Arthur James Armstrong - "Martha, Mary, and Joe" Baccalaureate Service 9:00 am (May 8, 1977)

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	(organ music)	0:07
	(organ music)	14:46
	(hymnal singing)	24:04
	(organ music)	25:26
-	Grace be unto you.	30:02
	And peace from God who creates us,	30:05
	redeems us and sustains us.	30:09
	God has given us life,	30:13
	but we do not always live.	30:15
	We have been given freedom,	30:18
	but we have found this burden heavy,	30:21
	this anxiety painful.	30:24
	And pride and insecurity,	30:27
	we have turned from God to live self deceit.	30:30
	And to serve other gods.	30:35
	In this moment now, let us join together,	30:38
	as we admit both our willfulness and our weakness,	30:42
	let us confess our sins.	30:47
	Oh, God, in whose mystery we abide,	30:51
	and by whose mercy we are redeemed,	30:55
	we confess our sin against one another and against you.	30:58
	All our transgressions, hidden and open,	31:03
	the evil done and the goodness left undone.	31:08
	We have deceived ourselves about ourselves	31:12
	and worn masks and not trusted in love.	31:16
	We confess that we have been careful with things,	31:20
	careless with persons,	31:24
	adept in taking,	31:27
	awkward in giving,	31:29
	in love with our fears,	31:31
	and in fear of our loves.	31:33
	Forgive us for the times of our anger	31:36
	and the occasions of our stupidity,	31:40
	for the times of our cowardice	31:43
	and the places of our hesitation,	31:46
	for every time we did not love the goodness of persons	31:49
	nor praise your glory,	31:54
	forgive us, lift us up	31:56
	and heal us this day,	32:00
	through Jesus Christ, our Lord, amen.	32:02
	Let us continue in prayer	32:07
	with our personal words of confession.	32:09
	I offer now a simple word of forgiveness,	32:32
	of healing, of restoration.	32:37
	Thus says the Lord,	32:41
	"I have loved you with an everlasting love.	32:44
	"Therefore, I have continued my faithfulness to you.	32:48
	"Take this assurance with you, my friends,	32:53
	"into the life that lies before you.	32:58
	"In all that you do, may you be as one who is free,	33:03
	"free to find yourself, free to be yourself,	33:07
	"free to give yourself.	33:12
	"Amen."	33:16
	(organ music)	33:23
	(hymnal singing)	33:58
-	The reading is from the 10th chapter of Luke.	38:12
	"Now, as they went on their way,	38:16
	"he entered a village and a woman named Martha	38:19
	"received him into her home.	38:22
	"And she had a sister called Mary	38:25
	"who sat at the Lord's feet and listened to his teaching.	38:27
	"But Martha was distracted with much serving	38:31
	"and she went to him and said, Lord,	38:35
	"do you not care that my sister has left me to serve alone?	38:37
	"Tell her then to help me.	38:42
	"But the Lord answered her,	38:44
	"Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled	38:46
	"about many things, one thing is needful.	38:49
	"Mary has chosen the good portion,	38:52
	"which shall not be taken away from her."	38:55
	(organ music)	39:00
	(hymnal singing)	39:10
-	Let us affirm what we believe.	39:49
	We believe in God who has created and is creating,	39:52
	who has come into truly human Jesus	39:57
	to reconcile and make new.	40:01
	We trust God who calls us to be the church,	40:04
	to celebrate life and its fullness,	40:09
	to love and serve others,	40:12
	to seek justice and resist evil,	40:15
	to proclaim Jesus crucified and risen,	40:19
	our judge and our hope,	40:23
	in life, in death,	40:26
	in life beyond death, God is with us.	40:28
	We are not alone.	40:33
	Thanks be to God.	40:35
	The Lord be with you.	40:38
	Let us pray.	40:41
	Carl Sandburg once wrote,	40:52
	"I have kept high moments.	40:55
	"They go round and round in me."	40:59
	Oh, Lord our God,	41:06
	we thank you for high moments.	41:09
	For the high moments of these past four years,	41:13
	a new insight,	41:17
	a deep friendship,	41:19
	a kept trust,	41:22
	a realized hope	41:25
	and overcome frustration.	41:29
	Dark become light,	41:32
	sadness shared,	41:35
	hurt healed,	41:37
	comfort given and received,	41:39
	love felt.	41:43
	This is the place, oh, God,	41:47
	where indeed, lives have been molded,	41:50
	values clarified,	41:53
	minds enlarged, visions expanded,	41:56
	touch made more sensitive.	42:01
	Where life has taken on newer and deeper and richer meaning.	42:05
	As together, we have struggled and sweated	42:10
	and studied and cursed and griped	42:13
	and laughed and cried.	42:16
	And now we celebrate.	42:19
	Oh, God, in spite of our complaints and our frustrations,	42:22
	we give you thanks for this university	42:25
	and all its people who love and care and serve	42:28
	one another.	42:32
	Here, now we pray.	42:36
	Our prayers of intercession for those who graduate this day.	42:40
	Keep them strong in their struggles,	42:46
	weak in their pride.	42:50
	Give them health to do and to be and grace to become.	42:54
	Make them wise in their decisions	43:00
	and happy over the consequences.	43:02
	Give them power, but not for self,	43:06
	but for others.	43:10
	Give them not all things that they might enjoy life,	43:12
	but give them life	43:16
	that they might enjoy all things.	43:18
	Perfect, oh, Lord,	43:24
	in so far as is humanly possible,	43:28
	the talents which you have given each of them,	43:31
	chasing the self-centered strivings of their spirits,	43:36
	forge their wills to follow you no matter what the cost.	43:41
	Direct their feet the way you would have them go.	43:48
	Give them always the knowledge that you	43:53
	and your love are with them.	43:55
	May deep joy be their constant companion	43:59
	along the way.	44:04
	May they keep this high moment.	44:07
	May it go round and round in them.	44:12
	Hear us now, as we pray together the prayer	44:17
	which our Lord has taught us, as we pray,	44:20
	our father who art in heaven,	44:23
	hallowed be thy name,	44:27
	thy kingdom come, thy will be done	44:29
	on Earth as it is in heaven.	44:33
	Give us this day, our daily bread,	44:36
	forgive us our trespasses	44:39
	as we forgive those who trespass against us.	44:42
	Lead us not into temptation,	44:46
	but deliver us from evil.	44:49
	And his kingdom, the power,	44:51
	the glory forever and ever.	44:54
	May I say a word of welcome to all of you this morning?	45:21
	The only thing different in some ways	45:26
	about those who are seated down at the front,	45:29
	they're in their customary seats, which they occupy	45:31
	every Sunday, as you know.	45:34
	(audience laughing)	45:36
	The only difference, they're just dressed	45:39
	a little bit differently today.	45:41
	We're delighted to have each of you here.	45:43
	Those of you who have come for this very, very special	45:47
	occasion, I'm not sure that you look forward to it anymore	45:50
	than we do but we're delighted to have the opportunity to	45:54
	share it with you and for you to share it with all of us.	45:57
	It is our privilege to have as our preacher today,	46:04
	Bishop James Armstrong,	46:08
	resident and presiding Bishop of the Dakotas Area	46:12
	of the United Methodist Church.	46:15
	One whom many of us in that particular church	46:19
	and in Christendom have admired and respected	46:22
	and appreciated for many, many years.	46:25
	He is a writer,	46:28
	preacher and administrator by necessity, I suppose.	46:30
	A pastor...	46:35
	A man of strong convictions	46:37
	equaled only by his courage and his compassion.	46:40
	Bishop Armstrong, we welcome you to Duke	46:45
	and to this very special service.	46:47
-	Many years ago,	47:01
	and for several years,	47:03
	I found myself crisscrossing the state of Indiana.	47:06
	Speaking at an assortment of high school	47:10
	baccalaureate and commencement ceremonies.	47:13
	There was a certain sameness about those events.	47:18
	Usually they were held in gymnasiums,	47:23
	sweaty, smelly gymnasiums.	47:27
	The graduating seniors, more often than not,	47:31
	were giggling and self-conscious.	47:34
	The football heroes always had more applause	47:37
	than the class valedictorian.	47:40
	And my rah rah enthusements	47:43
	were frequently concluded with a poem of sorts.	47:48
	A poem that went like this.	47:53
	"You men of Earth have here, the stuff of paradise.	47:57
	"You need no other things to build a stairway	48:00
	"to the unfulfilled, no other marble for the floors,	48:02
	"no other ivory for the doors, no other cedar for the beams,	48:05
	"or dome to man's immortal dreams.	48:08
	"Here on the common human way, here on the path of every day	48:11
	"is all the stuff that God would take to mold	48:16
	"and make new Edens.	48:19
	"Ours is the task sublime to build eternity in time."	48:21
	I thought that was a clincher.	48:29
	But you know, in retrospect,	48:32
	there are a couple of things that need to be said about it.	48:35
	One, it does reflect a starry-eyed idealism.	48:38
	But, two, it is permeated through and through	48:43
	with unabashed male chauvinism.	48:47
	"We, men of Earth have here.	48:51
	"We men of Earth.	48:54
	"We men."	48:57
	In spite of the fact that we opened this service	49:00
	of worship with a hymn that said, God of our Fathers,	49:03
	the fact remains that reality consists	49:09
	of infinitely more than maleness.	49:13
	I have hanging in my study at home over my desk,	49:18
	an 18" by 24" reproduction	49:22
	or parody of Michelangelo's Creation.	49:26
	God is there, but he is not a he God,	49:31
	not a Moses like figure with flowing beard.	49:36
	He is a she.	49:39
	A black woman	49:42
	with an Afro hairdo.	49:43
	And Adam is there, but Adam is not Adam.	49:46
	Adam is Eve.	49:48
	Feminine,	49:51
	if not voluptuous figure.	49:53
	Their fingers touch as in Michelangelo's classic,	49:57
	God's and woman's fingers touch	50:01
	and creation results.	50:05
	That is where we are today.	50:09
	We are living through a time of revolution.	50:14
	Woman is the revolutionary.	50:19
	As Kate Millette has said,	50:23
	"The revolutionary in this instance is not a murderer.	50:26
	"She is a changer,	50:30
	"a teacher, one who keeps in there,	50:33
	"keeps at it and loves people	50:36
	"until she can change their heads."	50:38
	Almost 2,000 years ago, a story was told.	50:43
	A story about two women sisters, Mary and Martha,	50:49
	who invited the Nazarene Jesus to their home.	50:53
	Mary sat at his feet, looked up adoringly,	50:57
	was stimulated by the worldly knowledge,	51:01
	the profound insight that came from the mind	51:06
	and the lips of the man.	51:09
	But all the while, Martha was in the kitchen	51:11
	or scurrying about here and there,	51:15
	caring for the guests who came.	51:17
	At one point, impatient, Martha said,	51:21
	"Mary, will you help me?"	51:23
	Jesus gently chided her and suggested that in our kind	51:27
	of world, there is room for both a Mary and a Martha.	51:31
	The line was drawn, it has come into sharper focus now.	51:37
	And as then, Martha	51:42
	is that low person on the totem pole.	51:46
	Martha,	51:50
	the homemaker	51:51
	continues to be put down.	51:53
	Is known by many as a drudge,	51:57
	one without color, without glamor.	51:59
	It is I think significant that on this Mother's Day,	52:04
	we find ourselves here.	52:08
	And in a position to affirm the homemaker,	52:11
	the mother,	52:17
	the very crux of human development.	52:18
	There are some 60 million women	52:23
	over 18 years of age in this country,	52:26
	who even now are tending their homes,	52:30
	rearing their children,	52:36
	responding to those chores that will in some strange	52:38
	and mystic way, provide both the values and the disposition	52:42
	of the world of tomorrow.	52:48
	One of that number, a mother speaking to a large assemblage	52:52
	of people not long ago said,	52:56
	"Here's to Martha.	52:59
	"She faces challenges and responsibilities	53:01
	"no one else can claim.	53:04
	"If she cultivates qualities of patience,	53:07
	"openness, reflection, sensitivity,	53:11
	"compassion, the capacity to listen,	53:16
	"respond and learn, she can prevail."	53:19
	But if she fails, what then?	53:23
	If Martha does not cultivate herself,	53:26
	respect herself, affirm herself,	53:30
	she will be denigrated by all the Marys	53:35
	and the males around.	53:38
	"Believe me," the mother went on to say,	53:40
	"to be an adequate Martha	53:44
	"requires as much as any other calling in this world."	53:46
	To be an adequate Martha,	53:52
	contributes as much as any other service vocation	53:54
	in this world.	53:59
	The family, however structured,	54:01
	and it is undergoing radical change.	54:05
	The family, however, structured is not a relic of the past.	54:09
	It will be an integral part	54:14
	of whatever future we choose to claim.	54:19
	If in our pseudo sophistication,	54:23
	we tend to look down upon the marries, the homemakers,	54:26
	the families of our time,	54:30
	we are reflecting, not upon Martha,	54:33
	not upon the homemaker, but upon ourselves.	54:36
	Homemaking is an art and a science.	54:42
	It consists of so much more than housekeeping, just	54:47
	as journalism consists of so much more than typing copy.	54:51
	The work is there, the drudgery.	54:57
	The doing of dishes and washing of floors	55:00
	and dusting of furniture and all the rest but beyond that,	55:03
	there is this person who stands in the center of the flux,	55:07
	guiding the delicate, fragile interpersonal relationships,	55:12
	providing the nurturing atmosphere	55:18
	in which a future world is being molded.	55:22
	Now, having said all that,	55:28
	don't sell Mary, the working woman,	55:31
	the career woman short.	55:36
	Feminism, if it has done anything,	55:39
	has enabled us to see that we stand on equal footing.	55:43
	Woman, apart from tradition and bias	55:49
	and stereotype, woman has certain inalienable rights	55:53
	to determine her own destiny.	55:59
	A Barbara Jordan, a Golda Meir,	56:02
	a Barbara Walters,	56:06
	a Rosemary Ruether,	56:08
	an Indira Gandhi,	56:10
	a Chris Evert,	56:12
	have reminded each of us what woman can become.	56:14
	These in a sense, are the headliners, the stars,	56:19
	those who have shown us that baby has come a long, long way.	56:23
	And yet the very rules they play	56:28
	tend to obscure the fact that there are nearly	56:31
	40 million American women who are now	56:34
	a part of the labor market.	56:38
	They are not only nurses and teachers	56:42
	and domestic workers, they're coal miners	56:46
	and truck drivers, scientists, and police officers,	56:49
	attorneys, and executives and politicians.	56:54
	48% of the women in this nation	56:57
	are employed.	57:01
	Some of them are reluctant Marys.	57:04
	Doing what they do because of inflation	57:08
	or other harsh realities that force them	57:10
	into a world out there.	57:13
	Ends must be met.	57:16
	But others of them quite consciously,	57:18
	and with intentionality, have chosen careers	57:20
	in which they seek to fulfill their own dreams,	57:23
	in which they seek to serve the larger human good,	57:28
	in which they seek to fulfill that	57:33
	which is inherent within them.	57:35
	And this of course is their perfect right.	57:40
	I thank God for them.	57:47
	A pioneer physician, Nettie B. Powell	57:50
	brought me into this world in Indiana.	57:53
	And at the ripe old age of six,	57:57
	when I was about to check out, she pulled me back	57:58
	from the threshold of death and gave me life again.	58:01
	I'm grateful for that Mary.	58:05
	And glad that she chose to be one.	58:08
	Yet, the dilemmas involved,	58:11
	during difficult periods of change.	58:14
	I talked with a woman not long ago,	58:19
	a 50 year old woman.	58:21
	Articulate, charming, brilliant,	58:24
	ultra competent, who had been given an opportunity	58:28
	to become the national director of a movement	58:32
	to which she is committed.	58:35
	The base of operations of that movement	58:38
	would be 1,000 miles from her home	58:40
	that would require just a trace of commuting.	58:43
	She talked to her family about it.	58:47
	Her youngsters, two university students	58:50
	respected her, were proud of her,	58:52
	were enthused about the prospect,	58:54
	encouraged her to take the job.	58:57
	Her husband would not discuss it with her.	59:00
	After weeks of stubborn silence on his part,	59:03
	she said no.	59:07
	But confesses now that there are things	59:10
	yet to be worked through.	59:12
	She is no longer willing to move back	59:16
	into a realm of timid domesticity.	59:19
	No longer willing to be the sex object in his world.	59:24
	The charming hostess at his cocktail party	59:29
	presiding over his table, the alter ego to his ambitions.	59:32
	She is a person.	59:37
	And she has dreams she will respond to.	59:41
	There are confrontations yet to come.	59:44
	His name is Joe.	59:48
	Joe...	59:52
	The stereotypical male	59:54
	is the eye at the center of the contemporary storm.	59:57
	He's threatened by feminism.	1:00:02
	The ground on which he stands is no longer	1:00:06
	sure and certain ground.	1:00:08
	He's not certain who he is, what is expected of him.	1:00:11
	Rules are strangely being fused.	1:00:15
	Where once he was the sturdy oak	1:00:20
	and she was the clinging vine.	1:00:22
	Well, where once he thought that was true,	1:00:25
	it will be true no longer.	1:00:29
	You know how we are regarded.	1:00:32
	Man is strong.	1:00:35
	Woman is weak.	1:00:38
	Man is dominant.	1:00:40
	Woman is submissive.	1:00:42
	Man is active.	1:00:44
	Woman is passive.	1:00:47
	Man is aggressive.	1:00:50
	Man is the aggressor.	1:00:54
	And woman waits and waits	1:00:58
	and waits only when she receives	1:01:01
	the invitation to respond.	1:01:05
	No longer.	1:01:09
	No, in fact, it's never been true	1:01:12
	where persons have been willing to accept themselves	1:01:14
	as they are.	1:01:18
	When I was the age of some of you,	1:01:21
	I was married and a father.	1:01:23
	I had the night shift.	1:01:26
	So when Jimmy woke up, it was my task to go to him	1:01:28
	and change him and dunk his diapers in the toilet bowl.	1:01:31
	Those of you who live in the world of Pampers	1:01:35
	don't know what you've missed.	1:01:37
	(audience laughing)	1:01:39
	And Phyllis and I shared responsibilities	1:01:41
	in the kitchen,	1:01:44
	cleaning, cooking.	1:01:46
	One of the role models for that sort of bizarre behavior	1:01:50
	in that ancient past was my own father.	1:01:53
	A lightweight boxer, broken nose three times,	1:01:57
	football, baseball, boxing.	1:02:00
	He had all the macho characteristics but...	1:02:03
	He also knew who he was.	1:02:07
	And therefore knew a quality of gentleness	1:02:10
	and tenderness, almost unbelievable.	1:02:13
	I remember him without a bit of self-consciousness,	1:02:18
	strutting about the kitchen with an apron	1:02:20
	tied around his girth.	1:02:22
	I remember being cuddled in his lap	1:02:25
	as a small boy.	1:02:29
	Nor would I give anything for those memories.	1:02:31
	He could be affectionate as any good Hungarian	1:02:35
	or Italian father can be affectionate.	1:02:38
	He knew who he was.	1:02:41
	He had nothing to prove.	1:02:44
	Hans Kuhn, the Swiss theologian,	1:02:47
	talking about feminism as a new reformation,	1:02:51
	has said among many other things on the subject,	1:02:55
	"One cannot deduce from the essence of Christian marriage,	1:02:59
	"a specific division of labor.	1:03:02
	"For instance, that a woman is to raise the children	1:03:05
	"while the man is to be the breadwinner.	1:03:08
	"Raising children and doing housework	1:03:11
	"as well as financially supporting the family	1:03:13
	"can be performed by a husband and wife together."	1:03:16
	A journalist seeking to cope	1:03:22
	with this same confusion of rules,	1:03:25
	seeking clarification, has written,	1:03:29
	"For every woman who is tired	1:03:32
	"of acting weak when she knows she is strong,	1:03:35
	"there is a man who is tired of appearing strong	1:03:39
	"when he feels vulnerable.	1:03:44
	"For every woman who is tired of acting dumb,	1:03:47
	"there's a man who is burdened with the constant	1:03:50
	"expectation of knowing everything.	1:03:53
	"For every woman who is tired of being called	1:03:57
	"an emotional female,	1:04:00
	"there is a man who is denied the right to weep	1:04:02
	"and to be gentle.	1:04:05
	"For every woman who is called unfeminine when she competes,	1:04:07
	"there is a man for whom competition	1:04:13
	"is the only way to prove his masculinity.	1:04:16
	"For every woman who is tired of being a sex object,	1:04:20
	"there is a man who must worry about his potency.	1:04:24
	"For every woman who feels tied down by her children,	1:04:28
	"there is a man who is denied the full pleasures	1:04:33
	"of shared parenthood.	1:04:36
	"For every woman who is denied meaningful employment	1:04:38
	"and equal pay, there is a man who must bear	1:04:42
	"the full financial responsibility for another human being.	1:04:46
	"For every woman who was not taught the intricacies	1:04:51
	"of an automobile, there is a man who was not taught	1:04:54
	"the satisfactions of cooking.	1:04:58
	"For every woman who takes a step toward her own liberation,	1:05:00
	"there is a man who finds the way to freedom,	1:05:07
	"has been made a little easier."	1:05:11
	You see, we are not talking about women's liberation,	1:05:14
	but about human liberation.	1:05:21
	About mine, as well as yours.	1:05:23
	The apostle said, "In Christ,	1:05:27
	"there is neither male nor female."	1:05:30
	He was not opting for some sort of neutral unisex category.	1:05:34
	Anyone reading the New Testament knows that.	1:05:41
	Rather he was insisting that the old superior,	1:05:45
	inferior categories can no longer apply.	1:05:48
	We are in this thing together.	1:05:54
	We stand on equal footing.	1:05:57
	We must continue to address ourselves	1:06:02
	to the urgent issues of the day.	1:06:06
	Poverty and hunger,	1:06:09
	full employment and economic justice,	1:06:12
	issues of political tyranny and distributed justice,	1:06:16
	war and peace and all the rest.	1:06:20
	And I pray we will address with fervent conscience,	1:06:23
	these issues, but in the final analysis,	1:06:28
	we are dealing with human liberation.	1:06:32
	With the emancipation of men and women,	1:06:37
	not as stereotypical objects, but as persons,	1:06:44
	struggling, growing, dreaming,	1:06:50
	weeping, questing persons,	1:06:55
	and as they and we find our shared liberation,	1:06:59
	this world will be a better greener place on which to live.	1:07:06
	And so with a paraphrase here or there,	1:07:11
	we will close with the same romantic poem.	1:07:14
	We earthbound ones have here, the stuff of paradise.	1:07:20
	We need no other things to build a stairway	1:07:25
	to the unfulfilled, no other marble for the floors,	1:07:27
	no other ivory for the doors,	1:07:30
	no other cedar for the beams or dome	1:07:32
	to man's immortal dreams.	1:07:35
	Here on the common human way,	1:07:37
	here on the path of every day	1:07:41
	is all the stuff that God would take to mold	1:07:44
	and make new Edens.	1:07:47
	Ours is the task sublime	1:07:50
	to build eternity	1:07:55
	in time.	1:07:57
	Amen.	1:07:59
	(organ music)	1:08:21
	(hymnal singing)	1:08:29
	(hymnal singing)	1:10:10
	Will you join with me now in this responsive prayer	1:15:37
	of thanksgiving and commitment, let us pray.	1:15:41
	Oh God, we rejoice that we have learned together	1:15:47
	and have worshiped together.	1:15:51
	Now we bring before you the symbols	1:15:53
	and reality of our lives.	1:15:56
	(indistinct)	1:16:00
	We give thanks for the universe.	1:16:15
	For the Earth.	1:16:19
	(indistinct)	1:16:21
	For communities and neighborhoods.	1:16:24
	(indistinct)	1:16:26
	For the revolutions which shape our world.	1:16:30
	(indistinct)	1:16:34
	For the power of our learning.	1:16:37
	(indistinct)	1:16:40
	For the perplexities which confront us.	1:16:43
	(indistinct)	1:16:46
	For our heritage.	1:16:49
	For the visions of this university's students,	1:16:54
	staff, and faculty.	1:16:58
	(indistinct)	1:17:01
	We are given the eyes of the spirit.	1:17:04
	(indistinct)	1:17:08
	The promise is to each of us, we may see,	1:17:12
	we may receive, we may love.	1:17:16
	(indistinct)	1:17:20
	Amen and amen.	1:17:38
	(organ music)	1:17:41
	(hymnal singing)	1:18:17
	Now without bowing heads or closing eyes,	1:21:35
	will you receive this benediction, this blessing,	1:21:37
	which I offer you?	1:21:40
	My friends, go now,	1:21:42
	remembering always what you have done in this place.	1:21:45
	And may you never be the same again.	1:21:50
	May you be responsive and responsible wherever you are.	1:21:55
	May you seek always to love God	1:22:02
	and to love one another.	1:22:05
	The love of God,	1:22:08
	the grace of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ,	1:22:11
	the communion and fellowship of the holy spirit	1:22:14
	be with you.	1:22:18
	♪ Amen ♪	1:22:22
	♪ Amen ♪	1:22:26
	♪ Amen ♪	1:22:31
	♪ Amen ♪	1:22:34
	♪ Amen ♪	1:22:42
	♪ Amen ♪	1:22:49
	♪ Amen ♪	1:22:59
	(organ music)	1:23:13

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Title:

Arthur James Armstrong - "Martha, Mary, and Joe" Baccalaureate Service 9:00 am (May 8, 1977)

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May 8, 1977

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Armstrong, James, 1924-

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