Douglas V. Steere - "The Man Who Came Back" (October 14, 1962; February 17, 1963)

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-	This service, which is about to be recorded is that...	0:05
	(soft choir music)	0:09
	I want to speak this morning about the man who came back.	0:27
	We've heard this swift story that's taken from the gospel	0:32
	about the 10 lepers who see Jesus passing	0:37
	and in the midst of their desperate need,	0:42
	they cry out for his help that they might be healed.	0:44
	And he sends them off to report themselves	0:48
	to the priest promising this healing,	0:52
	which is carried out.	0:55
	And one man comes back	0:57
	and Jesus says, "Were there not 10 who were healed,	1:02
	where are the nine?"	1:07
	And it is that question of "Where are the nine?"	1:10
	that I want to speak about here this morning.	1:14
	It's the question of ingratitude.	1:20
	Ingratitude is not easy to define	1:24
	although most of us detected swiftly	1:26
	when we see it in others	1:28
	and occasionally we're even conscious of it	1:29
	when we discover it in ourselves.	1:32
	It's a kind of a capacity to take gifts for granted	1:37
	without any kind of response for them.	1:43
	To take gifts for granted	1:47
	without any response for them.	1:49
	Sergeant Kurikov said one time that	1:53
	with an insincere man, God could do nothing.	1:55
	But with an ungrateful man, God can do still less.	1:58
	I suppose that if you were trying to analyze	2:03
	what ingratitude was, you'd find it made up	2:06
	of a considerable increment of self-absorption	2:08
	and a considerable increment of self pity.	2:13
	Self-absorption.	2:19
	Evelyn Underhill, Mrs. Stuart Moore used	2:22
	to have a story she loved to tell	2:24
	about a little wood elf who had a wheelbarrow	2:27
	and was busy in the forest collecting slugs	2:31
	and snails that destroyed the vegetation.	2:34
	And he was a very exemplary wood elf.	2:38
	He had one possession that he particularly happy about	2:41
	and one that he thought a great deal of.	2:47
	He had a soft green blanket	2:50
	that he wrapped himself in at night	2:54
	when it was cold in the forest	2:55
	and slept comfortably all night.	2:58
	This green blanket had fallen from a fairy's carriage	3:00
	as she had gone through the wood	3:03
	and he had found it and never returned it.	3:06
	And each night he wrapped himself in this	3:08
	and slept so warmly and snugly	3:10
	that he never woke up in the morning	3:12
	to see the king of the world	3:14
	that came early in the morning	3:16
	in the forest to make all things new.	3:17
	And one time an old shepherd came to this wood elf	3:19
	and he said, "Have you ever seen the king of the world?"	3:24
	And here was the wood elf	3:30
	who lived right in the midst of the forest	3:31
	and the king of the world came every morning.	3:34
	And the wood elf said, "No."	3:36
	He said, "As a matter of fact,	3:37
	I've never been able to manage it."	3:39
	And the old shepherd looked deep into his eyes	3:42
	and through his eyes into his soul	3:45
	and he said, "I seem to see something deep in your soul	3:46
	that looks to me like a blanket."	3:51
	And the wood elf knew that his secret was discovered,	3:57
	that he would rather lie wrapped	4:01
	in the soft green blanket than to arise up	4:05
	in the morning to see the king of the world.	4:09
	And it's this soft green blanket	4:11
	of ingratitude and self-absorption,	4:14
	that keeps many of us from seeing	4:18
	what is really going on	4:21
	and making any kind of adequate response to it.	4:22
	I went into the study of a distinguished	4:26
	religious leader not so long ago.	4:28
	I saw the framed copies of his honorary degrees.	4:33
	They're conspicuously displayed on the walls.	4:36
	I saw his books that he had written	4:41
	out where the sight of them could not be escaped.	4:44
	I saw pictures on the wall of the famous people	4:52
	in this country with inscriptions.	4:55
	They had signed these pictures with some dedication to him.	4:57
	There was even a picture of him on the wall,	5:01
	although he was there.	5:03
	And it made me think of the soft green blanket.	5:05
	I once went to see Selma Lagerlof,	5:12
	one of Sweden's great writers.	5:14
	She was the only woman at that time	5:17
	in the Swedish National Academy.	5:18
	This is in her own home out in the rural Sweden	5:20
	and she received me in a room that was filled	5:24
	with busts of herself that had been made	5:26
	by distinguished sculptors.	5:29
	She was there and these busts were there	5:31
	a little difficult to know just who was who.	5:33
	There seemed to be a need for self-assurance	5:36
	that was there and it was in this room	5:38
	that she received her visitors.	5:41
	I thought in contrast to this,	5:44
	to the study of my beloved colleague,	5:46
	the late Rufus Jones	5:49
	who had pictures of all of his teachers in his study.	5:52
	None of them signed that I can remember,	5:58
	and also of the great minds through the ages	6:00
	that had made contribution to him.	6:03
	Those pictures were there not to honor him,	6:05
	they were there that he might honor them	6:08
	in gratitude for what he had gotten from them.	6:10
	And I thought of the contrast between the two.	6:13
	The soft green blanket of self-absorption.	6:16
	But if you turn the blanket over	6:21
	there is just the reverse side to the same thing	6:24
	in self-pity for self-pity is only just	6:27
	the reverse side of self-absorption.	6:29
	And there again,	6:32
	there is the possibility of being	6:35
	so wrapped in self-pity that no sense	6:37
	of the gifts that have come	6:41
	to one is any longer possible.	6:43
	We can have no awareness of those	6:46
	because we are so wrapped up in self-pity.	6:47
	I have heard people speak in marriage	6:52
	about the other partner and the lack of appreciation	6:54
	of them on the part of the other partner	6:57
	to the almost utter exclusion	7:00
	of what the other partner had given to them	7:02
	and what the other partner was really	7:04
	continually pouring out upon them in this marriage.	7:06
	So wrapped that they were unable to see it.	7:10
	There's a story of an old man in his eighties,	7:14
	who went to visit another old man in the hospital	7:17
	who had been a companion of his.	7:20
	And this man was having oxygen coming up his nostrils	7:22
	and he said "George," he said,	7:28
	"There's not much hope for us now, is there?"	7:30
	He said, "George, we're pretty much	7:32
	on the downgrade now, aren't we?	7:35
	It probably won't be very long for us now, will it?"	7:37
	He said, "Is there anything I can do for you, George?"	7:40
	And his friend whom he'd come to see said,	7:42
	"Yes, would you mind taking your foot	7:44
	off the oxygen tube."	7:46
	There come those who see in life	7:49
	those dark things in their self-absorption	7:54
	that prevent them from being open	7:57
	to those things that bring life.	8:00
	There was a story of a Harvard professor...	8:04
	A play of a Harvard professor who was	8:07
	a professor of French and he had such a longing	8:09
	that he might someday be able to spend two	8:13
	or three years, which would be necessary	8:16
	in the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris	8:18
	to get out the research materials for this great book	8:20
	that he always wanted to write.	8:23
	But there were always the students he had to teach.	8:24
	And the sabbatical years were always too short.	8:27
	And there was these students who all was	8:29
	a kind of roadblock between him	8:32
	and this great feat of scholarship,	8:34
	which he was sure he would be capable	8:36
	of performing if he was only able to get there.	8:37
	And then one day in his middle life,	8:41
	he discovered that he had lung cancer	8:43
	and he had only a few matter of a few months to live.	8:45
	And then in the kind of white light of awareness	8:48
	that this brought to him,	8:51
	he was compelled to ask himself	8:53
	what if he should be given back a piece of life,	8:56
	what he most wanted.	8:58
	And it became so clear to him	9:00
	that what he most wanted would not be	9:01
	the Biblioteque Nationale but it would be	9:04
	a chance again at the students.	9:06
	There is a kind of look at life	9:11
	that professor Hawking used to tell us	9:15
	about in his classes at Harvard.	9:16
	He said, "You know, nobody gets what he deserves	9:19
	or deserves what he gets,	9:22
	but we're here in this life for the giving.	9:24
	We're here in this life for the sowing,	9:28
	not for the counting up of that which is to come.	9:31
	And it is that alone, which opens up life."	9:35
	These nine men whom Jesus is asking about,	9:42
	where are they?	9:46
	Were there not 10 who are healed,	9:48
	where are the nine?	9:49
	These nine undoubtedly we're most grateful to be healed.	9:52
	They were most grateful to have this new lease on life.	9:54
	They were most grateful to be back in circulation again.	9:57
	No doubt they had the feeling that they'd been denied	10:00
	a block of life, and now we're going	10:02
	to make up for it.	10:03
	Jesus? Oh, they might send a message	10:04
	to him someday of gratitude or the one he served,	10:06
	or they might think of him sometime.	10:10
	But now, they were busy in life.	10:12
	Were there not a 10 who were healed,	10:15
	where are the nine?	10:17
	But there was the man who came back.	10:21
	One man who came back, threw himself at Jesus' feet	10:24
	and in great thankfulness opened himself up	10:28
	to the one who had cleansed him.	10:32
	And gratitude alone, as we experience it,	10:41
	can help us to understand	10:44
	what ingratitude really is	10:45
	and cannot only help us to see that as it's shadow,	10:50
	but can open up to us life itself.	10:53
	I have in my desk at home, as many of you have,	10:57
	a central drawer which is connected	10:59
	with the side drawers in such a way	11:03
	that when I pull the side drawers,	11:04
	they won't come open.	11:06
	But when I pull the central drawer open,	11:07
	then the side drawers come open.	11:10
	Gratitude is the central drawer of the religious life.	11:12
	Other things do not come open until the heart	11:19
	is baptized with thankfulness.	11:22
	I often think there might've been	11:28
	another beatitude that said,	11:29
	"Blessed are the thankful hearted ones	11:30
	for they shall open up the heart of the world.	11:32
	Blessed are the thankful hearted ones,	11:35
	for they shall open up the heart of the world."	11:37
	The old rabbi of cots, according to a Hasidic legend	11:42
	was approached one day by his disciples	11:46
	for their daily lesson.	11:49
	And he gave it to them.	11:51
	He said, "Where is the most high to be found?"	11:51
	And they said, "Rabbi, that you should ask us	11:55
	where are the most high is to be found.	11:58
	The most high is to be found everywhere."	12:00
	"No," said the rabbi of cots,	12:03
	"God is where men let him in.	12:06
	God is where men let him in."	12:11
	And gratitude is a way to let God in, to let him work.	12:14
	To let him open up all the sides of life.	12:21
	I often think that in our kind of life	12:25
	in a country like this where we have so much	12:29
	and so much, we are the inheritors of so much.	12:31
	We take so much for granted that when you go	12:34
	into some of the countries that do not have	12:37
	these kinds of physical advantages,	12:40
	you see just how life is without these.	12:41
	And yet you often find in these people	12:45
	a more thankful heart than you find	12:47
	in the people of our own country.	12:49
	I go in the summer when I can for a holiday	12:52
	at a place called Mackinaw in Northern Michigan,	12:56
	and a great bridge has been built	12:59
	between the lower and the upper peninsulas	13:01
	in these last years.	13:03
	And the lives of men were taken doing that.	13:05
	A number of men were killed building that bridge.	13:10
	No great bridge has ever built that doesn't cost blood.	13:12
	No great tunnel has ever built that doesn't cost blood.	13:17
	There's blood in the ties of every railroad	13:19
	from a man that laid that one day.	13:22
	And yet people well over that bridge,	13:25
	pay their fees, feel that they have this coming	13:27
	to them because they paid for it	13:31
	without any sense of thankfulness	13:33
	that these two peninsulas have been connected	13:35
	by some who have given their lives for that	13:38
	and that they have the blessing now,	13:40
	of swiftly passing from one place to another.	13:43
	We take it all for granted.	13:45
	Among these simple people,	13:47
	we often find a sense of thankfulness	13:49
	being constantly expressed.	13:52
	The little rituals that they've developed	13:53
	that might give us pulse about our own lives	13:55
	and about our own religious lives.	13:58
	When you are in Africa and you find some person	14:01
	along the sea coast where the coconuts grow.	14:04
	When he opens a coconut,	14:07
	terribly thirsty for the juice of it,	14:09
	always a little is poured out first	14:10
	in thankfulness for what has come to him.	14:13
	Bananas taken off the tree	14:16
	and always a banana laid aside	14:18
	in thankfulness for what has come.	14:21
	There's a story that the Buddhist fishermen of Japan	14:24
	have a ceremony once a year on the edge of the sea,	14:27
	where they ask the forgiveness of the fish	14:32
	for taking them in the course of the year.	14:35
	They must take them, they must make their living that way.	14:38
	Their own people need the protein	14:41
	that comes from these fish.	14:43
	But there is a sense that they have taken	14:45
	the lives of fellow creatures	14:48
	and that forgiveness must be asked for.	14:50
	In a way, almost thankfulness is poured out to them.	14:53
	Or you going in India, early in the morning,	14:56
	four o'clock in the morning, you move around.	14:58
	What do you see?	15:00
	A woman, up early, in front of her little hut,	15:02
	putting a beautiful design on the ground	15:08
	with chalk water in thankfulness for her home,	15:13
	for her children, for life,	15:17
	for what has come to her.	15:20
	By midday that will all be trampled,	15:22
	people will have walked across it.	15:24
	By night, you won't even be able to detect	15:26
	the figure that's in it.	15:29
	That doesn't matter.	15:30
	It's offered up as a thankfulness,	15:31
	like the sand paintings that the Indians made.	15:33
	An act of thankfulness to the one that made us.	15:35
	Life is all full of these opportunities	15:39
	that there are for this kind of thankfulness.	15:41
	These openers of the heart,	15:44
	if we only were prepared to be sensitive to them.	15:45
	Many nights in the year, there is a sunset.	15:51
	If people are not too busy	15:55
	to lift their eyes to the sky,	15:57
	or don't have the attitude	15:59
	that "I've seen that before,"	16:00
	there is something that opens us up,	16:04
	that we've been given another day.	16:06
	That we're on this earth.	16:08
	That we are before something very beautiful	16:10
	that opens our life up.	16:13
	The sunset may be an occasion, an opener of the heart,	16:17
	or a deeper opening of gratitude.	16:20
	My wife and I had the privilege, several years ago	16:25
	of being at Darjeeling in the month of January,	16:27
	where the air is clear and getting up very early	16:29
	one morning while it was dark and going up 2000 feet	16:32
	onto tiger hill and then watching as it began to get light.	16:35
	And as the sun came up, watching the light of the sun	16:40
	light up that whole range of the Himalayas	16:44
	from Kanchenjunga right across the Mount Everest.	16:47
	That great, white, shimmering beauty of the Himalayas.	16:50
	You didn't wanna climb it, you didn't want to photograph it.	16:55
	You didn't want to paint it, you didn't want to own it.	16:58
	You didn't want to mine it.	17:01
	We all just wanted to stand there and just be open	17:02
	by the fact that there was on this earth,	17:05
	anything as beautiful as that.	17:07
	Sometimes it comes in different ways.	17:12
	A young man, who is taking his parents for granted,	17:14
	perhaps he's been in a family where there wasn't	17:16
	very much emotional expression anyway.	17:17
	And one day in his twenties,	17:21
	when a time when he's been stopping	17:22
	to kind of look at the whole picture,	17:24
	a kind of a tidal wave of gratitude comes over him.	17:28
	For what his parents have done,	17:33
	for the way they never stood in his way,	17:35
	for the way they always put themselves	17:36
	somehow at his disposal to make possible his life.	17:38
	To make the possible that his life might flow	17:41
	in the way in which it longed to go.	17:44
	And perhaps, he might even be given	17:47
	the gift of tears in such a moment.	17:49
	For the first time in many years.	17:51
	My father, a year or two before he died,	17:55
	was living out in Seattle.	17:57
	He had a little lot next to the house where he lived,	17:58
	which he had a big garden.	18:00
	He had grew things far more than he needed,	18:02
	he used to pass them out amongst the neighbors there.	18:04
	And he said he was on his knees, weeding in the garden.	18:06
	And he said, suddenly it just came over him	18:11
	that he just looked up and he said,	18:14
	"I just felt so thankful that I wasn't	18:16
	anywhere else in the world than here.	18:18
	I was just so thankful I had a garden.	18:21
	I had a garden to care for,	18:23
	that God had kept me on in life.	18:25
	That I had still the chance to know	18:27
	and be sensitive to what was going on in the world.	18:30
	I was just overflowed with a sense of thankfulness."	18:31
	These are the openers of the heart	18:36
	that come along in the course of the day.	18:37
	Two years ago, I was over in France at Chartres,	18:44
	and I had seen the picture of this statue	18:47
	on one of the porches of Chartres	18:50
	and I spent about two hours trying to find it.	18:53
	And my neck was well exercised	18:55
	via looking up to try to find,	18:59
	and I finally found it.	19:01
	It's a figure of God the father	19:03
	holding Adam on his lap.	19:06
	And Adam is dull and half asleep.	19:10
	Chin is down, knees are drawn up,	19:14
	looks like a fetus in the mother's womb.	19:17
	He's dull and half asleep.	19:20
	And God the father, in as far as stone	19:23
	can make it possible to show this.	19:25
	God the father is looking at him	19:28
	as he holds him on his lap.	19:29
	Looking longingly, somehow longing	19:31
	that Adam may come awake and realize	19:33
	who it is that holds him and answer back,	19:35
	begin to love back.	19:41
	There are sometimes when this kind of thing	19:47
	is institutionalized.	19:50
	The Jews look on their Sabbath in a way	19:54
	that we have almost forgotten.	19:58
	And I was in Jerusalem in Israel,	20:03
	in the Orthodox quarter one Friday afternoon	20:07
	when the sunset was just coming on	20:10
	and it was almost time for the Sabbath to begin.	20:13
	And I saw people running to the synagogue,	20:17
	hurrying to the synagogue.	20:20
	Some of these Hasidic Jews were there	20:22
	are so longing to be there, to be in their place	20:25
	when the Sabbath begins.	20:29
	And the children, they often say, "Shalom, Shalom,"	20:31
	but this is now "Shabbat shalom,"	20:34
	sabbath greeting, sabbath blessings	20:37
	that they give to you.	20:39
	There are stories of some Hasidists	20:41
	who you go to do business with them on Wednesday	20:43
	and they say, "Oh, no, it's too near the Sabbath.	20:45
	Don't come on Thursday,	20:49
	oh much too near the Sabbath.	20:50
	Come after the Sabbath.	20:51
	There is this kind of longing to be there,	20:53
	the seventh day, the day on which God rested.	20:56
	The day, that special day of thankfulness,	20:58
	where we can express again,	21:02
	our thankfulness to him for our creation	21:03
	and for our conservation and for our ultimate being	21:06
	in his hands in such a way that if we are	21:10
	to be redeemed, he must redeem us.	21:13
	In thankfulness.	21:15
	There is an institutionalization of gratitude,	21:17
	vividly experienced by these people	21:20
	as they participate in it.	21:23
	There is an Englishman by the name	21:26
	of Malcolm Spencer who's dead now	21:28
	but was the hero and the great friend	21:31
	of the Student Christian Movement	21:34
	in England for a generation.	21:36
	Malcolm Spencer's whole religion was oriented	21:39
	around thankfulness.	21:41
	He got up in the morning, rush to the window	21:42
	in his pajamas and threw open the window	21:44
	and thanked God for the day that was before him.	21:46
	Thank God that he was on earth.	21:50
	Thank God for the jobs he had to do.	21:51
	His religion was simply poured out in thankful.	21:53
	But thankfulness is not just an emotion,	22:00
	gratitude is not just an emotion.	22:07
	Käthe Kollwitz, perhaps Germany's greatest woman artist	22:09
	used to always say that	22:14
	every gift contains a task.	22:18
	And therefore, those who truly feel grateful	22:24
	always have a task laid upon them.	22:27
	There's an ethic of gratitude.	22:30
	It's never been put better than by Catherine of Sienna	22:32
	in one of her dialogues in which she has God speaking.	22:37
	And God says, "I require that you love me	22:40
	with the same love with which I love you.	22:42
	But this indeed you cannot do,	22:44
	because I loved you without being loved.	22:46
	All the love which you have for me, you owe me,	22:49
	therefore to me, in person, you cannot repay	22:52
	the love I require of you.	22:54
	So I have placed you in the midst of your fellows	22:57
	that you may do to them that's what you kind of do to me.	23:00
	And that is to say that you may love your neighbor	23:04
	out free grace without expecting any return from him.	23:08
	What you do unto him, I count done unto me."	23:12
	This is the ethic of gratitude,	23:17
	God has placed us in the midst of our fellows	23:19
	and we love him back in them and then their service.	23:24
	And a grateful-hearted man is a man who isn't counting	23:31
	whether others are going to recognize who did this	23:34
	as the wonderful old Jesuit motto which says,	23:39
	"You'll do a great deal in this world if you're not	23:41
	too particular about who gets credit for it."	23:43
	We've been put down here in the world	23:46
	to serve our fellows and there's	23:49
	a kind of chain reaction that comes with these things.	23:50
	Albert Schweitzer, in one of the really decent acts	23:53
	in the west leaves his career,	23:56
	trains himself in medicine	24:00
	and goes out to Lambarene.	24:01
	And what happens?	24:03
	Well, all kinds of people do similar things.	24:05
	Young Mellon gives up a life of comparative ease,	24:10
	studies medicine in the thirties, goes down in Haiti	24:14
	and forms a Schweitzer-like hospital down there.	24:17
	And Theodore Bender, a brilliant young German does	24:21
	the same thing at Pucallpa	24:24
	in the upper waters of the Amazon.	24:26
	And Michael Wood over in Kenya and Tanganyika	24:29
	does the same thing over there	24:34
	and a great many people in Lambarenes	24:37
	of their own, which had nothing to do with medicine,	24:39
	but mean they do their task in a new kind of way	24:42
	all over the world because this man	24:44
	decided to love back and to try	24:48
	and return for all that had been poured out	24:51
	and lavished and given to him.	24:53
	After the age of 30, tried to adrift	24:55
	the corner of pain on a people somewhere.	24:58
	This is the chain reaction of loving back,	25:01
	the chain reaction of gratitude	25:05
	that was really promised and that has been carried out.	25:06
	Sometimes it means lifting the telephone and calling up	25:10
	some old person who doesn't get many calls anymore.	25:12
	Their friends are gone.	25:14
	Sometimes it means a girl in her teens is down	25:16
	in a bus station after school for an hour	25:20
	looking after children while giving their harassed mother	25:24
	a chance to get her ticket and maybe just get	25:27
	a little peace for just a minute.	25:30
	And why is she doing it?	25:31
	Well, she doesn't know, it's fun.	25:33
	Or somebody balancing the budget in some way.	25:34
	These things are all original when they're genuine,	25:37
	they come up out of the heart.	25:41
	We find the ways in which to carry these out.	25:42
	But all of these are a part of this loving back,	25:45
	but you may well say,	25:50
	"In a world like this, does this mean anything?	25:51
	In a world like this,	25:54
	threatened as it is by cosmic extinction,	25:55
	is there really any place for this kind of thing?	25:59
	For this kind of gratitude in such a world as this?	26:02
	I am a stranger and afraid in a world I never made.	26:04
	Well, certainly for those who feel grateful	26:08
	for what has been given to them,	26:12
	they must exert themselves to implement	26:15
	the peace with everything that is in them.	26:19
	And you must do that all through a life	26:23
	where you will be intentional all	26:26
	through your life in the situation.	26:27
	You must give everything you can	26:29
	to build up those forces of peace	26:31
	to let this country and every country know,	26:33
	that no country any longer can act on its own.	26:35
	That now there must be a responsible way of working	26:38
	this out together, that must be done.	26:41
	But when all that has been done, what then?	26:43
	Well, I think then Luther gave us the grateful man's answer.	26:47
	Somebody asked him "If you knew the world were	26:50
	to end tomorrow, what would you do today?"	26:53
	Luther said, "If I knew	26:55
	the world would end tomorrow,	26:56
	I'd plant a tree today"	26:57
	Jesus asks the question,	27:06
	"Were there not 10 who were healed,	27:09
	where are the nine?"	27:12
	Are we among the nine?	27:15
	Lavished,	27:18
	given all?	27:21
	Blessed are the thankful-hearted	27:27
	for they shall open the heart of the world.	27:31
	Let's pray.	27:36
	Oh God,	27:56
	that we might leave the ranks of the nine	27:59
	and join the ranks of the one.	28:02
	Strip us from the green blankets	28:08
	and although you have given us so much already,	28:13
	give us one thing more,	28:18
	a grateful heart.	28:21
	And now may the peace, the burning peace	28:27
	that passes all understanding stand sentinel	28:29
	over your hearts and minds both now	28:32
	and evermore.	28:36
	(soft choir music)	28:42

Item Info

Title:

Douglas V. Steere - "The Man Who Came Back" (October 14, 1962; February 17, 1963)

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Date:

October 14, 1962
February 17, 1963

Speaker:

Steere, Douglas V.

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Duke University. Chapel

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UA.17.01.0003 RR-0202
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