- In selling Christmas cards and greetings. Those can be for purchase outside of the chapel today as you go forth. It is good to have you. This is always a special service here in the chapel as we remember the saints of the past who guide us yet. Now, let's stand for the greeting. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Congregation: And also with you. - The risen Christ is with us. Congregation: Praise the Lord. ("For All the Saints") (organ music) ♪ For all the saints who from their labors rest ♪ ♪ Who thee by faith before the world confessed ♪ ♪ Thy name, O Jesus, be forever blest ♪ ♪ Alleluia, alleluia ♪ ♪ Thou wast their rock, their fortress, and their might ♪ ♪ Thou, Lord, their captain in the well-fought fight ♪ ♪ Thou, in the darkness drear, their one true light ♪ ♪ Alleluia, alleluia ♪ ♪ O may thy soldiers, faithful, true, and bold ♪ ♪ Fight as the saints who nobly fought of old ♪ ♪ And win with them the victor's crown of gold ♪ ♪ Alleluia, alleluia ♪ ♪ O blest communion, fellowship divine ♪ ♪ We feebly struggle, they in glory shine ♪ ♪ Yet all are one in thee, for all are thine ♪ ♪ Alleluia, alleluia ♪ ♪ And when this fight is fierce, the warfare long ♪ ♪ Steals on the ear the distant triumph song ♪ ♪ And hearts are brave again and arms are strong ♪ ♪ Alleluia, alleluia ♪ (organ music) ♪ From earth's wide bounds, from ocean's farthest coast ♪ ♪ Through gates of pearl stream in the countless host ♪ ♪ Singing to Father, Son, and Holy Ghost ♪ ♪ Alleluia, alleluia ♪ Debra: Eternal God, we praise you for the great company of all those who had finished their course in faith and now rest from their labors. Congregation: We praise you for those dear to us we now name before you. (Congregation speaking over one another) - To all of these, grant your peace. Congregation: Let perpetual light shine upon them and help us so to believe where we have not seen that your presence may lead us through our years. - And bring us at last with them into the joy of your home not made with hands, but eternal in the heavens. Congregation: Through Jesus Christ our Lord, amen. - You may be seated. - Let us pray together the prayer for illumination. Congregation: Open our hearts and minds, O God, by the power of your Holy Spirit, so that as the word is read and proclaimed, we might hear with joy what you say to us this day, amen. - The first reading is taken from the book of Deuteronomy. "Now this is the commandment, "the statutes, and the ordinances "that the Lord your God charged me to teach you to observe "in the land that you are about to cross into and occupy, "so that you and your children and your children's children "may fear the Lord your God all the days of your life "and keep all his decrees "and his commandments that I am commanding you, "so that your days may be long. "Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe them diligently "so that it may go well with you "and so that you may multiply greatly "in a land flowing with milk and honey "as the Lord, the God of your ancestors, has promised you. "Hear, O Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord alone. "You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart "and with all your soul "and with all your might. "Keep these words that I am commanding you today "in your heart. "Recite them to your children "and talk about them when you are at home "and when you are away, "when you lie down and when you rise. "Bind them as a sign on your hand. "Fix them as an emblem on your forehead "and write them on the doorposts of your house "and on your gates." This is the word of the Lord. Congregation: Thanks be to God. - And this reading is from the Gospel according to Mark. "One of the scribes came near "and heard them disputing with one another "and seeing that Jesus answered them well, "he asked him, 'Which commandment is the first of all?' "Jesus answered, 'The first is, "'Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. "'You shall love the Lord, your God, "'with all your heart and with all your soul "'and with all your mind and with all your strength. "'And the second is this, "'You shall love your neighbor as yourself. "'There is no other commandment greater than these.' "Then the scribe said to him, 'You are right, teacher. "'You have truly said that God is one "'and besides God, there is no other "'and to love God with all the heart "'and with all the understanding and with all the strength "'and to love one's neighbor as oneself, "'this is much more important "'than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.' "When Jesus saw that he answered wisely, "he said to him, 'You are not far from the kingdom of God.' "And after that, no one dared to ask him any question." This is the word of the Lord. Congregation: Thanks be to God. (calm saxophone music) - Undoubtedly, you have seen the movie "The Dead Poet's Society". In that movie, an energetic teacher at an exclusive prep school is depicted as opening up the mind of his hung-up, privileged young students by urging them to quote, "Think for yourselves. "Don't trust what your parents have told you, "don't trust what you've always heard. "The important thing is to think for yourselves." In one scene, he rips up a textbook, telling them, "No, don't th... listen to the experts, "think for yourselves." A friend of mine noted that despite the movie's claim that this teacher was somehow liberating his students from social convention, it would be hard to think of a more conformist and socially conventional message in today's context than to give young people the advice, think for yourselves. If there ever were a day when such advice was deemed radical, that day has passed. In fact, here's how the president of Yale University welcomed the freshmen to Yale last year. He told them, "The faculty can guide you, "we can take you to the frontiers of knowledge, "but we cannot supply you with a philosophy of education "any more than we can supply you with a philosophy of life. "This has got to come from your own active learning, "from your own choices, your own decisions. "Yale expects you to take yourself seriously. "Think for yourself." In other words, the university has absolutely no clue what you're supposed to be doing here. (congregation laughs) Oh, we've got this smorgasbord of courses and professors, we've got this curriculum. But whether it all adds up to something called wisdom by the time you graduate, well, that's really up to you. The important thing is that you think for yourself. And it appears that we are thinking for ourselves. A few weeks ago, I received a letter from a woman, written in the shaky handwriting. She's in her late 70s. She wrote me and in her letter, she enclosed a clipping from an article that appeared in the Raleigh newspaper. I think the Durham newspaper protected the citizens of Durham from this particular story. But it was a newspaper article describing how, during the Gulf War, American troops had buried alive 700 to 800 Iraqi soldiers in their trenches. One of the G.I.s said, "Well, by the time we got there, "there was nothing but hands and arms "sticking up out of the sand." In her letter, she said, "Why did not we hear about this? "Have you mentioned this in one of your sermons? "Have you mentioned this in one of your prayers? "Where is the moral voice of our churches?" Well, one possible reply is, "Look, lady, it's called war. "The old rules just don't apply. "It's always a nasty business. "Besides, when it comes to burying people alive, "you've got your opinions, I've got mine. (congregation laughs) "The important thing is that each of us "thinks for ourselves, right?" Ironically, when I got her letter, I had been reading this new book, "The Day America Told the Truth". That book says that 91% of us admit that we lie routinely. 31% of us who are married admit to having an extramarital affair lasting over a year. 86% of youth lie regularly to their parents. 75% lie regularly to their best friends. One in five Americans loses his or her virginity before the age of 13. 2,245 New Yorkers were murdered by their fellow citizens last year, an increase of 18%. By the way, when asked, religion plays no role in shaping the opinions of 2/3s of those who are asked their opinions about sex. Well, it's a lie here, an extramarital affair there, and before long, it's hands and arms sticking up out of the sand. We really are thinking for ourselves. Now, an alternative epistemology is asserted in today's text from Jesus and from Deuteronomy. Deuteronomy, "Keep these words that I'm commanding you today "in your heart. "Recite them to your children. "Talk about them when you're at home and when you're away. "Fix them as an emblem on your forehead. "Write them on the ... doorposts of your house "and on your gates." And the words, these words that Deuteronomy is referring to, are the words of the law of Israel, Torah. Torah, better translation of Torah than law, I suppose, is teaching, the teaching of Israel. Or more literally, the finger pointing in the direction. Torah is not so much the law, the law that we're not to break, but it is the divine finger pointing us in the direction we ought to walk. Torah. Now, interestingly enough, in Mark's Gospel when Jesus is asked about life's big questions, he simply refers them to Deuteronomy... to Torah! Good Jew that he was, Jesus simply said, "Look, you know the answer. "We're to love God with all of our heart "and soul and mind and strength "and our neighbor as ourselves." This is Torah, truth. So, you may not know a lot about Jesus. You may not be clear on everything that he said and did and taught, but today's text says if you know this about Jesus, it's all you need to know for now. Love God with everything that you've got, to the very depths of your soul, and your neighbor as yourself, class dismissed. People who follow Jesus, just like those in Israel before us, are people who do not bow down to other gods, be they called by the name Eros or last January, Mars, IBM, M-Way or USA. We're just real funny about who we'll worship. We do not use labels like faggot, kink, nigger, broad, preferring instead to refer to people as sister, brother. We have a very odd notion of who our next door neighbors are. Love God with everything you've got and then your neighbor as yourself. Take these words, advises Deuteronomy, teach them to your kids. Paint them over the door to your dormitory room. Brand these on your forehead. Tattoo them on your biceps. Take these words and just ... drill them into yourself so that you won't forget. Here we have come into a collision with an alternative way of knowing, a culturally disruptive epistemology. Alas, you have been the willing victims of a mode of education which has taught you to always locate the normative answer exclusively within your own experience, as though your own experience, particularly, your racial, gender, cultural experience, could yield insight on the spot. Think for yourself. And that's why most of my sermons begin with your experience, because I have a hunch that's the only thing you really trust. And so I begin my sermons, you know, always groping around for some point of contact with what you already know. But Torah, on the other hand, always begins with what you could not know unless somebody had told it to you. "Hear O Israel, the Lord, your God, is one." Don't think for yourself. Thinking in Israel, thinking with Jesus, begins as an auditory act. You notice those verbs hear, listen, speak, tell. Unlike Yale or many of my sermons, Israel did not expect her young to devise insight via personal conjuring. You don't have to be the author of your own faith, for here is a massive faith that lies way outside the limited confines of your individual psyche. Israel's sons and daughters don't have to invent the secrets to life. Their parents love them enough to tell them the secrets. And it is no coincidence that in today's text, wisdom is depicted as an exchange between an elder and someone of the younger generation, as the giving of an intergenerational gift. Being 19 years old is just way too tough without having to make up the world as you go. The stance that you're going to shortly assume here at the Lord's table, you know, with hands outstretched, open, empty, eager, ready to receive the gift of bread and wine, that is the primary biblical posture for how you get wise, for Torah-type wisdom. Alas, parenting and education in our day have become little more than the management of conflicting truth claims, a process of cool consideration of diverse alternatives, some of which may be true. But not here, not in the middle of Deuteronomy, not at the feet of Torah. When your daughter asks, Joshua 4:6, when your daughter asks, "What mean these stones?" You are not to reply, "Well, they may mean "that the Lord might have brought us out of slavery "and chosen us to be obedient to his way "and then it might not." No, in this Torah curriculum, there is only nervy, pushy assertion, passionate assertion of truth, which is reliable and coherent and confident in the face of chaos, narcicisstic subjectivity, hands and feet sticking up out of the sand. I agree with that great theologian Oscar Wilde, who said, "About the worst advice you could give anybody "is be yourself." Don't think for yourself. As Walter Brueggemann says, "Torah is not just for children. "Anomie is not just a danger for the young. "It may surface in what is now conventionally called "the crisis of midlife," listen up, alumni, "or anywhere else. "All persons of whatever age face the threat of darkness." Brueggemann says everybody needs some time of homecoming, when you can return to those sureties which do not need to be defended nor doubted. That's what Torah is, it's homecoming. A Torah-less world in which there are many gods and no neighbors is a world just full of idols and enemies. Maybe that's why we're so fatigued as we rush breathlessly from one worship service to another. Before long, after you've bowed down at enough altars, the only posture you know is that of bowing, so accustomed have we become to submitting to so many different gods, the nation, the corporation, my own ego. All the while, rattling our chains and pitifully asserting how free we are. Having learned to bend ourselves before so many altars, there is almost nothing to which we will not stoop. It's a lie here, a deceit there, until we are quite able to walk past the hands and arms sticking up out of the sand without even a twitch of conscience. The Durham city council has become us all over. With no Torah induced neighbors, the world is only driven by competing savage self-interests. Even the people under our own roof become our enemies. The office becomes a battleground for the war between the sexes. Cultural chaos leads to ethical immobility. We don't make many big moves. Having nowhere to stand, we can't make big moves. A recent Duke graduate... a recent Duke graduate asked his old man late one night when he went back home, "Look, I'm getting ready to go out into life. "Tell me what you know. "Go ahead, tell me if you know something." For this touchingly childlike request, he received an hour of ramblings, a confession about how his old man had had an affair with his secretary when he had been 13, and about how he hated his job and he'd love to chuck it all and just move out to a cabin in the woods and he really despised his marriage and he couldn't trust any of his friends. "Man, you are messed up," said the son. "I'm supposed to be asking you for advice?" Well you see, now he's reduced to thinking for himself. Torah asserts a counter-cultural way of wisdom, which is intergenerational, public, counter-cultural, historical. The beautiful thing is, you don't bear the burden of having to think for yourself. Every time you walk in this building, the chapel, but I think especially today, on All Saints, a host of predecessors leans down out of the windows and tries to speak to you, if we'll dare to listen. They stare down at us from the windows, begging to show us the way. Saints, saints are people who managed to love God more than life itself, managed to love neighbor more than the self, and thereby found true life. Saints are people who just push their way into our modest present and make the God question and the neighbor question the only interesting intellectual questions. Christians are those who've learned to think with the saints. And thereby, we think much more creatively than we could if we'd been left to our own devices. Saint Francis, Martin Luther King, Teresa of Calcutta, Gideon, Mary, they help us to think beyond ourselves. They help us to think despite ourselves. And thereby, in this act of holy remembering and saintly thinking, new options are envisioned. We're encouraged. A new world, not of our own devising, is offered to us. We get some big ideas. Torah and the saintly lives thereby produced is a kind of intelligence by proxy. The philosopher Immanuel Kant once said, "I stand in awe of two things, "the starry heavens above "and the individual law of morality within." I'm still awed by the starry heavens. Debra: The Lord be with you. Congregation: And also with you. - Let us pray. Almighty God, we confess that we have been an unfaithful people. We have not loved you with all our heart and with all our soul and with all our mind and with all our strength. We have bowed down before other gods and we have sought our own way, rebelliously seeking freedom when true freedom can only be found in you. We have treated our neighbors as suspicious strangers and enemies and we have not even loved ourselves very well. Forgive us for our infidelity and restore us to the paths you have set before us. Lord, in your mercy-- Congregation: Hear our prayer. - God, we give thanks that in your wisdom, you have not left us to find our own way. You have sent your prophets throughout history to help your people discover what it means to live fully. You gave us your commandments as signposts to point the way to life eternal and when we failed to follow your prophets or your commandments, you sent your own dear Son to reveal your love for us, to free us from the power of sin, and to empower us to love you, ourselves, and our neighbor as you have always intended. We are grateful that you loved us enough to involve yourself so intimately in our lives. You've claimed us as your own children. Help us remember and live up to the heritage we have been given. Lord, in your mercy-- Congregation: Hear our prayer. - From the days of the early church to the present, your saints have modeled what it means to live as a Christian, as one who has died to self and risen with Christ to live for you. We give thanks for all those who have had the courage to stand up for their faith convictions, for those whose lives have exemplified the Christian faith through loving service to others, and for those who have helped to shape our values and sense of what is truly important in life. Most of all, we give thanks for those who have helped us know that you alone are God and that whatever else we might do or think, our ultimate allegiance belongs to you. Help us learn to model our lives after those saints of the past and of the present who so clearly reflect what it means to live as a faithful Christian. Lord, in your mercy-- Congregation: Hear our prayer. - We pray also that you will so shape our lives that we may become faithful witnesses to others. Send us out as your redeemed people to serve the poor, the sick, the imprisoned, the oppressed, and the downtrodden in our world. May our service to others reflect your love and service for us, that all may believe and come home to you. In the name of Jesus Christ, amen. Since Christ has opened his heart to us, let us open our hearts to one another and God will be glorified. Please stand and exchange signs of peace with one another. (congregation murmuring) Freely we have received, freely let us give. You may be seated. ♪ Glory, glory, hallelujah ♪ ♪ The truth goes marching on ♪ ♪ Oh, when the saints go marching in ♪ ♪ Oh, when the saints go marching in ♪ ♪ Oh Lord, I want to be in that number ♪ ♪ When the saints go marching in ♪ ♪ Oh, when the revelation comes ♪ ♪ Oh, when the revelation comes ♪ ♪ Oh Lord, I want to be in that number ♪ ♪ When the revelation comes ♪ ♪ Oh, when the new world is revealed ♪ ♪ Oh, when the new world is revealed ♪ ♪ Oh Lord, I want to be in that number ♪ ♪ When the new world is revealed ♪ ♪ Oh, when they gather round the throne ♪ ♪ Oh, when they gather round the throne ♪ ♪ Oh Lord, I want to be in that number ♪ ♪ When they gather round the throne ♪ ♪ Hallelujah brothers, hallelujah sisters ♪ ♪ Hear the music going round and around ♪ ♪ While the saints go marching up into glory ♪ ♪ Oh, hear those angel trumpets sound ♪ ♪ Oh, when they crown him King of kings ♪ ♪ Oh, when they crown him King of kings ♪ ♪ Oh Lord, I want to be in that number ♪ ♪ When they crown him King of kings ♪ ♪ And when the sun no more will shine ♪ ♪ And when the sun no more will shine ♪ ♪ Oh Lord, I want to be in that number ♪ ♪ When the sun no more will shine ♪ ♪ And when the moon has turned to blood ♪ ♪ And when the moon has turned to blood ♪ ♪ Oh Lord, I want to be in that number ♪ ♪ When the moon has turned to blood ♪ ♪ And on that hallelujah day ♪ ♪ And on that hallelujah day ♪ ♪ Oh Lord, I want to be in that number ♪ ♪ On that hallelujah day ♪ ♪ Oh, when the saints go marching in ♪ ♪ Oh, now when the saints go marching right in ♪ ♪ Oh Lord, I want to be, I want to be in that number ♪ ♪ Oh, when the saints ♪ ♪ Oh, when they go ♪ ♪ Oh, when they march ♪ ♪ That saving realm ♪ ♪ Glory, glory, hallelujah ♪ (calm piano music) (organ music) ♪ Praise God, from whom all blessings flow ♪ ♪ Praise God, all creatures here below ♪ ♪ Alleluia, alleluia ♪ ♪ Praise God above, ye heavenly host ♪ ♪ Praise God the Son and Holy Ghost ♪ ♪ Alleluia, alleluia ♪ ♪ Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia ♪ - Let us join together in the prayer of thanksgiving. The Lord be with you. Congregation: And also with you. - Lift up your hearts. Congregation: We lift them up to the Lord. - Let us give thanks to the Lord, our God. Congregation: It is right to give God thanks and praise. - Blessed are you, God of Abraham and Sarah, God of Miriam and Moses, God of Joshua and Deborah, Ruth and David, God of priests and prophets, of apostles and martyrs, of our mothers and fathers, God of our children to all generations. You made us in your image. Even though we sinned and fell short of your glory, you loved the world so much you sent your Son Jesus Christ to be our savior. He delivered us from the slavery to sin and death and made with us a new covenant. And so, with your people in all ages and all the company of heaven, we praise your name and join in their unending hymn. (organ music) ♪ Holy, holy, holy Lord ♪ ♪ God of power and might ♪ ♪ Heaven and earth are full of your glory ♪ ♪ Hosanna in the highest ♪ ♪ Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord ♪ ♪ Hosanna in the highest ♪ On the night he offered himself up for us, he took bread, gave thanks to you, broke the bread, gave it to his disciples, and said, "Take, eat, this is my body given for you. "Do this in remembrance of me." When the supper was over, he took the cup, gave thanks to you, gave it to his disciples, and said, "Drink from this, all of you. "This is the blood of the new covenant "poured out for you and many "for the forgiveness of sins. "Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me." He has been known to us in the breaking of the bread and in the power of your Holy Spirit. And so, in remembrance of these, your mighty acts in Jesus Christ, we offer ourselves in praise and thanksgiving as a holy and living sacrifice in union with Christ's offering for us as we proclaim the mystery of faith. (organ music) ♪ Christ has died ♪ ♪ Christ is risen ♪ ♪ Christ will come again ♪ Send the power of your Holy Spirit on us and on these gifts, that in the breaking of bread and the drinking of this wine, we may know the presence of the living Christ, be one body in him, and grow into his likeness. Renew our communion with all your saints. May we run with perseverance the race set before us, being surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses looking to Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of our faith. Through him, and with him, and in him, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, all honor and glory is yours, almighty God, now and forever. (organ music) ♪ Amen, amen, amen ♪ Congregation: Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory forever, amen. - When we break the bread, is it not a means of sharing in the body of Christ? When we give thanks over the cup, is it not a means of sharing in the blood of Christ? Come to the Lord's table. Body of Christ. ("Swing Low, Sweet Chariot") (organ music) ♪ Swing low, sweet chariot ♪ ♪ Coming for to carry me home ♪ ♪ Swing low, sweet chariot ♪ ♪ Coming for to carry me home ♪ ♪ I looked over Jordan and what did I see ♪ ♪ Coming for to carry me home ♪ ♪ A band of angels coming after me ♪ ♪ Coming for to carry me home ♪ ♪ Swing low, sweet chariot ♪ ♪ Coming for to carry me home ♪ ♪ Swing low, sweet chariot ♪ ♪ Coming for to carry me home ♪ ♪ If you get there before I do ♪ ♪ Coming for to carry me home ♪ ♪ Tell all my friends I'm coming too ♪ ♪ Coming for to carry me home ♪ ♪ Swing low, sweet chariot ♪ ♪ Coming for to carry me home ♪ ♪ Swing low, sweet chariot ♪ ♪ Coming for to carry me home ♪ ♪ I'm sometimes up and sometimes down ♪ ♪ Coming for to carry me home ♪ ♪ But still my soul feels heavenly bound ♪ ♪ Coming for to carry me home ♪ ♪ Swing low, sweet chariot ♪ ♪ Coming for to carry me home ♪ ♪ Swing low, sweet chariot ♪ ♪ Coming for to carry me home ♪ ♪ The brightest day that I can say ♪ ♪ Coming for to carry me home ♪ ♪ When Jesus washed my sins away ♪ ♪ Coming for to carry me home ♪ ♪ Swing low, sweet chariot ♪ ♪ Coming for to carry me home ♪ ♪ Swing low, sweet chariot ♪ ♪ Coming for to carry me home ♪ (jazzy saxophone and piano music) ♪ In that great gettin' up morning ♪ ♪ Fare thee well, fare thee well ♪ ♪ In that great gettin' up morning ♪ ♪ Fare thee well, fare thee well ♪ ♪ Stop and let me tell ya about the coming of the Savior ♪ ♪ Fare thee well, fare thee well ♪ ♪ Stop and let me tell ya about the coming of the Savior ♪ ♪ Fare thee well, fare thee well ♪ ♪ God's gonna up and speak to Gabriel ♪ ♪ Fare thee well, fare thee well ♪ ♪ Go on and look behind the altar ♪ ♪ Fare thee well, fare thee well ♪ ♪ In that great gettin' up morning ♪ ♪ In that great gettin' up morning ♪ ♪ In that great gettin' up morning ♪ ♪ Fare thee well, fare thee well ♪ ♪ In that great gettin' up morning ♪ ♪ Fare thee well, fare thee well ♪ ♪ In that great gettin' up morning ♪ ♪ Fare thee well, fare thee well ♪ ♪ In that great gettin' up morning ♪ ♪ Fare thee well, fare thee well ♪ ♪ Then the time shall be no longer ♪ ♪ Fare thee well, fare thee well ♪ ♪ For the judgment day is coming ♪ ♪ Fare thee well, fare thee well ♪ ♪ Now pick up your silver trumpet ♪ ♪ Fare thee well, fare thee well ♪ ♪ Gonna now blow my trumpet ♪ ♪ Fare thee well, fare thee well ♪ ♪ Fare thee well, fare thee well ♪ ♪ Fare thee well, fare thee well ♪ ♪ In that great gettin' up morning ♪ ♪ In that great gettin' up morning ♪ ♪ In that great gettin' up morning ♪ ♪ Fare thee well, fare thee well ♪ ♪ In that great gettin' up morning ♪ ♪ Fare thee well, fare thee well ♪ ♪ In that great gettin' up morning ♪ ♪ Fare thee well, fare thee well ♪ ♪ In that great gettin' up morning ♪ ♪ Fare thee well, fare thee well ♪ ♪ Then you'll see the coffins burstin' ♪ ♪ Fare thee well, fare thee well ♪ ♪ See the dry bones come a creepin' ♪ ♪ Fare thee well, fare thee well ♪ ♪ Hell shall be uncapped and burnin' ♪ ♪ Fare thee well, fare thee well ♪ ♪ And the dragon shall be loosened ♪ ♪ Fare thee well, fare thee well ♪ ♪ Then you'll see the moon a bleedin' ♪ ♪ Fare thee well, fare thee well ♪ ♪ You will see the stars a fallin' ♪ ♪ Fare thee well, fare thee well ♪ ♪ In that great gettin' up morning ♪ ♪ In that great gettin' up morning ♪ ♪ In that great gettin' up morning ♪ ♪ Fare thee well, fare thee well ♪ ♪ In that great gettin' up morning ♪ ♪ Fare thee well, fare thee well ♪ ♪ In that great gettin' up morning ♪ ♪ Fare thee well, fare thee well ♪ ♪ In that great gettin' up morning ♪ ♪ Fare thee well, fare thee well ♪ ♪ Then you'll see the sinner calling ♪ ♪ Fare thee well, fare thee well ♪ ♪ Down I'm rolling, down I'm rolling ♪ ♪ Fare thee well, fare thee well ♪ ♪ But the righteous will be marching ♪ ♪ Fare thee well, fare thee well ♪ ♪ And the Christians will be rising ♪ ♪ Fare thee well, fare thee well ♪ ♪ Marching to their home in heaven ♪ ♪ Fare thee well, fare thee well ♪ ♪ Marching to their home in Jesus ♪ ♪ Fare thee well, fare thee well ♪ ♪ In that great gettin' up morning ♪ ♪ Fare thee well, fare thee well ♪ ♪ In that great gettin' up morning ♪ ♪ Fare thee well, fare thee well ♪ ♪ In that great gettin' up morning ♪ ♪ Fare thee well, fare thee well ♪ ♪ In that great gettin' up morning ♪ ♪ Fare thee well ♪ ♪ Fare thee well ♪ ♪ Fare thee well ♪ Stand for the benediction. The grace of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you now forever. ♪ Amen, amen ♪ ♪ Amen, amen ♪ ♪ Amen ♪ ("Come, Let Us Join Our Friends Above") (organ music) ♪ Come, let us join our friends above ♪ ♪ Who have obtained the prize ♪ ♪ And on the eagle wings of love ♪ ♪ To joys celestial rise ♪ ♪ Let saints on earth unite to sing ♪ ♪ With those to glory gone ♪ ♪ For all the servants of our King ♪ ♪ In earth and heaven are one ♪ ♪ One family we dwell in him ♪ ♪ One church above, beneath ♪ ♪ Though now divided by the stream ♪ ♪ The narrow stream of death ♪ ♪ One army of the living God ♪ ♪ To his command we bow ♪ ♪ Part of his host have crossed the flood ♪ ♪ And part are crossing now ♪ ♪ Ten thousand to their endless home ♪ ♪ This solemn moment fly ♪ ♪ And we are to the margin come ♪ ♪ And we expect to die ♪ ♪ Even now by faith we join our hands ♪ ♪ With those that went before ♪ ♪ And greet the blood-besprinkled bands ♪ ♪ On the eternal shore ♪ ♪ Our spirits too shall quickly join ♪ ♪ Like theirs with glory crowned ♪ ♪ And shout to see our Captain's sign ♪ ♪ To hear his trumpet sound ♪ ♪ O, that we now might grasp our Guide ♪ ♪ O, that the word were given ♪ ♪ Come, Lord of Hosts, the waves divide ♪ ♪ And land us all in heaven ♪ (lively organ music)