	9:33
	Oh, holy God hear the personal priors of confession.	9:39
	Hear the good news.	10:02
	When we confess our sins and a truly sorry,	10:04
	we are able to receive the forgiveness	10:08
	that God always offers to us.	10:12
	Accept this forgiveness and rejoice in it, Amen.	10:15
	(orchestral music)	10:22
Second Preacher	The lesson is from Isaiah.	17:26
	Behold the Lord's hand is not shortened that it cannot save	17:29
	or His ear dull that it cannot hear.	17:35
	But your iniquities have made separation	17:38
	between you and your God	17:41
	and your sins have hid his face from you	17:44
	so that he does not hear.	17:47
	For your hands are defiled with blood	17:50
	and your fingers with iniquity,	17:53
	your lips have spoken lies,	17:55
	your tongue mutters wickedness.	17:58
	No one in a suit justly,	18:01
	no one goes to law honestly,	18:04
	they rely on empty pleas,	18:06
	they speak lies,	18:08
	they conceive mischief and bring forth inequity.	18:09
	Their feet run to evil,	18:14
	they make haste to shed innocent blood,	18:16
	their thoughts are thoughts of inequity.	18:19
	Desolation and destruction are in their highways.	18:22
	The way of peace they know not	18:26
	and there there is no justice in their past.	18:29
	They have made their roads crooked,	18:33
	no one who goes in them knows peace.	18:35
	Therefore, justice is far from us	18:39
	and righteousness does not overtake us.	18:42
	We look for light and behold darkness	18:45
	and look for brightness, but we walk in gloom.	18:48
	(orchestral music continues)	18:55
First Preacher	That has corporately affirm our faith.	19:34
	We are not alone.	19:38
	We live in God's world,	19:40
	We believe in God who has created and is creating,	19:43
	who has come in through the head Jesus,	19:49
	to reconcile and make new,	19:52
	who works in us and others by his spirit,	19:55
	we trust him,	19:59
	He calls us to be his church,	20:01
	to celebrate his presence,	20:04
	to love and serve all of us,	20:07
	to proclaim Jesus, crucified and visit	20:10
	our judge and our hope,	20:14
	in life, in death and life beyond death,	20:17
	God is with us,	20:22
	we are not alone,	20:24
	thanks be to God.	20:27
	The Lord be with you,	20:29
	(mumblings)	20:31
	let us pray.	20:33
	Oh God of might and power,	20:44
	our Lord.	20:47
	All of our words stumble before your glory.	20:50
	Our hearts remember it,	20:55
	our eyes have seen it beyond the bounds of sight.	20:57
	Our souls have found it in the sanctuary of prayer,	21:02
	we bow before your glory.	21:07
	Hear our prayers of Thanksgiving	21:12
	for these visions of your wonder, your glory, your majesty,	21:15
	and your tender caring.	21:21
	For this university which offers us	21:25
	the opportunity to equip ourselves,	21:28
	to be responsible stewards of our lives and of the world.	21:30
	For relationships which are sustained	21:39
	and strengthened through trouble,	21:42
	sorrow,	21:44
	anguish,	21:46
	and anger as well as joy.	21:47
	For our families and friends	21:52
	who love and care for us even when we are unloving.	21:55
	We now lift in prayer	22:03
	the intimate problems of our lives, oh God,	22:05
	our personal problems,	22:08
	our family problems,	22:11
	our community problems.	22:14
	There are griefs to be comforted,	22:20
	temptations which we can rise above,	22:23
	prosperity which need not make us prime,	22:28
	difficulties which we can overcome	22:33
	and precious which need not break us.	22:38
	Oh God, we need your help	22:43
	and in the quiet of this sanctuary,	22:48
	we would not escape from life.	22:51
	For we hear in the silence of this place, the sound	22:55
	of footsteps of those who look for work	23:02
	and cannot find it,	23:04
	the cries of parents who do not have enough food	23:08
	for their children,	23:11
	the pain of those who are crushed by our economic crisis,	23:14
	the groans of those who are sick,	23:20
	the haunted sounds of those who are lonely,	23:24
	the screams of those who can find no peace	23:28
	in their mind and souls.	23:31
	Disturb us we beseech you oh God,	23:34
	by the sounds of grief within our midst	23:37
	and from the world outside.	23:41
	Let none of us rest content.	23:45
	But oh God, the burden of this world is great	23:49
	and our hands are small.	23:54
	The mystery of life is very deep and our love falters.	23:58
	Strengthen our hands,	24:05
	empower our love,	24:08
	direct our wheels,	24:11
	help us to meet some needs,	24:13
	to lift some burden,	24:16
	to bring some comfort.	24:19
	All this we pray in the spirit of our Lord	24:23
	who taught us to pray.	24:26
	Our father who art in heaven,	24:29
	hallowed be thy name,	24:33
	thy kingdom come,	24:35
	thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.	24:37
	Give us this day our daily bread	24:42
	and forgive us our trespasses,	24:45
	as we forgive those who trespass against us	24:48
	and lead us not into temptation,	24:52
	but deliver us from evil,	24:55
	for thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory	24:58
	forever and ever, Amen.	25:02
	We welcome those of you who are here for parents weekend.	25:08
	It is always good to have you worship with us	25:13
	when you visit your sons and daughters.	25:15
	And we welcome those of you who are	25:18
	members of our regular worship in congregation	25:20
	and others of you who may have come for this special Sunday.	25:23
	There is no more appropriate person	25:27
	to welcome Reverend Andrew Young	25:30
	to this pulpit than Dr. Sam Cook,	25:32
	who is a close personal friend of both Mr. Young	25:35
	and the person who was supposed to be speaking today.	25:41
	(mumbles)	25:47
Dr. Sam	And the struggle for social justice	26:02
	and a more humane society.	26:06
	Congressman Young is a symbol	26:10
	of both continuity and discontinuity.	26:12
	And trained of the strategy and tactics	26:17
	of the civil rights movement,	26:19
	he represents a deep element of discontinuity.	26:22
	The creative and primary use of the political process	26:27
	as a means of institutional reform and social change.	26:32
	He was the first black person to be elected to Congress	26:38
	from the south in the 20th century.	26:42
	In terms of continuity,	26:46
	he represents a magnificent blend of realism, humanism	26:49
	and idealism.	26:55
	Like Martin Luther King Jr.	26:58
	with whom he was closely associated for a number of years.	26:59
	Andy Young is profound the committed	27:04
	to non-violent social change,	27:06
	to human justice and civility	27:09
	unto the beloved community.	27:13
	Like Dr. King, he is a person of genuine character,	27:16
	humility,	27:19
	integrity, and humanness division.	27:22
	Again like Dr. King,	27:26
	he has a dream.	27:29
	(mumbles)	27:33
	once made the observation	27:34
	that in politics,	27:37
	the first duty of a Christian	27:38
	is to preserve a straightened distinction between	27:42
	the site that is of faith	27:47
	and the ambiguities of politics.	27:50
	Andy Young somehow,	27:54
	while both a politician,	27:57
	and a Christian	28:00
	has maintained that faith.	28:02
	So Andy,	28:05
	with a great deal of joy	28:07
	I'm honored, delighted and privileged	28:10
	to welcome you this morning to Duke University.	28:14
Reverend Andrew	Thank you very much Dr. Cook,	28:25
	President Sanford	28:28
	and Members of the faculty	28:29
	and student body of Duke University	28:34
	and especially the visiting parents who are with us.	28:37
	It's a pleasure to be in a college chapel that's full.	28:42
	I haven't been in a college chapel for some time,	28:47
	almost two years,	28:50
	but I think that the last few I was at	28:53
	a couple of years ago were not nearly so full.	28:57
	I hope this means that there's a new concern about the faith	29:00
	in our universities across this nation	29:06
	and not just that everybody is here on parents day	29:08
	to impress mama and daddy.	29:12
	It's always a little difficult for me to	29:17
	begin to feel comfortable in such lofty surroundings	29:20
	and I wonder if you wouldn't help me a little bit.	29:24
	As this wonderful choir sang this morning	29:28
	when they finished,	29:30
	I really wanted to say Amen but I felt a little inhibited.	29:31
	I wonder if you'd all help me say Amen for the choir.	29:35
	Amen.	29:39
	Thank you very much.	29:41
	As we think about these times	29:51
	and as we take into our breasts,	29:55
	much of the confusion,	30:01
	the anxiety and even the frustration and despair	30:04
	of this part of the 20th century.	30:09
	There are many amongst us who look back	30:14
	and wonder what happened to the miracles of yesterday.	30:18
	We wonder is the hand of the Lord shortened	30:23
	that it cannot save.	30:29
	We wonder if God's is, may not have grown dull	30:32
	and that he no longer hears the cries of the faithful,	30:37
	for we find ourselves caught up in situations	30:42
	that we no longer feel in any way comfortable in.	30:46
	We find ourselves facing challenges	30:51
	that we could not have anticipated even six months ago,	30:54
	much less in our university preparation	31:00
	or in the planning of the Congress of the United States	31:04
	in the last session,	31:08
	or in the strategy sessions of the business community,	31:09
	or in the textbooks which we now study.	31:15
	And through this period,	31:21
	I think that no nothing has happened to	31:23
	the arm of the Lord,	31:26
	but I'm reminded of a verse from	31:29
	the poet James Weldon Johnson,	31:32
	where he says young man,	31:36
	young man,	31:39
	your arms is too short to box with God,	31:41
	and I guess you'd almost have to say nowadays, young ladies,	31:47
	your arms are too.	31:50
	And that in fact, what we see in our time	31:55
	is the end result of some young men	31:59
	who thought that they could	32:03
	take the world in their own hands	32:05
	and shape it, not after the image of God,	32:09
	but shape it after their own images and intentions.	32:11
	We have just lived through a period	32:16
	of men in high power and high places	32:21
	who thought that they knew what was best	32:27
	for all of the people of the world.	32:32
	Of course we're immediately aware of Watergate.	32:38
	We're immediately well aware of the	32:42
	determination to dominate	32:46
	from which this nation has only recently purged itself.	32:49
	But actually that's not only what I'm talking about	32:53
	because I have the feeling that the difficulties we now face	32:58
	go back much further than Watergate,	33:03
	that the brightest and the best	33:09
	of the Kennedy and Johnson years,	33:11
	were also guilty of some of the same intentions,	33:13
	though they pursued them in a different way.	33:20
	It was in fact an equally reckless and godless way.	33:25
	That when the history books of our period are written,	33:30
	the great immorality of our time	33:34
	will not be recorded as Watergate.	33:36
	But the great immorality of our time will be the problems	33:40
	that we led the world into in and around	33:47
	Southeast Asia.	33:53
	That we are in effect	33:56
	seeing at this moment	33:59
	the fulfillment of the prophecy of Martin Luther King	34:01
	from back in 1966,	34:04
	when he warned this nation,	34:06
	that the bombs of Vietnam will explode at home	34:08
	and we see now the exploding inflation	34:12
	and we see the anxiety spread throughout our nation.	34:16
	We see the lack of faith in our system	34:20
	and we see the kind of callous immorality	34:23
	of our young people.	34:26
	We see a kind of cynicism which I think in many respects	34:29
	is new to this nation,	34:34
	it's certainly new for my lifetime.	34:35
	And I think that cynicism grew not so much	34:41
	out of Watergate as out of Vietnam.	34:44
	And we almost lost an entire generation	34:50
	as well as about 100 to 150 billion dollars.	34:54
	Because in the words of Isaiah,	35:01
	but your iniquities have made a separation	35:07
	between you and your God	35:09
	and your sins have hid his space from you,	35:12
	your hands are defiled with blood	35:16
	and your fingers with iniquity.	35:19
	It's almost as though the message of the old folks	35:21
	that we heard from our grandparents	35:24
	does in some way hold true,	35:26
	that we do have to reap what we have sown,	35:28
	that the sins of the fathers	35:32
	are visited upon the third and fourth generations	35:34
	of them that have hated him or grown in sensitive to him.	35:37
	And so we find ourselves almost in a biblical parallel,	35:44
	and I hope we're in that that's true	35:48
	because as I think of the story of Joseph	35:52
	and as I think of the understanding	35:55
	of the seven years of plenty and the seven years of famine.	35:58
	I hope that the seven years of plenty that,	36:04
	about which we might think.	36:07
	Well the seven years from say 1961 to 1968,	36:10
	and that in 68' the beginning of the problems	36:15
	of the war in Vietnam	36:18
	began to produce first a spiritual famine in our midst,	36:20
	which gradually has become a physical famine.	36:25
	And if there is any way to make the Bible applicable	36:31
	to the economic life of our time,	36:35
	that seven years ought to be up in 1975.	36:38
	Now I'm not trying to make any partisan analysis of this	36:44
	because what has happened since 68'?	36:49
	Buying large was a result of decisions made in 64', 65', 66'	36:53
	and we have only now begun to see	37:01
	that it is true to a certain extent that	37:07
	where your treasure is there will your heart be also,	37:10
	and that when we placed our treasure	37:14
	in death and destruction in Southeast Asia,	37:16
	we began to have a heartless destructive kind of nation.	37:20
	And that justice repentance of individuals is called for	37:26
	somehow this nation must find a way to repent.	37:31
	And in a strange way,	37:37
	I don't think that that's that hard	37:38
	because there is a kind of logic	37:40
	in world events and world affairs,	37:44
	which means that the power of God does still operate.	37:49
	And that even when we are not prepared	37:54
	to see that or understand it,	37:56
	it is nevertheless very operative in our time.	37:59
	And I think in the struggles around the third word,	38:04
	yes, even in the energy crisis	38:08
	and the demands of the oil producing nations to	38:11
	require more of us.	38:16
	I hear, yes, the vindictive militant cry,	38:19
	which could bring down the powers of the Western world.	38:23
	But I also hear and anguish choir of people	38:28
	who have not ever been treated as brothers.	38:32
	I hear an angry cry of people who say that	38:36
	we have been abused and you have taken our natural resources	38:40
	and you have done nothing for us in return.	38:43
	And somehow we have to find a way to	38:47
	help our people and preserve our resources to the extent	38:52
	that you also involve us	38:57
	in a world brotherhood	39:00
	that lets our people have enough to eat,	39:03
	that lets our people have enough education,	39:06
	that lets us solve the problems of healthcare,	39:09
	that lets us make our deserts of flowing green	39:12
	and blossoming Oasis,	39:16
	where we might grow food in abundance	39:19
	as you have in your country.	39:21
	And if we can translate those military anguish cries	39:23
	into a positive relationship	39:29
	between the haves and have nots,	39:32
	which no longer proceeds because we are good	39:34
	and because we are giving something away to our brother,	39:37
	but which now proceeds because it just happens to be a fact	39:41
	that 25% of our imported oil	39:46
	is coming from the country of Nigeria	39:48
	and that the dollars that we would be required	39:53
	to pay for that oil,	39:55
	or the dollars that we would be required	39:57
	to pay to Saudi Arabia, Kuwait	39:59
	for the oil, which they give us on an imported basis.	40:01
	In the course of this next decade would	40:06
	amount to such billions of dollars	40:10
	that it could in fact bankrupt our economic system.	40:14
	That the 80 to 100 billion dollars,	40:19
	which the oil producing nations might accumulate	40:21
	in revenues from the industrialized nations of the world	40:26
	is in fact	40:29
	greater than the entire exported capital	40:32
	of the entire American business community.	40:37
	That over the last 50 years,	40:42
	the total amount of American business developed overseas	40:44
	amounts to something like 70 billion dollars.	40:48
	That's from very diversified corporations	40:52
	from a great industrialized community.	40:54
	And yet now we're seeing in the hands of a few people	40:58
	and a few relatively small nations	41:02
	and very underpopulated nations for the most part,	41:06
	the accumulation of more capital on that	41:10
	and with it a kind of power to disrupt	41:16
	that we were not prepared for	41:20
	when we were developing our mighty military machine.	41:23
	In fact in our time we are forced	41:27
	and maybe we ought to go ahead	41:31
	and give former president Nixon some credit for that.	41:32
	We are forced to move from an era of	41:37
	predominantly military conflict	41:40
	into an era when the conflict between men	41:43
	and nations will be largely economic in nature.	41:46
	And we have to see that as some progress,	41:50
	but at the same time	41:53
	we must face the fact that it is equally if not more deadly	41:54
	than the former.	41:58
	That there is no nation in the world	42:00
	that could so completely destroy us and paralyze us,	42:02
	as we might be destroyed and paralyzed	42:06
	by the manipulation of our capital in the struggle	42:09
	to cartelize natural resources around the world.	42:14
	And yet even in this,	42:18
	I don't seem to see that there is something about which	42:19
	we should give up	42:23
	or something that we could be cynical about.	42:24
	I think somehow from this nation, there is	42:27
	a spirit of brotherhood, a spirit of concern.	42:35
	There is a kind of capacity in our whole industrial empire,	42:39
	which has given us some of the things	42:46
	that the people of the world need an exchange for oil,	42:48
	in exchange for bauxite,	42:51
	in exchange for copper zinc or cobalt	42:53
	or whatever natural resources we need to continue.	42:56
	I think the tremendous resources of this nation	43:00
	must be called upon	43:04
	to give leadership in the world to a new kind of struggle,	43:08
	and that we must be involved in a kind of,	43:12
	a new kind of patriotism.	43:15
	The 60th chapter of the book of Isaiah goes on to say,	43:19
	"Arise and shine	43:22
	for your light has come,	43:24
	and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you."	43:27
	That in spite of all of the judgment,	43:30
	about the sins of the people of Israel,	43:34
	there was not an abandonment of those people	43:37
	by the power of God.	43:41
	But that somehow in the midst of their repentance,	43:44
	once they become aware of the extent of their sin,	43:46
	there is still present with us the power of God,	43:51
	and that somehow from this nation	43:56
	and from the peoples there are or there could emerge	43:59
	a new kind of patriotism.	44:03
	A new concept of world brotherhood, a new sense	44:05
	of international economic relationship.	44:10
	And that out of that new patriotism,	44:14
	out of that new vision of a world	44:16
	living together as brothers,	44:18
	There is the possibility of a kind of world that	44:23
	men have only dreamed about in the past.	44:26
	That in fact the present crises	44:30
	does not necessarily mean our destruction	44:31
	or does not necessarily	44:34
	lead us to the brink of hopelessness.	44:35
	The present crises offers us a challenge	44:39
	from which we might mobilize our idealism	44:43
	and our tremendous humanitarian and religious concern,	44:46
	and find ways to challenge that through our economic	44:52
	and technical capacities toward the rest of the world.	44:55
	In another sense,	45:00
	in a new TestAment sense,	45:02
	that new patriotism would say he who would find his life	45:05
	must lose it,	45:10
	and he who would lose his life for my sake will find it.	45:12
	And this is something different	45:18
	from the movements of the past.	45:19
	We received a lot of credit in the civil rights movement	45:22
	for being great idealists,	45:25
	and to some extent that might've been true but not really	45:28
	the civil rights movement for blacks	45:32
	and for the citizens of this nation	45:34
	was really a very self-serving course.	45:38
	We were being oppressed,	45:42
	we were burdened with guilt.	45:43
	We found ourselves as a nation being torn apart,	45:47
	divided between black and white.	45:51
	We by our training understood that to be wrong,	45:54
	and we sought to do something to help ourselves.	45:57
	The same thing could be said of the peace movement	46:03
	in this country.	46:05
	We were not nearly so concerned about the killing of Vietnam	46:06
	as we were about ending the draft here.	46:11
	And all of the movements	46:15
	which have excited some idealism in our time	46:16
	have all had that tremendous self-serving element in them.	46:21
	Certainly that would be true of the women's movement,	46:25
	but what's called upon right now is called for right now	46:28
	is a new kind of movement.	46:32
	A movement which still has its element of self-interest yes,	46:34
	but a movement which is going to really	46:39
	be an idealistic movement,	46:41
	which will put first the wellbeing of others.	46:43
	A movement which would seek to feed the hungry of the world.	46:47
	A movement which would say that it is	46:51
	an injustice for us	46:55
	to have more calories and more vitamins and minerals	46:57
	in the meal that we will eat as we go from this chapel.	47:01
	This one day than most of the people of the world will have	47:05
	for an entire week.	47:10
	There has got to be some new balance put in,	47:12
	in relationship to the haves and have nots.	47:16
	I think what we are going to see	47:21
	and what I hope will emerge from universities such as this,	47:23
	and what I hope might from the new Congress that we see	47:27
	coming in in January	47:31
	is a kind of a worldwide perspective	47:34
	which helps all of us realize	47:37
	that there is no such thing as operation independence.	47:40
	That there's no way	47:44
	that you can be independent of your brother.	47:45
	That there's no way that you can separate yourself	47:49
	from the rest of the world.	47:52
	There is no way that you and I can separate ourselves	47:53
	from people who are different,	47:57
	whether they be here in our midst,	47:59
	or across the face of the earth.	48:01
	And I'm reminded that this nation	48:05
	was founded on such great idealism.	48:07
	That everybody that came to this nation,	48:10
	regardless of their ethnic heritage	48:12
	and whether they came as freedman or slaves	48:15
	somehow came here with a hope that this nation	48:18
	could produce something different.	48:21
	And we hear it in the spirituals all the time,	48:24
	I'm so glad trouble won't last always.	48:27
	People in slavery found themselves	48:31
	developing more faith in and on this land	48:33
	than even the prophet Jeremiah	48:38
	as he talked about his people in exile.	48:40
	Jeremiah said, "Is there no balm in Gilead?	48:44
	Is there no physician there?"	48:46
	But black men and women in slavery	48:48
	said, "Yes, there is a balm in Gilead	48:52
	that will make the wounded whole."	48:55
	There is a balm in Gilead that will heal the sin six soul.	48:57
	And so when the difficulties arise,	49:02
	when the obstacles seem insurmountable,	49:04
	then we find that there is a Holy Spirit	49:10
	that will revive our souls again.	49:16
	And while we say that for blacks,	49:19
	we can say the same things for people who came to Virginia	49:21
	or to new England.	49:24
	We can say the same things for the Iris	49:25
	and the Chicano immigrants which came to this country.	49:28
	They all came with some kind of idea,	49:31
	with a kind of vision of a new kind of community	49:36
	where each man and woman would have an opportunity.	49:40
	I was reminded of this from a strange source not long ago.	49:46
	One of our minor prophets by the name of Ray Charles	49:52
	sang a song that I had not heard for a long time.	49:58
	And he starts it out, "Oh beautiful for heroes prove	50:02
	in liberating stripe,	50:07
	who more than self their country loved	50:09
	and mercy more than life	50:12
	America, America may God thy gold refined,	50:14
	to all success be nobleness and every gain divine."	50:20
	And I think how relevant that prayer is for us today	50:26
	that our success being our nobleness and that our gains	50:30
	be divine.	50:33
	When I think of the beauties of this nation,	50:38
	when I think not just of our sins,	50:43
	but when I think of our accomplishments and they are many.	50:45
	When I think that God could not have invested so much in us	50:50
	save he requires so much from us	50:55
	for has he not said to them to whom much has been given	50:58
	of them will much be required.	51:02
	And I think in this day and hour,	51:05
	as we look at the blessings which we have received,	51:08
	and as we think of what might be required of us,	51:14
	I think I can see the hungry being fed.	51:19
	I think I can see the naked being clothed.	51:23
	I think I can see men and women living together	51:27
	as brothers and sisters.	51:30
	I think I can see in some sense,	51:33
	the lion and the lamb lying down together.	51:35
	I think I can see men beating their swords	51:39
	into plowshares and their Spears into pruning hooks.	51:43
	I think I can see a studying war no more.	51:47
	I think I can see us repenting from the Vietnams	51:51
	and Watergates of our time,	51:54
	and saying to the world	51:57
	there's much more to America than this.	51:58
	That there's much more to us	52:01
	as a Christian God-fearing people than this.	52:03
	That somehow the strength with which we have been in doubt,	52:07
	we will find ways to share,	52:12
	and that from that sharing	52:15
	will come a new heaven and a new earth	52:17
	where the tears will be wiped away	52:20
	and where the suffering and the dying will cease.	52:23
	Let us pray.	52:27
	Almighty God,	52:31
	We come before thee like empty pitchers	52:35
	before a fall fountain.	52:38
	Bow our hearts beneath our knees,	52:42
	and as we bow our knees and this known lonely valley,	52:46
	we asked that thy would open our hearts	52:51
	and fill us with thy spirit.	52:53
	Open our minds and excite us with thy wisdom.	52:55
	Open our bodies dear father, and place in us thy love.	53:02
	But somehow as we go forth,	53:07
	the spirit of love might go with us	53:12
	spreading from heart to heart and breast to breast,	53:16
	but also spreading through the institutions which we serve,	53:20
	also spreading through the nation, which we love.	53:25
	We ask thy blessing upon us and this nation and all mankind	53:30
	and help us to sense and fulfill,	53:37
	whatever might be the destiny in our lives,	53:40
	for thy has made us for by thyself,	53:44
	and our hearts will be restless	53:48
	till we find our rest in thee.	53:50
	May that rest be in service,	53:55
	and may that service be to thy glory and honor	53:59
	through Jesus Christ our Lord we pray, Amen.	54:03
	(orchestral music)	54:09
First Preacher	Oh God, most merciful and gracious	1:05:00
	of whose bounty we have all received	1:05:04
	accept this offering of your people.	1:05:08
	Remember in your love,	1:05:12
	those who have brought it	1:05:14
	and for whom it is given.	1:05:16
	And so follow it with your blessing,	1:05:19
	that it may promote peace and goodwill among all people	1:05:22
	and advance your kingdom.	1:05:28
	We pray in the spirit of our Lord, Amen.	1:05:30
	(orchestral music)	1:05:36
	And now may the blessing of God,	1:09:14
	Almighty our Creator,	1:09:18
	Sustainer and Redeemer,	1:09:21
	be among you and abide with you now	1:09:24
	and ever more.	1:09:29
	(choir singing)	1:09:33

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Andrew Young - Sermon Untitled (November 10, 1974)

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November 10, 1974

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