Helen G. Crotwell - "How Can We Sing the Lord's Song?" (August 1, 1976)

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	(church music playing)	0:08
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-	Now in these moments,	4:38
	let us recall	4:39
	some of our inner feelings and urges and desires.	4:43
	Let us remember the way we have loved	4:49
	and have failed to love.	4:51
	As we joined together to confess our sins	4:57
	before almighty God.	4:59
	And as we receive again,	5:02
	the word of grace and forgiveness,	5:03
	which our spirits need.	5:06
	Let us pray.	5:09
	Most merciful God,	5:11
	we know we do not love you above all	5:14
	and we do not really love our neighbor	5:17
	because we're too interested in ourselves.	5:20
	We confess that we often do not like the bodies we have.	5:23
	We have long to be in different families.	5:28
	We would like to forget parts of our past lives.	5:32
	We are afraid of our moods and feelings.	5:36
	We wish we had more time.	5:40
	We would like to start life over again.	5:43
	We think money will solve our problems.	5:46
	We envy others,	5:50
	resent the injustices we have suffered	5:52
	and cherish our sorrows.	5:56
	We feel we have never really been understood,	5:58
	in short, we have refused to live	6:02
	because we have held out for better terms.	6:05
	Heal us, O God!	6:09
	From the distance we have tried	6:11
	to put between ourselves and life.	6:13
	Heal us from the open wounds	6:17
	that separate us from you and from one another	6:19
	and bind us together in the spirit of the Christ,	6:23
	our Lord and savior.	6:27
	Let us continue now with our expressions	6:30
	of personal confession to God.	6:32
	Now will you join with me responsively	6:56
	in the words of promise from God.	6:58
	Those who saved their lives shall lose them	7:02
	but those who lose their lives for my sake shall find them.	7:06
	(crowd repeating father's sentence)	7:11
	We are accepted by one who is greater than we.	7:25
	(crowd repeating father's sentence)	7:32
	We are a value just as we are.	7:44
	Life is good as it is given.	7:48
	Let us receive this gift and live through Jesus Christ.	7:52
	Amen.	7:59
	(church music playing)	8:06
	(church music continues)	8:27
	(church music continues)	8:47
	(church music continues)	9:13
	Let us hear now the word of God.	9:37
	As it comes to us first from the Book of Psalms,	9:41
	psalm number 137.	9:43
	By the waters of Babylon,	9:48
	there we sat down and wept,	9:51
	when we remembered Zion.	9:55
	On the willows there we hung up our lyres.	9:59
	For there our captors required of us songs,	10:04
	and our tormentors mirth,	10:07
	saying, sing us one of the songs of Zion!	10:09
	How shall we sing the songs of the Lord	10:13
	in a foreign land?	10:16
	If I forget you, O Jerusalem,	10:20
	let my right hand wither.	10:24
	Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth,	10:27
	if I do not remember you.	10:30
	If I do not set Jerusalem above my highest joy!	10:32
	Remember, O Lord against the Edomites the day of Jerusalem,	10:38
	how they said, "Raise it, raise it,	10:41
	down to its foundations!"	10:44
	O daughter of Babylon, you devastated,	10:46
	happy shall he be who requites you	10:50
	with what you have done to us!	10:52
	Happy shall he be who takes your little ones	10:55
	and dashes them against the rocks!	10:59
	How shall we sing the Lord's song	11:04
	in a strange and foreign land?	11:08
	Will you stand now for the reading of the Gospel.	11:13
	Gospel lesson is found in the Book of Matthew,	11:21
	chapter 10, verses 16 through 23.	11:24
	Let us hear the word.	11:28
	Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves.	11:30
	So be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.	11:35
	Beware of men,	11:42
	or they will deliver you up to councils	11:44
	and flog you in their synagogues.	11:46
	And you will be dragged before governors and Kings	11:50
	for my sake to bear testimony before them and the Gentiles.	11:53
	When they deliver you up, do not be anxious,	11:58
	how you are to speak or what you are to say.	12:02
	For what you are to say will be given to you in that hour.	12:06
	For it is not you who speak,	12:10
	but the spirit of your father speaking through you.	12:13
	Brother will deliver up brother to death.	12:17
	And the father his child	12:19
	and children will rise against parents	12:22
	and have them put the death.	12:24
	And you will be hated by all for my name's sake.	12:27
	But those who endure to the end will be safe.	12:31
	When they persecute you in one town,	12:35
	flee to the next,	12:38
	or truly I say to you,	12:40
	you will not have gone through all the towns of Israel	12:41
	before the son of man comes.	12:45
	May God bless to our hearing and understanding these words	12:50
	from his holy word.	12:53
	Amen.	12:55
	(church music playing)	12:58
	(church music continues)	13:19
	We are not alone.	13:36
	We live in God's world.	13:39
	We believe in God who has created and is creating,	13:42
	who has come into truly human Jesus	13:47
	to reconcile and make new.	13:51
	Who works in us and others by the spirit.	13:54
	We trust God calls us to be to church,	13:58
	to celebrate life in its fullness,	14:03
	to love and serve others,	14:06
	to seek justice and resist evil,	14:09
	to proclaim Jesus crucified and risen,	14:12
	our judge and our hope.	14:16
	In life in death,	14:19
	in life beyond it.	14:21
	God is with us.	14:23
	We are not alone.	14:25
	Thanks be to God.	14:27
	The Lord be with you.	14:31
	Let us pray.	14:35
	How good it is, O God!	14:42
	Together in this place to worship this day.	14:46
	We offer to you our lives and our words	14:52
	as expressions of our thanksgiving.	14:56
	For O God!	15:00
	we have been loved and cared for and supported and affirmed	15:01
	by friends and loved ones and family.	15:04
	Thank you, O God!	15:08
	For the joy of receiving and of giving love.	15:10
	Thank you, O God!	15:16
	For those who care for us when we are down or hurt or lonely	15:18
	or sick or confused or face trials or even death.	15:21
	For those of us, those who come to us in time of need,	15:27
	we give you thanks and praise indeed, O Lord!	15:30
	For all of life or health and family and friends	15:33
	and goodness and joy and hope and promise.	15:38
	For all that sustains us in the night and in the day,	15:42
	we thank you.	15:48
	We remember O Lord, those who have special needs	15:51
	those of our human family who have been devastated	15:56
	by the earthquakes in China.	15:59
	Those who long for peace in Lebanon,	16:02
	Ireland, the Middle East and Africa.	16:05
	Those who were kidnapped in California and their families.	16:09
	Those whose minds were warped in such a way	16:16
	that they became the kidnappers.	16:20
	And we pray for them and their families.	16:22
	Those who are all alone in this life,	16:27
	those who are in hospital here on this campus,	16:34
	in this city and around the world,	16:37
	those who seek healing of body or mind or spirit.	16:39
	Give strength to those who suffer.	16:44
	Wisdom and skill and compassion to all of us.	16:47
	O God! Who have the privilege of serving them.	16:50
	And now God, we pray for ourselves.	16:56
	May we be more obedient to love you with all of our lives	17:01
	and to love our neighbors as ourselves.	17:07
	When we face struggle,	17:12
	may we find strength in your presence.	17:13
	When the future is unknown and unclear,	17:17
	may we trust your mercy and your wisdom.	17:19
	Help us, O God!	17:24
	Surely to dream dreams and to see visions	17:25
	about today and about tomorrow.	17:28
	About what might be and about what will be,	17:31
	about who we are and about who we may become.	17:34
	But then, O God!	17:37
	We ask of you only grace enough to take the one next step,	17:41
	to walk the one crooked path in front of us,	17:48
	to have courage only to turn the next unknown corner,	17:53
	to say the one word of love,	17:59
	to show your mercy to one person.	18:03
	And then finally,	18:09
	and ultimately to put our trust in you	18:11
	through Jesus Christ who loved us, loves us	18:18
	and who trusted always in your mercy.	18:23
	Through him, O God!	18:29
	we offer these prayers and we pray the prayer,	18:30
	which he taught us and all his disciples praying.	18:33
	Our Father, who art in heaven,	18:37
	hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come,	18:41
	thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.	18:46
	Give us this day our daily bread.	18:51
	And forgive us our trespasses,	18:55
	as we forgive those who trespass against us.	18:57
	And lead us not into temptation,	19:02
	but deliver us from evil.	19:04
	For thine is the kingdom,	19:07
	and the power, and the glory, forever.	19:09
	Amen.	19:14
	May I welcome you to this service of worship	19:20
	on this the first day and the first Sunday of August.	19:24
	You don't have to be out in the sun	19:29
	to know that the heat of summer is here.	19:31
	And if any of you would like	19:34
	to make a generous contribution to air conditioning,	19:35
	this place would be glad to receive any and all at any time,	19:37
	we are glad you are here this day to worship God	19:43
	in the company of all who gathered in this place.	19:46
	It is our privilege immediately following the service	19:49
	to celebrate the sacrament of the Lord's supper,	19:51
	for those who would like to receive it.	19:53
	This has become accustomed with us	19:56
	on the first Sunday of each month	19:58
	to observe the sacrament of the Lord's supper	20:00
	in the Memorial chapel, to my right,	20:02
	to your left immediately following the service.	20:04
	It's a brief service,	20:07
	but one that many of us have found very, very meaningful.	20:08
	And we invite you to remain and sharing it with us.	20:12
	Next Sunday will be the last Sunday	20:16
	in which Duke Chapel and Duke university.	20:18
	At least for the time being we'll have the privilege	20:22
	and the satisfaction of the services	20:25
	of Dr. William Gudger.	20:27
	Bill Gudger was a student here,	20:30
	did his graduate studies,	20:33
	doctoral studies and others at Yale university,	20:35
	and came back here two years ago	20:37
	to serve in the music department	20:40
	and to serve on the chapel staff.	20:41
	He leaves soon to assume a position	20:44
	in the department at Arizona State university.	20:46
	He will be playing the organ next Sunday.	20:50
	He is directing the choir this Sunday,	20:52
	but to Bill, we would like to express our thanks	20:54
	and wish you God's richest blessings.	20:58
	As you continue to serve so significantly and helpfully	21:01
	with your mind and your talents.	21:05
	Let us hear now the word of God,	21:09
	as the Reverend is Helen Crotwell	21:12
	preaches to us and for us.	21:17
-	While we are waiting for the chapel to be at conditioned,	21:27
	we want to assure you	21:30
	that you men can worship God without your coat.	21:32
	So if you want to take them off,	21:35
	do take them off.	21:37
	In the name of God who creates us,	21:40
	redeems us and sustains us.	21:44
	Amen.	21:48
	How can we sing the Lord's song in a strange land?	21:52
	Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves.	21:59
	Many of us feel that we do live in a strange land	22:10
	and that we are sheep in the midst of wolves	22:14
	that our culture is alien soil for growth	22:18
	of the Christian gospel of love.	22:23
	But we've heard this and heard this	22:27
	until we are almost tired of hearing of this.	22:31
	It has become a contemporary chant.	22:36
	Look at the mess our country is in,	22:39
	our world is in.	22:43
	Look at the state of our national morality.	22:46
	Look at the condition of our personal morality,	22:50
	our local morality.	22:56
	This is a strange land to sing the Lord's song.	22:58
	In fact,	23:05
	sometimes things have sounded so terrible	23:06
	that we didn't want to believe them.	23:10
	When we first heard the stories about dirty tricks,	23:14
	we refuse to believe it.	23:19
	We thought it was yellow journalism or sensationalism,	23:21
	or some political opportunist creating dirty stories.	23:25
	And it was political opportunism,	23:33
	but creating not dirty stories,	23:36
	but dirty tricks.	23:39
	For we found that these stories were indeed factual	23:42
	and had been affecting our lives	23:46
	in ways we did not even know about.	23:48
	Not only nationally, but locally.	23:52
	And even now we keep discovering more and more	23:56
	and we have grown suspicious	24:01
	and we wonder how much more will we find out	24:03
	even at this late date.	24:07
	And we really didn't believe	24:11
	that secretaries would get promoted	24:13
	if they responded to that boss's request	24:17
	for service beyond that public job description.	24:19
	This was just woman's lib hunting an issue	24:24
	or unattractive women who were jealous.	24:28
	But then we discovered this is more fact than fiction.	24:31
	And when we heard of the sexual exploits	24:37
	of our elected representatives,	24:40
	we dismissed saying people will always gossip	24:43
	about public officials or someone has a good imagination	24:46
	and been watching too many of the daytime television series.	24:51
	But as it has become more obvious,	24:56
	we said, men will be men.	24:59
	These people lead such a hectic life.	25:02
	They need some outlet	25:05
	and it doesn't matter as long as	25:07
	they don't use our public funds.	25:09
	But strangely enough,	25:13
	we don't seem that concerned about our public funds.	25:16
	Someone told me just recently how much money we have spent,	25:20
	an unbelievable sum developing a new army helmet.	25:25
	And our concern about the use of public funds	25:32
	is not in the area of mismanagement.	25:35
	All of developing a defense system	25:38
	that can kill the Russians or Chinese	25:40
	many more times than they can kill us.	25:43
	And it seems to me, it's concerned with wasting money,	25:47
	feeding people who ought to be able to living by themselves.	25:52
	And then we hear stories of justice in our own state	25:58
	that it maybe that we have people being held	26:03
	political prisoners here in North Carolina.	26:06
	And that many people in prison may not be as harmful	26:10
	to our society as some of the people who are outside	26:15
	and who are outside only because	26:20
	they are people with power and money,	26:22
	but we don't want to believe this	26:28
	because we believe that our courts are just and fare.	26:30
	These courts cannot make mistakes,	26:35
	but then we have discovered through an investigation related	26:38
	to the Watergate affair,	26:43
	that our government had paid a person who was in jail,	26:45
	paid him and freed him in exchange for what seems to be	26:51
	false testimony against some people who had been working	26:56
	for civil rights and civil liberties for the blacks.	27:01
	And while I very much oppose capital punishment,	27:07
	I wonder why it is so easy	27:11
	for a white woman to be found not guilty.	27:14
	When she had walked into a black man's yard	27:18
	with a gun and killed him.	27:20
	And I wonder what would have happened	27:24
	if a black man had walked into a white woman's yard	27:28
	and killed him in identical circumstances.	27:32
	Do we have equal justice in our state?	27:38
	How can we sing the Lord's song in a strange land?	27:43
	But we find our national picture	27:49
	is a reflection of our local picture,	27:52
	which is a reflection of our individual picture.	27:55
	And we find our national morality	28:00
	is a reflection of our personal morality.	28:03
	And we wonder, could we find 10 righteous people to save us?	28:07
	The problem is that our personal morality	28:15
	has become a private morality	28:20
	and we are isolated, separated individuals	28:24
	whose main and ultimate concern	28:28
	is our own individual wellbeing.	28:31
	The center and basis for our morality is not God,	28:36
	but it's the me and the I,	28:42
	which means that I am not ultimately responsible	28:45
	to anyone except myself.	28:50
	For our private morality sets us up as the ultimate.	28:54
	And all the world and all the people	29:00
	have been created to serve me.	29:04
	A recent article in Harper's on the new narcissism,	29:09
	raises serious questions about the helpfulness	29:14
	of some forms of our human potential movement,	29:18
	saying that many of these movements encourage and allow	29:21
	our selfishness and our moral blindness to assert themselves	29:27
	and the larger culture as enlightenment and psychic health.	29:34
	They encourage people to believe that all people	29:41
	as individuals have the ability and resources	29:44
	to be responsible for their own destinies.	29:49
	So that anyone who wants to work can,	29:52
	who wants to eat can,	29:56
	so you don't have to worry about the hungry or the sick.	29:58
	It's their personal decision and personal choice	30:02
	that has gotten them in this condition.	30:05
	Though, worldview is centered solely on the self	30:09
	with the individual survival as a sole good.	30:14
	That is a retreat from morality and from history.	30:20
	And unembarrassed to now	30:24
	of human responsibility and community.	30:27
	We are the masters of our fate.	30:30
	There is no sense of guilt or shame about the self,	30:34
	all the condition of the world.	30:39
	Now, this is certainly not a fair description	30:44
	of all human potential movements	30:47
	and the article doesn't claim that it is.	30:50
	And my previous description of our world	30:54
	and of the justice in our state	30:58
	is not a total picture of who we are,	31:00
	but it does reflect a part of our situation.	31:04
	And most of us can claim that it reflects in some part,	31:09
	a little of who we are.	31:14
	So, we can not dismiss it or ignore it	31:17
	or become paralyzingly defensive.	31:21
	For it does seem that our personal morality	31:27
	has become a private morality.	31:31
	And we see ourselves as isolated, separated individuals	31:35
	whose main and ultimate concern is for our own wellbeing.	31:41
	And this is often reflected more in our actions	31:48
	than in our talk.	31:52
	For, we can talk a good game.	31:54
	The center and basis of our private morality is not God,	31:58
	but me and I.	32:04
	So I am responsible for no one except myself.	32:06
	And no one can call me into question,	32:13
	not even the God of our Lord, Jesus Christ,	32:16
	the God of all people in all creation	32:20
	because we have our private guards	32:24
	and we are responsible to no one,	32:27
	not even the one who has given us life and called it good.	32:31
	So our private gods,	32:38
	are success for ourselves money and security file ourselves	32:39
	sexual pleasure for ourselves,	32:45
	self fulfillment for ourselves,	32:47
	getting all we can for ourselves.	32:50
	And there is no reason then for us	32:54
	to not to deny ourselves to sacrifice.	32:56
	So we use others to feed our own ego needs,	33:01
	discarding them when another person comes along,	33:06
	who can meet our latest need.	33:10
	I had been puzzling about the negative response	33:15
	against the concept of guilt.	33:19
	Hearing that no one	33:23
	and nothing should make anyone feel guilty.	33:25
	The only sin really is to cause a sense of guilt.	33:29
	Now we have had some unhealthy and unchristian demands	33:34
	of a person to feel guilty,	33:39
	about things they should not feel guilty about	33:42
	and perhaps should even celebrate.	33:45
	But to remove the word guilt	33:48
	from our Christian vocabulary is a puzzle.	33:50
	But if our ethics,	33:55
	our private ethics and morality is a private morality,	33:57
	then our goal is self satisfaction	34:03
	and personal fulfillment and development.	34:07
	Then the opposite of this of course is,	34:10
	the negative of course is,	34:13
	frustration and non-development, not guilt.	34:15
	For we experienced guilt only when our ethics are personal,	34:20
	which implies a relation to the holy other,	34:27
	the one who has called us and all people into being.	34:30
	We experience guilt only when our ethics are personal,	34:36
	which implies in a relation and a responsibility	34:43
	to our brother and our sister and the world.	34:47
	But if ours is a private morality	34:52
	and the fulfillment of our personal needs and growth	34:56
	is ultimate,	35:00
	then all people and all the world are steamed to be used	35:01
	for our personal benefits.	35:07
	And so we feel no responsibility and hence no guilt	35:09
	about the condition of our world,	35:15
	or of our neighbors plight.	35:18
	And we worship ourselves and our pleasure	35:20
	and our personal satisfactions.	35:25
	And so, here our marriage vowels are kept.	35:28
	If we do not find someone who for the moment satisfies	35:33
	a private need and marriage is difficult	35:38
	in a private morality.	35:41
	For there is no expectation of sacrifice,	35:43
	of self-giving, of commitment,	35:47
	but always the seeking of the individual satisfaction	35:50
	at the expense of the other.	35:55
	And the tragedy is the search is endless	35:58
	for the quest of private morality,	36:03
	never brings fulfillment	36:06
	and our private morality allows us to use our neighbor	36:10
	our coworker to help us advance,	36:14
	to help us become successful,	36:18
	to gain our goal and once you get there,	36:21
	to be dismissed and forgotten and move on to another person,	36:25
	someone who can help us more.	36:31
	And our private morality makes a God out of sex and beauty.	36:35
	And we reflect our culture or our culture reflects us	36:41
	and our secretaries and bosses and our wives and husbands	36:47
	must be Venuses thou with arms and Adonis	36:51
	and so on and on and on.	36:55
	But this isn't the whole picture.	36:59
	And we are thankful for this.	37:02
	For we are aware of our situation	37:04
	and we anguish and we wonder,	37:07
	how can we sing the Lord's song in a strange land?	37:10
	And we know that we have helped create a culture	37:14
	which makes gods out of beauty and sex	37:18
	and makes it easy for people to become self-serving	37:22
	and self-seeking and selfish.	37:25
	Those of us who worship the living God	37:30
	are also a part of this culture	37:34
	and share some responsibility for it.	37:37
	And so we claim and confess our sin and guilt.	37:41
	And we wonder,	37:46
	how can we sing the Lord's song and this strange land?	37:48
	We were caught up in Bob Young's Communion Meditation,	37:55
	which reflected our awareness that we do deceive ourselves,	37:59
	posing affront,	38:04
	a masquerade of love and concern for all those,	38:06
	the idiot and the ugly but knowing too well,	38:09
	the shame we have created	38:13
	and this moved us to respond, not generally,	38:17
	but specifically to those who are hurting	38:21
	and lonely and sad and starving and facing death,	38:26
	and to respond in specific ways	38:32
	to specific persons who need us.	38:35
	Many of us who were here, that Sunday remember	38:39
	our commitment to express our love to others	38:42
	in specific actions.	38:46
	And we have, but we know,	38:48
	we know that we need to be called out	38:52
	of our private morality again and again.	38:55
	For, we do believe that we truly gain our lives	39:00
	as we lose them in service to those who need	39:04
	our love and care.	39:08
	And so we look at the biblical readings,	39:10
	the Psalm is one that Jon Wesley	39:14
	did not want included in the Psalter.	39:16
	Thought it is the only song which calls for a curse,	39:19
	a revengeful, punitive action.	39:23
	The beginning of the song is a beautiful lament.	39:28
	And we are made aware of the Jews'	39:31
	intense loyalty to their faith	39:34
	in spite of the temptations which they faced,	39:37
	but then how awful,	39:42
	how could anyone had be happy to take little ones	39:44
	and dash them against the rocks?	39:49
	So the Psalm has a beautiful lament with an awful reminder	39:51
	that our response to being in a strange culture	39:56
	can be less loving and more destructive	40:00
	than the strange culture is.	40:05
	And so we look to Matthew and get such a different model,	40:08
	still singing the Lord's song in a strange land.	40:13
	And the preface to the lectionary lesson,	40:19
	Jesus has given instructions to his disciples,	40:22
	to minister to these people in this strange land	40:25
	to heal the sick,	40:29
	to cleanse the lepers	40:31
	and to take no money for our work.	40:32
	For all is a gift to us.	40:35
	And we freely share these gifts with those in need.	40:37
	And if we are not welcome,	40:43
	we simply shake the dust upon our feet and move on.	40:45
	And there is the warning that this will not be easy	40:51
	and we will be persecuted,	40:56
	but we have the right assurance of our value and worth	40:59
	and God's care for us.	41:04
	And that those who lose their lives,	41:07
	that those who give up their private morality,	41:10
	those who suffer and being obedient	41:14
	and loving and caring for their neighbor	41:17
	will not lose their lives,	41:21
	but will truly find their lives here on this earth.	41:23
	And then after we leave this earth.	41:28
	Let us pray.	41:33
	O holy God!	41:37
	Send over us.	41:40
	We pray,	41:41
	your holy spirit,	41:43
	the spirit who brings us life.	41:46
	The spirit who helps us love,	41:51
	The spirit who makes all that we do not easy,	41:55
	but full of meaning.	42:01
	Only with the Spirit's help can we truly be	42:03
	the church of Jesus Christ?	42:08
	Amen.	42:11
	And amen.	42:13
	(church music playing)	42:16
	(church music continues)	42:31
-	We come, O God,	51:02
	to offer these gifts to serve you	51:05
	and to show our love for others.	51:07
	May we give out of a spirit	51:11
	of commitment, compassion, and concern,	51:13
	Accept our gifts and accept us and transform them and us	51:18
	into miracles of mercy.	51:24
	To redeem and make home a broken and weary world	51:27
	through Jesus Christ, Our Lord!	51:33
	Amen.	51:37
	(church music playing)	51:41
	(church music continues)	52:05
	(church music continues)	52:17
	(church music continues)	52:37
	The grace of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ.	54:58
	The love of God,	55:04
	the fellowship and communion of the holy spirit	55:07
	be with you and those whom you love,	55:12
	now and forever.	55:17
	(church music playing)	55:23
	(church music continues)	55:40
	(church music continues)	55:53
	(church music continues)	56:23
	(church music continues)	56:53
	(indistinct crowd chatter)	59:10

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Title:

Helen G. Crotwell - "How Can We Sing the Lord's Song?" (August 1, 1976)

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August 1, 1976

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Crotwell, Helen Gray, 1925-2006

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