James T. Cleland - "On Saying 'Thank You'" (December 8, 1974)

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	(liturgical instrumental music)	0:03
-	Today is a joyous occasion as we gathered	3:06
	to commemorate the 50th anniversary	3:09
	of the founding of this university.	3:11
	It is a time of special inspiration	3:14
	for all of us who are part of this living institution.	3:17
	Our thoughts are of the founder of Washington Duke,	3:22
	and Benjamin Duke who fashioned and shared dreams	3:25
	as they work to strengthen Trinity College.	3:29
	And have James Buchanan Duke who dedicated his wealth	3:32
	to make these dreams become reality	3:35
	and instill greater vision of a world center of learning	3:39
	in his father's memory.	3:42
	Duke University exists as the embodiment of those dreams,	3:45
	a center of learning,	3:51
	which has helped to light the darken paths	3:53
	of human history in the turbulent half century just passed,	3:56
	and stands ready to help illuminate the road ahead.	4:01
	A center for preparing young men and women	4:06
	for creative service in the ministry, and teaching,	4:10
	in the practice of medicine and in the law.	4:14
	And to prepare its students in all areas of knowledge,	4:17
	for lives of moral strength and leadership.	4:20
	A strong bond of continuity linking the present	4:24
	with the past is symbolized in the continued service	4:28
	of the Duke family to this university.	4:32
	Their loyalty and devotion	4:35
	are the cherished heritage of this institution.	4:37
	Their interest in support represent an unbroken chain	4:41
	of commitment to what James B. Duke called,	4:44
	the most civilizing of institutions next to religion.	4:48
	And so we are here today in the beauty	4:52
	and in the quiet of this holy place	4:56
	to rededicate ourselves to the vision	4:59
	the founders held for this university.	5:02
	We gratefully acknowledge their generosity.	5:05
	We salute their foresight and we take inspiration	5:08
	from their acts, and from the continued involvement	5:12
	of the Duke family.	5:15
	As we enter upon the second half century,	5:17
	we pledge renewed efforts to strengthen	5:21
	and enrich the Duke University of today	5:24
	in order to help ensure the future	5:27
	of this beloved institution	5:30
	as memorial to these founders and this family.	5:33
-	Let us pray.	5:45
	Oh God, on this day of remembrance and celebration,	5:49
	we give thanks to you for all those through whom	5:56
	you have blessed our lives.	5:59
	For all persons who have made us sensitive to others.	6:03
	Those whose influence has been a healing grace.	6:08
	For all dear friends and kindred of our homes	6:13
	whose faces we see no more,	6:15
	but whose love is ever with us.	6:19
	For this university, for the lives and influence	6:23
	and concern and gifts of the Duke family, past and present.	6:28
	For those who first felt it important that religion	6:36
	and learning should indissoluble be wed.	6:39
	For those who wanted a great towering church	6:44
	at the center of this university.	6:46
	And placed rooms of study, learning, research,	6:49
	and recreation around it.	6:53
	For benefactors and trustees and administrators,	6:57
	whose gifts of time, energy, money and ideas	7:00
	have made of this university	7:05
	a place of learning of devotion,	7:08
	and of service to others.	7:12
	For persons of daily labor who have kept this	7:15
	a place of beauty.	7:19
	For teachers who have sought and who have shared	7:22
	their knowledge of the truth,	7:24
	that truth, which frees the mind and motivates the will.	7:26
	For students who have come to gain	7:33
	and have left to give, and have both here	7:35
	and abroad made this world a better place.	7:39
	For all those, oh God	7:44
	through whose sacrifices we now live.	7:47
	May we hold them in continual remembrance and think of them	7:51
	as with you in that city whose gates are not shut by day	7:55
	and where there is no night.	8:01
	May we be dedicated now to work	8:05
	for a world where justice is the way of life,	8:10
	where fear is dispelled, and where love is common to us all.	8:14
	Oh Lord, save us your people, and bless your heritage to us	8:21
	and to our children's children	8:29
	through Jesus Christ our Lord, amen.	8:32
	(choir sings)	11:06
	(liturgical instrumental music)	12:32
	(choir sings)	13:10
	Grace to you and peace from God our father,	18:02
	and our Lord Jesus Christ.	18:06
	I will arise and go to my father and will say unto him,	18:10
	"Father, I had sinned against heaven and before you,	18:18
	and I'm no more worthy to be called your child."	18:23
	My dear brothers and sisters in Christ,	18:29
	let each one of us now humbly confess his or her sins	18:34
	in the presence of God, let us pray.	18:38
	Our Lord, creator of all things, and source of all truth,	18:45
	we ask your forgiveness for the sins of the mind,	18:51
	the pride of thinking that we are masters	18:55
	of all creation and history,	18:58
	our slackness or compulsion,	19:01
	and our work in this university,	19:03
	our doubts about your power to make all things new.	19:06
	We ask your forgiveness for our lack of a sense of history,	19:11
	for thinking all the world begins and ends with us.	19:16
	For our to ease the acceptance of our heritage.	19:21
	For those who will suffer because of our unconcerned	19:25
	about the future.	19:28
	Help us as we worship you	19:31
	to come to a truer knowledge of ourselves,	19:33
	knowing that we cannot hide from you.	19:37
	God be merciful to us, for we are sinners.	19:40
	Let us continue with our personal prayers of confession.	19:45
	This is the message we have heard from him	20:06
	and proclaim to you.	20:09
	That God is light,	20:12
	and in him is no darkness at all.	20:16
	If we walk into light, as he is in the light,	20:21
	we have fellowship with one another.	20:25
	And the blood of Jesus, his son cleanses us	20:28
	from all our sin.	20:32
	In the name of Christ I declare	20:36
	your sins are forgiven for his sake, amen.	20:39
	(liturgical instrumental music)	20:50
	♪ Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah ♪	21:48
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	21:54
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	♪ Hallelujah ♪	22:00
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	22:03
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	22:07
	♪ Hallelujah, ♪	22:10
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	22:13
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	22:18
	♪ Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah ♪	22:25
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	22:30
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	♪ Hallelujah ♪	22:37
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	22:40
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	22:43
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	22:47
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	22:51
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	22:55
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	23:05
	♪ Hallelujah, hallelujah ♪	23:08
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	23:11
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	♪ Hallelujah ♪	23:46
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	♪ Hallelujah ♪	24:02
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	♪ Hallelujah ♪	24:12
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	24:15
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	♪ Hallelujah ♪	24:25
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	24:28
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	♪ Hallelujah ♪	24:37
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	24:40
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	24:43
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	♪ Hallelujah ♪	24:49
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	♪ Hallelujah ♪	24:56
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	♪ Hallelujah ♪	25:01
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	♪ Hallelujah ♪	25:07
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	25:11
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	25:13
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	25:18
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-	Dr. Cleland asks that we make a change	27:09
	in the reading of the scripture.	27:12
	Would you turn in your hymnal to acts of praise number 64.	27:15
	And will you stand and remain standing afterwards	27:28
	for the reading of the scripture.	27:33
	Let us now praise famous men.	27:44
Congregation	And our fathers in their generations.	27:47
-	The Lord apportioned to them great glory.	27:50
Congregation	His majesty from the beginning.	27:54
-	There were those who ruled in their kingdoms.	27:57
Congregation	And were men renowned for their power.	28:00
-	Giving counsel by their understanding.	28:03
Congregation	And proclaiming prophecies.	28:06
-	Leaders of the people in their deliberations.	28:08
Congregation	Wise in their words of instruction.	28:12
-	Those who composed musical tunes.	28:15
Congregation	And set forth verses in writing.	28:18
-	Rich men furnished with resources.	28:20
Congregation	Living peaceably in their habitations.	28:24
-	All these were honored in their generations.	28:27
Congregation	And were the glory of their times.	28:30
-	There are some of them who have left a name.	28:33
Congregation	So that men declare their praise.	28:36
-	And there are some who have no memorial.	28:39
Congregation	who have perished	28:42
	as though they had not lived.	28:43
-	But these were men of mercy.	28:45
Congregation	Whose righteous deeds	28:47
	have not been forgotten.	28:49
-	Their prosperity will remain with their descendants.	28:50
Congregation	And their inheritance	28:54
	to their children's children.	28:55
-	Their posterity will continue for ever.	28:57
Congregation	And their glory will not be blotted out.	29:00
-	Their bodies were buried in peace.	29:04
Congregation	And their name lives to all generations.	29:06
-	Peoples will declare their wisdom.	29:10
Congregation	And the congregation	29:12
	proclaims their praise.	29:14
-	On the way that he was passing along	29:35
	between Samaria and Galilee.	29:37
	And as he entered the village he was met by 10 lepers	29:41
	who stood at a distance and lifted up their voices and said,	29:44
	"Jesus master have mercy on us."	29:48
	When he saw them, he said to them,	29:52
	"Go and show yourself to the priest."	29:54
	And as they went, they were cleansed.	29:57
	Then one of them, when he saw that he was healed,	30:00
	turned back, praising God with a loud voice.	30:04
	And he fell on his feet as faith	30:08
	at Jesus' feet giving him thanks.	30:10
	Now he was the Samaritan.	30:13
	Then said Jesus, "We're not 10 men, where are the nine?	30:15
	Was no one found to return and give praise to God	30:21
	except this foreigner."	30:24
	And he said to him, "Rise and go your way.	30:27
	Your faith has made you well."	30:31
	Here in the reading of today.	30:34
	(liturgical instrumental music)	30:37
	(choir sings)	30:46
-	Together let us affirm our faith.	31:18
Together	We are not alone.	31:23
	We live in God's world.	31:25
	We believe in God who has created and is creating.	31:28
	Who has come in the true man, Jesus.	31:33
	Reconcile and make new, who works and others by his spirit,	31:37
	we trust you.	31:43
	He calls us to be his church,	31:45
	to celebrate his presence for love and serve others.	31:48
	To seek justice and resist evil.	31:53
	To proclaim Jesus crucified and risen,	31:57
	our judge and our hope	32:00
	in life and death in life beyond death,	32:03
	God is with us, we are not alone	32:08
	Thanks be to God.	32:12
-	The Lord be with you.	32:15
Congregation	And with your spirit.	32:16
-	Let us pray.	32:18
	Let us offer to God a prayer	32:29
	of thanksgiving and intercession.	32:31
	Almighty God, giver of all mercies,	32:36
	we pause to give you most humble, and hearty thanks	32:40
	for all your goodness and your loving kindness to us	32:45
	and to all persons.	32:47
	We thank you for our creation, our preservation,	32:50
	and for all the good gifts of this life.	32:55
	But above all of God in this holy season of advent,	32:58
	we give thanks for your inestimable love	33:02
	given to redeem us and all others	33:05
	through our blessed Lord Jesus Christ.	33:08
	We thank you for all the means of grace,	33:13
	and for the hope of goodness and glory forever.	33:17
	And now oh God this day we remember those students	33:23
	and faculty in this university	33:27
	who near the end of another term,	33:29
	who need your special grace	33:32
	in a time of testing and grading.	33:34
	Be with the students, help them to do their very best.	33:40
	Give them clear minds and honest will.	33:46
	If there are things they do not know,	33:50
	keep them from anxiety or fear.	33:52
	And help them to use to the fullest those things	33:55
	which they do know.	33:58
	And may all those things for which they have worked hard	34:01
	stand by them now.	34:04
	If they must face the results of laziness,	34:06
	let them then resolve to work better in the days ahead.	34:10
	Help them to express all that they have learned.	34:15
	May they have learned these past few weeks some things,	34:19
	some things of real and significant and of lasting value.	34:24
	And bless oh God each member of this university faculty.	34:31
	May their tests and evaluations be clear and fair.	34:39
	May their judgment be just and compassionate.	34:44
	May they see learning not only in facts learned,	34:48
	but also in persons whose minds and spirits have matured.	34:51
	And oh God in this university may the search for truth	34:58
	continue for all of us to be exciting and satisfying.	35:04
	And now oh God hear each of us	35:11
	as we whisper a prayer.	35:16
	Here's a prayer of thanksgiving and intercession	35:20
	that comes from the heart of each of us on this holy day.	35:22
	And now oh God, come to us continually in your incarnation,	35:34
	reveal majestically and powerfully in Jesus Christ.	35:42
	And now we would ask that you would reveal to us this day,	35:48
	that same joy and love that Christ brings	35:51
	to open and receptive hearts.	35:56
	We pray these our prayers through Jesus Christ,	36:01
	our Lord, our savior who taught us to pray	36:04
	as we pray together.	36:08
	Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name	36:10
	thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth	36:16
	as it is in heaven.	36:21
	Give us this day our daily bread,	36:23
	and forgive us our trespasses,	36:26
	as we forgive those who trespass against us,	36:29
	and lead us not into temptation,	36:33
	but deliver us from evil.	36:36
	For thine is the kingdom,	36:38
	the power and the glory, forever, amen.	36:40
	In the name of God may I welcome you	36:53
	to this service of worship on founders day,	36:57
	and on the second Sunday in advent.	37:00
	A day in which in worship,	37:03
	we celebrate the 50th anniversary	37:05
	of the founding of Duke University.	37:08
	And so to some of you, may I say welcome for the first time.	37:12
	And for many of you, may I say welcome back home.	37:15
	In the bulletin for today, you will find a special insert	37:24
	calling attention to an opportunity	37:30
	each of us has to share Christmas	37:31
	with some others in this community.	37:33
	And if you read this insert carefully,	37:38
	it calls for a way in which each of us can share	37:40
	either students or parents or anyone else,	37:44
	so if you have gifts, toys, books, or clothing,	37:48
	if you would like to share with some children	37:54
	or young people in Edgemont in Durham this year,	37:56
	please fill out the information so that those in Edgemont	38:00
	may make plans for Christmas for these 200 or so children,	38:03
	and then plan to bring your gifts to the chapel.	38:08
	And I'm sure whatever you give it will bring blessing	38:12
	and joy and happiness to some others.	38:14
	Two performances of Messiah have already been given	38:19
	Friday evening and yesterday afternoon,	38:22
	both to standing room only crowd.	38:25
	I've heard many comments about the beauty	38:28
	of the performances this year.	38:31
	And someone said to me as she was coming in to service,	38:32
	it gets better every year.	38:35
	And so to Ben Smith, the choir,	38:38
	and the orchestra may I say a word	38:40
	of congratulations and appreciation.	38:42
	And say in case all of you do not know it this year,	38:45
	Ben Smith in commemoration of the 50th anniversary	38:49
	felt that it would be appropriate that the soloists,	38:53
	all be Duke graduates.	38:56
	So Francis Redding, Claudia Bray, Michael Best,	38:58
	and Charles Smith, all are alumni of this university.	39:02
	And they're doing a beautiful job.	39:07
	But if you do not have tickets,	39:10
	please do not come this afternoon.	39:12
	It is filled already.	39:15
	So we wish them well again, this afternoon.	39:17
	The latest word I have is that Dr. Harold Bosley	39:23
	is now out of intensive care,	39:28
	and that his recovery from a heart attack	39:31
	suffered last Friday morning,	39:33
	a week ago last Friday now,	39:36
	his recovery is progressing as well as could be expected.	39:39
	I'm sure your thoughts and prayers for him	39:44
	will be greatly appreciated.	39:47
	The preacher on this occasion is another man beloved	39:50
	in the Duke community, and by members of the Duke family.	39:55
	One, whom we all look forward to hearing,	40:00
	share the word of God with us this day,	40:03
	the Reverend Dr. James T. Cleland,	40:06
	Dean Emeritus of the chapel,	40:09
	Professor Emeritus of Preaching of the Divinity School.	40:11
	And so we welcome you back home also, Dr. Cleland.	40:15
	And hear you gladly as you bring God's word to us	40:19
	on this, the 50th anniversary founder's day	40:22
	service of worship.	40:26
-	It is our loss that this very special service	40:42
	in the life of Duke University that Harold Bosley,	40:46
	Former Dean of the Divinity School,	40:52
	and preacher to the university cannot occupy the pulpit	40:54
	as he had hoped.	41:00
	He is a pulpiteer extraordinary.	41:03
	Now I am not here as a pinch hitter	41:09
	for that would assume that I can do a better job	41:13
	than the one whose place I'm taking.	41:17
	And that is not true.	41:21
	I am here as a last minute substitute.	41:25
	Just one who takes another place	41:29
	in the case of the latter's absence.	41:32
	It is good to know though that Dr. Bosley	41:37
	is on the way to recovered health.	41:40
	Now to have the sermon proper.	41:46
	Once upon a time, all the best stories start that way.	41:51
	A young boy in a Glasgow trolley car	41:59
	rose and offered the dowager his seat.	42:04
	She took it.	42:09
	A minute later he said to her,	42:11
	"I beg your pardon."	42:14
	She replied, "I didn't say anything."	42:17
	"Oh", he answered, "I thought you said, 'thank you.'"	42:22
	Now he should probably be spanked,	42:29
	but she was properly and publicly reprimanded.	42:34
	There is one person who would have bet the youngster,	42:42
	Jesus of Nazareth, judging from the story	42:48
	of the cleansing of the 10 lepers,	42:53
	which was read as our gospel lesson.	42:56
	Jesus effected the cleansing of the 10,	43:00
	but only one came back to say, thank you.	43:06
	And he was a Samaritan, a foreigner,	43:12
	Jesus only comment was,	43:18
	"Were not all 10 cleansed?	43:22
	The other nine, where are they?"	43:28
	Even Jesus expected four to say thank you.	43:33
	We are gathered here this morning to say thank you,	43:40
	which could be one of the most common phrases	43:45
	heard in a house of God.	43:50
	And we're saying it too,	43:53
	and because of James Buchanan Duke,	43:56
	tobacco magnate, hydroelectric power entrepreneur	44:01
	who in his New Jersey home on December 11th, 1924,	44:08
	officially signed the papers	44:16
	establishing the Duke Endowment.	44:18
	That fact was announced by Charlotte paper on December 8th,	44:24
	three days before that James B. Duke	44:30
	was creating a charitable trust designed	44:34
	to better the quality of life	44:39
	in his native region, the Carolina.	44:43
	But interestingly enough today, another December 8th,	44:48
	is an important date in the life of Duke University,	44:53
	especially for undergraduates.	44:57
	On that day in 1884,	45:02
	Angier Buchanan Duke was born,	45:06
	son of Benjamin Newton Duke and nephew of J.B. Duke	45:11
	today would be his 90th birthday.	45:17
	However, he was drowned in a boating accident in 1923,	45:23
	and his father established the Angier B. Duke Memorial,	45:30
	our invaluable scholarship fund for undergraduate	45:38
	in his son's memory.	45:44
	So today we of the academic community say thank you twice,	45:47
	once to J.B. Duke, and once to Benjamin N. Duke,	45:52
	who remembered his son by assisting distinguished	45:59
	high school seniors who needed financial help	46:04
	to pursue an education of quality.	46:10
	Now how does one do justice to the many faceted character	46:16
	of J.B. Duke in one point of a single sermon.	46:21
	He grew up on the farm, in what's now Durham County,	46:28
	prosperous 300 acres until the civil war	46:33
	correct the economy.	46:39
	But Washington Duke, J.B's father	46:42
	saw that there was a future for tobacco.	46:45
	He passed on his wisdom and his know how to his son	46:51
	who surpassed it and became such a magnet	46:55
	of the fragrant weed,	47:01
	the vice that is so close to virtue.	47:04
	especially if your smoke a pipe.	47:12
	(congregation laughs)	47:14
	He so dominated the manufacturer of cigarettes	47:21
	that the Supreme court had to move in	47:25
	an order the dissolution of the American Tobacco Company,	47:29
	for which he was president.	47:34
	I have been told that he was entrusted	47:37
	with the job of dissolution because nobody understood	47:41
	the situation as he did that.	47:45
	That more or else ended his interest in tobacco,	47:49
	except for his enjoyment of cigar, see his stature.	47:54
	Dean Canon once shock the group of Methodist ministers	48:03
	who wanted the cigar removed from the statute	48:08
	by suggesting that it have a neon light at the end.	48:11
	(congregation laughs)	48:16
	And one senior class offered as its gift,	48:19
	a steam pipe running light through it so it would puff.	48:22
	(congregation laughing)	48:26
	But the predecessors of Allen building turned that down.	48:29
	So J.B. Duke turned to hydroelectric power	48:34
	in the two Carolinas,	48:37
	and thanks to his creating a whole new source of power	48:40
	Vice President Juanita Kreps	48:46
	was able to bring to sparkling light	48:49
	our campus Christmas tree last Friday evening.	48:53
	But J.B. Duke was not satisfied.	48:59
	Though he had given the Carolinas	49:03
	the chance to develop and diversify industry,	49:04
	perhaps he was influenced by the life	49:09
	and action of Andrew Carnegie,	49:12
	the immigrant Scott who made a fortune in steel.	49:17
	But who refused to become a citizen	49:24
	because a naturalized citizen could not become president.	49:28
	He once commented, and this may have influenced J.B. Duke	49:36
	"No rich man should go to his grave	49:42
	with all his riches."	49:48
	And so J.B. Duke established the Duke Endowment	49:53
	from which we benefit.	50:01
	Yet our university does not bear his name.	50:04
	It is named after his father	50:13
	whom he admired and loved.	50:17
	James Buchanan Duke died less than a year	50:22
	after the creation of the Duke Endowment	50:25
	on October 10th, 1925.	50:28
	And the bodies of the father and his two sons	50:32
	are at rest in the Memorial Chapel,	50:36
	which was built by donations from his friends.	50:42
	Now what was J.B. Duke's aim in setting up the endowment.	50:49
	He answered the question in one sentence when he was asked,	50:55
	what was the most important thing he had done with his life?	51:00
	A tobacco empire and the reorganization of that empire? No.	51:07
	The stimulus given to industry in the Carolinas,	51:16
	by the development of hydroelectric power?	51:20
	No, his answer was the creation of the Duke Endowment	51:24
	for through it I made men.	51:33
	Now women's libbers don't be upset by this.	51:39
	After all back in 1896, his father, Washington Duke	51:47
	said he would give $100,000 for endowment	51:55
	if Trinity College would admit women 1896.	52:04
	And when J.B Duke talked of making men,	52:15
	he meant men embracing women, if I may put it that way.	52:20
	(congregation laughs)	52:26
	You know the areas of the endowments interests.	52:32
	First higher education, not merely Duke,	52:37
	but Davidson and Furman and Johnson C. Ross	52:43
	representing Methodist, Presbyterian, Baptist and blacks.	52:50
	And these four schools receive 46%	52:58
	of the income of the endowment.	53:05
	Second and third, hospitals in both Carolinas,	53:09
	including child care, care of orphan,	53:15
	they received 32%.	53:21
	For the Methodist church for the building of rural churches	53:24
	and retirement benefits for preachers	53:31
	and their families 12%.	53:34
	Together these four areas of interest still receive 90%	53:39
	of the income of the Duke Endowment,	53:46
	which during the first 50 years,	53:50
	that is what they received,	53:54
	Duke Endowment has given to them $378,400,698.	53:57
	Let me share with you what this means	54:13
	to one of the academic institutions.	54:15
	I should leave Duke to Dr. Paul Gross,	54:18
	who on Wednesday of this week at 4:00 PM	54:22
	in the auditorium of the chemical laboratory,	54:27
	so rightly named after him,	54:32
	will speak on 50 years of Duke, and the Duke Endowment.	54:36
	I'm personally beholden to Dr. Gross,	54:44
	who has given and still gives to Duke	54:48
	of his wide ranging wisdom	54:50
	and his uncomfortable common sense.	54:54
	He persuaded me to stay at Duke	54:59
	when I thought I'll be leaving	55:02
	for Union Theological Seminary in New York.	55:03
	But that's another story.	55:07
	Come and hear him on Wednesday afternoon.	55:09
	Let me rather tell what the endowment	55:14
	has meant to one of other school.	55:17
	When I taught at Amherst College in the '30s	55:23
	and early '40s, up there in Massachusetts	55:25
	we knew of three academic institutions in North Carolina.	55:30
	The university because of its president,	55:38
	the late and great Frank Graham.	55:43
	Second Davidson because of its academic prowess	55:48
	as attested by the number of roads colors.	55:55
	And third Duke because of its football coach Wallace Wade.	56:00
	(congregation laughs)	56:06
	I happen to have a non errand degree from Davidson.	56:11
	So let me quote or paraphrase some sentences	56:15
	from a recent article by president Samuel Spencer	56:18
	entitled "Duke Endowment Aids Davidson for 50 years".	56:23
	Creation of the Duke Endowment	56:31
	was the biggest financial event	56:33
	in the history of the college.	56:35
	A welcome surprise, an important turning point.	56:37
	In December, 1924 Davidson was in the grips	56:43
	of its own private depression.	56:46
	It had lost its academics central building,	56:50
	and a dorm by fire just when its student body	56:54
	was tenderly rising, more than doubling	56:59
	between 1918 and 1924.	57:03
	The endowment kept Davidson from making cuts in salary	57:08
	and staff with the 1930 depression.	57:13
	And it aided in similar fashion in 1940	57:18
	when World War II began for America.	57:22
	and the student body was reduced to 200.	57:25
	The endowment has not only given Davidson	57:30
	over $14 million since 1924,	57:32
	it has added special appropriations for its library,	57:37
	it's humanities course, it's honors college.	57:42
	it's South Asian studies.	57:46
	The endowment has been both bread and butter support	57:50
	and a strong incentive to new projects and facilities.	57:55
	Now Furman can say amen to such statement.	58:01
	So can Johnson Ross.	58:07
	So can Duke.	58:09
	Why does the chronicle say so little,	58:12
	if anything in the spirit, why?	58:16
	Today I say it, in wondering gratitude.	58:22
	Now the glad tidings for us and for the generations to come	58:28
	is that the Duke Endowment is an ongoing affair,	58:32
	a continuing concern dependent on two groups of persons.	58:37
	One is the trustee, and the good news about them	58:43
	is that so many of them live in the Carolinas.	58:47
	Charlotte, like New York is one of the headquarters	58:53
	of the Duke Endowment.	58:58
	The trustees can and do see it firsthand	59:00
	the varying communities, which the endowment serves,	59:05
	and to them we say thank you.	59:09
	And behind them not seen so often by us,	59:12
	is the professional staff	59:16
	who implement the decisions of the board.	59:19
	Two of them I know well,	59:23
	and I have discovered with joy that the professional staff	59:27
	individually and collectively believe	59:31
	in James Buchanan Duke's vision,	59:35
	so embracing and so diverse,	59:39
	so necessary for the enlarging of wisdom and help	59:44
	and the spiritual help welfare.	59:48
	They have not war the vision,	59:50
	not tampered with it's intent.	59:53
	In dedication they seek to perpetuate its validity.	59:56
	And we recognize and thank them.	1:00:03
	You know that it was Mr. Duke's desire,	1:00:08
	that a towering chapel be at the heart of the university.	1:00:10
	He was a man of faith, of great faith, of genuine faith	1:00:15
	with a solemn belief in the eternal.	1:00:20
	A strong confidence in the Christian religion	1:00:24
	and in the Methodist church.	1:00:28
	He would be pleased with two statistics,	1:00:31
	which I shall share with you.	1:00:34
	You've heard about the mob scene for the Messiah.	1:00:37
	And here ere two more to add, last Easter Sunday,	1:00:42
	between 1800 and 2000 people turned up	1:00:46
	in the Sarah P. Duke Gardens for the 7:00 AM service.	1:00:51
	They were 1,000 at the 9:00 AM service in the chapel.	1:00:56
	And 2000 at the 11:00 AM service.	1:01:01
	That evening there were 1800 right here	1:01:06
	when the North Carolina Symphony	1:01:11
	joined the Duke choir in a glorious rendition	1:01:14
	of Mahler's resurrection symphony.	1:01:18
	Does this happen at any other university chapel,	1:01:22
	Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Chicago, Stanford?	1:01:26
	Oh maybe at Bob Jones and Oral Roberts.	1:01:34
	(congregation laughs)	1:01:37
	But with a different emphasis,	1:01:45
	let's just to be fair about that.	1:01:46
	Moreover, on Christmas eve this year at 11:00 PM,	1:01:48
	if these year is like the previous three,	1:01:56
	there will be 1700 folk in this chapel	1:01:59
	for a service of carols and blessings and prayer.	1:02:03
	That service is the brain child of Ben Smith,	1:02:11
	our noted and beloved choirmaster.	1:02:17
	Now remember this 1700 people despite the fact	1:02:21
	that there are almost no students	1:02:27
	in residence on Christmas eve.	1:02:29
	And I seem to be the contemporary patron saint	1:02:36
	junior varsity of lost causes in the chapel.	1:02:40
	(congregation laughs)	1:02:45
	Look the face of Jesus	1:02:47
	in the central panel on the rear door,	1:02:50
	it's still in shadow.	1:02:54
	I have been asking that it be illuminated	1:02:59
	ever since I came in 1945.	1:03:01
	That's why I'm the patron saint of lost projects.	1:03:08
	I'm gonna make one more suggestion.	1:03:12
	since J.B. Duke thought the chapel	1:03:16
	to be so essentially central in the university	1:03:18
	why does he stand with his back to it?	1:03:23
	(congregation chattering)	1:03:27
	I suggest that the statue will be moved to the green sward	1:03:34
	between Allen building and Cleland house,	1:03:38
	and turned around.	1:03:42
	When he has gazed at the chapel to his heart's content,	1:03:46
	he can turn a wary eye on the second floor	1:03:51
	of Allen building.	1:03:55
	(congregation laughs)	1:03:56
	Or a delighted and approving eye	1:04:02
	on the lessees of Cleland house.	1:04:05
	(congregation laughs)	1:04:08
	You know it may come to pass,	1:04:11
	but I should probably be dead before it's done.	1:04:14
	So substituting for Dr. Bosley,	1:04:18
	I've tried and behalf of you in this gathered community	1:04:22
	to express our facts for what James Buchanan Duke	1:04:26
	has done for so many people,	1:04:29
	and especially for our university.	1:04:32
	He believed in the motto of Trinity College.	1:04:36
	He kept it for the university.	1:04:40
	He wanted eruditio er religio,	1:04:44
	learning and reverence to go hand in hand,	1:04:49
	neither one without fear.	1:04:56
	So let it be.	1:05:02
	And let us pray.	1:05:06
	Almighty God we do now praise famous men,	1:05:10
	our academic parents who begot and nourished us	1:05:15
	remembering especially on this day of anniversary,	1:05:20
	James Buchanan Duke, one of thy surprising saints	1:05:24
	who himself would be surprised to be so dumb.	1:05:32
	For him and to thee, we say, thank you, amen.	1:05:38
-	Would you join with me,	1:06:14
	in the responsive litany of commemoration, let us pray.	1:06:17
	Almighty and eternal God in whom our fathers trusted	1:06:24
	we, their children on this day of remembrance	1:06:28
	offer unto you our litany of commemoration.	1:06:31
	(congregation recites)	1:06:35
-	For the men and women of this state Methodists and Quakers	1:06:38
	farmers and merchant persons, teachers and administrators,	1:06:41
	who believed in education and may their belief prevail.	1:06:46
	(congregation recites)	1:06:50
-	For the embodiment of their dream	1:06:53
	private school, academy, college and university	1:06:55
	founded in hope continued with perseverance,	1:06:59
	growing in outreach, established and assurance.	1:07:02
	(congregation recites)	1:07:07
-	For educators whose vision was matched by their courage,	1:07:10
	whose patience was tempered by their indignation,	1:07:14
	whose idealism was moderated by their awareness of sin.	1:07:17
	(congregation recites)	1:07:22
-	For the Duke family, father, sons, and their wives,	1:07:24
	grandchildren in continuing and present generations	1:07:31
	who with wonder and surprise, bewilderment and tenacity	1:07:36
	laid a good foundation, built a worthy school,	1:07:41
	and provided for exciting growth	1:07:45
	beyond their can in years unseen.	1:07:47
	(congregation recites)	1:07:51
-	For the continuance of good ideas,	1:07:56
	the union of proof and reverence,	1:07:58
	the freedom of responsible and academic thought	1:08:02
	and the right of public concern,	1:08:05
	the joint care of the body and the spirit,	1:08:07
	the linking of science and humanities,	1:08:11
	the realization that the old order changes	1:08:15
	(congregation recites)	1:08:20
-	For the future of this, our university,	1:08:23
	established to your glory,	1:08:26
	and for the relief of the human condition.	1:08:29
	For the consecration of the discontent of the young.	1:08:32
	For wisdom and the conservatism of the middle-aged.	1:08:36
	For resiliency and the obstinacy of the old.	1:08:40
	For understanding cooperation and the sense of humor	1:08:44
	within our community.	1:08:48
	(congregation recites)	1:08:51
-	And to you we shall ascribe as is most due	1:08:54
	all praise and glory world without end.	1:08:59
Together	Amen.	1:09:04
	(liturgical instrumental music)	1:09:11
	(choir sings)	1:09:47
	(liturgical instrumental music)	1:12:01
	(choir sings)	1:12:54

	(harmonizing church choir)	0:04
	(church organ music)	0:28
	(harmonizing church choir continues)	0:48
	(church organ music continues)	1:11
	(church organ music continues)	1:44
	(church organ music continues)	2:11
-	The Lord bless you and keep you.	2:51
	The Lord make his face to shine upon you,	2:57
	and be gracious unto you.	3:00
	The Lord, lift up the light	3:04
	of his countenance upon you,	3:05
	and give you peace.	3:08
	(church choir harmonizing resumes)	3:15
	(church choir harmonizing continues)	3:34
	(church bell ringing)	3:41
	(church organ music resumes)	3:54
	(church organ music continues)	4:18

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James T. Cleland - "On Saying 'Thank You'" (December 8, 1974)

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

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