James T. Cleland - "The Great Man's Great Man" (February 23, 1975)

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	(instrumental music)	0:03
-	Oh God, who has given us minds to know thee,	6:24
	hearts to love thee	6:29
	and voices to show forth our praise.	6:32
	Give us grace we beseech thee,	6:36
	to dedicate ourselves freely to thy service	6:39
	that we may reverently fulfill the worship of thy sanctuary	6:43
	and beautify the praises of thy house	6:47
	through Jesus Christ our Lord, amen.	6:51
	(orchestral music)	6:58
	(indistinct)
	(bright music)	7:50
	(orchestral music)	8:33
	(indistinct)
	As we come into the presence of God,	12:32
	let us acknowledge our unworthiness	12:35
	and offer our unison prayer of confession.	12:38
	Let us pray.	12:42
	Oh, holy and merciful God,	12:45
	we confess that we have not always taken upon ourselves	12:48
	with joy, the yoke of obedience,	12:51
	nor been willing to seek and to do your perfect will.	12:55
	We have not loved you with all our heart	12:59
	and mind and soul and strength,	13:03
	neither have we loved our neighbors as ourselves.	13:06
	You have called us to respond	13:10
	to the need of our brothers and sisters,	13:12
	and we have passed on heating on our way.	13:16
	In the pride of our hearts and our unwillingness to repent,	13:20
	we have turned away from the cross of Christ	13:25
	and have grieved your Holy Spirit.	13:29
	Forgive us, we pray. Amen.	13:32
	May God in his mercy, now here are our private confessions.	13:37
	Father, we thank you for your loving compassion	14:03
	in forgiving our sins.	14:07
	Now help us to live in your light and to walk in your ways	14:11
	through Jesus Christ our Lord.	14:16
	(instrumental music)	14:26
	(orchestral music)	15:03
	(indistinct)
-	The chosen Lecter is confined at home	20:10
	with the illness of a child.	20:13
	We wish all that is good for the child.	20:17
	And I shall read the lesson.	20:22
	First from the Old Testament,	20:26
	the book of the Psalms, the 15th song.	20:29
	"O Lord, who shall sojourn in thy tent?	20:34
	Who shall dwell on thy holy hill?	20:40
	He who walks blamelessly and does what is right	20:45
	and speaks truth in his heart,	20:50
	who does not slander with his tongue	20:54
	and does no evil to his friend,	20:58
	nor takes up a reproach against his neighbor;	21:02
	in whose eyes a reprobate is despised,	21:07
	but who honors those who fear the Lord;	21:13
	who swears to his own heart and does not change;	21:18
	who does not put out his money at interest	21:27
	and does not take a bribe against the innocent.	21:29
	He who does these things shall never be moved."	21:36
	From the New Testament,	21:45
	Saint Matthew's gospel 25 verses 31 to 46,	21:47
	let us rise for the reading of the gospel.	21:54
	Jesus is talking.	22:08
	"When the son of man comes in His glory,	22:12
	and all the angels with Him,	22:16
	then He will sit on His glorious throne.	22:19
	Before Him will be gathered all the nations,	22:24
	and He will separate them one from another,	22:28
	as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.	22:32
	And He will place the sheep at His right hand,	22:38
	but the goats at the left.	22:41
	Then the King will say to those on His right hand,	22:46
	'Come, oh blessed of my Father,	22:50
	inherit the kingdom prepared for you	22:53
	from the foundation of the world.	22:56
	For I was hungry and you gave me food,	23:00
	I was thirsty and you gave me drink,	23:05
	I was a stranger and you welcomed me,	23:09
	I was naked and you clothed me,	23:15
	I was sick and you visited me,	23:18
	I was in prison and you came to me.'	23:22
	Then the righteous will answer Him,	23:29
	'Lord, when did we see thee hungry and feed thee,	23:31
	or thirsty and give thee drink?	23:38
	And when did we see thee a stranger and welcome thee,	23:42
	or naked and clothe thee?	23:46
	And when did we see thee sick or in prison and visit thee?'	23:49
	And the King will answer them,	23:58
	'Truly, I say to you,	24:01
	as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren,	24:04
	you did it to me.'	24:10
	Then He will say to those at His left hand,	24:16
	'Depart from me, you cursed,	24:20
	into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.	24:22
	For I was hungry and you gave me no food,	24:28
	I was thirsty and you gave me no drink,	24:33
	I was a stranger and you did not welcome me,	24:38
	naked and you did not clothe me,	24:43
	sick and in prison and you did not visit me.'	24:46
	Then they also will answer,	24:52
	'Lord, when did we see thee hungry	24:54
	or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison,	24:56
	and did not minister to thee?'	25:01
	Then He will answer them,	25:05
	'Truly, I say to you,	25:08
	as you did not do it to one of the least of these,	25:12
	you did not do it to me.'	25:18
	And they will go away into eternal punishment,	25:23
	but the righteous into eternal life.	25:29
	And may God bless onto us the reading of His word.	25:36
	(bright instrumental music)	25:44
	(orchestral music)	25:54
	(indistinct)
-	Let us now affirm our faith.	26:32
	We are not alone, we live in God's world,	26:36
	we believe in God	26:41
	who has created and is creating,	26:43
	who has come in the true man, Jesus,	26:47
	to reconcile and make new,	26:50
	who works in us and others by His spirit.	26:53
	We trust Him.	26:57
	He calls us to be His church, to celebrate his presence,	26:59
	to love and serve others,	27:05
	to seek justice and resist evil,	27:08
	to proclaim Jesus crucified and risen,	27:11
	our judge and our hope	27:16
	in life, in death, in life beyond death, God is with us.	27:19
	We are not alone. Thanks be to God.	27:26
	The Lord be with you.	27:31
-	And also with you.	27:33
-	Let us pray.	27:35
	All mighty God,	27:48
	we thank you for the life of Jesus Christ,	27:51
	your son, our Lord,	27:54
	that He lived His divine life amongst us,	27:58
	ministering to our needs,	28:03
	showing us the way of life.	28:06
	Even now open our eyes that we may see Him,	28:10
	enlighten our understanding that we may know Him	28:15
	and strengthen our wills that we may follow Him	28:21
	for the glory of your kingdom	28:26
	and for our souls, true God.	28:28
	Oh God of comfort,	28:35
	we commend to your mercy all those upon whom any cross	28:37
	or tribulation is layered.	28:42
	The nations who are afflicted with famine,	28:46
	pestilence, or wall,	28:51
	all those who seek for work and cannot find it.	28:55
	And those oppressed with poverty, sickness	29:00
	or any infirmity of soul or mind.	29:05
	In the name of Jesus we pray, especially	29:11
	for the children of the world,	29:14
	who are without parents or homes	29:17
	and who are helpless, starving, and unclothed.	29:21
	And for children whose lives are blinded by neglect	29:28
	and cruelty and whose minds are darkened by ignorance	29:31
	and coward by fear,	29:37
	may your holy spirit endower and bless those	29:41
	who devote themselves to the care of children	29:45
	and teach us all young and old,	29:49
	to be more responsive to their needs.	29:52
	This day we give you praise and thanksgiving	29:57
	for our faithful preacher of the word,	30:01
	Jim Cleland together with his wife, Alice	30:04
	and for the continued richness	30:10
	of their loving ministry among us,	30:11
	bless, preserve, and keep them,	30:15
	we humbly pray in Jesus name.	30:19
	And now as our savior, Christ has taught us,	30:24
	we pray together saying,	30:27
	'Our father who art in heaven,	30:30
	hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come.	30:33
	Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.	30:38
	Give us this day our daily bread	30:42
	and forgive us our trespasses,	30:45
	as we forgive those who trespass against us	30:47
	and lead us not into temptation,	30:52
	but deliver us from evil,	30:54
	for thine is the kingdom	30:57
	and the power and the glory for ever and ever, amen.'	30:59
	The sermon this morning	31:08
	is delivered by our beloved Dean of the chapel,	31:11
	James T. Cleland.	31:15
-	The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with us all.	31:36
	There is a story told about Dr. Charles R. Brown,	31:44
	the distinguished Professor	31:51
	and Dean of the Yale Divinity School,	31:53
	who was recognized as one of the preachers in new England.	31:58
	After his retirement, when he was 82 years old,	32:06
	he was asked by a student,	32:11
	"How often can you preach the same sermon?"	32:14
	He answered, "I don't know yet."	32:19
	Now accepting the validity of his statement,	32:27
	although I am only 72,	32:31
	I plan this morning to preach a sermon,	32:35
	which I first in this chapel 10 years ago.	32:38
	At the center of it is Albert Schweitzer,	32:44
	who was known as the great man's great man.	32:50
	What great men subscribe to that view.	32:56
	Young smart soldier, philosopher,	33:00
	prime minister of South Africa.	33:06
	Tomas Masaryk, scholar, founder, and first president	33:10
	of the late Czechoslovakia.	33:17
	Albert Einstein, the physicist who said,	33:21
	"There in this sorry world of ours, is a great man."	33:26
	Now, if any of you remember the sermon	33:35
	and don't want to hear it again,	33:39
	just tip toe out silently	33:43
	so that you may not awaken those who are asleep.	33:47
	(congregation laughs)	33:50
	September, 1965,	33:57
	was the month in which Albert Schweitzer died	34:02
	at the age of 90.	34:07
	100 years ago, this past January, he was born.	34:10
	In memory of him and in honor of him,	34:18
	let me share with you some facts and thoughts about him	34:22
	in a whimsical sort of way.	34:27
	If it be neither blasphemous nor sacrilegious.	34:32
	And I do not think it is.	34:36
	I want you to come with me	34:38
	to the judgment hall of heaven some 10 years ago,	34:40
	where the Lord Jesus sits on His glorious throne,	34:48
	and as we heard in the scripture lesson,	34:52
	separates the sheep from the goats.	34:56
	The person who is being appraised as we watch the scene	35:01
	is Albert Schweitzer, white of hair,	35:06
	bushy of eyebrows, walrus mustache.	35:12
	His eyes are full of compassion and humor.	35:19
	His hands are supple.	35:24
	Someone has described them as lovely.	35:27
	He's a grand old man,	35:31
	grand and old, 90 years old.	35:34
	Jesus turns to Saint Peter and says,	35:41
	"You have the record. Let us hear it in 20 minutes."	35:44
	Peter in bewilderment and frustration answers,	35:52
	"Sir!" with question marks and exclamation point.	35:56
	Jesus quietly repeats, "20 minutes, maybe 25."	36:02
	So Peter tries to cram 90 years into the allotted time.	36:10
	Will he make it?	36:17
	Well, let's listen as Peter reads the testimony of a life.	36:19
	He begins first a cut curriculum vitae.	36:26
	Albert Schweitzer was born in Alsace.	36:33
	It was generally said of him that such a puny specimen	36:38
	could not live.	36:43
	He was a son of the men's, grew up in an atmosphere	36:46
	impregnated with Paya Cape and music.	36:50
	He enjoyed his surroundings,	36:55
	home, church, school, countryside,	36:57
	though the sadness, which so constantly haunts life	37:03
	kept him from being a too naive optimist.	37:09
	He became a student at the University of Strasbourg	37:15
	in philosophy and theology	37:20
	with music, the Oregon, as an avocation.	37:24
	He listened, he read, he taught.	37:30
	He played the organ with the great Widor of Paris	37:35
	as his amazed tutor and later as his amazed pupil.	37:40
	This point, Peter pauses in his biographical sketch	37:49
	and addresses himself directly to Jesus	37:55
	on the judgment throne.	37:58
	You spoke to him, Sir, when he was 21 years old.	38:02
	You said to him, your must pay.	38:08
	You must pay for your happiness	38:12
	by unremitting self-giving to those who cannot repay.	38:16
	Sir, you remember his response,	38:23
	since God did not call you to public service	38:29
	until you were 30,	38:33
	Schweitzer claim the next nine years	38:36
	until he was 30 for himself.	38:40
	In these nine years, he earned three doctors degrees,	38:46
	a PhD in philosophy for a thesis on Kant,	38:52
	a ThD in New Testament for a study of the life of Jesus,	38:58
	and the must doc, doctor of music	39:05
	for an interpretation of the music	39:08
	of Johann Sebastian Bach.	39:11
	At the age of 28,	39:16
	he was appointed principal	39:20
	of the Theological College of Saint Thomas	39:22
	attached to the University in Strasbourg.	39:26
	Then, three months before he was 30,	39:32
	he read a report of the Paris Missionary Society,	39:39
	which pointed out how starved for workers,	39:45
	the French Congo was.	39:49
	He knew at once where the rest of his life would be spent.	39:53
	He also knew that his three earned doctorates	40:02
	were of no use, no direct use to the native Africans.	40:09
	So he returned to college for pre-medical courses,	40:18
	then he went to medical school.	40:25
	And after six more years of study,	40:28
	he secured his doctorate of medicine in 1912,	40:33
	his four earned doctorate.	40:39
	He was then 37.	40:44
	The next year, he sailed for the Congo	40:47
	and literally built the hospital at Lambarene,	40:49
	which he financed by writing and lecturing on philosophy,	40:55
	ethics and theology.	41:02
	And by giving organ recitals primarily on Bach	41:04
	all over Europe.	41:09
	He still found time to write two of three planned volumes	41:13
	on the decline of the ethical situation in Western life.	41:19
	He published a volume on Jesus and one on Paul,	41:28
	which staggered, angered	41:32
	and revolutionized continental New Testament study.	41:36
	With Widor, he edited the definitive edition	41:43
	of the Oregon works of Bach.	41:48
	He began a pamphlet interpreting Bach,	41:53
	which ended up as the definitive biography in two volumes.	41:56
	In between, he maintain, enlarged and ran the hospital.	42:04
	Thousands of patients were treated there in 50 years.	42:11
	He built no chapel,	42:17
	but every day he presided over family worship.	42:22
	He was in harness until the day before he died.	42:27
	Honors poured in on him.	42:34
	He received an excess of academic degrees, honorous cause.	42:38
	Edinburgh University in an attempt to be unique,	42:44
	gave him two honorary degrees at the same ceremony.	42:48
	Queen Elizabeth made him an honorary member	42:54
	of the order of merit.	42:57
	There are only 24 members of that order	42:59
	and only one other honorary member, he an American.	43:03
	In 1952, Schweitzer was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.	43:10
	He died at the age of 90 on September 4th, 1965.	43:20
	He left no last words.	43:27
	A colleague, a medical doctor,	43:31
	presided at the simple burial service.	43:35
	Sir, Saint Peter so much for the curriculum vitae.	43:41
	Second, what motivated him?	43:47
	Obviously, he loved to work.	43:51
	All kinds of work were second nature to him.	43:55
	Academic, medical, manual, writing, doctoring, building.	44:00
	He was once asked what gave him the most pleasure in life	44:08
	and he replied whatever I'm working at.	44:14
	He told a visitor to be a success in Lambarene,	44:20
	you must be a carpenter, a mechanic, a farmer,	44:23
	a trader, as well as the physician and surgeon.	44:28
	He once asked a native who was resplendent in a white suit	44:35
	to help him haul a beam of wood.	44:41
	The native replied,	44:45
	"I'm an intellectual and don't drag wood about."	44:47
	Schweitzer replied, "You're lucky.	44:53
	I too wanted to become an intellectual,	44:57
	but I didn't succeed."	45:01
	Yet there was more than his motivation	45:05
	than the capacity to work.	45:08
	He could have stayed in an academic position	45:11
	and developed his interest in philosophy,	45:14
	theology and music.	45:17
	But from childhood, he was sensitive,	45:21
	hyper sensitive to suffering,	45:25
	even of animals, which he included in his evening prayers.	45:30
	It was the pathos and patience,	45:38
	the suffering and sorrow	45:44
	in the face of a chained black figure	45:47
	on a monument in the public square of Komar,	45:51
	which turned his thoughts even as a boy to Africa.	45:57
	Someone must repay the Africans	46:03
	for what the white man has done to him.	46:09
	Someone? Why not Schweitzer?	46:14
	He must not just talk about love.	46:21
	He must practice it.	46:25
	That's why years later, he finally chose medicine.	46:26
	I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work	46:31
	without having to talk.	46:37
	He dreamed of a fellowship	46:40
	of those who bear the mark of pain,	46:43
	those who have learned by experience	46:49
	what physical pain and bodily anguish mean,	46:51
	they're united by a secret bond.	46:56
	For him, happiness was a twin of shared pain.	47:00
	A happiness, which is a consequence of a deep sympathy	47:08
	with the pain which prevails around us.	47:13
	From this community of suffering,	47:18
	he never sought to withdraw himself.	47:20
	For many years, Schweitzer tried to find a phrase	47:26
	which would sum up, but ultimately,	47:30
	and consistently and continually motivated him.	47:32
	And one day the words came to him.	47:37
	(foreign language)	47:39
	Which being translated is,	47:43
	respect highest esteem for life.	47:45
	Any life, all life, anywhere,	47:52
	everywhere, wherever there is need.	47:59
	He himself has defined reverence for life as at its lowest,	48:05
	the ethic of good manners.	48:10
	Wouldn't it be nice if we practice in the indoor stadium?	48:14
	The ethic for good manners.	48:18
	And at his highest, the absolute ethic of love.	48:21
	He under took his African mission	48:28
	not as a sociological study,	48:31
	not as a political reformation,	48:34
	not even as a medical enterprise.	48:37
	He undertook it with sober enthusiasm	48:40
	as an act of atonement.	48:45
	And that's something to remember in length.	48:50
	The motivation was religious and ethical,	48:56
	the implementation was practical.	48:59
	He once said, "Example is not the main thing	49:02
	in influencing others.	49:08
	It is the only thing."	49:11
	So he went to Africa to the despair of his academic friends	49:15
	who thought he was a fool	49:22
	and to the indignation of the Paris Missionary Society	49:25
	who thought he was a heritage.	49:29
	And they were both partly right.	49:33
	He was a heretical fool	49:37
	in the spirit of his Lord and master.	49:41
	This quadrupole doctor who looked like Joseph Staline	49:46
	and burn like Francis of Assisi had said, Saint Peter,	49:52
	"What influence did he have at his contemporaries?"	49:58
	It's almost unbelievable.	50:02
	We've mentioned it already in the realm of ethics,	50:05
	New Testament studies and Oregon regarding the latter.	50:07
	He even wrote a 73 page pamphlet	50:12
	on the building of pipe organs.	50:16
	But let's concentrate on the impact	50:20
	of his reverence for life	50:22
	and his unofficial fellowship	50:25
	of those who bear the mark of pain.	50:28
	At least half a dozen hospitals	50:31
	in impoverished, remote areas have been established	50:35
	because of him.	50:41
	A manufacturer in the American Midwest	50:43
	read about Schweitzer,	50:46
	sold his farm implement manufacturing company	50:49
	and used the money to build a string of medical clinics	50:54
	in the Cameroon.	50:59
	A Japanese professor raised money in Schweitzer's name	51:02
	and started an orphanage.	51:06
	A young German medical school graduate	51:10
	with a fund of inspiration as his only means of support	51:14
	started a hospital in South America.	51:21
	A Dutch girl selected medicine as her career	51:25
	because of Schweitzer.	51:29
	She became the Chief Surgeon at Lambarene.	51:32
	She left to found a hospital of her own	51:37
	in Southern France.	51:40
	A Duke M.D did the first year of his residency at Lambarene.	51:43
	Larry Melon of Pittsburgh at the age of 37	51:50
	was making a career out of being a rich man's son.	51:55
	His introduction to Schweitzer by reading was explosive.	52:00
	Like Schweitzer, Melon went back to college	52:06
	then to medical school and graduated MD the age of 44.	52:10
	He settled in Haiti with these wife, Gwen	52:19
	with a view to building	52:24
	the Albert Schweitzer Hospital of Haiti.	52:26
	Now, Schweitzer did not expect	52:31
	this kind of dramatic medical response	52:34
	from all who came in any kind of contact with him,	52:37
	but he did want them to open their eyes	52:42
	and seek another human being in need of a little time,	52:45
	a little friendliness,	52:50
	a little company, a little work.	52:53
	That's what he wrote in the Reader's Digest,	52:58
	just two months before he died.	53:01
	There's a lovely story told of him	53:05
	in a railroad station in Chicago, where he was met.	53:07
	And somebody read an address,	53:12
	welcoming him to the Windy city.	53:15
	And when they looked around, they couldn't see him.	53:18
	He had noticed a little old lady with two heavier suitcase	53:22
	and he had gone to help her get onto the train.	53:25
	And I think Peter would have said to our Lord,	53:32
	Schweitzer made your followers my Lord	53:35
	hold their heads a little higher.	53:37
	If he weren't a Christian, even a heretical Christian,	53:40
	there must be something to Christianity.	53:43
	He made the good life attractive.	53:48
	But forth my Lord, there has been criticism of this man.	53:53
	Some of it mellow and understanding,	53:57
	some bitter and debunking.	54:02
	He's accused of being cranky, dictatorial, irascible,	54:06
	vein or being obstinately old fashioned,	54:11
	of being a crusty old Bismarck.	54:16
	A magnificent tyrant.	54:20
	More seriously, he's accused of being an outdated colonial	54:23
	wearing the sun helmet as a badge of his cast	54:27
	whose attitude to the natives was paternal and benevolent,	54:32
	but who neither believed in nor had sympathy with	54:38
	the swelling tide of self-expression in the individual,	54:41
	in the race, in the possible nation throughout Africa.	54:46
	He did things for the Africans, not with them.	54:52
	He's been a deliberate bystander in the African convulsion.	54:58
	From another angle he's accused of being away	55:04
	behind the times in hospital techniques,	55:06
	surgical, medical, administrative, hygienic.	55:09
	The kindest critic has said that he should have died at 70	55:14
	instead of at 90.	55:19
	Well maybe, at least he lived long enough	55:21
	to hear all the possible praise and censure	55:25
	that could be said of him.	55:27
	And so Peter bows to the throne, my Lord,	55:30
	that is an abbreviated synopsis of the record in my books	55:34
	regarding Albert Schweitzer.	55:39
	I would have preferred 20 hours to 20 minutes,	55:42
	but you know all things, I desist.	55:46
	And then the Lord Jesus says to the one	55:52
	who stands in front of him,	55:54
	"Doctor, or should it be doctors Schweitzer?	55:57
	You've heard the record.	56:03
	What shall I do with you?	56:06
	Do you go to my right hand or my left?	56:09
	And Dr. Schweitzer answers,	56:14
	"The air is clearer here than in Lambarene.	56:17
	I begin to understand my critics evaluation of me.	56:23
	I'm not ready for heaven.	56:30
	I'm not enthusiastic about going to the place	56:35
	prepared for the devil and his angels.	56:39
	Is it possible that our Roman Catholic brethren are right	56:43
	with their doctrine of purgatory?	56:49
	Maybe I could be prepared for heaven there."	56:52
	And Jesus answers and says unto him,	56:58
	"Would you make me out to be a liar	57:01
	in the days of my flesh?	57:05
	I said then those who feed the hungry and thirsty,	57:09
	who clothed the naked and visit the sick and prisoners,	57:14
	who accepts strangers as kittens for	57:20
	are the ones to inherit the kingdom.	57:23
	What do you think you've done all your life?	57:26
	I know the criticism.	57:29
	I agree with it, but some of it.	57:32
	But your critics fail to distinguish between what is good	57:36
	and what is right.	57:40
	You're a good man, a radically ethical man.	57:42
	Your implementation of the ethic	57:48
	did leave some things to be desired,	57:50
	but God judges by motive, by intent.	57:53
	Your motive was not primarily medical,	57:58
	not even consciously social and never political.	58:02
	It was moral, rooted in a religious affirmation.	58:08
	If I am true to what I said in the parable of the sheep	58:14
	and the goats,	58:18
	there's only one judgment I may pass on you.	58:20
	Come, you blessed of my father,	58:25
	inherit the kingdom prepared for you	58:30
	from the foundation of the world, come."	58:33
	And in the celestial background,	58:39
	some angelic organist is playing a corral prelude of Bach,	58:44
	according to the Widor, Schweitzer definitive edition.	58:52
	And now as we go forward in this Lantern season,	58:59
	preparing ourselves for the transitory triumph	59:04
	of Palm Sunday,	59:07
	for the remembrance of the institution	59:10
	of the Lord's Supper on Monday, Thursday,	59:12
	for the awful experience of the crucifixion on Good Friday,	59:17
	which is also bad Friday	59:22
	and for the good news of the defeat of death at Easter,	59:25
	let us just remember what Schweitzer says about Jesus	59:30
	in the closing paragraph of his masterly volume,	59:34
	"The Quest of the Historic Jesus."	59:40
	Here are his word.	59:43
	"He comes to us as one unknown without a name.	59:48
	As of old, by the lakeside,	59:56
	He came to those men who knew Him not.	1:00:00
	He speaks to us the same word,	1:00:06
	follow thou me and sets us to the tasks	1:00:11
	which He has to fulfill for our time.	1:00:17
	He commands and to those who will be Him,	1:00:22
	whether they be wise or simple,	1:00:28
	He will reveal Himself in the toils,	1:00:32
	the conflicts, the sufferings,	1:00:36
	which they shall pass through in His fellowship.	1:00:41
	And as an inextricable mystery,	1:00:45
	they shall learn in their own experience	1:00:51
	who He is."	1:00:57
	So let it be for us.	1:01:03
	Amen.	1:01:09
	(orchestral music)	1:01:21
	(orchestral music)	1:01:44
	(indistinct)
	(gentle instrumental music)	1:03:42
	(orchestral music)	1:04:58
	(indistinct)
-	Oh, Lord, bless this offering of your people.	1:09:19
	In your mercy, remember those who have brought it	1:09:25
	and those for whom it is intended	1:09:29
	through Jesus Christ our Lord.	1:09:32
	Amen.	1:09:35
	(orchestral music)	1:09:38
	(orchestral music)	1:10:21
	(indistinct)
	The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.	1:14:08
	(orchestral music)	1:14:14
	(indistinct)
	(bell ringing)	1:14:56
	(instrumental music)	1:15:13

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Title:

James T. Cleland - "The Great Man's Great Man" (February 23, 1975)

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February 23, 1975

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

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Duke University. Chapel

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