Robert L. Johnson - "Old Times Not Forgotten" (May 18, 1975)

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-	Let us pray.	0:04
	Oh Lord, our God, in entire dependence upon you	0:07
	we wait for your Holy Spirit and for your gifts,	0:13
	bring your light into this hour.	0:18
	(choir music)	0:20
	(bright pipe organ music)	0:46
-	The inescapable in a connection of all people	4:25
	and sin is portrayed in the biblical myth of the fall.	4:29
	Original sin is the name we give to this solidarity,	4:35
	not to explain it away as a matter of biological heredity	4:39
	but in order to indicate	4:44
	that each one of us has unclean hands.	4:47
	Let us now make our corporate confession.	4:52
	Let us pray.	4:55
	Oh gracious God, help us now to see our lives	4:59
	illuminated by your presence, shine upon our sins.	5:04
	Too easily we deceive ourselves concerning them,	5:10
	and with them excuses, cover them,	5:14
	help us to see how clearly our tempus and selfishness,	5:18
	our cherish grudges and vindictiveness,	5:24
	our mean ambition and smallness hurt the lives of others.	5:27
	Set us against the clear background of the cross	5:34
	that we may be ashamed of the things that are shameful	5:38
	and may love the things that are lovely	5:42
	through the grace of our Lord, Jesus Christ, amen.	5:46
	Oh Lord, hear our personal confessions.	5:51
	Amen.	6:17
	It is in the cross and resurrection that we see Jesus	6:20
	through whom the strength which we call forgiveness	6:24
	is made visible and available.	6:28
	And the fatality of sin is broken.	6:31
	And once more, our hands are clean	6:34
	and we can move into a new day.	6:38
	(bright pipe organ music)	6:44
	(choir music)	7:01
	Here are the readings from the Old and the New Testament.	10:32
	First from Jeremiah, the 31st chapter.	10:37
	'Set up waymarks for yourself,	10:42
	make yourself guidepost,	10:45
	consider well the highway,	10:47
	the road by which you went.	10:49
	Return, O virgin Israel,	10:51
	return to these your cities.	10:54
	How long will you waiver,	10:56
	O faithless daughter?	10:58
	For the Lord has created a new you thing on earth;	11:00
	a woman protects a man.	11:04
	Thus says the Lord of host, the God of Israel:	11:07
	Once more they shall use the words in the land of Judah	11:11
	and in the cities, when I restore their fortunes.	11:16
	The Lord bless you, O habitation of righteous,	11:19
	O holy hill.	11:23
	And Judah and all its cities shall dwell there together,	11:25
	and the farmers and those who wander with their flocks.	11:29
	For I will satisfy the weary soul,	11:33
	and every languishing soul I will replenish.	11:36
	Thereupon I awoke and looked,	11:41
	and my sleep was pleasant to me.	11:45
	Behold, the days are coming says the Lord,	11:49
	when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah	11:52
	with the seed of man and the seed of beast.	11:57
	And it shall come to pass that as I have watched over them	12:00
	to pluck up and break down,	12:04
	to overthrow, destroy, and bring evil,	12:07
	so I shall watch over them to build	12:11
	and to plant, says the Lord.	12:13
	In those days they shall no longer say,	12:17
	"The fathers have eaten sour grapes,	12:21
	and the children's teeth are set on edge."	12:24
	But everyone shall die from his own sin;	12:27
	each man who eat sour grapes,	12:32
	his teeth shall be set on edge.'	12:35
	And hear the reading from second Corinthians,	12:39
	the fourth chapter.	12:42
	'Therefore, having this ministry by the mercy of God,	12:46
	we do not lose heart.	12:51
	We have renounced disgraceful, underhanded ways,	12:53
	we refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God's word,	12:58
	but by the open statement of the truth	13:03
	we would commend ourselves to every man's conscience	13:06
	in the sight of God.	13:09
	And even if our gospel is veiled,	13:12
	it is veiled only to those who are perishing.	13:15
	In their case the god of this world	13:19
	has blinded the minds of the unbelievers,	13:21
	to keep them from seeing the light	13:24
	of the gospel of the glory of Christ,	13:26
	who is the lightness of God.	13:29
	For what we preach is not ourselves,	13:32
	but Jesus Christ as Lord,	13:35
	with ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake.	13:38
	For it is the God who said,	13:42
	"Let light shine out of darkness,"	13:44
	who has shown in our hearts	13:46
	to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God	13:49
	and the face of Christ.	13:52
	But we have of this treasure in earthen vessels,	13:55
	to show that the transcendent power belongs to God	13:58
	and not to us.	14:02
	We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed;	14:05
	perplexed, but not driven to despair;	14:09
	persecuted but not forsaken;	14:13
	struck down, but not destroyed;	14:17
	always carrying in the body the death of Jesus,	14:21
	so that the life of Jesus	14:25
	may also be manifested in our bodies.	14:27
	For while we live we are always being given up to the death	14:30
	for Jesus's sake,	14:35
	so that the life of Jesus may be manifest	14:37
	in our mortal flesh.	14:40
	So death is at work in us, but life in you.'	14:42
	Praise be to God for this word, amen.	14:48
	(bright pipe organ music)	14:53
-	Let us affirm our faith.	15:34
	We are not alone. We live in God's world.	15:37
	We believe in God who has created and is creating,	15:42
	who has come in the true man, Jesus	15:47
	to reconcile and make new,	15:50
	who works in us and others by His spirit.	15:53
	We trust Him.	15:57
	He calls us to be His church,	15:59
	to celebrate His presence,	16:02
	to love and serve others,	16:05
	to seek justice and resist evil,	16:08
	to proclaim Jesus crucified and risen,	16:11
	our judge and our hope,	16:15
	in life, in death, in life beyond death, God is with us.	16:17
	We are not alone. Thanks be to God.	16:24
-	The Lord be with you.	16:29
-	And with your spirit.	16:31
-	Let us pray.	16:32
	Oh, holy God, you nourish and sustain this world	16:42
	from day to day and wherever we go,	16:46
	we are aware of your presence.	16:48
	We give thanks that we cannot hide from you	16:51
	and that you care for us even when we are uncaring.	16:55
	We give special thanks this day for the gift of your spirit,	17:01
	the spirit which has called your church into being,	17:06
	the same spirit which still guides and sustains us	17:09
	and empowers us to do your will in this world.	17:14
	We give thanks for our heritage	17:19
	and pray that we may build on its goodness.	17:22
	Protect us from living in the past,	17:26
	move us into your future.	17:30
	And now, oh Lord, hear our prayers for others.	17:33
	For the people around us, and those we love,	17:39
	whose lives are difficult and troubled,	17:43
	whose suffering is unseen.	17:48
	For those who are anxious and sad and disillusioned.	17:51
	And for those who cannot longer find	17:56
	any meaning in their lives.	17:58
	And we pray for people who are alone,	18:01
	who have trouble getting through each day,	18:04
	who cannot find friendship or love anywhere.	18:08
	For those who are estranged	18:12
	or separated from those they love are from you.	18:14
	And we pray, oh God, for all those who are victims of war,	18:19
	of hunger, of unemployment, of oppression, of illness.	18:25
	Hear our prayers for the leaders of all countries,	18:35
	that they may act wisely and without pride,	18:38
	that they may seek to promote peace among all people	18:43
	and that the establishment of justice for our common good	18:47
	may guide all their decisions.	18:51
	Oh God, you have bound us together in this bundle of life.	18:56
	Give us grace to understand how our lives depend	19:02
	upon each other.	19:05
	And may we be mindful of the needs of our brother	19:08
	and our sister, and be grateful for their love and care.	19:13
	And may we be faithful in our responsibilities to them.	19:19
	Oh Lord God, we ourselves are all these words	19:25
	that we have prayed, yet you know the abyss	19:29
	in which we can get lost between our praying and our caring.	19:33
	We are still living and caring.	19:39
	Keep us alive to your spirit	19:41
	and hear us as we pray the prayer of our Lord.	19:45
	Our father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.	19:50
	Thy kingdom come, thy will be done	19:56
	on earth, as it is in heaven.	19:59
	Give us this day our daily bread	20:02
	and forgive us our trespass	20:05
	as we forgive those who trespass against us;	20:08
	and lead us not into temptation,	20:12
	but deliver us from evil,	20:14
	for thy is the kingdom, and power and the glory,	20:17
	forever and ever, amen.	20:21
	A special thanks to the people responsible for our music	20:26
	to Floyd and Meredith and the summer choir.	20:29
	It is good to have them beating our worship.	20:32
	And it's my very special privilege	20:36
	to be able to welcome to our pulpit today,	20:38
	a friend of long standing,	20:40
	one of the giants in campus ministry,	20:42
	a person that we are especially pleased	20:45
	in his new location of work	20:47
	that he will be in the Duke community.	20:49
	Bob, we look forward to hearing the word from you today.	20:52
-	The bestselling book across the South this past season,	21:04
	has been a handsome coffee table volume entitled 'Jericho.'	21:11
	It is a tribute to the South in words, and in pictures.	21:18
	The text by James Dickey is prefaced by this quote	21:24
	from Joshua 'Put off the shoes from your feet,	21:29
	for the place where you stand is holy ground.'	21:36
	The South seen as holy ground.	21:42
	Indeed it is.	21:47
	The land has almost a biblical geography.	21:50
	Shiloh, Salloum,	21:56
	Mount Gilead,	22:02
	Pisgah, Salem,	22:05
	Ephesus church, Macedonia, Beulaville.	22:09
	It also has those classical Greek, Roman and European names;	22:17
	Athens,	22:24
	Sparta,	22:26
	Corinth,	22:28
	Rome,	22:29
	Sardis,	22:32
	Memphis,	22:34
	Florence.	22:36
	But Mr. Dickey in his book, 'Jericho' chose the wrong text.	22:39
	He should have used Jeremiah.	22:45
	In which the Lord reminds Israel, that he is in their midst,	22:48
	both in the history of breaking down and destruction,	22:53
	and in the history of building up and planting.	22:58
	The Lord cautions Israel,	23:03
	'Set up waymarks for yourself,	23:06
	make yourself guidepost,	23:09
	consider well the highway, the road by which you went.'	23:13
	Such are the old times,	23:20
	I would like to remember this morning.	23:22
	That very special history,	23:26
	that is the blight and the blessing of the South.	23:28
	For the Bible teaches us to respect history	23:33
	as the ground of divine revelation,	23:38
	as the arena in which God acts.	23:42
	And to do so is to encounter surprising truths	23:46
	about Southern character and Southern religion.	23:52
	We Southerners have always been a religious people.	23:58
	We have been a people of the book	24:02
	and while the South has had strong Catholic centers	24:06
	in New Orleans and St. Augustine,	24:09
	and while the South had prior to 1860,	24:14
	the two chief centers of Jewish population	24:17
	in North America at Charleston and Savannah.	24:21
	We Southerners were principally free church protestants,	24:26
	mainly Baptists and Methodists.	24:31
	But the God of the South, according to W.J.Cash	24:36
	was neither Methodist nor Baptist, but John Calvin's God.	24:42
	The Old Testament, Jehovah.	24:50
	According to Cash, he was that God,	24:53
	in whom everything existed for a purpose.	24:56
	And whatever existed was ordained,	25:01
	whether it be slavery,	25:05
	or the place of labor,	25:08
	or the role of women.	25:11
	There is this element of fatalism in the Southern character.	25:15
	And it makes us suspicious of idealists and utopians.	25:21
	We produce no thoros or emersons in the early South.	25:28
	A South Carolina's James McBride Dabbs once said,	25:35
	quoting his aunt Alice, 'Ideals is a sin.'	25:39
	But not everyone followed John Calvin's God.	25:46
	And here one must note a basic division	25:51
	between white folks religion and black folks religion.	25:53
	The black folks never bought John Calvin's ordained society.	25:59
	They were more biblical.	26:05
	They identified with Israel.	26:07
	They knew they were in exile, in Egypt, under Pharaoh.	26:10
	And they were looking for a Moses, a Joshua, an Amos,	26:17
	a Jesus, to lead Exodus,	26:23
	to lead them into the promised land.	26:27
	White religion tended to baptize the prevailing culture,	26:32
	and cherished the romantic past.	26:37
	Black religion looked ahead to the future,	26:42
	to the dawning of the kingdom of God,	26:45
	to a day of deliverance and liberation.	26:49
	And so you have these clear cut differences	26:55
	in the religion of the South between blacks and whites.	26:57
	The white accent was on order.	27:03
	A less theological word was harmony.	27:07
	The black accent was on justice.	27:11
	And up until the 1960s,	27:14
	both white churches and chambers of commerce	27:17
	love to speak of racial harmony	27:23
	or justice was not a big word	27:27
	in the white Southern vocabulary.	27:32
	Again, the white saw their minister basically as a pastor,	27:37
	adopting a consent form of leadership	27:44
	but the blacks nurtured both pastors and prophets,	27:47
	leading forth and leading their people into a new day.	27:52
	Whites tended to look at salvation	27:58
	in terms of the individual, in the garden, alone.	28:00
	Blacks tended to think of salvation corporately.	28:06
	The solidarity of the people,	28:10
	the people would move in Exodus into the promised land.	28:12
	And for a very long time, we white Southerners	28:18
	did not understand what was going on in black religion,	28:21
	because it was an underground movement,	28:27
	and so much of it was in codes, such as the spirituals.	28:30
	But we soon learned that black folk	28:36
	made the connection between worship and human liberation,	28:40
	between prayer and politics,	28:46
	between the church meeting and the AACP.	28:51
	They knew the road between Browns Chapel in Selma, Alabama	28:57
	and Sheriff Clark's Courthouse.	29:02
	They knew what it meant to be the church militant,	29:06
	not the church at ease in Zion.	29:12
	They knew the irony of the gospel.	29:16
	Not everybody talking about heaven is going there.	29:20
	The white church on the other hand	29:25
	could never quite make the connection	29:27
	between these biblical metaphors of justice,	29:31
	liberation, the kingdom of God, and the secular order.	29:35
	Chained by the past and wired to the mistaken notion	29:42
	that whatever exists is ordained of God,	29:45
	we missed many of our critical chances,	29:50
	even in North Carolina.	29:54
	It was almost a decade after black students	29:58
	entered the university at Chapel Hill.	30:02
	Before the church related schools,	30:06
	Duke, Wake Forest, and Davidson	30:09
	opened their doors to black students,	30:13
	which led Dr. Frank Graham to rightly say,	30:18
	the state that is Caesar rendered more unto God	30:23
	than the churches.	30:31
	We would speak loudly on blue laws or liquor by the drink	30:34
	but we would sit out speaker band controversies,	30:42
	labor disputes, our criticisms of national military policy.	30:45
	Some would say we in the South are bound to the past,	30:54
	and we are.	30:59
	Our literature, our religion, our politics	31:01
	have celebrated, have enshrined, have embalmed the past.	31:07
	Thomas Wolfe, Sir Redrick is fascinated	31:14
	by these ghosts of the past.	31:17
	Remembering speechless he wrote,	31:21
	'We seek the great lost laying hand into heaven,	31:25
	a stone belief on unfound door.	31:30
	Or William Faulkner rumaging around	31:35
	in the family trees of the Snopes and the Thompsons,	31:38
	seeking some meaning in the sound and the fury of the past.	31:44
	Are Robert Penn Warrens, Jack burden, and all the King's men	31:51
	searching through diaries and letters	31:56
	for a key to a lost past.	31:59
	We Southerners live in a veritable attic of memory.	32:03
	But the word of late, is that we are being delivered	32:09
	from that crippling burden of the past,	32:14
	from moonshine and magnolias, from kudzu and chiplings,	32:18
	from get right with God signs,	32:23
	from Bilbo and Tom Watson,	32:26
	from the daughters of the American Confederacy,	32:28
	from Uncle Remus in Scarlet, Ohio.	32:31
	They are all behind this.	32:34
	We are told and praise Henry Grady.	32:36
	We are entering the New South of Atlanta,	32:39
	and Memphis, and Charlotte.	32:43
	We are going to have in Atlanta,	32:47
	the tallest hotel in the world,.	32:49
	We are going to have in North Carolina,	32:53
	the biggest zoo in the world.	32:56
	And New Orleans now has the Superdome of Superdomes.	33:00
	We're going to give up grits	33:05
	and we're going to buy progress.	33:08
	Maybe so, maybe so.	33:12
	And there is much we could give up	33:16
	about romantic and sentimental and dead past.	33:18
	But if we forget the road by which we have come,	33:25
	we will lose our soul.	33:32
	We will lose that special wisdom	33:35
	which the South, like Israel has because of its history.	33:38
	Listen to psychiatrists, Robert Coles,	33:45
	now of the Duke faculty.	33:50
	No other part of America lives so intimately with its past.	33:53
	Where else does past history and present social conflict	34:01
	conspire to bring forth so much of the evil in people,	34:06
	so much of the dignity possible in people,	34:11
	so much of the pity and the terror of the human condition?	34:15
	Well, what is it that makes Southerners distinctive?	34:23
	I don't believe anyone has answered this question better	34:31
	than the Yale historian C. Vann Woodward,	34:35
	who suggests four ways in which the Southern experience	34:39
	goes against the grain of the national experience.	34:44
	He makes these points.	34:49
	The national character has been determined	34:52
	by economic abundance,	34:55
	by success in war and business,	34:59
	by a sense of innocence,	35:04
	and by a tendency to universalize	35:07
	or to make abstract judgements.	35:12
	But in every instance,	35:15
	the experience of the South goes against that.	35:17
	Against national affluence and abundance.	35:21
	We were tagged in 1938,	35:25
	the nation's number one, economic problem.	35:27
	Tobacco Road, Appalachia,	35:31
	share croppers, poverty and pellagra.	35:35
	These with a lot of the South.	35:39
	Our success, Henry James Beach got us.	35:43
	The South knew neither success in business, nor in war.	35:47
	To have been a Southerner in the last 100 years,	35:54
	this means that you have been acquainted	35:58
	with a large measure of frustration and defeat, and failure.	36:02
	Not just losing a war, but losing in freight rates,	36:09
	losing in educational standards,	36:14
	losing in wages and manufactured goods.	36:16
	Our innocence, that national sense from the Puritan fathers,	36:22
	through the transcendentalists of New England,	36:29
	that we Americans were the new atoms,	36:32
	freed from the dark pessimism	36:36
	and crippling sense of sin that marked Europeans.	36:38
	And yet the preoccupation of the South has been with guilt,	36:43
	not with innocence.	36:51
	With very real immediate social evils	36:53
	and not with utopian dreams of perfection.	36:57
	There is a realism, if not a cynicism	37:02
	in the Southern character.	37:06
	And William Faulkner said,	37:09
	"We write good literature in the South	37:11
	because we read the Bible and we believe in sin."	37:13
	We know we are flawed creatures.	37:19
	Frail children of dust.	37:24
	There is that poignant moment in William Faulkner's,	37:28
	'The Sound and the Fury'	37:32
	when Quentin Compson is given his grandfather's pocket watch	37:36
	before he goes off to Harvard.	37:43
	It's a very Southern thing to do,	37:46
	and I suspect that a good many Southerners	37:47
	have their fathers and their grandfather's pocket watch.	37:50
	Quentin's father said to him before he went off to Harvard,	37:55
	"Quentin, I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire.	38:00
	I give it to you, not that you may remember time,	38:07
	but that you might forget it now and then for a moment	38:10
	and not spend all your breath trying to conquer it,	38:15
	because no battle is ever won, they are not even fought.	38:19
	The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair,	38:25
	and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools."	38:30
	Such tragic wisdom is a critical dimension	38:39
	of Southern character.	38:44
	Finally, Woodward notes	38:48
	that while Americans are given to making abstractions	38:49
	and embracing every and universals,	38:52
	Southerners in their experience	38:56
	have moved towards the particular,	38:59
	to the here and now, to roots, to family, to place, to land.	39:02
	I have a relative in Florida	39:10
	who comes from a family who moved down from Virginia,	39:14
	whose name is Stapleton Dabney Gooch the third.	39:19
	And if he had a child, I'm sure it'd	39:26
	be Stapleton Dabney Gooch, the fourth.	39:28
	We believe in continuity and in tradition.	39:33
	There is says Robert Penn Warren,	39:38
	an instinctive fear	39:41
	on the part of Southerners black and white,	39:43
	but the massiveness of experience,	39:46
	the concreteness of life will be violent.	39:50
	At each of these points where the Southern experience	39:55
	goes against the national experience,	40:00
	there is wisdom and beatitude.	40:03
	Beatitude such as comes to those who know their poverty,	40:08
	who have mourned,	40:15
	who have hungered for an elusive righteousness,	40:18
	who have learned as Eudora Welty put it,	40:23
	'The art of losing battles and indeed of losing wars.'	40:27
	On the day Saigon fell, the Atlanta constitution said	40:35
	in a front page editorial,	40:41
	Southern Americans like South Vietnamese	40:44
	have known the agony of defeat.	40:48
	They will understand the necessity	40:52
	of avoiding recriminations	40:55
	and of stopping marches to the sea.	40:57
	The wisdom, the beatitude of the Southern experience	41:04
	has served this nation well in recent years.	41:11
	Can we ever forget those three Southerners	41:16
	who in the last decade	41:21
	challenge the national myth of innocence,	41:23
	of universal ambitions and abundance.	41:28
	Martin Luther King of Georgia in Alabama,	41:34
	the one like so many white evangelists	41:40
	who were bound to the nostalgia for the past,	41:43
	set his face that last night in Memphis	41:47
	to the dawning of a kingdom he saw,	41:50
	and knew he might not enter, but that his people would.	41:54
	Or J. William Fulbright of Arkansas,	42:01
	who challenged American arrogance and universal ambitions,	42:07
	and knew the nobility of sometimes losing.	42:13
	Or Sam J. Ervin of North Carolina, that good Presbyterian	42:18
	who reads both the Bible and Shakespeare,	42:26
	who knows the difference	42:30
	between the politics of public relations	42:32
	and the politics of constitutional democracy,	42:34
	who believes in sin, and because he does	42:38
	is suspicious of unchecked executive privilege,	42:41
	unchecked army intelligence,	42:45
	or unchecked computer data banks.	42:48
	God grant that we will never lose such wisdom,	42:53
	and God grant that we will have the capacity	42:58
	to constantly read our present history	43:02
	in terms of these dimensions of biblical faith.	43:07
	In the end, of course we will all of us,	43:13
	black and white, North and South	43:16
	be saved by both memory and hope,	43:20
	by a memory that is not romantic nostalgia,	43:26
	but absorbed wisdom.	43:31
	And a hope that will not let us hunker down	43:34
	in the sentimental comforts of the past,	43:38
	but will sustain us with a vision of a believable future.	43:42
	So Dixie land don't look away.	43:48
	Don't forget the wisdom born of those old times.	43:53
	Consider well the highway,	43:59
	the road by which you went.	44:03
	And the real test will be in how we carry this memory	44:07
	into the future.	44:12
	And how this memory translates into a living hope, amen.	44:15
	(pipe organ music)	44:30
	♪ Amazing grace ♪	45:01
	♪ How sweet the sound ♪	45:05
	♪ That saved a wretch like me ♪	45:09
	♪ I once was lost ♪	45:17
	♪ But now am found ♪	45:21
	♪ Was blind, but now I see ♪	45:26
	♪ 'Twas grace that taught my heart to fear ♪	45:34
	♪ And grace my fears relieved ♪	45:42
	♪ How precious did that grace appear ♪	45:51
	♪ The hour I first believed ♪	45:59
	♪ Through many dangers, toils, and snares ♪	46:08
	♪ I have already come ♪	46:16
	♪ 'Tis grace hath brought me safe thus far ♪	46:24
	♪ And grace will lead me home ♪	46:33
	♪ The lord has promised good to me ♪	46:42
	♪ His word my hope secures ♪	46:50
	♪ He will my shield and portion be ♪	46:58
	♪ As long as life endures ♪	47:07
	♪ Yeah, when this flesh and heart shall fail ♪	47:16
	♪ And mortal life shall cease ♪	47:24
	♪ I shall possess within the veil ♪	47:32
	♪ A life of joy and piece ♪	47:41
	(pipe organ music)	48:05
	(indistinct)	50:40
	(bright pipe organ music)	53:04
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	54:04
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	54:06
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	54:09
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	54:12
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	54:16
	♪ Amen ♪	54:25
-	Except, oh Lord, this offering of our monies	54:34
	which are symbols of our lives,	54:39
	use these symbols and us	54:42
	to care for your children in need, amen.	54:45
	(pipe organ music)	54:52
	(indistinct)	55:15
	Amen.	58:03
	Let us go in peace	58:05
	to the place where God has given us responsibility	58:08
	and the blessing of God, and the love of Jesus	58:12
	and the guidance of the Holy Spirit	58:17
	go with us this day and every day.	58:20
	♪ Amen ♪	58:29
	♪ Amen ♪	58:36
	♪ Amen ♪	58:43
	♪ Amen ♪	58:49
	♪ Amen ♪	58:58
	♪ Amen ♪	59:08
	♪ Amen ♪	59:25
	(bell rings)	59:39
	(bright pipe organ music)	59:53

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Title:

Robert L. Johnson - "Old Times Not Forgotten" (May 18, 1975)

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Date:

May 18, 1975

Speaker:

Johnson, Robert L.

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Duke University. Chapel

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