William H. Willimon - "Who Are These?" (November 4, 1990)

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	(organ music)	0:00
-	Good morning and welcome to this celebration	6:01
	of Homecoming Sunday and All Saints' here in the chapel.	6:04
	We're particularly glad to have our alumni with us.	6:09
	The president of the alumni association is our lector,	6:12
	and we have a number of choir alumni	6:15
	who'll be singing in our choir today.	6:18
	I've been asked to announce that beginning this Sunday	6:20
	and for the next three Sundays,	6:23
	Christmas cards will be sold out in front of the chapel	6:26
	to benefit Heifer Project International,	6:29
	one of the ministries supported by Duke Chapel	6:32
	which sends animals to needy families at home and abroad.	6:36
	And you're invited to look at their selection of cards.	6:40
	Next Sunday, we will have a celebration	6:45
	of the African American Church.	6:47
	The music and the service will be	6:50
	from the African American Church,	6:51
	and our special guest will be the Duke Dance Ensemble.	6:53
	And now let us stand for the greeting.	6:59
	The Lord Jesus Christ be with you.	7:08
Congregation	And also with you.	7:10
-	The risen Christ is with us.	7:12
	(congregation responding unintelligibly)	7:14
	(choir singing)	7:38
	(organ music)	9:02
	(choir singing)	9:39
-	Eternal God, we praise you for the great company	14:27
	of all those who have finished their course in faith	14:31
	and now rest from their labors.	14:35
	(congregation responding unintelligibly)	14:38
	To all of these, grant your peace.	14:55
	(congregation responding unintelligibly)	14:59
	And bring us at last with them into the joy of your home	15:10
	not made with hands, but eternal in the heavens.	15:15
	(congregation responding unintelligibly)	15:19
All	Amen.	15:22
	(organ music)	15:24
	(congregation singing)	15:32
-	Let us pray.	16:28
All	Open our hearts and minds, oh God,	16:31
	by the power of your Holy Spirit	16:34
	so that as the word is read and proclaimed	16:37
	we might hear with joy what you say to us this day.	16:40
	Amen.	16:45
-	The first reading is taken from the book of Revelation.	16:47
	After this, I looked and there was a great multitude	16:51
	that no one could count.	16:55
	From every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages	16:57
	standing before the throne and before the Lamb	17:03
	robed in white with palm branches in their hands.	17:08
	They cried out in a loud voice saying,	17:13
	salvation belongs to our God who is seated on the throne	17:17
	and to the Lamb and all the angels stood around the throne	17:22
	and around the elders and the four living creatures	17:28
	and they fell on their faces before the throne	17:32
	and worshiped God singing, amen,	17:35
	blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor	17:40
	and power and might be to our God forever and ever.	17:47
	Amen.	17:53
	Then one of the elders addressed me saying,	17:55
	who are these robed in white and where have they come from?	17:58
	I said to him, sir, you are the one that knows.	18:03
	Then he said to me, these are they	18:08
	who have come out of the great ordeal.	18:12
	They have washed their robes and made them white	18:15
	in the blood of the Lamb.	18:20
	For this reason, they are before the throne of God	18:22
	and worship him day and night within his temple,	18:26
	and the one who is seated on the throne will shelter them.	18:31
	They will hunger no more and thirst no more.	18:35
	The sun will not strike them, nor any scorching heat	18:39
	for the Lamb at the center of the throne	18:44
	will be their shepherd and he will guide them	18:47
	to springs of the water of life	18:50
	and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.	18:54
	This is the word of the Lord.	18:58
Congregation	Thanks be to God.	19:01
-	This reading is from the gospel	19:03
	according to Saint Matthew.	19:05
	When Jesus saw the crowds, he went up to the mountain	19:08
	and after he sat down, his disciples came to him.	19:12
	Then he began to speak and taught them saying,	19:17
	blessed are the poor in spirit	19:21
	for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.	19:24
	Blessed are those who mourn for they will be comforted.	19:27
	Blessed are the meek for they will inherit the earth.	19:32
	Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness	19:36
	for they will be filled.	19:41
	Blessed are the merciful for they will receive mercy.	19:43
	Blessed are the pure in heart for they will see God.	19:47
	Blessed are the peacemakers	19:52
	for they will be called children of God.	19:54
	Blessed are those who are persecuted	19:57
	for righteousness' sake for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.	20:00
	Blessed are you when people revile you and persecute you	20:05
	and utter all kinds of evil against you	20:10
	falsely on my account.	20:13
	Rejoice and be glad for your reward is great in heaven,	20:16
	for in the same way they persecuted the prophets	20:22
	who were before you.	20:25
	This is the word of the Lord.	20:27
Congregation	Thanks be to God.	20:29
-	"'Who are these clothed in white robes,	20:37
	"'and whence have they come?'	20:40
	"I said, 'these are they who have come	20:43
	"'from the great tribulation, have washed their robes	20:45
	"'and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.'"	20:49
	In the book "Habits of the Heart,"	20:57
	the sociological study of Americans in the '80s,	20:59
	we read an interview with someone named Sheila.	21:04
	When asked about religion, Sheila says,	21:09
	"I consider myself very religious,	21:12
	"although I cannot remember when I've been to church.	21:16
	"My religion is my own little voice.	21:20
	"I guess you could call my religion 'Sheila-ism.'"	21:24
	A religious journal designated Sheila	21:29
	as the theologian of the '80s.	21:32
	Sheila is us.	21:34
	A Duke student noted recently that on this campus,	21:38
	it appears sometimes as if any subject	21:42
	is up for conversation--except religion.	21:46
	Sex or politics or economics--but religion,	21:50
	oh, we say that's not public, that's personal,	21:55
	that's private.	21:58
	As Sheila says, religion is my own little voice.	22:01
	In our relativistic age, disagreements about religion	22:08
	are usually resolved by recourse to,	22:12
	"well that's your opinion and this is my opinion	22:15
	"and if that works for you, that's good."	22:18
	The important thing is what works right	22:20
	for you personally, right?	22:23
	Religion: personal, private.	22:29
	My personal opinion.	22:34
	More than that, it is my personal opinion at the moment,	22:35
	what works right for me right now.	22:40
	And therefore, one of the most uncomfortable aspects	22:45
	of religion in our relativistic age	22:48
	is that religion,	22:52
	viewed by people like us, seems old.	22:55
	Who else but religious people would have built	22:59
	a building like this one in the 1930s	23:02
	to resemble something 2,000 years ago?	23:04
	Why is it that you come to church and you read this old book	23:10
	with old words and you've got clergy leading worship	23:14
	in old looking clothes and this stole that I'm wearing	23:17
	was once a Roman neck tie.	23:21
	About the fifth century, western males	23:24
	stopped wearing stoles but clergy didn't.	23:26
	And little wonder that a lot of people say	23:30
	if the old, old church wants to really be heard	23:32
	by the fresh modern world,	23:36
	the church had better get with it.	23:38
	We better modernize.	23:41
	But I tell you, there is something to be said in our time	23:46
	for the church not getting with it.	23:49
	There is a peculiar kind of relevance of the irrelevant.	23:55
	For tradition, the past, what is old	24:02
	gives contemporary Christians not only roots,	24:05
	a context, an identity, a stability,	24:08
	but also the past has a way of giving us options.	24:11
	Tradition, far from just limiting our focus	24:17
	to the rear view mirror of the past,	24:20
	has a way of enriching the spectrum of our vision	24:24
	and many of us today are just dying for want of options.	24:29
	For instance, for many modern people,	24:34
	ethics (what ought I to do)	24:37
	is mainly a matter of	24:39
	narrowing life's focus.	24:42
	Why did you do what you did in this circumstance?	24:46
	Oh, well, I considered the two possible options	24:48
	and then I narrowed everything down to the one right,	24:51
	absolutely right thing for me to do,	24:54
	what seems right for me.	24:58
	Christian people are those who do what's right,	25:01
	but of course, the trouble is when you're only listening	25:06
	to your voice of your own conscience,	25:09
	when we're only deciding on the basis	25:11
	of my personal experience, then what seems right to me,	25:14
	ascertainment of correct action,	25:18
	is greatly simplified.	25:21
	And such simplification runs the risk of,	25:26
	in G.K. Chesterton's words,	25:29
	making us slaves to the opinion	25:32
	of that arrogant oligarchy	25:36
	of those who just happen to be walking about.	25:39
	Many of us have liberated ourselves from the past	25:43
	only to become slaves to the present,	25:46
	and we have found that the present	25:49
	can be a demanding master.	25:52
	The past, experienced here in church or out,	25:57
	has a way of giving us options.	26:02
	That's why a major concern for feminist studies	26:06
	and for African Americans today has been	26:11
	the recovery of a history because oftentimes,	26:14
	if you're not careful, history is just written	26:17
	by the people who won, and we forget that there's a	26:19
	wealth of options there that the group in charge	26:23
	doesn't mention in its history.	26:26
	He had been born, as many of you on the right side of town,	26:33
	to the right family.	26:37
	His father was a wealthy cloth merchant.	26:40
	He had a good education, good looks,	26:44
	he liked good wine and good times and a good fight.	26:46
	But as he grew older, into his young adult years,	26:51
	Francis Bernardone became more serious,	26:54
	but not overly serious.	26:57
	He became concerned about the plight of the poor,	26:59
	but not overly concerned.	27:02
	Then one day, Francis was riding along a narrow road	27:04
	and he encountered a man whose body	27:07
	had been disfigured by leprosy,	27:10
	and he tossed him a silver coin.	27:14
	But then as if out of nowhere, he spurred his horse around,	27:18
	dismounted, gave the man all the money that he had,	27:21
	and, overcoming his revulsion at his sores, he embraced him.	27:25
	Of course, we know him as Saint Francis,	27:32
	the young man who walked out of a good position	27:38
	with his old man's business and went away to God.	27:41
	As Chester didn't say it in his biography of Francis,	27:47
	Francis of Assisi ran away to God	27:50
	the way some little boys ran away to the circus.	27:53
	Now, one can only guess about	27:58
	the possibly disruptive effects of telling a story like that	28:00
	on the options of a Duke undergraduate.	28:03
	Because one of the most disruptive revolutionary aspects	28:08
	of the past is that, and the church telling these stories	28:11
	of the saints, these men and women throughout history	28:16
	who have said "no" to the paucity of options	28:20
	given to them by the present, by the status quo.	28:24
	That's one of the most revolutionary things the church does.	28:30
	Remembrance gives us options.	28:35
	A graduate student I know has been interviewing women	28:40
	who go to an abortion counseling center near here,	28:43
	and she's found out a couple of things.	28:48
	She says, first of all, most of the women who go there	28:50
	go so out of deep regret and when asked,	28:54
	why are you here getting an abortion,	28:58
	the primary reason given is,	29:00
	I had no other options.	29:05
	Now that doesn't sound like freedom of choice, does it?	29:11
	That doesn't sound like the right to choose.	29:16
	"I had no other option."	29:21
	Lack of imagination is a byproduct of social amnesia.	29:27
	An inability to remember the saints produces	29:33
	a failure of nerve among today's contemporary believers.	29:36
	If you don't have any options,	29:40
	we have no options when we have no memory.	29:42
	Remembrance becomes a potentially revolutionary activity.	29:46
	Which is one of the things that I love about this chapel,	29:51
	because to gather here on a Sunday,	29:55
	to gather here on a Sunday to worship	29:57
	is vividly to be reminded that none of this began with us.	30:00
	We are debtors every time we gather to worship.	30:06
	Maya Angelou, the writer and the poet,	30:10
	stood here and addressed our freshman class this fall	30:13
	and she said to our freshman class,	30:16
	"You people have been paid for."	30:18
	"A lot of people have dreamed and sacrificed and worked	30:22
	so that you could be here.	30:25
	And whether we gather on Homecoming	30:28
	and remember that glorious train of alumni	30:30
	that have come through this place	30:32
	or whether we gather here on All Saints'	30:35
	and remember that glorious procession of the saints,	30:37
	every time we gather in this building,	30:40
	our spiritual forebearers just stare down at us	30:42
	from their perches high above.	30:46
	Every time we gather, we've got Deborah and Sampson	30:48
	and Gideon and Mary and all the saints.	30:51
	Every time we gather for worship, we hear,	30:54
	we join that divine human conversation	30:57
	which began long before anybody here was born	31:02
	and shall continue, we believe,	31:05
	long after all of us have died.	31:07
	Conversation, which is always richer	31:14
	than our merely contemporary expressions of it.	31:17
	Is that why we love this place?	31:22
	Is that why we're threatened by this place?	31:26
	"Oh, I'm getting by the best that I can.	31:31
	"Oh, yes, I do consider myself somewhat religious,	31:34
	"but I don't make a big show of it.	31:37
	"I find that one must adjust and adapt one's enthusiasms."	31:40
	And there you come, you're all adapted,	31:47
	you're all adjusted and you put on a coat and tie	31:50
	on Sunday morning just to please mama, and you go to church.	31:54
	Oh, yes ma'am, I'm brushing my teeth	31:59
	when I get up in the morning and I'm taking precautions	32:01
	when I go on a date on Saturday.	32:03
	And oh yes, yes.	32:06
	Just to be safe, I go to chapel on Sunday morning.	32:07
	But as you enter the chapel, as you enter just to be safe,	32:12
	you smell something.	32:17
	Do you smell something as you come through the front door?	32:19
	Pigeons?	32:23
	It's not Aqua Velva.	32:25
	What is that odor?	32:27
	What is that odor?	32:28
	And you look to your left just as you're coming in the door	32:31
	and there you see staring down at you	32:34
	the Florentine Friar, Savonarola,	32:36
	and next to him there's Wycliffe, and you said,	32:38
	oh yes, now I know what that is I smell.	32:41
	It's burning flesh.	32:44
	So you loosen your tie and when you get to your seat,	32:48
	you fumble for your safety belt because you don't know	32:51
	where you might end up by the end of this service.	32:55
	Because in baptism, you are a saint.	32:59
	And one might think that preaching	33:03
	would be better from this pulpit	33:05
	what with so many placed on so high,	33:07
	staring down over the preacher's shoulder every Sunday.	33:09
	Because here, my sermons are judged not just	33:13
	by whether they're interesting and reasonable or short,	33:16
	but also whether they can endure the scrutiny of the saints.	33:21
	For the faith that I am paid to preach	33:27
	(not as well as some members of the English department),	33:30
	but the faith that I am paid to preach	33:33
	is not just my own opinion or even yours,	33:36
	but it's a faith of the church.	33:39
	It's this 2,000 year procession that wrote	33:41
	some of its best stuff in blood.	33:45
	Under the base of the lectern over there,	33:49
	there's this baldheaded figure, Saint Ambrose, he is.	33:52
	He's got a scroll in one hand and a quill in the other.	33:57
	And I always thought he was down there	34:00
	sort of as a symbol of divine inspiration.	34:03
	See, the saint is taking notes from God,	34:08
	being inspired by God.	34:12
	The other day it occurred to me	34:16
	that maybe he's over there right across from the pulpit	34:18
	because he's taking notes from me.	34:22
	I'm accountable not just to Dr. Brodie and the trustees,	34:26
	but to the saints.	34:29
	And that's a little scary for a contemporary preacher.	34:32
	And so are you accountable.	34:39
	Fred Craddock, who's preached from this pulpit many times,	34:43
	tells of returning to his little boyhood town in Tennessee	34:47
	and visiting the church where he grew up.	34:53
	And he walked inside this little church	34:56
	and he noticed that they had new windows	34:58
	since he had been there last.	35:01
	And he walked around and he looked	35:02
	at these new stained glass windows	35:04
	and he noticed that the names on the bottom of the windows,	35:06
	the donors of the windows,	35:09
	but he didn't recognize a single name.	35:12
	He said to the preacher serving the church,	35:15
	"Wow, you must've had a lot of people move in this town	35:18
	"since I lived here, must a lot of new people	35:20
	"joined this church since I was here.	35:22
	"I can't recognize a single name on the windows."	35:24
	The preacher said, "Oh, well,	35:28
	"this town hasn't grown a bit since you left.	35:32
	"This church hasn't grown at all since you left.	35:35
	"Those people aren't members here."	35:39
	He said, "Well, who are they?"	35:43
	And he said, "Well, there was a church up in St. Louis,	35:44
	"bought stained glass windows from a company in Italy	35:48
	"and the windows came over here and got to St. Louis,	35:51
	"they wouldn't fit.	35:54
	"So the company in Italy said, well, we're sorry about it.	35:56
	"Try to sell the windows if you can to somebody over there.	35:59
	"And so we bought those windows	36:02
	"from that church in St. Louis."	36:04
	And Fred said, "Well, don't you want to change the names	36:07
	"on the bottom of the windows?"	36:11
	And the pastor said, "Well, we thought about it	36:13
	"at the board meeting, but we're just a little church	36:15
	"and we don't grow much and it's just kind of good	36:20
	"to gather on Sunday morning and be surrounded	36:26
	"by the names of people other than yourselves."	36:30
	Amen.	36:37
-	The Lord be with you.	36:48
Congregation	And also with you.	36:49
-	Let us pray.	36:51
	God of all holiness, throughout the ages,	36:58
	men and women have followed your call to faith.	37:03
	We pray that we may walk in their footsteps.	37:06
	We give you thanks, oh Lord,	37:11
	for Abraham, the father of believers, and Sarah, his wife,	37:12
	for Moses, for Miriam and Joshua,	37:17
	Deborah and Gideon, for Samuel and Hannah, his mother,	37:20
	for Isaiah and all the prophets.	37:25
	Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.	37:28
	We give you thanks, oh God, for Mary, the mother of Jesus,	37:32
	for Peter and Paul, and all the apostles,	37:35
	for Mary and Martha and Mary Magdalene,	37:39
	for Stephen, the first martyr,	37:42
	for Agnes, Perpetua and Felicity,	37:44
	martyrs of the early church,	37:47
	for Francis of Assisi, lover of your creation.	37:49
	Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.	37:53
	We give you thanks, oh God, for poets, artists,	37:57
	and musicians who speak the language of the soul.	38:00
	For Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frederick Handel,	38:04
	Michelangelo and Rembrandt, John Donne and George Herbert,	38:07
	Isaac Watts and Charles Wesley,	38:13
	William Blake, Charles Stanford,	38:15
	T.S. Elliott, Leonard Bernstein.	38:18
	Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.	38:21
	We give you thanks, oh God, for reformers,	38:26
	peacemakers and advocates for the poor.	38:28
	Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass,	38:32
	Dag Hammarskjöld and Desmond Tutu,	38:35
	Mother Teresa and Martin Luther King,	38:37
	Oscar Romero and Dorothy Day.	38:41
	Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.	38:44
	We give you thanks, oh Lord,	38:48
	for the unsung heroes in our own lives,	38:49
	for teachers, doctors, nurses, child care givers,	38:52
	counselors, coaches, friends and families	38:58
	who have been our advocates	39:02
	in the best and the worst of times.	39:03
	Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer.	39:06
	Almighty God, you have surrounded us	39:10
	with a great cloud of witnesses.	39:12
	As we join our worship and our labor to theirs,	39:15
	may we know ourselves to be a part of their great company.	39:19
	And so may all your people be united in faith	39:23
	that your church may live to serve and praise you	39:26
	in the one unbroken fellowship of your love	39:30
	through our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.	39:33
	Amen.	39:37
	Christ invites to his table all who love him	39:40
	and who desire to live in peace with one another.	39:44
	Let us stand therefore and offer each other	39:48
	signs of God's peace and love.	39:50
	(congregation chattering)	39:58
	Pour our gifts and ourselves to God.	40:21
	(organ music)	40:44
	(choir singing)	40:45
	(organ music)	47:29
	(congregation singing)	48:10
-	Please join me in The Great Thanksgiving	49:04
	on page 17 in the hymnal.	49:06
	The Lord be with you.	49:16
Congregation	And also with you.	49:18
-	Lift up your hearts.	49:19
	(congregation responding unintelligibly)	49:20
	Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.	49:22
	(congregation responding unintelligibly)	49:24
	Blessed are you God of all creation,	49:27
	God of Abraham and Sarah, Miriam and Moses,	49:29
	Joshua and Deborah, Ruth and David,	49:32
	God of Mary and Joseph, of apostles and martyrs,	49:36
	God of our mothers and fathers,	49:40
	God of our children to all generation.	49:42
	You made us in your image and though we sinned	49:45
	and we fell short of your glory,	49:50
	you loved the world so much	49:51
	that you sent your only son Jesus, to be our Savior.	49:52
	Through his suffering and death,	49:56
	his resurrection and ascension,	49:57
	you gave birth to the church and delivered us	50:00
	from slavery to sin and death.	50:02
	And so with your people on earth,	50:05
	with all the company of heaven, we praise your name	50:09
	and join in their unending hymn.	50:14
	(organ music)	50:17
	(congregation singing)	50:26
-	On the night he offered himself up for us,	51:02
	he took bread, gave you thanks, broke the bread,	51:04
	gave it to his disciples and said, take, eat.	51:07
	This is my body given for you.	51:10
	Do this in remembrance of me.	51:12
	When the supper was over, he took the cup,	51:15
	gave you thanks and said, drink from this, all of you.	51:17
	This is my blood in the new covenant poured out for you	51:21
	and many for the forgiveness of sins.	51:23
	Do this as often as you drink it in remembrance of me.	51:26
	And so in remembrance of these,	51:30
	your mighty acts in Jesus Christ,	51:32
	we offer ourselves in praise and thanksgiving	51:34
	as a holy and living sacrifice in union	51:36
	with Christ's offering for us	51:40
	as we proclaim the mystery of faith.	51:42
	(organ music)	51:46
	(congregation singing)	51:55
-	Spirit on us and on these gifts,	52:06
	that in the breaking of bread and the drinking of wine,	52:09
	we made know anew the presence of the living Christ.	52:11
	Renew our communion with all the saints.	52:15
	May we run with perseverance the race that is set before us	52:18
	being surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses	52:22
	looking to Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of our faith.	52:25
	All honor and glory is yours,	52:31
	Almighty Father, now and forever.	52:34
	(organ music)	52:37
	(congregation singing)	52:47
All	Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.	52:59
	Thy kingdom come, thy will be done	53:02
	on earth as it is in heaven.	53:05
	Give us this day our daily bread	53:07
	and forgive us our trespasses	53:10
	as we forgive those who trespass against us.	53:12
	And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.	53:15
	For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory forever.	53:20
	Amen.	53:24
-	The bread which we break, is it not a means	53:26
	of sharing in the body of Christ?	53:28
	When we give thanks over the cup,	53:32
	is it not a means of sharing in the blood of Christ?	53:34
	Come to the Lord's table.	53:37
	The congregation is invited to join	53:39
	in singing hymn 708 as we commune.	53:41
	(organ music)	53:46
	(congregation singing)	54:18
	(choir singing)	58:48
	(organ music)	1:02:25
	(choir singing)	1:02:40
-	Let's stand for the benediction.	1:08:20
	Grace of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ,	1:08:29
	the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit,	1:08:33
	the communion of the saints be with you as you go forth.	1:08:36
	(organ music)	1:08:41
	(choir singing)	1:08:45
	(organ music)	1:09:06
	(congregation singing)	1:09:44
	(choir singing)	1:12:45
	(organ music)	1:13:02

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Title:

William H. Willimon - "Who Are These?" (November 4, 1990)

Description:

Sermon start time: 20:37. Sermon end time: 36:42.
Preached on All Saint’s Day, this sermon speaks to the qualities and merits of saints, and the Christian calling to imitate the saints of our history. (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)
Key quotation: "Lack of imagination is a byproduct of social amnesia. An inability to remember the saints produces a failure of nerve among today's contemporary believers."

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Date:

November 4, 1990

Speaker:

Willimon, William H.

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Biblical Book:

Revelation

Chapter and Verse:

Revelation 7:9-17

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Contributor:

Duke University. Chapel

Identifier:

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English

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The Duke University Chapel Recordings were transferred to the Duke University Archives beginning in 1970.

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