William K. Quick - "The Founder's Faith" Founders' Day (December 13, 1981)

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	(organ music)	0:04
	(organ music)	1:47
	(organ music)	5:25
	(organ music)	9:57
	♪ Praise to the Lord, the Almighty ♪	13:17
	♪ The King of creation ♪	13:21
	♪ O my soul, praise him ♪	13:26
	♪ For he is my help and salvation ♪	13:29
	♪ All ye who hear ♪	13:36
	♪ Now to his temple draw near ♪	13:40
	♪ Join me in glad adoration ♪	13:45
	(organ music)	13:58
	♪ O come, O come Emmanuel ♪	14:39
	♪ And ransom captive Israel ♪	14:46
	♪ That mourns in lonely exile here ♪	14:53
	♪ Until the Son of God appear ♪	15:00
	♪ Rejoice, rejoice Emmanuel ♪	15:07
	♪ Shall come to thee, O Israel ♪	15:16
	(organ music)	15:24
	♪ Rejoice, rejoice Emmanuel ♪	15:53
	♪ Shall come to thee, O Israel ♪	16:01
	♪ O come, Desire of nations, bind ♪	16:11
	♪ All peoples in one heart and mind ♪	16:18
	♪ Bid envy, strife, and quarrels cease ♪	16:25
	♪ Fill the whole world with heaven's peace ♪	16:32
	♪ Rejoice, rejoice Emmanuel ♪	16:39
	♪ Shall come to thee, O Israel ♪	16:48
	(organ music)	16:55
	♪ O come, thou Dayspring ♪	17:42
	♪ Come and cheer ♪	17:44
	♪ Our spirits by thine advent here ♪	17:49
	♪ Disperse the gloomy clouds of night ♪	17:56
	♪ And death's dark shadows put to flight ♪	18:03
	♪ Rejoice, rejoice Emmanuel ♪	18:10
	♪ Shall come to thee, O Israel, amen ♪	18:19
-	This Founders' Day is always a special day	19:13
	in the affairs and activities of Duke University,	19:18
	for it is on this day that we remember	19:23
	the kind of dedication and support	19:27
	that made possible this university.	19:30
	And it's a special day of remembrance for us,	19:34
	for the Duke family,	19:39
	the father, Washington Duke,	19:42
	and the sons, Benjamin and James Buchanan.	19:44
	And it's good to remember	19:49
	that this university was not created all at once.	19:51
	And that it came from the steady pursuit of excellence	19:55
	on the part of the faculties.	20:01
	It became what it is today with the steady dedication	20:03
	of literally hundreds and hundreds of people,	20:07
	who felt the need for this kind of an institution.	20:11
	And certainly, the Duke family did not just all of a sudden	20:15
	make money available that made a university possible.	20:19
	And I think not only did the Duke family bring money,	20:24
	but I am certain also	20:27
	that they helped shape the character of this institution	20:29
	in some extremely important ways.	20:34
	They were supporting this small college,	20:37
	getting it established as it moved to Durham,	20:40
	still a college.	20:45
	And Washington Duke, a man of considerable vision,	20:47
	at a time when the distinguished president	20:50
	of Harvard University	20:53
	was proclaiming in his sense of fairness and understanding	20:55
	that we shouldn't be too hasty in judging	20:59
	that women could not do college work,	21:03
	that it might yet be established	21:06
	that they were capable of doing so.	21:08
	And Washington Duke, at that time,	21:11
	was giving a special grant to Trinity College	21:13
	on the condition that Trinity College admit women,	21:16
	at the turn of the century, on an equal basis.	21:19
	And incidentally, to give another insight	21:23
	into his character,	21:26
	shortly thereafter he wrote and said,	21:28
	"I withdraw the conditions,	21:30
	"because I never like to put strings	21:32
	"on contributions to colleges."	21:35
	Fortunately, the president got the message	21:38
	without the string.	21:40
	A few years later, the Bassett Case,	21:43
	that very much is a part of the history of this university.	21:47
	It wasn't only President Kilgo and Dean Preston Few	21:52
	and certain trustees who led the way	21:56
	to establish firmly that academic tradition,	21:59
	but Benjamin Duke, in the background, was saying,	22:04
	of course, the trustees are going to support	22:07
	the concept of academic freedom.	22:10
	And again, the character of this institution	22:13
	was being shaped.	22:16
	And then, when James Buchanan Duke later made possible	22:18
	the funds that made possible the building of this campus	22:21
	and the creation of this university,	22:25
	he did it as his indenture pointed out,	22:27
	with the expectation	22:31
	that this would be the kind of university capable	22:33
	of obtaining and maintaining a place of real leadership	22:36
	in the educational world.	22:40
	And so, this is a time of remembrance, appreciation,	22:43
	appreciation to those who made it possible,	22:48
	in terms of financial support.	22:51
	And remembrance and appreciation for those	22:53
	who helped us establish, for this university,	22:56
	the sense and the dedication to academic freedom,	22:59
	to creativity and excellence.	23:02
	For this heritage, we are grateful,	23:05
	and to this heritage, we are pledged.	23:08
-	Let us pray.	23:17
	O Lord our God, God of all times, all places, all peoples.	23:20
	We thy people lift our hearts to thee in this moment	23:26
	and in this place.	23:29
	God of all wisdom, we give thee thanks for those who,	23:32
	wise in thought and in the ways of living,	23:36
	have shared their wisdom with others and with us.	23:40
	God of all grace, we give thee thanks for those who,	23:45
	gracious and generous	23:50
	in things spiritual, intellectual, and material,	23:52
	have shared themselves and their possessions	23:56
	with others and with us.	23:59
	God of all hope, we give thee thanks for those who,	24:02
	faithful and obedient in matters of the mind and the spirit,	24:07
	have shared visions and dreamed dreams	24:12
	and given to others and to us, hope for today and tomorrow.	24:15
	We give thee thanks, O God, this day for Duke University.	24:21
	Thou whose desire is that we love thee	24:25
	with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength,	24:28
	and that we love and serve our neighbor as ourselves.	24:31
	For all the goodly heritage of past and present,	24:36
	we give thee thanks and praise, O God.	24:39
	Keep us, we pray thee, from being a world unto ourselves.	24:42
	Make us always mindful of the world beyond our boundaries.	24:48
	Help us in these days, as a university community,	24:52
	to commit ourselves to bringing knowledge, health,	24:57
	understanding, and above all, this day, peace	25:00
	to our day and time.	25:05
	We pray all this in thy holy name.	25:07
	And hear us, O God, as we join together	25:10
	to offer this responsive litany of commemoration	25:13
	on this day.	25:16
	Almighty and eternal God,	25:19
	in whom our mothers and fathers have trusted,	25:21
	we their children at this time of remembrance	25:24
	offer unto thee our litany of commemoration.	25:26
-	Hear us, we beseech thee, O Lord.	25:30
-	For the members of the Duke family,	25:33
	father, daughter, sons and their wives,	25:35
	grandchildren, and all others in continuing generations,	25:38
	who with concern and compassion, devotion and dedication,	25:42
	and by their generosity,	25:47
	built on a good foundation, continued a worthy school,	25:49
	and provided for education and service	25:53
	beyond even their dreams and expectations.	25:55
-	We give you thanks and praise.	25:59
-	For the pioneering and persevering	26:02
	men and women of our state,	26:04
	Methodists and Quakers, farmers and merchants,	26:06
	teachers and administrators,	26:08
	who in days gone by,	26:10
	believed in education and made their belief prevail.	26:13
-	We give you thanks and praise.	26:17
-	For the embodiment of their dreams,	26:19
	from private school, to academy, to college, to university,	26:22
	founded in hope, continued with sacrifice,	26:26
	growing in outreach, established in assurance.	26:29
-	We give you thanks and praise.	26:33
-	For faculty and staff,	26:36
	whose vision was bolstered by their courage,	26:38
	whose patience was tested and found true,	26:41
	whose idealism was implanted	26:44
	in the hearts and minds of others.	26:45
-	We give you thanks and praise.	26:47
-	For the ongoing presence of noble ideas,	26:51
	the blending of eruditio et religio,	26:54
	the freedom for wrought responsible	26:57
	academic research and teaching,	26:59
	the unending care for both the body and the spirit,	27:01
	the pursuit of knowledge in the sciences and the humanities,	27:05
	the realization that the old order changes	27:09
	and the new days bring new demands on us all.	27:11
-	We give you thanks and praise.	27:15
-	For the future of Duke University,	27:17
	established for your glory	27:20
	and for the enlightenment of the human mind and spirit,	27:22
	for consecration to learning by the young,	27:26
	for the best use of the wisdom of those in later years,	27:29
	for the commitment to the growth and enhancement	27:32
	of all persons,	27:34
	for a sense of humor, a sense of cooperation,	27:36
	and a desire for understanding	27:40
	among all within our community.	27:42
-	We give you thanks and praise.	27:44
-	And to thee, O God, we shall ascribe, as is most due,	27:47
	all praise and glory, world without end, amen.	27:51
-	The idea of a Founders' Society	28:09
	grew out of this celebration several years ago,	28:14
	when we recognized what we knew,	28:20
	that the maintenance of excellence	28:24
	is a continuing necessity.	28:25
	And indeed, the founding and re-founding of a university	28:29
	is a continuing process,	28:35
	as we attempt to make each part of the university	28:37
	the level of excellence	28:41
	that we seek for the total university.	28:42
	So indeed, it is a never ending process	28:46
	and the use of personal wealth	28:50
	to endow a gift to this university	28:53
	is also a never ending process,	28:57
	for an endowment assures you and assures us	29:02
	that for all times, forever,	29:05
	your funds, your interests,	29:08
	your dedication, your generosity,	29:10
	will be here providing for the level of excellence	29:12
	of this university, forever.	29:15
	And so, we thank all of you that recognize that	29:19
	and join with us	29:22
	and continue to be a part of the building and the founding	29:23
	of a greater and greater university.	29:28
	And we are grateful to all of you	29:31
	for your part and your continuing part	29:33
	in the hopes of this university.	29:38
	It is my pleasure now	29:43
	to proceed to the awarding of an honorary degree.	29:45
	And I now invite trustee Margaret Harris	29:49
	to present the name of the recipient.	29:53
-	Mr. President, it is my pleasure to present to you	30:04
	the name of Stanley Sebastian Kresge,	30:09
	who is a candidate for the degree, honorary degree,	30:12
	of humane letters.	30:16
	The nomination has been approved	30:18
	by the faculties of the university	30:20
	and by the board of trustees.	30:22
	Professor Jameson Jones and professor John Bergland,	30:25
	Jameson Jones being his faculty sponsor,	30:29
	will please escort Mr. Kresge to the chancel.	30:32
-	Stanley Sebastian Kresge, distinguished business leader,	31:01
	philanthropist, churchman, and friend of higher education,	31:06
	you stand in a small company of individuals	31:11
	who have combined exceptional business acumen	31:14
	and imaginative administrative leadership	31:17
	to make enduring contributions to humanity.	31:19
	You inherited a wise, practical vision of the world.	31:23
	You honor it as it does honor to you.	31:26
	Early in your life, you acquired a deep devotion	31:30
	to family, hard work, and the Christian faith,	31:33
	a devotion that has marked your vigorous leadership	31:37
	and a long association with the S.S. Kresge company,	31:40
	the Kmart Corporation, and the Kresge Foundation.	31:44
	You have made your modesty, goodness,	31:48
	and deep reverence for the will of God	31:51
	profound and living ideals.	31:54
	As a man of national stature in the business world	31:57
	and as a wise steward of the resources	32:00
	of the Kresge Foundation,	32:02
	you have fostered opportunities for others	32:04
	in a broad range of humanitarian causes.	32:07
	Your abiding concern	32:10
	for the enduring purposes of higher education	32:12
	has been demonstrated assuredly	32:15
	as you have given generously	32:17
	of your wisdom, time, talents, and personal substance	32:18
	to assure countless significant advances	32:23
	in human and spiritual knowledge and understanding.	32:26
	Your generous hand of support to this university	32:30
	has helped to secure the foundations of our Eye Center,	32:33
	our University Center, and our Divinity School.	32:37
	Duke University is proud to recognize	32:41
	your contributions to humanity, your wise leadership,	32:44
	and your vision of the future.	32:47
	We celebrate your life of faith, your compassion for all,	32:49
	your own humility,	32:54
	and we make you a permanent member	32:56
	of our university community.	32:58
-	Thank you, very much.	33:01
-	Kresge, with appreciation for your concern	33:05
	for higher education	33:07
	and the role of religion in higher education,	33:09
	I welcome you back.	33:12
	And by the authority vested in me,	33:14
	I confer upon you the degree of doctor of humane letters	33:16
	and I admit you to its rights, its privileges,	33:19
	and its obligations.	33:22
-	Thank you President Sanford, thank you very much.	33:25
	(organ music)	33:42
	♪ Let thy holy presence ♪	34:23
	♪ Let thy holy presence ♪	34:34
	♪ Let thy holy presence ♪	34:41
	♪ Come upon us ♪	34:46
	♪ We pray ♪	34:56
	♪ Thy holy, thy holy presence ♪	35:03
-	On this beautiful and blessed third Sunday	35:31
	in the season of Advent,	35:35
	12 days before the festive and joyous celebration again	35:38
	of the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ,	35:41
	I greet you.	35:44
	May the peace and the love of our Lord be with you.	35:46
	Let us together, in the presence of one another	35:51
	and before the presence of God, confess our sin.	35:54
	Let us pray.	35:59
	O Lord our God, hear us as we pray.	36:02
	O thou Eternal Wisdom,	36:06
	whom we partly know and partly do not know,	36:08
	O thou Eternal Justice,	36:12
	whom we partly acknowledge, but never wholly obey,	36:15
	O thou Eternal Love,	36:19
	whom we love a little, but fear to love too much,	36:21
	open our minds that we may understand,	36:26
	work in our wills that we may obey,	36:29
	kindle our hearts that we may love thee.	36:33
	Help us as we worship thee	36:36
	to come to a truer knowledge of ourselves,	36:39
	knowing that we cannot hide from thee.	36:42
	God be merciful to us, for we are sinners.	36:45
	(organ music)	36:51
	Dear friends, our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God,	37:24
	has come truly to seek and to save those who are lost.	37:27
	Everyone who trusts in him receives forgiveness of sin	37:32
	through his Spirit and his grace.	37:36
	Therefore, be assured	37:40
	that God bestows upon you forgiving mercy	37:43
	and indeed, grants you release from your sins	37:47
	and leads you into life eternal, amen.	37:50
	Let us give thanks for God is good	37:56
	and God's love is everlasting.	38:00
	Thanks be to God, whose love has made us.	38:03
	Thanks be to God, whose mercy forgives us.	38:07
	Thanks be to God, whose grace leads us into the future.	38:11
	May I say a word of welcome to all of you this morning.	38:17
	A beautiful day it is,	38:20
	the third Sunday in the season of Advent.	38:22
	Nearing the end of a semester,	38:25
	here for us in this university community.	38:27
	We're pleased to welcome all of you here.	38:30
	We're especially pleased	38:33
	to have members of the Founders' Society	38:34
	with us this morning.	38:37
	But also, are particularly pleased	38:39
	to have many members of the faculty of Duke University here,	38:41
	those who by virtue of their distinction	38:46
	as teacher, researcher, writer, or in some other way,	38:49
	you have distinguished yourself in your field	38:54
	and now occupy a distinguished chair at Duke,	38:57
	we are particularly pleased to have each of you	39:02
	and all of you here on this Founders' Day.	39:04
	This is a special time for us, a time of celebration.	39:10
	It also is the nearing of the end of this semester.	39:17
	And so, as those of you who are students face examinations	39:20
	and the writing of papers for this term,	39:24
	and as faculty face a grading and evaluating time,	39:27
	our prayers and best wishes are with all of you,	39:32
	that it may be a productive and fruitful time for all.	39:36
	Tonight at 7:30, the Hillyer Concert Choir from Raleigh	39:42
	will present a special Mozart concert here in Duke Chapel.	39:47
	The concert will last for one hour.	39:52
	There is no admission charge.	39:54
	It begins at 7:30.	39:56
	You and friends and others in this community	39:58
	and in this area	40:02
	are invited to come and to share in that particular concert.	40:03
	May I make a very special announcement?	40:08
	I have in my hand a copy of a recording	40:10
	that was made here in Duke Chapel last Easter Sunday.	40:14
	It's entitled Easter Music from Duke Chapel.	40:19
	I commend it to you, because I think as you hear it,	40:22
	or as you give it to others for them to hear,	40:27
	you will be reminded again of the beauty	40:29
	of the sheer majesty of the music in that service.	40:32
	The carillon, the organ, the choir,	40:36
	the congregation, the hymns we sang.	40:39
	It will be on sale beginning tomorrow	40:41
	in the Duke University bookstores.	40:43
	So I think for those of you	40:45
	who are looking for a good Christmas present,	40:47
	I'd be glad to suggest this and commend it to you.	40:50
	And to Ben Smith and the choir and the organists,	40:53
	I want to say a word of thanks and appreciation	40:55
	for a beautiful, moving, and memorable worship experience	40:58
	which we now have on this record.	41:02
	And speaking of Easter Sunday,	41:04
	we received word last Monday from CBS TV,	41:06
	a good word that this Easter Sunday's 11 o'clock service,	41:11
	on April 11, will be carried nationwide by CBS TV.	41:16
	So, we would like for you to spread that word,	41:22
	not only here,	41:24
	but wherever you go from this place between now and Easter.	41:25
	And if you have a good suggestion or two	41:30
	for a sermon for that day.	41:32
	(congregation laughs)	41:34
	It is a privilege this morning to welcome back home	41:40
	Bobby and Bill Quick.	41:43
	The Reverend Dr. Bill Quick	41:46
	is our preacher for this Founders' Day.	41:47
	He currently serves as the senior minister	41:50
	of Metropolitan United Methodist Church	41:53
	in Detroit, Michigan.	41:55
	He is now in his eighth year of service there.	41:57
	He went there from serving	41:59
	as senior minister of Trinity United Methodist Church,	42:00
	here in Durham.	42:03
	Bill and I were classmates in divinity school	42:05
	and everywhere Bill has been in his ministry,	42:08
	he has provided creative and outstanding leadership	42:11
	for the churches that he has served,	42:14
	from Bahama, to Zebulon, to St. James Church in Greenville,	42:16
	to Trinity Church here in Durham,	42:20
	to Metropolitan Church in Detroit.	42:22
	Wherever he has gone,	42:25
	he has been known as a very effective administrator,	42:27
	a caring pastor, and a very good preacher.	42:31
	Bill, we're delighted to have Bobby and you	42:34
	back here with us today	42:36
	and we look forward to the word of God	42:38
	which you will bring to us on this very special day.	42:39
-	Let us pray.	42:52
	Almighty and most merciful God,	42:55
	you have given the Bible	42:58
	to be the revelation of your great love to us	42:59
	and of your power and will to save us.	43:03
	Grant that our study of it may not be made in vain	43:06
	by the callousness or carelessness of our hearts,	43:10
	but that by it we may become confirmed in penitence,	43:14
	lifted in hope, and made strong for service,	43:18
	and above all, filled with the true knowledge	43:21
	of you and of your Son, Jesus Christ, amen.	43:23
	The epistle lesson is from 1 Thessalonians,	43:31
	chapter one, the first eight verses.	43:35
	"Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy	43:40
	"to the church of Thessalonians	43:42
	"in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ,	43:44
	"grace to you and peace.	43:48
	"We give thanks to God always for you all,	43:51
	"constantly mentioning you in our prayers,	43:54
	"remembering before our God and Father	43:56
	"your work of faith and labor of love	43:58
	"and steadfastness of hope	44:01
	"in our Lord Jesus Christ.	44:03
	"For we know, brethren beloved by God,	44:05
	"that he has chosen you.	44:08
	"For our gospel came to you not only in word,	44:12
	"but also in power and in the holy Spirit	44:15
	"and with full conviction.	44:18
	"You know what kind of men we proved to be among you	44:20
	"for your sake	44:23
	"and you became imitators of us and of the Lord.	44:25
	"For you received the word in much affliction,	44:28
	"with joy inspired by the holy Spirit,	44:31
	"so that you became an example to all the believers	44:35
	"in Macedonia and in Achaia.	44:38
	"But not only has the word of the Lord	44:40
	"sounded forth from you in Macedonia and Achaia,	44:43
	"but your faith in God has gone forth everywhere,	44:47
	"so that we need not say anything."	44:50
	Here ends the reading from the epistle.	44:53
	(organ music)	45:03
	♪ For a long time I have held my peace ♪	45:08
	♪ But now will I speak ♪	45:18
	♪ I will lead the blind ♪	45:26
	♪ In a way they know not ♪	45:32
	♪ In paths that they have not known ♪	45:38
	♪ I will guide them ♪	45:44

	(choir sings)	0:03
	♪ And he sought beyond your river ♪	0:35
	♪ Of a water on high ♪	0:41
	(opera singing)	0:47
	(choir sings)	1:02
	(choir sings)	2:19
	♪ Amen, amen, amen, amen ♪	3:01
-	[Church Officiant] Will the congregation please stand	3:36
	for the reading of the Gospel lesson?	3:38
	The Gospel lesson is from Saint John chapter one.	3:45
	In the beginning was the Word,	3:50
	and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.	3:52
	He was in the beginning with God.	3:57
	All things were made through Him,	3:59
	and without Him was not anything made that was made.	4:01
	In Him was life, and the life was the light of man.	4:05
	The light shines in the darkness,	4:09
	the darkness does not overcome it.	4:11
	He was in the world, the world was made through Him,	4:14
	yet the world knew Him not.	4:17
	He came to His own home and His own people received Him not.	4:19
	But to all who received Him, who believed in His name,	4:24
	He gave power to become children of God,	4:27
	who were born not of blood nor of the will of the flesh,	4:31
	nor the will of man, but of God.	4:34
	And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us,	4:38
	full of grace and truth.	4:40
	We have beheld His glory, glory as of the	4:43
	only Son from the Father.	4:46
	Here ends the reading from the Gospel lesson.	4:49
	Amen.	4:51
	(organ playing)	4:53
	(choir singing)	5:01
Pastor	It is with a sense of profound gratitude	5:59
	to the President of this university for this invitation,	6:04
	and yet it is with a sense of great awe that I stand	6:09
	in this chapel to share and worship	6:13
	with you on Founder's Day.	6:15
	For Duke University has touched and influenced my own life	6:19
	in a multitude of ways.	6:24
	And I am doubly grateful to be privileged to share	6:28
	in the honor that this university, my alma mater,	6:31
	has bestowed upon one of my own members,	6:34
	an exemplary Christian friend	6:39
	and beloved Methodist, Stanley Kreschke.	6:42
	For the Bible knows that a great life	6:47
	is a classroom of its own,	6:49
	and his too, is a great life.	6:52
	Let us pray.	6:55
	Father, we have heard the living Word.	7:00
	May it come alive anew into spoken word.	7:07
	And may the words of my mouth	7:13
	and the meditations of our hearts be acceptable	7:15
	in Thy sight.	7:19
	For Thou alone art our strength	7:23
	and our Blessed Redeemer.	7:28
	Amen.	7:30
	During recent weeks, I have sought to discover	7:33
	something of the man and his driving faith	7:36
	for whom this university is named.	7:40
	James Buchanan Duke, on December 11, 1924,	7:45
	established The Duke Endowment.	7:50
	And yet, this university does not bear his name.	7:53
	It is named for the man he admired and loved	7:59
	the most in this world, his father,	8:02
	Washington Duke.	8:07
	And as I've pondered about Washington Duke,	8:10
	I kept remembering something that Alfred North Whitehead	8:12
	once said, that moral education is impossible	8:16
	without the vision of greatness.	8:23
	And that is the judgment which the biblical writers	8:29
	implicitly concur.	8:33
	For again, and again, in the pages of history,	8:35
	we have seen throughout biblical history,	8:39
	the absorbing and instructive passages	8:43
	are essentially biographical.	8:46
	The lives of the great Abraham, David, Moses,	8:49
	are held up as an inspiration for later generations.	8:53
	"Let us now praise famous men and our fathers	8:58
	who begat us", begins a familiar passage in Ecclesiastes.	9:02
	Jesus Corea is studied with allusions to ancient worthies,	9:08
	Moses, Elijah, Isaiah, Jeremiah.	9:13
	And he said, if his contemporaries could not	9:17
	see the purposes of God in history,	9:20
	they would never see them at all.	9:24
	And then there is that notable passage in	9:27
	the 11th chapter of Hebrews, which calls	9:30
	the role of Israel's great and near great,	9:33
	who surround us now as then	9:37
	as a great cloud of witnesses.	9:41
	For the sake of our understanding better	9:46
	the influences that shape this remarkable family,	9:47
	The Dukes of Durham, I want us to look at the patriarch	9:51
	on this Founder's Day.	9:55
	For in a home where the light of education had never shown,	9:58
	Washington Duke lit a lamp of learning,	10:02
	which would be fueled by his sons,	10:06
	whom he affectionately called Ben and Buck.	10:09
	James Buchanan Duke was heard to say,	10:14
	"I want to do big things for God,	10:17
	and great things for humanity."	10:19
	And later, he would write, "My old Daddy used to say,	10:22
	that if he amounted to anything in life,	10:27
	it was due to the Methodist circuit riders,	10:31
	who frequently visited his home, and whose preaching	10:34
	and counsel brought out the best that was in his life."	10:37
	And then he added, "If I ever amount to anything,	10:42
	it will be because of my Daddy	10:48
	and the Methodist Church."	10:52
	So, let's look at his daddy and a faith that was	10:55
	engendered in his heart by the Methodist Church.	10:59
	He was a plain man, of English and Welsh ancestry.	11:04
	Washington Duke's forebears settled in the red clay	11:09
	hills of eastern Orange, now Durham county	11:12
	in the mid-18th century.	11:16
	He was the eighth of 10 children,	11:17
	and his parents managed to give the brood enough schooling	11:20
	to learn a smattering of the three R's.	11:24
	His family hewed out a living with ax, and hoe, and plow	11:28
	on a modest farm along the Little River,	11:32
	near Bowl Town which is the present village of Bahama.	11:35
	During my student days in this divinity school,	11:40
	I was appointed by Bishop Garber to serve	11:43
	the Mount Bethel Church in that crossroads community.	11:46
	I did not know at that time,	11:50
	what I came to know whilst there.	11:53
	That in that place, a significant event took place	11:56
	in the life of a timid 10 year old boy in 1830.	12:00
	In a protracted meeting, as they called them,	12:06
	during the hot dog days of August,	12:11
	under a brush arbor canopied by giant oaks,	12:15
	he was brought under conviction and converted.	12:18
	This lad, who had earlier joined the	12:24
	Mount Bethel Sunday School, now joined the	12:26
	Methodist Episcopal Church.	12:28
	And whatever we may think from our late-20th century	12:32
	sophisticated vantage point of revival meetings	12:37
	and protracted meetings, that singular event is of	12:41
	utmost significance to all of us who later would	12:46
	be touched by the Duke family.	12:49
	For it's abundantly clear that outside his own family,	12:53
	Methodism was the most powerful	12:56
	lifelong influence upon this man.	13:00
	The fiery preaching, and the spirited singing	13:05
	of early Methodists would shape his character,	13:08
	would sturdy his faith, and steel him for the	13:11
	personal tragedy and loneliness that lay ahead of him.	13:15
	Now his conversion must surely have pleased	13:21
	his eldest brother William.	13:24
	Later, Wash and another brother, were bound over	13:27
	to Billy, for whom they would work from crack of dawn	13:29
	to bedtime at an endless round of farm chores.	13:32
	Lean and wiry was this lad, and later in life	13:37
	he would write to a group of blacks,	13:40
	"I've plowed more furrows in God's earth than	13:42
	any man of my age in North Carolina."	13:46
	And we can be sure that brother Billy nurtured	13:50
	that young convert with a	13:54
	healthy dose of zealous Methodism.	13:55
	Deeply interested in Billy's church work,	13:59
	the younger Wash helped build a retreat,	14:02
	Duke's Arbor, where the camp meetings	14:05
	and the revivals could be held close at hand.	14:07
	And the church was the center of his life,	14:10
	spiritual and social, and understandably so,	14:13
	in that simple, rural society.	14:16
	His adult life began as a tenant farmer,	14:20
	and at age 22 he married Mary Caroline Clinton.	14:23
	She bore two sons.	14:27
	And in 1847, his father died,	14:30
	and then Mary Caroline his wife.	14:34
	Washington Duke was not quite 27, widowed,	14:37
	and his motherless boys were sent to live	14:43
	with his wife's parents.	14:45
	In his loneliness, he turned even more to religion.	14:48
	And he toiled away on the land.	14:51
	He built a modest house in the early 1850s,	14:54
	and on December 9, 1852,	14:57
	he married Artelia Roney.	15:01
	And he brought his pretty, singing wife,	15:04
	reunited with his two young boys	15:07
	to what we now know as the Duke Homestead.	15:09
	Oh, it must have been a joyful Christmas for him	15:14
	that year, but little did he conceive	15:16
	the lurking tragedy which lay ahead.	15:21
	During the next five years, she would bear	15:25
	three children, Mary, Benjamin Newton,	15:27
	and on December 23, 1856, James Buchanan,	15:29
	named we are told, in honor of the new	15:34
	Democratic President-elect.	15:37
	But then the scourge of the countryside,	15:41
	the typhoid epidemic of 1858, struck twice	15:44
	in Wash Duke's home.	15:49
	His 14 year old son Sidney died,	15:52
	and ten days later, beautiful Artelia.	15:54
	She was 29, he was 37.	16:00
	In little more than a decade,	16:06
	this God-fearing, Bible-believing,	16:07
	church-going farmer had buried	16:10
	his father, two wives, a son, and his mother.	16:12
	A single parent, responsible for four children,	16:18
	and a farm of 300 acres, he turned to two	16:23
	of his wife's younger sisters and his own	16:26
	unmarried sister Melinda, and they took turns	16:29
	caring for those four motherless children.	16:32
	Can we not see now how in later life he would have	16:37
	a special sympathy and care towards orphans?	16:42
	This was also a time in his life when	16:47
	he violated his own conscience.	16:49
	He was opposed to slavery, but he bought a slave girl,	16:53
	Caroline, and he brought her as a nurse	16:57
	and house servant for his children.	17:00
	You see, so bitter was his opposition to slavery,	17:03
	that both Wash Duke and his brother Billy	17:06
	changed their political affiliation in 1860	17:08
	and voted for Abraham Lincoln.	17:11
	Decades later, he would help to build a hospital	17:15
	for black people in this city,	17:18
	and he called it Lincoln Memorial.	17:21
	He opposed North Carolina's secession from the Union,	17:25
	but when he was conscripted into the Confederate Army	17:29
	in 1863, he went without complaint, risking his life	17:31
	in a cause in which he did not believe.	17:36
	But he was a good Methodist, and methodically	17:40
	he arranged for the care of his children,	17:44
	for the slave girl, and for Aunt Betty.	17:46
	He turned over his farm to a neighbor,	17:49
	and he marched off to war.	17:52
	And as he left, he learned that his youngest brother	17:54
	Robert had been killed in Virginia.	17:57
	During the final weeks of that war he was imprisoned	18:01
	in Libby Prison in Richmond.	18:05
	Mustered out in New Bern, penniless and ragged,	18:08
	he made his way back, 135 miles to Durham.	18:11
	He had a single 50-cent piece in his pocket	18:15
	that he had traded a souvenir-hunting Yankee soldier	18:18
	his last, practically worthless,	18:22
	five dollar Confederate bill.	18:24
	And when he arrived, he found the home place looted,	18:28
	the livestock killed or driven off.	18:33
	He was confronted with a desolate situation,	18:36
	a veritable paw of doom and darkness,	18:39
	and the only thing that greeted him were two blind mules.	18:42
	This is the man for whom this university is named.	18:49
	At this time in his life he had nothing,	18:56
	but his children and his faith.	18:59
	But Washington Duke's faith had a promise in it.	19:04
	We rejoice at Saint Paul and our sufferings,	19:09
	for we know that suffering produces hope.	19:12
	Now that is new, and different, and strange.	19:17
	You would expect it to be otherwise,	19:20
	that suffering produces despair.	19:21
	But Wash Duke found what the early Christians had found,	19:27
	that the Gospel of Jesus Christ can	19:30
	turn anything upside down.	19:33
	Suffering has a promise in it.	19:36
	Washington Duke's staunch Methodist faith	19:41
	enabled him to shoulder that suffering and to start anew.	19:44
	Let's examine on the basis of what we know about this man,	19:51
	his faith, and what we can be sure about it.	19:54
	Let it be said, first of all, it was a simple faith.	20:00
	We're here on this third Sunday of Advent,	20:05
	and I know what that conjures up in the minds of most of us,	20:09
	this holy season of love.	20:13
	Washington Duke reminds me of one of	20:16
	the main characters in that draw.	20:18
	He reminds me of the shepherds who came to the manger,	20:21
	the faithful, the devout, the people who may not	20:26
	have much book learning, who may not be very	20:30
	sophisticated religiously, but good people,	20:33
	intuitively open, and accepting people,	20:37
	strong in their faith but not dogmatic about	20:41
	forcing their belief on other people,	20:44
	the ordinary people who are the salt of the earth,	20:48
	and the light of the world.	20:51
	That's the kind of faith Wash Duke had, then,	20:53
	and 'til the end of his life.	20:58
	We need to be reminded of a faith like that.	21:01
	We need to be reminded that the church is not	21:05
	an exclusive club of people like us,	21:07
	whatever our category may be.	21:11
	The church is not restricted to those	21:15
	with an IQ over 140, or to those who have an income	21:18
	in the 30 or 40% tax bracket.	21:22
	It is not for those activists whose very soul	21:25
	is uplifted by the thought of a new demonstration	21:28
	or a new cause.	21:31
	Or those who would reduce to statistics the milk	21:33
	of human kindness if they could.	21:36
	Remember that scene in Mark Twain's book	21:40
	A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court?	21:42
	Where the American sees a medieval saint swaying	21:46
	to and fro in the ecstasy of religious devotion.	21:50
	It seemed like wasted energy, and so he hooked up	21:55
	the saint to a device to provide power for a sewing machine.	21:58
	A lot of people think the church is useless	22:04
	unless it's geared up for something.	22:08
	But the church is more than that.	22:12
	It should be open, and it should encourage and produce	22:15
	people of simple piety.	22:19
	For a faith like his, is a spiritual resource	22:23
	that is open to all persons.	22:27
	"Truly I say to you, if you have faith as a grain	22:30
	of mustard seed", said Jesus, "You can say to this mountain,	22:34
	move hence to yonder place, and it will move,	22:38
	and nothing will be impossible to you."	22:41
	So, when you think of Washington Duke,	22:47
	I hope that you will celebrate that kind of faith.	22:50
	And I'm not about to argue that anything is possible	22:56
	if only you have faith.	22:59
	They taught me better than that in this place.	23:01
	But as I am concerned today with this man,	23:05
	I want to say that is not what Jesus meant	23:10
	when he made that statement.	23:13
	Jesus' word here is deliberate, proverbial, hyperbole,	23:15
	and ought never to be read in any other way.	23:21
	What I'm going to say about Washington Duke's faith is this.	23:25
	For this is what I think it says to us,	23:30
	that nothing is possible until you believe.	23:33
	Unless you have some kind of real faith,	23:39
	some kind of expectation, unless you make	23:42
	some kind of commitment before you can possibly	23:45
	know the outcome, you will never do	23:48
	as much as tie your shoe.	23:51
	Faith, in its usual biblical sense, is not as many	23:55
	people seem to think it is, an illogical belief	23:58
	in the occurrence of the improbable.	24:02
	It is more nearly, what I call, reason	24:06
	grown adventurous.	24:09
	It is an act of confidence in the reliability	24:11
	of the moral order.	24:14
	What was it that Isaiah said to dispirited,	24:17
	defeated, frustrated people?	24:22
	There shall come forth a chute from the stump	24:25
	of Jesse, the royal line of David is like a tree	24:29
	that has been cut down.	24:33
	And just as new branches sprout from a stump,	24:35
	so a new king will arise from David's descendants.	24:38
	That is faith, adventurous and confident	24:42
	in the reliability of the moral order.	24:45
	When I think of Wash Duke trudging 135 miles	24:50
	from New Bern to Durham county at the end of the Civil War,	24:54
	I think of Jeremiah.	25:01
	He lived in a bleak, uncertain time,	25:04
	400 years of empire, proud independence	25:08
	for the Hebrew people were dissolving.	25:11
	The nation was caught between two superpowers,	25:13
	and he did not know where to turn.	25:16
	Jeremiah had preached himself into prison,	25:19
	but silencing the prophet never changes	25:24
	the ills he has diagnosed.	25:28
	And things kept getting worse.	25:31
	One day, with all the signs pointing to total disaster,	25:35
	Jeremiah did a strange thing.	25:38
	He bought a piece of property from a cousin.	25:40
	The strangeness of it all was not merely	25:42
	that he was in jail, or that he had no	25:44
	immediate prospect of using the land.	25:48
	The strangest thing of all, is that it was	25:51
	property already that had been conquered	25:54
	and was in the hands of the enemy.	25:57
	And yet, he paid cash for it.	26:01
	And he was careful to see that the deed	26:03
	was properly notarized and recorded.	26:05
	Why did he do it?	26:08
	It was an adventurous faith, a deliberate act of faith,	26:10
	and the reliability of the moral order of things.	26:13
	A way of saying to the frustrated and the frightened,	26:17
	"Thus says the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel,	26:21
	houses, and fields, and vineyards shall be	26:25
	bought in this land."	26:28
	No, the Bible does not mean in any literal sense	26:32
	that all things are possible if only we believe.	26:34
	But what it does say to us, is that nothing	26:39
	is possible until we believe.	26:42
	And we will never cast out the demons that plague us	26:47
	and our time except by faith.	26:50
	The third thing I want to say about	26:54
	Wash Duke's faith is this, it had more to do	26:56
	with holiness than happiness.	27:00
	I know a lot of people, who, when they become	27:06
	the least bit unhappy, lose their faith.	27:08
	His faith was not based on happiness.	27:14
	His faith was based on that of which	27:19
	the Scripture says, "The Word was made flesh	27:21
	and dwelt among us."	27:25
	The conviction that God was in Christ,	27:27
	and even though He came unto His own,	27:29
	and His own rejected him, that kind of goodness	27:31
	is something that will not be done away with.	27:35
	It has nothing at all to do with happiness,	27:39
	it has a lot to do with holiness,	27:43
	goodness, moral maturity.	27:46
	The indenture that created this university	27:50
	was signed during the season of Advent.	27:54
	We're in the midst of that holy season,	27:58
	with all the stories about the baby, and the star,	28:01
	and the angels, and the wise men.	28:03
	And they all are ways of saying that Jesus	28:05
	was the embodiment of Godliness.	28:08
	That in Him, we see what the nature, or likeness	28:12
	of God really is.	28:16
	He is the flesh and blood demonstration	28:18
	of God's outgoing love.	28:21
	The New Testament holds that Jesus is a model for us,	28:25
	that we are to be imitators of Him,	28:29
	that we are to walk in the way in which He walked,	28:32
	that we are to follow in His steps.	28:35
	That is the way Wash Duke walked,	28:39
	and it had more to do with holiness than happiness.	28:44
	Perhaps a clue to the love that Ben and James Buchanan	28:50
	had for him and his influence over them	28:53
	is caught up in the holiness of his life	28:56
	and his example.	28:58
	Albert Schweitzer said, "Example is not the main	29:00
	thing in influencing others, it is the only thing."	29:03
	And real faith has more to do with holiness,	29:10
	moral maturity than with happiness.	29:12
	For it enables us to have a close	29:16
	working relationship with God.	29:19
	Finally, Washington Duke, this man of simple faith,	29:23
	whose life shows us that nothing is possible unless	29:29
	you believe, that real faith has more to do	29:31
	with holiness than happiness, became a man	29:34
	of the purest integrity.	29:40
	And that is something for us to celebrate	29:44
	on this Founder's Day.	29:46
	It's a fact that we can thank God for any day,	29:48
	for it's rare enough in any age to make us wonder	29:51
	whether or not it has completely disappeared,	29:54
	but it keeps turning up.	29:58
	First here, and over there, in unexpected places,	29:59
	in unexpected times.	30:02
	Let me say, that it is one of the things we ought	30:05
	to be looking for most of all, and reward,	30:10
	in our political leaders today.	30:14
	That's the criterion that ought to be in our minds,	30:17
	more than any other.	30:20
	More important than a party platform,	30:23
	more important than whether a candidate	30:25
	has supported a particular issue.	30:27
	What will affect this nation four years from now,	30:31
	40 years from now, 400 years from now	30:35
	is not whether anyone is for or against the ERA,	30:38
	for or against the draft, pro-life or for	30:43
	freedom of choice with respect to abortions,	30:48
	for or against tax cuts.	30:50
	What will count most	30:54
	is whether the candidates we elect	30:57
	are persons of integrity,	31:00
	persons of courage,	31:04
	and consistency, and unselfishness.	31:07
	This man, Washington Duke,	31:11
	became a man of integrity.	31:15
	In 1905, he died.	31:19
	The trustees of Trinity College said, "We have never	31:25
	seen him less than a man acting under the fear of God	31:28
	and under the inspiration of lofty purpose."	31:32
	There was no act of his life for which	31:37
	the college need make apology.	31:40
	What integrity.	31:44
	The faculty said, "He never hampered us with a small idea,	31:46
	or a personal wish, or preference."	31:50
	What integrity.	31:54
	A generation ago, Herbert Butterfield was professor	31:57
	of modern history at the University of Cambridge England.	32:00
	I think he has a word to say to us,	32:04
	"The profoundest effects on our civilization have been	32:10
	produced by people who were not thinking of affecting	32:13
	the course of human affairs at the mundane level.	32:18
	They have come by the unanticipated byproducts of lives	32:23
	intent on spiritual things."	32:28
	Maybe the life story of Washington Duke has a	32:36
	remarkable parallel in William Booth,	32:41
	the founder of The Salvation Army.	32:46
	He was asked one time what was the secret of his success.	32:48
	And his answer was, "God had all there was	32:53
	of William Booth."	32:59
	He never claimed to be a great thinker.	33:02
	He was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth.	33:05
	He never got any particular breaks in life.	33:09
	He left British Methodism because it wouldn't let him	33:13
	do a job that he thought he could do,	33:15
	and he started from absolute scratch.	33:17
	But he said, "From the day that I got the poor of London	33:21
	on my heart, and a vision of what Jesus Christ could do	33:24
	with the poor of London, I made up my mind	33:28
	that God would have all there was	33:32
	of William Booth."	33:37
	Years later, that devotion would be tested.	33:40
	He was stricken with eye trouble,	33:43
	and when the final medical verdict was in,	33:45
	his son Bramwell had to break the news to him.	33:47
	"You mean that I'm blind?", said the old man.	33:51
	"I fear we must contemplate that", said his son.	33:56
	"I shall never see your face again?"	34:01
	"Not in this life, Dad."	34:04
	"Bramwell", he said as he reached out his hand	34:09
	and grasped his son's hand, "I have tried to serve	34:12
	God the best I can with my sight.	34:17
	I shall now try to serve him the best I can	34:23
	without sight."	34:28
	God had all there was of William Booth.	34:31
	Maybe we have this university today	34:37
	because God had all there was	34:44
	of Washington Duke.	34:51
	Let us pray.	34:55
	Almighty God, we now praise famous men,	35:01
	remembering especially the father of	35:04
	the new Trinity College and the man for whom	35:08
	this university is named, Washington Duke,	35:10
	one of Thy surprising saints.	35:14
	For him and to Thee on behalf of us all,	35:18
	including his children, we say thank you Father.	35:22
	Thank you.	35:27
	Amen.	35:29
	(organ playing)	35:36
	(choir singing)	35:56
	(organ playing)	36:45
Church Official	Let us affirm what we believe.	37:32
Congregation	We believe in God, who has	37:35
	created and is creating.	37:37
	Who has come into truly human Jesus	37:40
	to reconcile and make new.	37:43
	Who works in us and others by the Spirit.	37:45
	We trust God, who calls us to be the church,	37:49
	to celebrate life and its fullness,	37:53
	to love and serve others, to seek justice,	37:56
	and resist evil, to proclaim Jesus crucified and risen,	38:00
	our judge and our hope.	38:05
	In life, in death, in life beyond death,	38:08
	God is with us.	38:12
	We are not alone.	38:14
	Thanks be to God.	38:16
Church Official	The Lord be with you.	38:18
Congregation	And with you also.	38:20
Church Official	Let us pray.	38:22
	Oh Lord, our God, who has made us a royal priesthood	38:35
	that we may offer unto you prayer and intercession	38:40
	for all your children.	38:43
	Hear us now as we pray.	38:45
	For all who labor with their hands, that they	38:48
	may enjoy the rewards of their industry.	38:52
	For those who bear the responsibilities of	38:55
	leadership and administration, that they may not	38:58
	use their authority and power for selfish advantage,	39:02
	but be guided to do justice and to love mercy.	39:06
	For those who have suffered in the battles of life,	39:12
	through the inhumanity of their fellows,	39:16
	through their own limitations, or the incomprehensible	39:19
	forces of evil, that they may contend against	39:23
	injustice without bitterness, and learn to accept	39:27
	with patience what cannot be altered.	39:31
	For the rulers of the nations, that they might	39:36
	act wisely and without pride.	39:39
	May seek to promote peace among the peoples	39:42
	and establish justice in our common life.	39:45
	For students, here at this university,	39:50
	who struggle to study, to show themselves approved	39:54
	unto God in all their habits and in their honest work.	39:57
	For teachers and ministers of the word, that they	40:04
	may rightly divide the Word of truth and not be	40:07
	tempted by any passion to corrupt the truth	40:10
	to which they are committed.	40:14
	For families and loved ones, who gather in this	40:17
	holy Advent season, that their lives may shine forth	40:21
	with a light of your presence and hope.	40:26
	For prophets and saints, who awaken us from laziness,	40:30
	that they may continue to hold their torches high	40:35
	in a world that is darkened by prejudice and sin.	40:39
	Oh God, who has bound us together in this very	40:44
	bundle of life, give us grace now to understand	40:48
	how our lives depend upon the courage, the honesty,	40:53
	and the integrity of all our brothers and sisters,	40:58
	that we may be mindful of their needs,	41:02
	grateful for their faithfulness, and faithful in our	41:05
	responsibilities to them.	41:09
	For it is through Jesus Christ our Lord that we pray	41:11
	and whom taught us to pray saying.	41:15
Congregation	Our Father who art in Heaven,	41:19
	hallowed be Thy name.	41:22
	Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done as it is in Heaven.	41:24
	Give us this day, our daily bread,	41:30
	and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those	41:32
	who trespass against us.	41:36
	And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.	41:38
	For Thine is the Kingdom, and the power,	41:43
	and the glory forever.	41:46
	Amen.	41:47
	(organ playing)	41:56
	(choir singing)	43:34
	(choir singing)	44:07

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Title:

William K. Quick - "The Founder's Faith" Founders' Day (December 13, 1981)

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Sermon start time: (Part 2) 05:59. Sermon end time: (Part 2) 35:32.
Commemorating the faith story of Washing Duke, founder of Duke University, the preacher argues that it is the task of a church to encourage and produce people of simple piety as Washing Duke who pursued holiness and yielded fruits of morality. (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)

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December 13, 1981

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Quick, William K.

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Advent

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Duke University. Chapel

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William K. Quick - "The Founder's Faith" Founders' Day (December 13, 1981)

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