Benjamin Chavis - Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Service Tape 1 (April 4, 1979)

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-	Testing, testing, thank you, thank you.	0:07
	(applause)	0:10
	Thank the lord we know have power.	0:14
	At this time, Dance Black will come back	0:18
	and do the number that they were about to do.	0:20
	And like I said, thank all of you for	0:23
	being so patient and so kind with us.	0:26
	(pleasant music)	0:40
	(applause)	8:04
	Oh come, let us sing to the Lord.	8:37
	Oh come, let us sing to the Lord.	8:51
	Let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.	8:54
	Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving.	8:59
	Let us make a joyful noise to him with songs of praise.	9:04
	Thank you, please sit down.	9:10
	On behalf of Campus Ministry, Duke University	9:20
	and Alpha Alpha Fraternity Cappa Macry Chapter,	9:24
	I bid you a very warm and deeply felt welcome	9:28
	to this, the third annual Memorial Service	9:33
	and Tribute to Brother Martin Luther King Jr.	9:37
	This marks the 11th anniversary of Brother Martin's death	9:42
	and it may be very easy or convenient for us to come here	9:50
	and mourn such an event or memorialize such a man.	9:54
	But we are not here to mourn, nor are we here to	10:03
	memorialize, we are here not to mourn the man	10:06
	but to celebrate his life, his ideas, and his struggles.	10:09
	We're here to commit ourselves to the type of	10:17
	life which he attempted to live.	10:20
	There are probably many of you who are not	10:24
	acquainted with Brother Martin either directly or indirectly	10:28
	and I don't know what you have heard but he was not a saint	10:34
	nor was he some type of black Messiah, he was a man,	10:39
	a man with vision, a man with ideas,	10:47
	a man who dared to ask why are things not the way	10:52
	they ought to be, a man with the courage to then go	10:56
	out in the world and stand up and try to turn things	11:02
	around to the way they should be.	11:06
	We are here to pay tribute by rededicating and committing	11:10
	ourselves to this, his ideas and his struggles.	11:14
	This is a revival and we are here also to revive ourselves,	11:24
	to revive our spirits, to revive our consciousness about	11:32
	who we are and where we are.	11:36
	This is an opportunity for us to come together	11:39
	and to think upon what these many years and the people	11:43
	who have come before us or gone before us	11:47
	and what is all has meant.	11:50
	This is a time for us to be spiritually reawakened	11:53
	and for some of us to be awakened for the first time.	11:59
	We must remember that this is a house,	12:04
	a house of love, a house of warmth, a house of peace.	12:09
	And this is how we come, to each other and to ourselves.	12:16
	As my minister back home often says a house	12:22
	that is large can often be cold but we don't want	12:26
	you to be cold, we want you to be very warm	12:30
	and very comfortable and if there are any in the back	12:34
	who cannot hear or who feel a chill coming on your bones,	12:39
	just come right down in front and get right close	12:42
	to the fire because there's enough warmth, enough light	12:46
	and enough love right down here for everybody.	12:51
	We want you to enjoy this service, to enjoy this celebration	12:56
	of life and hopefully to be moved enough to commit	13:03
	yourselves, to revitalize your spirit.	13:08
	If you would allow me, I think it is appropriate on this	13:14
	occasion that we revive our memory somewhat, not	13:20
	only of the man but what he stood for and more specifically	13:25
	of where we are if you've opened your program,	13:30
	you've seen the theme, the dream continues.	13:35
	The dream, most assuredly, continues.	13:42
	Brother Martin in Washington DC, 1963.	13:48
	When the architects of our Republic wrote the magnificent	13:56
	words of the Constitution and the Declaration of	13:59
	Independence, they were signing a promissory note	14:01
	to which every American was to fall heir.	14:07
	The note was a promise that all men would be	14:11
	guaranteed their inalienable rights.	14:15
	That among these are those of life, liberty	14:17
	and the pursuit of happiness.	14:20
	It is obvious today, April 4th, 1979	14:25
	that America has defaulted on this promissory note	14:32
	and so far as their citizens of color are concerned.	14:36
	Instead of honoring this sacred obligation,	14:41
	America has given the Negro people a bad check,	14:44
	a check which has come back marked insufficient funds.	14:48
	But we, as a people, refuse to believe that the bank of	14:52
	justice is bankrupt, we refuse to believe that there	14:57
	are insufficient funds in the great vault of opportunity	15:01
	and this great land so we have come to cash in this check,	15:04
	a check that will give us upon demand the riches of	15:12
	freedom and the security of justice.	15:17
	Again, welcome to this tribute.	15:24
	At this time, will we all stand and join in	15:29
	in singing the black national anthem.	15:31
	(pleasant music)	15:46
	♪ Lift every voice and sing, ♪	16:11
	♪ Till earth and heaven ring ♪	16:17
	♪ Ring with the harmonies of Liberty ♪	16:23
	♪ Let our rejoicing rise, ♪	16:35
	♪ High as the listening skies, ♪	16:41
	♪ Let it resound loud as the rolling sea ♪	16:49
	♪ Sing a song full of the faith ♪	17:03
	♪ that the dark past has taught us, ♪	17:09
	♪ Sing a song full of the hope that ♪	17:14
	♪ the present has brought us ♪	17:22
	♪ Facing the rising sun of our new day begun, ♪	17:30
	♪ Let us march on till victory is won ♪	17:45
	Thank you very much.	18:00
	At this time, Brother Chavis will give us the scripture.	18:11
-	From the Gospel of Matthew chapter five,	18:41
	verse 10:	18:48
	Blessed are those who are persecuted	18:55
	for righteousness sake	19:03
	for theirs is the Kingdom of heaven.	19:07
	May the lord's blessing be upon	19:16
	the reading of the holy scripture.	19:18
-	Let us pray.	19:39
	Oh God our help in ages past, our hope for years to come.	19:44
	Our shelter from the stormy blast and our eternal home.	19:53
	Everlasting god our father, it is again that we come	19:59
	as humble as we know how, realizing that all of us have	20:03
	sinned and fallen short of the glory of god.	20:08
	As we come, oh god, on this auspicious occasion,	20:13
	we come confessing that many of us as leaders have	20:18
	placed political expediency above principle righteousness	20:23
	and justice, we come, oh god, confessing that many of the	20:29
	leaders of our nation and our state and our city	20:35
	have been a tail light of regression rather than a	20:39
	headlight of progression, we come confessing, this evening,	20:42
	oh heavenly father that many of us have become captives	20:47
	of the state rather than conscious of the state.	20:51
	Oh god, we come asking for thy forgiveness.	20:55
	Oh god, forgive us for turning the dream of the Late	20:59
	Martin Luther King into a nightmare of defiance	21:04
	against equal education, pornography in literature,	21:08
	corruption in politics, forgive those, oh god, of us	21:15
	who have retreated from the struggle for a few economic	21:20
	crumbs that fall from the tables.	21:25
	But oh god, our father we come because we know there is	21:29
	power in prayer and we realize, oh god, that you said	21:33
	ask and it shall be given, you said seek and we shall find.	21:36
	You said knock and the door shall be opened.	21:41
	We're calling on you this evening because we know there's	21:44
	power in prayer, oh god, our father, we appeal	21:46
	to the god of Abraham, to the god of Isaac	21:51
	and to the God of Jacob, that you would bless	21:54
	Reverend Benjamin Chavis and the Wilmington 10.	21:57
	We pray that god bless Brother Jimmy Grand and the	22:04
	Charlotte three, bless all of those, oh god, who are	22:07
	under the shackles of slavery, under the shackles of	22:11
	an evil system but oh god, we have faith tonight	22:16
	knowing that there is a god somewhere,	22:21
	the same god, our father, who unshackled the slaves	22:24
	from John Chavis even before the Emancipation Proclamation	22:31
	was signed and enabled him to go to Princeton University	22:36
	and to come back to North Carolina and to teach one of	22:40
	the Senators of this state, not only to teach one of the	22:45
	Senators but to teach one of the Governors of this state,	22:48
	that same god is able right now to lift us and lead us	22:52
	and guide us and let us know that thou art god	22:56
	and all power is in your hands because we know the power of	22:59
	god who is able to make the crooked places straight.	23:03
	Thou art a god that is able to make the rough places plain.	23:07
	Thou art a god who is able to open doors and no man can	23:11
	close 'em, thou art a god who got all power in your hand.	23:15
	And oh god, our father, we're praying to you this evening,	23:20
	oh god, we thank you, touch our hearts this evening.	23:23
	Set 'em on fire that we might be able to continue	23:26
	to walk together, that we might be able to pray together,	23:30
	that we might be able to continue to sing together	23:35
	and then when the battle is fought and the victory is won,	23:38
	we might be able to say Hallelujah, the race is run.	23:42
	Eternal life is gained, my happiness has just begun, the	23:46
	crown of life obtained, in the name of Jesus we pray, amen.	23:50
-	At this portion of our program, will Mr Bill Harrison	24:11
	come forward, he has some announcements.	24:16
-	Good evening to you all.	24:28
	The only announcement that I have is to place	24:31
	before you the fact that on tomorrow and Friday	24:35
	the Black Seminary Union at the Divinity School	24:41
	is sponsoring the Martin Luther King Jr Lecture series	24:46
	which is a series on black preaching and our lecturer	24:51
	for this year is Dr Kelly Miller Smith	24:55
	and he will be here Duke University on Thursday at eight pm	24:59
	which will be a worship service.	25:06
	At 3:15 on Thursday there will be another service	25:08
	in honor of Dr Martin Luther King in York Chapel.	25:11
	There are some pamphlets here which will tell you more	25:15
	about them and as you go out the door, some of the	25:17
	ushers will have them to distribute and on Friday	25:20
	at 9:20 am in the morning in York Chapel, he will	25:25
	deliver a lecture there on black preaching.	25:29
	We ask that those of you who can come, please do.	25:33
	For we hope that what will be said and done there will	25:36
	be beneficial to you all, I pray you god	25:40
	speed this evening, God bless.	25:42
-	At this time we'll have another	25:58
	dance number by Dance Black.	26:00
	(pleasant music)	26:11
	♪ Tell them even if they don't believe you ♪	26:28
	♪ Just tell them even if they don't receive you ♪	26:36
	♪ Tell them for me, tell them for me ♪	26:45
	♪ Please tell them for me ♪	26:48
	♪ Tell them that I loved them ♪	26:51
	♪ And I came to let them know ♪	26:56
	♪ Tell them when it seems you are forsaken ♪	27:09
	♪ Just tell them though it seems your earth is shaken ♪	27:16
	♪ Tell them for me ♪	27:25
	♪ Please tell them for me ♪	27:27
	♪ Tell them that I loved them ♪	27:32
	♪ And I came to let them know ♪	27:36
	♪ Tell that lonely man who walks all alone ♪	27:50
	♪ Tell that crying child who doesn't have a home ♪	27:58
	♪ Tell those hungry people dying most indefinitely ♪	28:05
	♪ They don't even know that I care ♪	28:13
	(pleasant music)	28:21
	♪ Tell them for me ♪	28:40
	♪ Tell them that I loved them ♪	28:43
	♪ Won't you tell them on the streets and on the highway ♪	29:02
	♪ Tell them and even on the byway ♪	29:09
	♪ Tell them I can mend the broken hearted ♪	29:16
	♪ And fix all the ones who have parted ♪	29:24
	♪ And I came to let them know ♪	29:28
	♪ I came to let them know ♪	29:34
	♪ And I came to let them go ♪	29:40
	(pleasant music)	30:15
	♪ Oh happy day, oh happy day ♪	30:58
	♪ Oh happy day, oh happy day ♪	31:06
	(pleasant music)	31:14
	♪ Oh happy day, oh happy day ♪	32:14
	(pleasant music)	32:20
	♪ Oh happy day, oh happy day ♪	33:26
	♪ Oh happy day, oh happy day ♪	33:32
	♪ Oh happy day, oh happy day ♪	33:40
	♪ Oh happy day ♪	33:48
	(pleasant music)	34:55
	(choir inaudibly singing)	35:40
	(applause)	40:01
-	While the ushers bring the offering down up forward,	41:17
	will everybody please stand so that we may	41:22
	bless the offer to him and I'm asking Reverend Welcher	41:24
	to please bless the offering.	41:32
	(soft music)	41:36
	(choir music with inaudible singing)	42:32
-	This evening I'm very happy to introduce	43:28
	and present the preacher of the hour	43:36
	who is a native of Oxford, North Carolina.	43:41
	He is a minister in the United Church of Christ.	43:48
	He has studied at Howard University.	43:55
	He is a graduate of UNC Chapel Hill North Carolina.	44:03
	Presently is matriculating at the Duke Divinity School.	44:09
	He is serving his student Pastorate Internship	44:16
	at the Russel Memorial Christian Methodist Episcopal Church.	44:23
	He has been in the struggle for justice and equality	44:31
	for a number of years, he worked under the tutelage	44:36
	of the late Dr Martin Luther King with the Southern	44:41
	Christian Leadership Conference in Mississippi,	44:45
	Alabama and Georgia, yes, he's a preacher.	44:48
	He is a student, he is a child of god.	45:01
	But it's sad to say he is also a prisoner in the state	45:07
	of North Carolina, it is sad commentary that we have to	45:13
	have on the decals of our automobiles first in freedom	45:21
	and yet it has been identified that of the 18 identified	45:26
	political prisoners in the United States,	45:32
	13 of them are in the state of North Carolina.	45:36
	It is a sad commentary that this man of god who has	45:42
	a family, man who exemplifies humility, who exemplifies	45:48
	the spirit of love, the spirit of justice and concern	45:55
	for all of god's children, within the next hour and a half,	46:01
	I will have to take him back to prison, this is very sad.	46:08
	But in spite of that, we are glad to be here tonight	46:13
	because he epitomizes the fact that the struggle for justice	46:18
	and equality still goes on and I'm happy tonight that	46:23
	we have a Reverend Ben Chavis, a man who has bull dog	46:27
	determination, a man who has the courage of a Joshua,	46:33
	a man who has the bull dog tenacity of a Moses so as I	46:39
	stand to introduce him tonight to you, I'm glad	46:43
	that I can do it because I'm reminded when I was in	46:47
	the struggle in Alabama, I remember on one mass meeting	46:52
	occasion, a lady got up to speak to address the mass	46:55
	meeting and she was booed and she couldn't make her speech.	47:00
	And someone stood up in the audience and said the	47:06
	reason we don't wanna hear ya is because you're a club	47:08
	member but you haven't paid your club dues.	47:12
	I'm happy to say tonight that we have a man who is	47:15
	not only a club member but he has paid his club dues	47:19
	through three years of imprisonment and I'm glad tonight,	47:25
	on this occasion when we come to celebrate the	47:29
	assassination of the late Dr Martin Luther King,	47:35
	I'm glad tonight that we are able to introduce a man	47:38
	who is still in the struggle and we trust as he comes	47:43
	that you will give him your undivided attention as he	47:47
	comes to tell us where we are and where we need to go,	47:51
	following the selection by the choir, the next voice	47:56
	you will hear will be that of none other than the	47:59
	Reverend Benjamin Chavis Jr of Oxford, North Carolina.	48:03
	Let's give him a big hand.	48:08
	(applause)
-	Testing.	48:53
	Testing, one, two.	49:06
	(pleasant music)	49:10
	(applause)	49:21
	(soft music)	49:30
	♪ Lord, let me have a dream ♪	50:12
	♪ Without being a dreamer, oh lord ♪	50:20
	♪ Let me have a vision ♪	50:30
	♪ Without being consumed of it ♪	50:36
	♪ And let me work with diligence ♪	50:42
	♪ Always knowing that you are the start and the end of it ♪	50:50
	♪ And oh lord, let everything, everything I do ♪	50:58
	♪ Remind me of my love for you ♪	51:08
	♪ And lord, teach me how to love ♪	51:15
	♪ For so many are there in need of being, oh lord ♪	51:25
	♪ Teach me how to give ♪	51:33
	♪ For it's in giving, lord, that we truly learn how to live ♪	51:40
	♪ And let me work, let me work, please ♪	51:45
	♪ Let me work with diligence ♪	51:50
	♪ Always knowing that you are the start of end of it ♪	51:53
	♪ And oh my lord, let everything, everything I do ♪	52:01
	♪ Remind me of my love for you ♪	52:09
	♪ And lord, teach me how to love ♪	52:21
	♪ For so many are, they are in need of it, oh my lord ♪	52:30
	♪ Teach me how to truly give ♪	52:38
	♪ For it's in giving, lord, that I found that ♪	52:45
	♪ I truly learn to live and let me work ♪	52:47
	♪ Let me work, please, let me work with diligence ♪	52:54
	♪ Always knowing that you are the start, ♪	52:58
	♪ You are the start and the end of it ♪	53:02
	♪ And oh my lord, lord, let everything, ♪	53:06
	♪ Let everything I do ♪	53:11
	♪ Remind me of my love for you ♪	53:15
	♪ And oh lord, lord, why don't you let everything, ♪	53:21
	♪ Everything, everything I do ♪	53:27
	♪ Remind me of my love for you ♪	53:34
	(applause)	53:47
	(soft music)	54:27
	♪ To a place I'll live eternally ♪	54:35
	♪ Special place prepared just for me ♪	54:41
	♪ I'm going away, I'm going away, away ♪	54:46
	♪ I'm going away, I'm going away, oh yes, I am ♪	55:03
	♪ No more tears, sorrows over there ♪	55:18
	♪ We will live free from every care ♪	55:25
	♪ I'm going away ♪	55:29
	♪ I'm going away, away ♪	55:33
	♪ You will look for me and I'll be gone ♪	55:48
	♪ They'll be nobody there to put me out ♪	55:54
	♪ I'm going away, I'm going away ♪	55:58
	♪ I'm going away, oh yes I am ♪	56:14
	♪ Prepare just for me lord ♪	56:27
	♪ We gonna live eternally ♪	56:32
	♪ I'm going away, yes I am ♪	56:36
	♪ Oh yes I am, I'm going away ♪	56:46
	♪ I'm going away, oh yes I am ♪	56:55
	♪ One of these mornings, won't be very long ♪	57:01
	♪ You'll look for me, I'll be gone ♪	57:07
	♪ I'm going to glory, sing and shout ♪	57:13
	♪ Nobody there can put me out ♪	57:19
	♪ I'm gonna look up David in the heat of the day ♪	57:25
	♪ Gonna tune my harp and begin to play ♪	57:31
	♪ I'm gonna talk with the father ♪	57:37
	♪ And I'm gonna talk with his son ♪	57:40
	♪ Gonna tell 'em about the world that I've come from ♪	57:44
	♪ Gonna see my mother, my father too ♪	57:50
	♪ All of my friends gonna be up there too ♪	57:56
	♪ I'm going away, I'm going away, I'm going away ♪	58:01
	♪ Yes, I'm going away, surely, going away ♪	58:09
	♪ I'm goin', goin', goin', goin', goin', goin', goin' away ♪	58:16
	♪ Oh yes I am ♪	58:24
	♪ Oh yeah, yeah, yeah ♪	58:29
	♪ Goin', goin', goin', goin', goin', goin', goin', yes I am ♪	58:47
	♪ I'm goin' away, goin' away, goin' away, yes I am ♪	58:59
	♪ Won't be too long till someday ♪	59:10
	♪ Let me see ya clap your hands, everybody clap your hands ♪	59:17
	♪ If you're goin' away, oh yes ♪	59:23
	♪ We're goin' to see the king, oh yeah ♪	59:29
	♪ Goin' to see the king, so soon, oh ♪	59:35
	♪ We're goin' away, we're goin' away ♪	59:41
	♪ If you're goin' away, goin' to see the king, oh, yeah ♪	59:47
	♪ Someday we're goin' goin' goin', yeah ♪	1:00:01
	♪ We're gonna meet, we're gonna meet, we're gonna meet, yeah ♪	1:00:07
	♪ So soon we're goin', goin', goin', goin', oh yes ♪	1:00:14
	♪ We're gonna meet, we're gonna meet up there ♪	1:00:29
	♪ Gonna meet, oh, away, away, away ♪	1:00:34
	(applause)	1:00:44
	(soft music)	1:01:04
	♪ I'm goin' away, oh yes I am ♪	1:01:13
	♪ I'm goin' away, goin' away, goin' away ♪	1:01:23
	♪ Yes I am, I'm going away ♪	1:01:32
	♪ Oh yeah ♪	1:01:39
	(applause)	1:01:44
	♪ I'm going away ♪	1:01:52
	♪ Goin' goin' goin' goin' goin' goin' goin', yeah ♪	1:02:02
	(applause)	1:02:18
-	First and foremost I want to thank God	1:02:41
	for enabling me to stand before you.	1:02:49
	As we worship and praise god together in this	1:02:56
	historic tribute to the life,	1:03:01
	to the work,	1:03:07
	ministry, sacrifice,	1:03:10
	and dream of Martin Luther King Jr.	1:03:15
	I want to express my humble gratitude to the	1:03:25
	Alpha Fy Alpha Fy Fraternity	1:03:28
	and the Duke University Black Campus Ministry	1:03:32
	for co-sponsoring this service	1:03:34
	and to Dance Black and to the Modern Black Dance Choir	1:03:41
	and to the Russell Memorial CME Church Choir.	1:03:46
	I think all of oughta say Amen.	1:03:50
-	Amen.	1:03:52
-	This is a revival.
	Although I know the hour is kind of late but	1:04:00
	we're gonna spend a few minutes, a few moments to	1:04:04
	serve the lord,	1:04:12
	so glad to see the multitudes have come out.	1:04:19
	I understand tonight we have official visitors	1:04:25
	and representatives of the office of Governor James Hunt	1:04:30
	present and I'm glad, I'm glad.	1:04:35
	(applause)	1:04:40
	I'm also very happy to be here in the company of	1:04:54
	the Reverend LH Welch along with the members of	1:04:59
	Russel Memorial CME Church.	1:05:04
	I bring you greetings tonight from Dr Charles E Cobb	1:05:11
	of the Executive Director of the United Church of Christ	1:05:15
	commissioned for racial justice.	1:05:20
	Additionally I would like to take this opportunity to	1:05:26
	express my appreciation to the administration,	1:05:30
	faculty and student body of Duke University for their	1:05:35
	very kind reception that I have received during the	1:05:41
	past nine months while attending the Divinity School.	1:05:45
	And last but not least, I'm very happy, so very happy	1:05:53
	to see my family who also have come to join with us tonight.	1:05:57
	You know that the lord moves in mysterious ways.	1:06:05
	And as I observe	1:06:10
	the artistic and the aesthetic splendor	1:06:16
	of the medieval gothic architecture	1:06:21
	(applause)	1:06:26
	of this chapel.	1:06:32
	I'm reminded that the true beauty of this building	1:06:37
	is the realization of the fact that the Holy Spirit dwells	1:06:43
	here because this is the Lord's house.	1:06:50
	Yet the essential question is whether or not	1:06:56
	you will allow the Holy Spirit to dwell in your heart.	1:06:59
	Fear is gone tonight, fear is gone.	1:07:07
	I have been cautioned to be careful what I say.	1:07:14
	But under the circumstances, I have no fear.	1:07:22
	I only fear God Almighty.	1:07:28
	(applause)
	You can lock me in a prison but you cannot lock Jesus out.	1:07:42
	(applause)	1:07:48
	On this day 11 years ago, in Memphis, Tennessee	1:07:53
	a sinful, a sinful	1:08:00
	calculated attempt was made	1:08:04
	to stop and to shatter	1:08:07
	the dream of not only a great	1:08:12
	Christian leader but also it was an evil attempt	1:08:14
	to stop and to shatter the dream of an oppressed people.	1:08:19
	The tragedy of April the 4th, 1968	1:08:28
	was only a culmination of a long series of attempts	1:08:32
	to shatter the dream of the dreamer.	1:08:38
	After countless acts of intimidation, harassments,	1:08:45
	jailings, persecutions, Martin Luther King Jr	1:08:52
	paid the ultimate price,	1:08:58
	he gave his life for the sake	1:09:02
	of freedom for all of God's people.	1:09:06
	Tonight, for the next few minutes, I invite you to	1:09:11
	think with me on the topic,	1:09:16
	the dream continues.	1:09:20
	The dream continues.	1:09:25
	As Christians, we are aware from the early days of the	1:09:30
	church, down through the ages,	1:09:35
	almost continuously there have been many	1:09:39
	persecuted and marked solely because	1:09:43
	of the effectiveness and the obedience of their faithful	1:09:47
	witness to the Gospel of Jesus Christ.	1:09:52
	Let us listen carefully to the Gospel of Saint Matthew,	1:09:59
	chapter five, verse one through 12.	1:10:05
	Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain	1:10:10
	and when he sat down, his disciples came to him	1:10:16
	and he opened his mouth and taught them saying	1:10:21
	blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the	1:10:26
	Kingdom of heaven,	1:10:31
	blessed are those who mourn	1:10:35
	for they shall be comforted,	1:10:40
	blessed are the meek	1:10:44
	for they shall inherit the earth,	1:10:48
	blessed are those who hunger	1:10:52
	and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.	1:10:56
	Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.	1:11:02
	Blessed are the pure in heart	1:11:08
	for they shall see God.	1:11:12
	Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called	1:11:17
	the sons of god,	1:11:21
	blessed are those who are persecuted	1:11:24
	for righteousness sake,	1:11:27
	for theirs shall be the kingdom of heaven,	1:11:29
	blessed are you when men revile you and persecute you	1:11:34
	and utter all kinds of evil against you	1:11:39
	falsely on my account,	1:11:44
	rejoice and be glad for your reward is great in	1:11:48
	heaven for so men persecuted	1:11:52
	the prophets who were before you,	1:11:57
	lord, bless that reading.	1:12:03
	Here in the Gospel of Matthew, we find our lord and savior	1:12:08
	Jesus Christ up on a high mountain,	1:12:13
	teaching the moral and ethical presets of Christian life.	1:12:18
	Jesus was instructed in both his disciples and the	1:12:25
	multitudes who have gathered to hear him.	1:12:28
	These verses of holy scriptures are the beginning of what	1:12:34
	is commonly know, the Sermon on the Mount.	1:12:37
	In particular, verses three through 12 of the fifth	1:12:42
	chapter of Matthew are referred to as the Beatitudes.	1:12:46
	And it is the eighth beatitude in verse 10 that I	1:12:53
	have chosen for the text, Blessed are those	1:12:57
	who are persecuted for righteousness sake,	1:13:02
	for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.	1:13:05
	The word blessed literally	1:13:09
	translated means	1:13:15
	an inner joy that is untouchable, an inner joy	1:13:17
	that is untouchable by anything in the world,	1:13:21
	untouchable joy, when a Christian disciple accepts god's	1:13:24
	call, nothing on earth can touch him.	1:13:29
	When a Christian disciple asks for god and his soul,	1:13:33
	nothin' in the world can stop him.	1:13:37
	A true Christian does not try to ride the fence	1:13:41
	between the crucial issues of life.	1:13:47
	A true Christian does not try to avoid	1:13:50
	taking a stand for justice and freedom.	1:13:53
	A true Christian does not try to avoid taking up the cross	1:13:57
	of struggle for all of god's people.	1:14:02
	If you are livin' a life	1:14:07
	of involvement for righteousness sake,	1:14:12
	you must expect persecution.	1:14:17
	You might as well look forward to it.	1:14:21
	However, the text additionally informs us	1:14:26
	that if you are persecuted for righteousness sake,	1:14:31
	the kingdom of heaven will be yours.	1:14:34
	Because of Martin Luther King Jr's	1:14:40
	effective leadership in the civil rights	1:14:48
	and human rights movement,	1:14:50
	because of his Christian leadership, he was	1:14:52
	singled out for persecution.	1:14:56
	It is important to understand that the strategy to silence	1:15:00
	Dr King was a strategy to silence the freedom movement.	1:15:03
	Part of American history is a sad commentary	1:15:12
	of 400 years,	1:15:16
	400 years of systematic denial	1:15:19
	of fundamental human rights.	1:15:24
	Black Americans and other minority citizens.	1:15:28
	It's a sad commentary.	1:15:32
	The Christian Church too often has found	1:15:36
	itself on the wrong side.	1:15:40
	The Christian Church too often,	1:15:47
	during these past 400 years	1:15:52
	has found itself on the wrong side.	1:15:53
	Too often the church's main has remained silent	1:15:58
	admits the injustice and human exploitation	1:16:00
	but thank god the black church in America has been	1:16:07
	like a constant piercing sharp	1:16:11
	thorn in the side of America.	1:16:16
	Thank god the black church has proclaimed the	1:16:20
	liberating gospel of Jesus Christ.	1:16:22
	Thank god that there has been a continuous voice	1:16:26
	crying out in the wilderness, prepare ye the way of the	1:16:31
	lord, make straight the highway in the desert for God,	1:16:35
	every valley shall be lifted up and every mountain	1:16:41
	and hill be made low, the uneven ground shall become level	1:16:44
	and in rough places, a plane.	1:16:50
	Therefore, we are gathered together tonight to give	1:16:56
	thanks to God for the freedom that is in Christ.	1:17:00
	We are here to take time to say that the life and the death	1:17:06
	of Dr King still has a tremendous	1:17:11
	significance for us all.	1:17:16
	We are here to affirm that	1:17:21
	the dream continues.	1:17:24
	A dream can be defined as a series of thoughts,	1:17:30
	images or emotions occurring during sleep.	1:17:35
	Or further a dream can be a visionary creation of the	1:17:41
	imagination but this is not the kind of dream that	1:17:45
	I am talking about,	1:17:50
	Dr King's dream was not some type of mysterious,	1:17:55
	abstract other worldly experience in the subconscious.	1:17:58
	Dr King's dream was a conscious desire for the	1:18:03
	freedom of all people	1:18:08
	and as he used to articulate it,	1:18:12
	it was very close to the so called American dream.	1:18:14
	Yet Martin's dream transcended the so called American dream	1:18:19
	because Martin Luther King Jr recognized that we're	1:18:24
	all creatures of god, created equally in the image of god.	1:18:26
	Martin defined his dream as a goal or a quest	1:18:34
	for the equality of human opportunity.	1:18:41
	A dream of a land where men will not take the necessities	1:18:46
	from the many to give luxuries to the few,	1:18:51
	a dream of a land where men and women do not argue	1:18:55
	that the color of one's skin determines the content	1:19:00
	of one's character, a dream of a place where all gifts	1:19:03
	and resources are not held for ourselves alone	1:19:07
	but as for instruments of service to the rest of humanity,	1:19:10
	a dream of a country where every man and woman will	1:19:17
	respect the dignity and worth of all human personality	1:19:19
	and where all people would dare to	1:19:25
	live together as brothers and sisters.	1:19:27
	I believe as Martin Luther King Jr believed,	1:19:35
	that this universal dream	1:19:41
	and quest for freedom existed	1:19:45
	originally in the mind of God	1:19:49
	and that Martin was one of the long	1:19:53
	evangelical succession of prophetic witnesses	1:19:56
	in the communication of God's dream to God's people.	1:20:01
	Dr King knew that there were the powers of evil who	1:20:06
	would eventually cause him physical harm if he persisted	1:20:11
	in proclaiming the dream,	1:20:15
	yet as a preacher of a gospel,	1:20:19
	he believed in the promises that Jesus made up on that	1:20:21
	mountain, blessed are those who are persecuted for	1:20:26
	righteousness sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.	1:20:30
	Another aspect of this dream	1:20:39
	is that it affirms that freedom is a constant struggle.	1:20:45
	In fact I can clearly see in Martin's dream,	1:20:50
	the dream of Fredrick Douglas.	1:20:57
	I can see in Martin Luther King's dream,	1:21:01
	the dream of Shaka, the Zulu freedom fighter.	1:21:02
	I can see the dreams of Richard Allen, Nathaniel Turner,	1:21:07
	Harriet Tubman, Henry Garnett, WB Dubois,	1:21:11
	Malcolm X and Medgar Evers,	1:21:16
	part of Dr King's dream was a	1:21:20
	teleological expression of the historical quest	1:21:24
	for freedom,	1:21:28
	for black freedom in America and in Africa.	1:21:31
	That dream was to understand the necessity to pick up	1:21:38
	the cross of struggle,	1:21:44
	during this Lenten season,	1:21:49
	leading up to the Easter celebration,	1:21:51
	I wonder how many of you are willing	1:21:56
	to pick up the cross of Jesus.	1:21:59
	I wonder how many of you are willing to	1:22:03
	be persecuted for righteousness sake.	1:22:06
	I wonder how many of you are willing to take a	1:22:12
	visible stand for justice.	1:22:14
	I wonder how many of you are willing to do unto	1:22:18
	others as you would have others do unto you.	1:22:21
	As Robert Cushman affirms, the Christian is called into	1:22:30
	a transformed life which is a cruciform life.	1:22:35
	The gospel teaches us that Jesus told his disciples	1:22:41
	if any man or if any woman would come after me,	1:22:47
	let him or her deny themselves	1:22:54
	and take up the cross and follow me	1:22:58
	for whoever would save his life will lose it	1:23:03
	and whoever loses his soul for my sake will find it.	1:23:07
	For what will it profit a man if he gains the	1:23:12
	whole world and forfeits his soul?	1:23:15
	So I ask the question must Jesus bear the cross alone	1:23:26
	and all of the world go free, no.	1:23:33
	There's a cross for everyone and there's a cross for me.	1:23:37
	Yes, we're gonna have to bear the cross right here	1:23:43
	in the state of North Carolina	1:23:45
	where it is quite evident	1:23:49
	that the sins of racism are overtly manifest.	1:23:53
	Why is it that out of all of the 50 states,	1:24:01
	one state says we are not gonna integrate our	1:24:03
	state University system, why is it?	1:24:06
	(applause)	1:24:09
	Why is it with all of the factories that we have,	1:24:18
	all of the industrial production that we have	1:24:20
	that North Carolina ranks 50th in industrial	1:24:23
	wages that are paid to the workers, why is it?	1:24:26
	(applause)	1:24:30
	Why is it that folk in this state are just plum	1:24:36
	scared to death to struggle, why is it?	1:24:38
	It's because they know that 10 people from Wilmington	1:24:46
	and three from Charlotte went to jail.	1:24:50
	There is fear in this state, there is fear in this state.	1:24:53
	(applause)	1:24:57
	We need to bear the cross of struggle.	1:24:59
	We need to confront the sin that's in this state.	1:25:04
	And so for my good friends, I really wish the Governor	1:25:09
	was here himself, but I want you to tell old Pharaoh,	1:25:13
	tell old Pharaoh, tell old Pharaoh,	1:25:20
	tell old Pharaoh,	1:25:26
	thus says the Lord God, let my people go.	1:25:30
	Let my people go!	1:25:36
	(applause)
	I'm a native of North Carolina.	1:25:57
	This is my home state so I feel I can talk about home.	1:26:01
	(applause)	1:26:04
	The only way to deal with sin is to deal	1:26:11
	with it straight up.	1:26:13
	(cheering)
	We've got to pull the sheet off of the	1:26:18
	camouflage that's been on this state.	1:26:21
	God is both a God of love	1:26:35
	and a God of justice.	1:26:39
	Love and justice are inseparable.	1:26:43
	You can't have one without the other.	1:26:46
	If there's no justice, there's no love.	1:26:50
	If there's no love, there's no justice.	1:26:53
	God does act in history,	1:27:02
	god is gonna act in North Carolina history,	1:27:06
	believe you me, my sisters and my brothers.	1:27:13
	(applause)	1:27:17
	Tonight is a living example	1:27:21
	of the power of God Almighty.	1:27:26
	Believe me, we have black and white,	1:27:32
	old and young, rich and poor	1:27:37
	sharing this time together to talk about a	1:27:42
	dream that will transform some of the divisions that	1:27:45
	have kept us apart for too long, for too long.	1:27:50
	And this is where the message should be proclaimed	1:27:55
	right in the house of the lord.	1:27:59
	And I know that some of the things I say may	1:28:03
	be disturbing to the dry bones down in the basement.	1:28:05
	(applause)	1:28:10
	But when the spirit of the lord is upon	1:28:23
	you, the truth must be told.	1:28:24
	(applause)
	God acts in human history on behalf of the poor	1:28:34
	and the oppressed,	1:28:36
	I agree with Professor Herzog when he said that	1:28:40
	when we come to celebrate holy communion.	1:28:45
	When we drink the wine and partake of the body	1:28:48
	of our lord and savior,	1:28:53
	Jesus Christ in the Eucharistic feast,	1:28:54
	that is a faith affirmation, that is you involving yourself	1:28:59
	in the life of Jesus Christ and his holy spirit who	1:29:04
	shed his blood that you be free.	1:29:08
	You see, we have to understand what Paul was talking	1:29:13
	about when he wrote to the Galatians, to the church	1:29:15
	in Galatia when he said Christ has made you free.	1:29:18
	Never submit to the yoke of freedom again.	1:29:25
	If you take holy communion and participate in the freedom	1:29:30
	that is within Jesus Christ,	1:29:35
	never submit to the yoke of slavery,	1:29:38
	never, not sometime, never.	1:29:43
	Slavery is against God.	1:29:50
	God didn't intend for any of his creatures to be exploited.	1:29:54
	God didn't intend for the white man to be over the black	1:30:00
	man, God didn't intend for the black man	1:30:04
	to be over the white man, god intended for us all to live	1:30:05
	and struggle together as brothers and sisters.	1:30:09
	(applause)	1:30:12
	Modern society tends to ignore God's providential activity	1:30:21
	and the ultimacy of God's power.	1:30:26
	One prime example since I talked about North Carolina,	1:30:31
	I might as well talk about Pennsylvania.	1:30:35
	In Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania, is a classic	1:30:38
	example of modern society ignoring God's	1:30:41
	providential activity in human history.	1:30:45
	You see we tend to build up modern towers of Babel.	1:30:50
	We tend to put our ultimate value in nuclear power	1:30:57
	and forget all about god's power.	1:31:02
	You see, I think we have to step on the toes of	1:31:06
	Con Edison Power Company, Carolina Power Company	1:31:12
	and Duke Power Company.	1:31:15
	(applause)
	Where corporate boards make decisions not in the interests	1:31:20
	of humanity but in the interest of monopoly profit.	1:31:23
	Talkin' about corporate sin that we all share in,	1:31:29
	that we all share in	1:31:33
	but I know a greater power company,	1:31:37
	a greater power company where there are only	1:31:40
	three members on the board, only three members.	1:31:44
	(applause)	1:31:47
	Only three members.	1:31:50
	(applause)
	The greatest power company in the world.	1:31:56
	The father, the son and the Holy Spirit.	1:31:58
	(applause)	1:32:01
	America is heading on a self destructive course.	1:32:09
	America better get right with God.	1:32:14
	Brothers and sisters, we all better get right	1:32:19
	with god by getting right with Jesus.	1:32:21
	We better get right with god by getting right with Jesus	1:32:28
	and getting right with Jesus is picking up the cross	1:32:31
	and struggling for all of god's peoples sake.	1:32:37
	Picking up the cross, struggle,	1:32:43
	getting right with Jesus.	1:32:47
	Rather than allowing society to transform us into	1:32:51
	social conformists, we must transform society into	1:32:55
	the dream of Martin Luther King Jr.	1:32:59
	Brother C Eric Lincoln is correct when he states that	1:33:05
	contemporary Western society is characterized by	1:33:08
	an exaggerated social flux.	1:33:13
	This inordinate instability is productive	1:33:17
	of a certain catastrophic debilitative anxiety.	1:33:23
	With sins frantically, which sends people frantically	1:33:30
	for assurance among the multi various institutions	1:33:33
	for which society fortifies itself against disillusion.	1:33:37
	Let me break that down, Br Lincoln gets kinda out there.	1:33:43
	(applause)	1:33:46
	The point I'm trying to make and the point Br Lincoln	1:33:55
	is making is that America cannot solve	1:33:57
	or cannot save itself	1:34:01
	without the saving prevenient grace of the lord.	1:34:03
	Can't save itself.	1:34:06
	You can build 100 nuclear reactors, that is not	1:34:09
	gonna solve the energy problem.	1:34:13
	The main problem with America, the main problem	1:34:16
	with the world is human sin, human sin.	1:34:18
	When one people will try to exploit the other	1:34:22
	for the profit of a few people.	1:34:24
	The Christian church has to begin to attack the race	1:34:28
	problem, the Christian church has to begin to attack	1:34:32
	the class problem, it's coming to America.	1:34:35
	We cannot isolate ourselves from the rest of the world.	1:34:39
	Imperialism is on it's death bed.	1:34:43
	Monopoly Capitalism is on the way out.	1:34:46
	(applause)	1:34:48
	Therefore, the dream, the quest, the struggle is not	1:34:53
	just to redeem black America from white oppression	1:34:56
	but the dream includes the	1:34:59
	redemption of all of god's people.	1:35:00
	Liberation theology proclaims the freedom of the	1:35:03
	enslaved and of the enslaver.	1:35:06
	I ask Professor Herbert Edwards to sum up	1:35:10
	the impact or to describe the reaction	1:35:14
	to Dr King's dream.	1:35:20
	What was the real reaction of America to	1:35:22
	Dr King's dream in the United States?	1:35:26
	Brother Edwards stated that, quote,	1:35:29
	it was frightening.	1:35:35
	It laid bare for the first time	1:35:39
	that Americans were never	1:35:43
	really committed to a society	1:35:48
	based on the ideals of the Declaration of Independence.	1:35:52
	Martin Luther King's dream is frightening	1:35:58
	because he dared America to live up to	1:36:04
	its moral standards.	1:36:09
	(applause)	1:36:12
	Frightening.	1:36:13
	(applause)
	That's why he was labeled a subversive.	1:36:20
	That's why he was put on a hit list,	1:36:26
	not only by the Klan but by the US Government.	1:36:28
	Common interests, common interests.	1:36:33
	What King did was to call into question the use of	1:36:42
	universal language with particularistic application.	1:36:44
	Yes, what Brother King did was to call this country	1:36:52
	into a moral and ethical judgment under	1:36:55
	the providential eyes of God Almighty.	1:36:57
	And so where are we today?	1:37:03
	Are we any closer to	1:37:09
	community or have we gone	1:37:12
	closer to the chaos foretold by the prophet?	1:37:14
	One thing though is clear,	1:37:22
	the dream continues.	1:37:26
	The dream continues, for blessed are those who	1:37:30
	are persecuted for righteousness sake.	1:37:33
	For theirs is the kingdom of heaven.	1:37:36
	See, they can kill the dreamer	1:37:39
	but you cannot kill the dream.	1:37:41
	(applause)	1:37:43
	They crucified Jesus but on the third day he rose again.	1:37:47
	Tonight I'm calling for a revitalization of the civil	1:37:52
	rights movement and the human rights movement.	1:37:56
	Let us all rededicate ourselves to be about the	1:38:00
	constant cause of human freedom through Jesus.	1:38:04
	Let us rededicate ourselves to join hands together	1:38:10
	both black and white as we seek to do the will of god.	1:38:13
	Let us be born again in the struggle for worldwide love	1:38:20
	and peace based on a universal premise of	1:38:23
	brotherhood and sisterhood.	1:38:26
	I am confident that if Martin Luther King Jr	1:38:30
	could speak directly to us tonight,	1:38:34
	he would forthrightly tell us that if you really	1:38:38
	want to keep the dream alive, do not go out	1:38:43
	and build monuments to me	1:38:46
	because it is not I, but god	1:38:50
	who assures human freedom through Christ.	1:38:53
	Martin would surely tell us that if want to keep the	1:38:57
	dream alive, then go out there where the people are	1:38:59
	suffering and try to help somebody.	1:39:04
	Go out there where the people are hungry	1:39:06
	and try to help feed somebody.	1:39:09
	Go out there where the people are oppressed	1:39:11
	and try to help liberate somebody.	1:39:14

-	How long?	0:04
	How long, God, how long?	0:07
	How long, God, will the (mumbles) three	0:11
	have to stay in prison?	0:13
	How long, oh, Father,	0:17
	will I be locked away from my family?	0:21
	How long, God, how long	0:25
	will my people have to	0:28
	be under the chain of slavery	0:31
	that has been taken off their ankles	0:34
	and put on their brains?	0:36
	How long?	0:38
	(audience applauds)	0:39
	How long, God, how long?	0:40
	How long, Lord, will our people come to services like this	0:48
	and by tomorrow morning will have forgotten the dream?	0:51
	How long? How long?	0:56
	How long will the mothers have to cry at night?	1:01
	How long	1:05
	will my white brother refuse to hold my hand?	1:08
	How long? How long?	1:11
	Not long.	1:17
	Not long.	1:20
	Not long.	1:23
	The eschatological peruser is right around the corner.	1:25
	Not long.	1:31
	Will thou save the eschaton? Not long.	1:34
	Not long.	1:38
	Freedom is coming. Won't be long.	1:40
	What we have to do is to keep the faith.	1:44
	Keep the faith. Don't lose sight of the struggle.	1:47
	And don't lose your responsibility, people.	1:51
	We all have a part to play in this struggle.	1:54
	There is no individual.	1:57
	One of the biggest problems that North Carolinians has	1:58
	is this problem of recognition.	2:01
	Everybody wants to get up on the soap box	2:03
	and be the leader. But you can't have,	2:05
	you can't be a leader until you're a good follower.	2:08
	And I suggest to you tonight that if you follow Jesus Christ	2:11
	He will show you how to lead your people.	2:14
	(audience applauds)	2:17
	So it won't be long.	2:25
	That's why we have to keep on singing "We Shall Overcome."	2:27
	April the fourth, 1979.	2:35
	Brother Martin, it's been 11 years.	2:41
	We cannot let you down.	2:46
	But Brother Martin, at least here in Durham, North Carolina,	2:50
	in this chapel for a few moments,	2:54
	we're gonna rededicate ourselves to your dream.	2:57
	We're gonna try to use our energy, our talents,	3:03
	whatever education that we've allowed to have	3:05
	to make a reality out of that dream.	3:10
	So Brother Martin, rest. Rest comfortably, Brother.	3:14
	We're not gonna let you down totally.	3:20
	The mere fact that so many of you have come out tonight.	3:25
	I hope it wasn't just out of curiosity.	3:28
	But I hope that you will leave here with a new commitment.	3:31
	Not only on your lips but in your heart	3:36
	to turn North Carolina around. To turn America around.	3:41
	To turn the world around.	3:45
	So we have to let freedom ring.	3:52
	We have to let freedom ring.	3:59
	In our hearts, in our lives.	4:04
	In our workplaces. In our classrooms.	4:08
	In our prison cells. In our hospitals.	4:13
	In our rest homes.	4:17
	Wherever God's people are, we have to let freedom ring.	4:19
	And when we let freedom ring from every village	4:27
	and from every hamlet,	4:31
	when we let freedom ring from every state	4:34
	and from every city,	4:36
	when we let freedom ring from wherever God's people are,	4:38
	we will be able to speed up the day	4:43
	when all of God's children,	4:46
	black men and white men	4:50
	and white women and black women,	4:53
	black youth and white youth,	4:56
	Jews and Gentiles,	4:59
	Islamic and Hindu, Protestant and Catholic,	5:04
	all of us one day	5:11
	if we will stick to our commitments.	5:15
	All of us one day	5:16
	will be able to join hands together	5:19
	and struggle together	5:25
	and joyously sing	5:29
	the words of that old black	5:32
	spiritual. Free.	5:37
	Free at last.	5:44
	Lord Jesus, thank you.	5:49
	We'll be free at last.	5:52
	We'll be free at last. The dream will be fulfilled.	5:57
	We'll be free at last. Thank you, Lord.	6:04
	It'll be a happy day.	6:11
	And that day is only gonna come about,	6:18
	we keep our hands to the plow and continue to struggle.	6:24
	And so as I go back to the prison now,	6:31
	I go back not with a heavy heart.	6:36
	Not with bitterness.	6:41
	But with an optimistic urge	6:44
	to participate in the freedom struggle.	6:49
	Since I was 14 years old,	6:59
	I sort of dedicated my life to the struggle.	7:04
	And it hasn't been easy.	7:12
	But I want to testify tonight that it's been rewarding.	7:16
	It has been rewarding.	7:21
	So I'm optimistic.	7:25
	I'm optimistic. We're gonna win.	7:29
	We're gonna win soon.	7:33
	'Cause God is on our side.	7:37
	A proper ending for this message would be	7:46
	for us to stand together.	7:48
	Join hands together.	7:53
	Let us sing.	7:57
	The song that Martin Luther King would want us to sing.	8:00
	(organ music)	8:15
	We Shall Overcome.	8:19
	When you sing this song you have to believe it.	8:24
	♪ We shall overcome ♪	9:01
	♪ We shall overcome ♪	9:07
	Everybody join hands.	9:12
	Let's sing together.	9:13
	♪ We shall overcome someday ♪	9:14
	♪ Oh, deep in my heart ♪	9:23
	♪ I do believe ♪	9:30
	♪ We shall overcome someday ♪	9:36
	♪ We'll walk hand in hand ♪	9:48
	We'll walk hand in hand.	9:53
	♪ We'll walk hand in hand ♪	9:55
	Yes, Lord, hand in hand.	9:58
	♪ We'll walk hand in hand someday ♪	10:00
	♪ Oh, deep in my heart ♪	10:10
	♪ I do believe ♪	10:17
	♪ We shall overcome someday ♪	10:23
	♪ We are not afraid ♪	10:34
	We're not afraid.	10:38
	♪ We are not afraid ♪	10:41
	The fear is gone tonight.	10:44
	We're not afraid.	10:45
	♪ We are not afraid today ♪	10:46
	Yes, Lord, yes.	10:54
	♪ Oh, deep in my heart ♪	10:56
	♪ I do believe ♪	11:02
	♪ We shall overcome some day ♪	11:08
	♪ God is on our side ♪	11:19
	God is on our side.	11:23
	♪ God is on our side ♪	11:25
-	Everybody sing.	11:28
	♪ God is on our side today ♪	11:30
	Let me hear you say it tonight.	11:38
-	Yes.	11:40
	♪ Oh, deep in my heart ♪	11:41
	♪ I do believe ♪	11:46
	♪ We shall overcome someday ♪	11:52
-	Remain standing for the benediction.	12:03
	Oh God,	12:08
	as we leave, Lord,	12:11
	let us say thank you one more time.	12:12
-	Thank you, Jesus.	12:15
-	Thank you for all of the goodness	12:16
	and blessings of this life.	12:18
-	Thank you.	12:20
-	You've been good to us, Lord.	12:21
-	Thank you, Jesus.	12:23
-	You've brought us a might long way.	12:25
-	Thank you, Jesus.	12:27
	Thank you, Jesus.	12:29
-	Lord, help us to pick the narrow gate.	12:31
-	Thank you, Jesus.	12:33
-	Help us to stay strong in our faith.	12:35
-	Yes.	12:38
	Come with your power.	12:40
-	Now, Lord, as we depart from one another.	12:41
-	Yes, sir.	12:43
-	Go with us to our homes.	12:44
	Bless us all.	12:48
	Bless this table.	12:51
	Bless all of they people in thy countries of the world.	12:56
	We commit ourselves today, oh, God,	13:04
	to thy struggle.	13:08
	We pray in the name of the Father,	13:11
	Son,	13:17
	and the majestic Holy Spirit.	13:19
	Amen.	13:23
	Let us sing one more verse of "We Shall Overcome"	13:24
	and we'll go.	13:27
	Bless you.	13:30
	♪ Oh we shall overcome ♪	13:33
	♪ We shall overcome ♪	13:39
	♪ We shall overcome someday ♪	13:44
	♪ Deep in my heart ♪	13:55
	♪ I do believe ♪	14:00
	♪ We shall overcome someday ♪	14:06
	Bless you.	14:17
-	Thank you, beautiful, beautiful.	14:18
	(audience applauds)	14:21
	Let's give him a big hand.	14:25
	Let's give him a big hand.	14:27
	Let's give him a hand.	14:30

Item Info

Title:

Benjamin Chavis - Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Service Tape 1 (April 4, 1979)

Description:

Christians must seek to transform society into the dream of MLK, Jr. Yet, Jesus' words in the beatitudes remind us that such work comes with a promise of persecution. We must, therefore, be ready to take up our crosses and fight for human freedom. (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)
Sermon start time: (Part 1) 1:02:42. Sermon end time: (Part 2) 14:32.
Key quotation: “So I ask the question, must Jesus bear the cross alone and all of the world go free? No, there’s a cross for everyone, and there’s a cross for me.”

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Date:

April 4, 1979

Speaker:

Chavis, Benjamin

Biblical Book:

Matthew

Chapter and Verse:

Matthew 5:10

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Duke University. Chapel

Identifier:

UA.17.01.0003 RR-1014
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