Dennis M. Campbell - "Forever Beginning" Founders' Day (December 14, 1986)

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	(harmonic music)	0:01
	(congregation murmuring)	0:04
	(resonant music)	3:23
	(moves into energetic resonant music)	4:11
	("Beautiful Savior")	6:43
	♪ Beautiful Savior ♪	6:44
	♪ Lord of all nations ♪	6:50
	♪ Son of God ♪	6:57
	♪ And son of man ♪	7:02
	♪ Glory and honor ♪	7:11
	♪ Praise adoration ♪	7:18
	♪ Now and forevermore ♪	7:24
	♪ Be thine ♪	7:31
	♪ Now and forevermore ♪	7:36
	♪ Be thine ♪	7:49
	(reverberant music)	7:59
	(symphonic choral singing)	8:40
	(moves into resonant music)	11:07
	(symphonic choral singing)	12:17
	(congregation murmuring)	13:06
-	Thursday afternoon in this place	13:15
	the university community took occasion	13:18
	on the anniversary of the signing	13:20
	of the Duke Indenture 62 years ago	13:22
	to reflect upon our heritage,	13:25
	to single out those who have made	13:28
	a significant contribution to the university	13:30
	and to recognize recipients of scholarships	13:33
	made possible by the founding family.	13:35
	Today, we pause as we do each year	13:39
	in memory of the Duke family.	13:42
	To honor all those who have given of themselves	13:45
	in service to the future	13:48
	by creating and recreating this university.	13:50
	We reaffirm here our pledge of this university	13:54
	to the ideal of service to humanity	13:57
	and we give thanks for those	14:00
	who unselfishly take responsibility	14:02
	for a future that is not theirs	14:05
	that belongs to other generations.	14:07
	We remember also that this university returns	14:10
	the wealth of the land to its people	14:13
	through respect for knowledge and for truth	14:16
	and through the continuing generosity	14:19
	of those who establish it for all time.	14:22
-	Let us pray, be seated.	14:28
	(clears throat)	14:30
	Almighty God, accept our prayers for all schools	14:39
	and colleges across this nation and around the world.	14:43
	We pray for all faculty and students	14:47
	in their study and in their research,	14:51
	in their work of learning and the task of expanding	14:54
	the mind and the horizons of the human spirit.	14:58
	We pray particularly for those who study	15:02
	and those who learn here at Duke University.	15:05
	And may our work here be a common search for wisdom,	15:09
	particularly for that wisdom	15:13
	which we greet during this advent season,	15:15
	the light of the world come to enlighten all humanity.	15:18
	Amen.	15:23
	Would you join me in the litany of commemoration.	15:25
	Almighty and eternal God	15:32
	in whom our mothers and fathers have trusted,	15:34
	we their children at this time of remembrance	15:36
	offer unto thee our prayers of thanksgiving.	15:38
All	Hear us we beseech thee O Lord.	15:42
	For the members of the Duke family,	15:45
	father, daughter, sons and their spouses,	15:47
	grandchildren and all others in continuing generations	15:49
	until this very day,	15:53
	who with concern and compassion, devotion and dedication,	15:55
	and by their generosity,	15:59
	built on a solid foundation,	16:01
	continued a worthy school,	16:04
	and provided for education and service	16:05
	beyond even their dreams and expectations.	16:08
All	We give thee thanks and praise	16:11
Rev. Willimon	for the pioneering and persevering	16:14
	men and women connected with this university.	16:16
	Methodists and Quakers, farmers and merchants,	16:18
	teachers and administrators,	16:22
	who in days gone by believed in education	16:24
	and made their beliefs prevail.	16:27
All	We give thee thanks and praise.	16:30
Rev. Willimon	For the embodiment of their dreams	16:33
	from private school to academy to college	16:35
	to great university,	16:38
	founded in hope, continued with sacrifice,	16:40
	growing in outreach, serving with effectiveness,	16:43
All	We give thee thanks and praise.	16:47
-	For faculty and staff whose vision	16:49
	was bolstered by their courage,	16:52
	whose patience was tested and found true	16:55
	and whose idealism was implanted in the hearts	16:58
	and minds of others.	17:01
All	We give thee thanks and praise.	17:03
-	For the ongoing presence of noble ideas,	17:06
	the blending of "Eruditio et Religio",	17:09
	the freedom for responsible academic research and teaching,	17:12
	the ongoing respect for both the body and the spirit,	17:16
	pursuit of knowledge in the sciences and the humanities,	17:19
	the realization that the old order changes	17:23
	and new times bring new responsibilities,	17:26
All	We give thee thanks and praise.	17:30
-	For the future of Duke University,	17:33
	established for thy glory and for the enlightenment	17:35
	of the human mind and spirit,	17:38
	for consecration to learning by the young	17:40
	for the best use of the wisdom of those in latter years	17:43
	and for the commitment to growth	17:47
	and enhancement of all persons,	17:48
	for a sense of humor, a spirit of cooperation,	17:51
	and a desire for understanding among all	17:55
	within our community and the world,	17:57
All	We give thee thanks and praise.	18:00
	And to thee O God,	18:03
	we shall ascribe as is most due	18:04
	all place and glory	18:07
	world without end.	18:09
	Amen.	18:11
	(congregation murmuring)	18:13
-	I greet you on this third Sunday of Advent	18:24
	and on the occasion of our university Founder's Sunday	18:28
	and we are pleased to have you at the chapel.	18:33
	This afternoon at 5:00 PM,	18:38
	our distinguished university organist Peter Williams	18:40
	will be presenting a concert here in the chapel	18:44
	in honor of the 10th anniversary	18:48
	of the dedication of our Flentrop organ	18:51
	and we invite you to this concert.	18:55
	This has been a weekend of celebration	18:59
	in the anniversary of the Flentrop.	19:01
	Today marks the first time that this Founder's Day service	19:05
	has been televised over the closed circuit system	19:10
	of Duke University.	19:15
	This service is being viewed by those patients	19:16
	in the Duke hospitals.	19:20
	This is a pioneering effort	19:22
	supported in great part by the Friends of Duke Chapel	19:24
	and we thank them for their generosity	19:27
	and we welcome those who join us today on the television.	19:30
	Would you stand as we pray together the Advent Prayer?	19:38
	(clears throat)	19:42
	Let us pray,	19:51
All	O Lord God, heavenly king	19:52
	in this holy season of Advent	19:55
	we beseech thee so to rule and guide us	19:57
	by the Holy Spirit	20:00
	that we may hear and receive the holy word	20:02
	with our whole heart	20:05
	and through thy word we may be sanctified	20:07
	and may learn to place all our trust and hope	20:10
	in Jesus Christ thy son	20:13
	and following him may be led safely through all evil	20:15
	until through thy grace we come to everlasting life	20:20
	through the same Jesus Christ thy son, our Lord.	20:24
	Amen.	20:28
	(resonant organ music)	20:30
	(harmonic choral singing)	20:38
-	You may be seated.	21:30
	Open our hearts and minds O God	21:36
	by the power of your Holy Spirit	21:38
	so that as the word is read and proclaimed	21:41
	we might hear with joy what you say to us this day.	21:43
	The first lesson is taken from Isaiah.	21:48
	Th wilderness and the dry land shall be glad.	21:52
	The desert shall rejoice and blossom	21:55
	like the crocus it shall blossom abundantly	21:58
	and rejoice with joy and with singing.	22:01
	The glory of Lebanon shall be given to it,	22:05
	the majesty of Carmel and Sharon,	22:07
	they shall see the glory of the Lord,	22:10
	the majesty of our God.	22:12
	Strengthen the weak hands and make firm the feeble knees,	22:15
	say to those who are of a fearful heart,	22:19
	"Be strong, fear not.	22:21
	"Behold your God will come with vengeance	22:24
	"with the recompense of God.	22:27
	"He will come and he will save you."	22:29
	Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened	22:32
	and the ears of the deaf unstopped.	22:35
	Then shall the lame leap like a heart	22:38
	and the tongue of the dumb sing for joy	22:40
	for water shall break forth in the wilderness	22:43
	and streams in the desert.	22:46
	The burning sand shall become a pool	22:49
	and the thirsty ground springs of water.	22:51
	The haunt of jackals shall become a swamp.	22:55
	The grass shall become reeds and rushes	22:58
	and a highway shall be there	23:01
	and it shall be called The Holy Way.	23:03
	The unclean shall not pass over it	23:06
	and fools shall not err therein.	23:09
	No lion shall be there,	23:11
	nor shall any ravenous beast come up on it.	23:13
	They shall not be found there,	23:17
	but the redeemed shall walk there.	23:19
	And the ransomed of the Lord shall return	23:21
	and come to Zion with singing.	23:24
	Everlasting joy shall be upon their heads.	23:26
	They shall obtain joy and gladness,	23:30
	and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.	23:33
	This ends the reading of the first lesson.	23:37
	(melodious bell music)	23:46
	(melodious bell music)	24:39
-	The gospel lesson is taken from Saint Matthew.	27:38
	Now when John heard in prison about	27:42
	the deeds of the Christ,	27:44
	he sent word by his disciples and said to him,	27:46
	"Are you He who is to come,	27:49
	"or shall we look for another?"	27:52
	and Jesus answered them	27:54
	"Go and tell John what you hear and what you see,	27:56
	"the blind receive their sight and the lame walk,	28:00
	"lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear	28:04
	"and the dead are raised up	28:07
	"and the poor have good news preached to them	28:09
	"and blessed is the one who takes no offense at me."	28:12
	As they went away, Jesus began to speak	28:16
	to the crowds concerning John.	28:19
	"What did you go out into the wilderness to behold?	28:21
	"A reed shaken by the wind?	28:24
	"Why then did you go out, to see a prophet?	28:26
	"Yes I tell you, and more than a prophet.	28:30
	"This is He of whom it is written,	28:33
	"behold I send my messenger before thy face	28:36
	"who shall prepare thy way before thee.	28:40
	"Truly I say to you, among those born of women	28:43
	"there has risen no one greater than John the Baptist.	28:47
	"Yet one who is least in the kingdom of heaven	28:50
	"is greater than he."	28:53
	This ends the reading of the gospel.	28:55
	("Psalm 9: I Will Give Thanks to the Lord")	29:00
	♪ I will give thanks to the Lord ♪	29:08
	♪ With my whole heart ♪	29:12
	♪ I will tell of all thy wonderful deeds ♪	29:18
	♪ I will be glad and exult in thee ♪	29:25
	♪ I will sing praise to thy name O Most High ♪	29:29
	♪ I will give thanks to the Lord ♪	29:43
	♪ With my whole heart ♪	29:46
	♪ I will tell of all thy wonderful deeds ♪	29:53
	♪ I will be glad and exult in thee ♪	30:00
	♪ I will gland and exult in thee ♪	30:04
	♪ I will sing praise to thy name O Most High ♪	30:08
	♪ Be gracious to me O Lord ♪	30:21
	♪ Behold what I suffer ♪	30:26
	♪ From those who hate me ♪	30:29
	♪ O thou who liftest me up ♪	30:33
	♪ From gates of death ♪	30:37
	♪ From gates of death ♪	30:40
	♪ That I may recount all ♪	30:43
	♪ All thy praises ♪	30:47
	♪ That in the gates of ♪	30:49
	♪ The daughter of Zion ♪	30:52
	♪ That I may recount all ♪	30:54
	♪ Daughter of Zion ♪	30:56
	♪ All of thy praises ♪	30:57
	♪ Daughter of Zion ♪	30:58
	♪ Daughter of Zion ♪	31:00
	♪ I may rejoice ♪	31:01
	♪ I may rejoice in thy ♪	31:02
	♪ Deliverance ♪	31:04
	♪ Be gracious to me O Lord ♪	31:10
	♪ Be gracious to me O Lord ♪	31:13
	(moves into resonant music)	31:19
	♪ I will give thanks ♪	31:29
	♪ I will give thanks ♪	31:30
	♪ I will give thanks unto the Lord ♪	31:32
	♪ I will give thanks ♪	31:39
	♪ I will give thanks ♪	31:41
	♪ I will give thanks unto the Lord ♪	31:42
	♪ I will give thanks to the Lord ♪	31:51
-	Hear now this lesson	32:36
	taken from the book of Joshua chapter 24.	32:39
	Then Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem	32:46
	and summoned the elders, the heads, the judges	32:51
	and the officers of Israel.	32:56
	And they presented themselves before God.	32:59
	And Joshua said to all the people,	33:03
	"Thus says the Lord the God of Israel,	33:06
	"I gave you a land on which you had not labored,	33:10
	"and cities which you had not built and you dwell therein.	33:14
	"You eat the fruit of vineyards and olive yards	33:21
	"which you did not plant.	33:24
	"Now therefore fear the Lord	33:27
	"and serve him in sincerity and in faithfulness.	33:30
	"And if you be unwilling to serve the Lord,	33:35
	"choose this day whom you will serve.	33:38
	"But as for me, and my house we will serve the Lord."	33:42
	And the people answered,	33:49
	"Far be it from us that we should forsake the Lord."	33:50
	Then Joshua said to the people,	33:55
	"You are witnesses against yourselves	33:57
	"that you have chosen the Lord to serve Him."	34:00
	And they said, "We are witnesses."	34:05
	So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day.	34:09
	Then he sent them away to their inheritance.	34:14
	The assembly described	34:21
	in this 24th chapter of Joshua	34:24
	represents a new beginning for the people of Israel.	34:28
	This ceremony of encounter with God and covenant renewal	34:34
	is illustrative of our perpetual human need	34:38
	for new beginnings.	34:43
	My title today is a phrase	34:45
	from Charles Wesley's 18th century hymn,	34:48
	"O God of all grace,	34:52
	"Thy goodness we praise,	34:54
	"For ever beginning what never shall end"	34:57
	New beginnings are a gift of God's grace.	35:03
	The events of Founder's Day at Duke University	35:07
	which really now stretch into a long weekend	35:11
	remind us that we, like the Israelites of old,	35:15
	are forever beginning.	35:21
	And we need our times of remembrance of the past	35:24
	appropriation for the present,	35:29
	and resolve for the future.	35:32
	Remembrance involves encountering the story	35:36
	that tells us who we are.	35:40
	On this Founder's Day, we rehearse again	35:42
	the story of Duke.	35:46
	Most of us know the story,	35:48
	but we need to hear it again and again.	35:51
	Next year marks the 20th anniversary	35:56
	of my graduation from Duke's Trinity College.	35:59
	When I was a freshman here,	36:03
	we still had to pass a test,	36:05
	a required test called The Tradition's Test.	36:09
	One of the questions was,	36:14
	"How many stones did it take to complete the Duke chapel?"	36:16
	Now in case you don't know,	36:24
	(congregation murmurs)	36:27
	the answer is one.	36:28
	(congregation laughs)	36:32
	Saturday morning classes were the rule then	36:39
	and class attendance was mandatory.	36:42
	The Tradition's Test is now gone	36:46
	and so are Saturday classes and required class attendance,	36:49
	but our traditions are not gone.	36:54
	The carillon is still played at five o' clock	36:57
	now by my classmate Sam Hammond,	37:01
	who looked the same then as he does now.	37:05
	(congregation murmurs)	37:08
	Distinguished faculty still take real interest	37:10
	in undergraduates even outside the classroom.	37:13
	I will never forget Richard White,	37:18
	now Dean of Arts and Sciences,	37:20
	in his first year at Duke	37:22
	working with me, then a freshman,	37:25
	to help me understand the life cycle of selaginella	37:28
	in botany.	37:32
	Just last night, our soccer team	37:34
	started what we trust is a new tradition.	37:37
	These traditions, some embodied in the university itself,	37:41
	some embodied in its people,	37:46
	shape us even though we may not realize it.	37:50
	Although I was away for graduate professional training	37:56
	and taught elsewhere before coming back to Duke,	37:59
	I am keenly aware that I am who I am in large measure	38:03
	because of this university.	38:09
	We here this morning are the recipients	38:12
	of a magnificent inheritance.	38:15
	Our story is rich and complex	38:19
	and this morning, I want to notice primarily	38:23
	Duke's religious tradition.	38:27
	Although our roots go back to a great foundation	38:30
	started by Methodist and Quaker farmers	38:35
	in Randolph County in 1838,	38:38
	and our trustee and presidential leadership	38:41
	was principally Methodist,	38:44
	the school was not formally and officially	38:47
	religiously affiliated until 1856.	38:50
	In that year, state government refused	38:55
	to give financial support for the college	38:58
	and President Braxton Craven appealed	39:01
	to the Methodist Church.	39:03
	He proposed that the church provide urgently needed funds	39:05
	in exchange for a perpetual agreement	39:10
	that its ministers would be educated at no cost.	39:13
	The church thus literally saved the college	39:17
	and so began our continuing	39:20
	formal relationship to Methodism.	39:23
	Duke University would not be what it is today	39:26
	apart from that relationship.	39:30
	President John Carlyle Kilgo strongly advanced	39:33
	the concept of Christian higher education	39:36
	and his preaching is given credit	39:39
	for inspiring the Duke family	39:42
	to continued support for the college.	39:44
	Kilgo was castigated by many North Carolinians	39:48
	including Josephus Daniels,	39:51
	the editor of the Raleigh News and Observer	39:54
	for what they regarded as his liberal views.	39:56
	He was an unpopular champion of academic freedom,	40:00
	the famous Bassett case occurred during his presidency.	40:05
	Kilgo's understanding of	40:09
	and commitment to academic freedom	40:12
	grew out of his Christian convictions.	40:15
	This is what he wrote,	40:19
	"From childhood, I was taught the doctrines	40:20
	"which belong to Methodism,	40:24
	"a church seemingly ordained to proclaim	40:26
	"the doctrine of human tolerance and freedom	40:30
	"at a time when ecclesiastical, civic and social intolerance	40:34
	"was arrogant and tyrannical."	40:39
	Kilgo's theological views thus shaped Trinity College	40:44
	at a crucial time in its academic development.	40:49
	William Preston Few, who would be	40:53
	the first president of the university	40:55
	and its brilliant and visionary leader	40:58
	during its most formative years,	41:00
	was Dean while Kilgo was President.	41:03
	Few was a deeply committed churchman who believed	41:06
	that religion provided the unity for education.	41:09
	We know from Few's letters and papers	41:14
	that he and James B. Duke	41:17
	spent a great deal of time together	41:19
	before Mr. Duke signed the famous Indenture	41:21
	of December 11th, 1924.	41:25
	Mr. Duke was clear about his desires	41:28
	concerning the religious commitment of the new university.	41:31
	And it is also clear that these desires	41:36
	coincided with Few's.	41:38
	In his splendid book, "The Architecture of Duke University",	41:42
	the late professor William Blackburn wrote,	41:45
	"The chapel was the building first in the mind	41:48
	"of James Buchanan Duke.	41:52
	"At the heart of his idea of education was religion,	41:54
	"and the physical center of the university	41:58
	"was to be the chapel.	42:01
	"I want the central building to be a church,	42:03
	"he used to say when making plans for the university.	42:06
	"A great towering church which will dominate	42:10
	"all the surrounding buildings,	42:13
	"because such an edifice would be bound	42:16
	"to have a profound influence on the spiritual life	42:19
	"of the young men and young women who come here."	42:23
	Now Duke University was not simply to have a chapel.	42:27
	Duke was to continue to stand for the union	42:30
	of education and religion.	42:33
	Our motto "Eruditio et Religio"	42:36
	derives from a proposition of Weslian theology	42:39
	expressed well in one of Charles Wesley's greatest hymns,	42:43
	"Unite the two so long disjoined,	42:48
	knowledge and vital piety."	42:52
	We know very clearly what the founders wanted.	42:56
	They wanted religion to be the formative influence	43:01
	on this university.	43:04
	The Christian theological commitments	43:06
	of Duke's early leadership	43:08
	determined the kind of university Duke was to become.	43:10
	They believed that Christian faith mandated higher education	43:16
	that was excellent, rigorous, free,	43:20
	inclusive and open.	43:25
	We who gather in this assembly today	43:28
	have been given a great inheritance.	43:32
	Inheritance from the past however,	43:36
	requires appropriation for the present.	43:39
	It's not enough just to remember.	43:43
	What responsibility do we have	43:46
	to our founders and benefactors?	43:49
	Now this question is an ever present one	43:53
	because we are forever beginning.	43:56
	Many of you here this morning	44:00
	are benefactors of this university.	44:01
	Gifts of service, money and concern	44:05
	all become part of our inheritance.	44:08
	How we treat our inheritance tells us who we are	44:12
	and whether we are worthy of that which is given to us.	44:16
	We must be faithful to the intentions of those	44:21
	who have brought us to this place.	44:24
	Being worthy of our inheritance	44:27
	requires us to attend to continuity.	44:30
	But it also requires us to attend to appropriate change.	44:36
	Real benefactors recognize that human communities	44:42
	and institutions cannot be static.	44:47
	Growth and development must take place.	44:51
	There must be a balance between continuity and change.	44:56
	Our world, our nation and our region	45:01
	are constantly changing, and so are we.	45:06
	We are forever beginning.	45:11
	Historically, Christian vision provided unity and purpose	45:15
	for higher education.	45:21
	The great universities of Europe and England	45:23
	were founded with such a vision	45:26
	as were our own major private universities.	45:28
	But the forces of secularization in western culture	45:33
	have destroyed that unity and purpose	45:37
	and left us with fragmentation and confusion.	45:41
	What meaning, if any, does the remembrance of our own story	45:48
	on Founder's Day have for us at Duke,	45:52
	in relation to this larger picture?	45:56
	We cannot return to a time when it was possible,	46:01
	whether or not it was true,	46:06
	to claim a Christian vision for the whole university.	46:09
	Nevertheless, our story as a university	46:15
	includes provision for the Christian vision	46:19
	of reality within the university.	46:24
	This chapel is the major embodiment of that tradition.	46:28
	Here, Christian truth is proclaimed	46:33
	even though not all in the university can,	46:36
	do, or necessarily should believe	46:40
	or espouse it.	46:44
	Duke University gives place to religion	46:48
	and accordingly recognizes the legitimacy of claims	46:53
	that there is unity, purpose,	46:58
	and meaning in education.	47:01
	In this special sense, we are not neutral.	47:04
	I think of Bishop Kenneth Goodson's remark	47:09
	that as he looks at the chapel,	47:11
	he is reminded that Duke University has taken sides.	47:13
	Openness and pluralism do not rule out the fact	47:19
	that our founder's vision persists	47:24
	and that it has a legitimate claim on us.	47:28
	What then of resolve for the future?	47:34
	Remembering who we are	47:37
	seeking to appropriate our tradition in the present.	47:39
	What does this mean for our future?	47:44
	There is great excitement in being at Duke just now.	47:48
	We all feel that as we walk these beloved	47:54
	halls of our buildings and sidewalks and lawns.	48:00
	There are very positive and hopeful signs.	48:05
	But because we are a part of the larger picture	48:10
	of American higher education,	48:14
	there are also concerns.	48:17
	As we think about the future,	48:21
	perhaps the chief concern ought to be that of purpose.	48:23
	What are we, in the end, here to do?	48:28
	That question is a moral question	48:34
	and if pursued deeply, a religious one.	48:38
	Indeed as Samuel Johnson suggested,	48:42
	"No one can think deeply without thinking religiously."	48:46
	Margaret Clapp, a former president of Wellesley College	48:52
	once observed that "Evidence can be amassed	48:56
	"that universities have been more effective	48:59
	"in scientific research to help the world wage war	49:01
	"than to wage peace."	49:06
	Interestingly, the McArthur Foundation last year	49:10
	announced massive funding for peace studies research	49:14
	by scholars in American Universities.	49:19
	I welcome that idea because it signals a recognition	49:23
	of our responsibility to participate	49:27
	in the shaping of the future.	49:29
	While asserting that the future belongs to God alone,	49:32
	through God's grace, we have the freedom to choose	49:37
	to make positive contributions to the human future.	49:42
	I like to describe Duke as a university whose character	49:47
	helps men and women learn to commit themselves	49:53
	to lives of service.	49:57
	Such service to human need can and does	50:00
	make a difference in this world	50:04
	that desperately needs such commitment.	50:06
	Recently, President Brodie gave me a copy	50:12
	of a remarkable speech given on Armistice Day 1948	50:16
	by General of the Army Omar N. Bradley.	50:21
	General Bradley said this,	50:27
	"With the monstrous weapons man already has,	50:29
	"humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world	50:34
	"by its moral adolescence.	50:39
	"We are stumbling blindly through a spiritual darkness	50:43
	"while toying with the precarious secrets of life and death.	50:48
	"We have many men of science,	50:54
	"too few men of God."	50:58
	So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day.	51:04
	Then he sent them away to their inheritance.	51:09
	Amen.	51:17
	(congregation murmuring)	51:22
	("Lift Up Your Heads, Ye Mighty Gates")	51:27
	♪ Lift up your heads, ye might gates ♪	51:55
	♪ Behold the king of glory waits ♪	52:01
	♪ The king of kings ♪	52:08
	♪ Is drawing near ♪	52:12
	♪ The savior of the world is here ♪	52:15
	♪ Fling the portals of your heart ♪	52:25
	♪ Make it a temple, set apart ♪	52:31
	♪ From earthly use for heaven's employ ♪	52:38
	♪ Adorned with prayer and love and joy ♪	52:45
	♪ Redeemer come with us abide ♪	52:54
	♪ Our hearts to thee we open wide ♪	53:01
	♪ Let us thy inner presence feel ♪	53:08
	♪ Thy grace and love in us reveal ♪	53:15
-	Please remain standing as we join	53:27
	in the historic confession of our faith,	53:29
	The Apostle's Creed.	53:31
All	I believe in God, the father almighty,	53:34
	maker of heaven and earth	53:37
	and in Jesus Christ, his only son, our Lord	53:39
	who was conceived by the Holy Spirit	53:42
	born of the virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate,	53:45
	was crucified, dead and buried, he descended into hell.	53:50
	On the third day, he rose again from the dead.	53:55
	He ascended into Heaven	53:57
	and sitteth at the right hand of God the Father almighty	53:59
	from this he shall come to judge the quick and the dead.	54:03
	I believe in the Holy Spirit,	54:07
	the Holy Catholic Church, the communion of saints,	54:09
	the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body,	54:13
	and the life everlasting.	54:17
	Amen.	54:19
	The Lord be with you.	54:21
All	And with you also.	54:23
-	Let us pray.	54:24
	How can we pray to thee, thou holy and hidden God	54:39
	whose ways are not our ways,	54:44
	who reignest in mystery beyond the realm of time and space?	54:47
	Yet, how can we not pray to thee, gracious God,	54:52
	who knowest what it is to be human	54:57
	because thou has come among us as one	54:59
	who took our common life upon himself	55:01
	to be like us in order that we might be like him.	55:05
	Hear us O God, both in our words and in our silence,	55:11
	for it is often the silence that speaks better of our need.	55:16
	Breathe thou life into our less than life,	55:22
	not for our sakes only,	55:26
	but for the sake of those to whom, with thy life in us,	55:29
	we may ourselves bring life.	55:33
	Hear now gracious God,	55:38
	the prayers of all thy children everywhere	55:39
	for forgiveness and healing, for courage, for faith,	55:43
	for hope in times of despair,	55:50
	for endurance in the midst of trial.	55:53
	Hear our prayers for the needs of others this day,	55:57
	for the homeless, the destitute, the imprisoned,	56:01
	the sick and the dying,	56:08
	for the hungry and for those who seek	56:11
	to battle the causes of hunger,	56:13
	for victims of violence everywhere	56:16
	and for those who know no other way than violence,	56:20
	for those who govern the nations of the world,	56:25
	especially those which are conflict torn,	56:28
	for women and men who suffer for the sake of conscience,	56:32
	for the unemployed who suffer want and anxiety	56:37
	from lack of work,	56:40
	for this university that it may be a center	56:43
	for sound learning and a pursuit of wisdom,	56:46
	and for the memory of its origins	56:50
	that a worthy vision of its mission might be nourished,	56:52
	for the entire human family that the walls which separate us	56:58
	may be broken down,	57:02
	and that in thy good time,	57:04
	all nations and races may serve thee in harmony	57:06
	around thy heavenly throne.	57:10
	Deep beneath all our asking O God,	57:14
	hear the secret song of every human heart	57:18
	lauding and magnifying thy name for being what thou art.	57:21
	Make strong and clear this song of praise	57:27
	within each of us until it burst forth at last	57:30
	to thy glory and our salvation.	57:34
	Through Jesus Christ our Lord we pray.	57:39
	Amen.	57:42
	We offer a special word of thanks	57:46
	to the Bell Ringers of the First Baptist Church	57:48
	of Hendersonville, North Carolina	57:51
	who are making their ninth annual Advent appearance	57:54
	here at the chapel.	57:56
	And now, in the spirit of thanksgiving	57:59
	for all that God has done,	58:01
	let us offer our gifts and ourselves onto God.	58:03
	(melodic bell music)	58:16
	(moves into "O Holy Night")	1:02:55
	(reverberant music)	1:03:54
	(melodic choral singing)	1:04:13
	♪ Hallelujah, Hallelujah ♪	1:04:45
	♪ Hallelujah, Hallelujah, ♪	1:04:51
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	1:04:57
	♪ Amen. ♪	1:05:05
	O everliving God, we give thee thanks and praise	1:05:17
	for whatsoever thou hast given us richly to enjoy,	1:05:20
	for health and vigor, for the joys of friendship	1:05:24
	for our time and place in history	1:05:28
	and for every good gift of happiness and strength.	1:05:31
	We praise thee for all the servants	1:05:35
	who by their example and encouragement	1:05:37
	have helped us on our way,	1:05:40
	especially for the founders of this university	1:05:42
	and for every vision of thyself	1:05:45
	which thou hast given us in sacrament or prayer,	1:05:47
	and we humbly beseech thee that all these benefits	1:05:51
	we may use in thy service	1:05:54
	and to the glory of thy holy name.	1:05:56
	Through Jesus Christ our Lord we pray	1:05:59
	who taught us boldly to say	1:06:02
All	Our Father who art in heaven	1:06:04
	hallowed be thy name	1:06:07
	thy kingdom come, thy will be done	1:06:09
	on Earth as it is in heaven,	1:06:12
	Give us this day our daily bread	1:06:14
	and forgive us our trespasses	1:06:17
	as we forgive those who trespass against us,	1:06:19
	and lead us not into temptation	1:06:22
	but deliver us from evil,	1:06:25
	for thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory forever.	1:06:26
	Amen.	1:06:32
	(reverberant music)	1:06:35
	(melodic choral singing)	1:07:13
-	The grace of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ	1:10:38
	the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit	1:10:42
	be among you now and always.	1:10:44
	(harmonious a capella music)	1:10:54
	♪ Amen ♪	1:10:55
	♪ Amen ♪	1:11:00
	(reverberant organ music)	1:11:16

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Dennis M. Campbell - "Forever Beginning" Founders' Day (December 14, 1986)

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Sermon start time: 32:36. Sermon end time: 51:17.

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December 14, 1986

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Campbell, Dennis M.

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