James T. Cleland - "The Conversion of the Elder Brother" (January 26, 1964)
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(upbeat music) | 0:11 | |
- | Thee to accept both the offering of our gifts, | 0:31 |
the offering of ourselves and to consecrate us | 0:34 | |
to thy service and to thy glory, | 0:38 | |
through Jesus Christ, amen. | 0:41 | |
(gentle piano music) | 0:45 | |
- | Let us pray. | 1:09 |
Let the words of my mouth | 1:12 | |
and the meditations of our hearts | 1:16 | |
be acceptable in thy sight. | 1:18 | |
Oh Lord our strength and our redeemer, amen. | 1:22 | |
It is wise for the pitcher in the pulpit | 1:39 | |
to be alert to the reactions of the catcher in the pew. | 1:44 | |
For a sermon is not a sermon | 1:52 | |
unless it is caught as well as pitched. | 1:55 | |
The speaker and the listener | 2:00 | |
together make up the homiletical battery. | 2:02 | |
As today's sermon was being planned, | 2:09 | |
I anticipated the possible reaction | 2:11 | |
from some of you who listen | 2:14 | |
another sermon on the prodigal son? | 2:17 | |
We've already had three in the series. | 2:23 | |
Isn't that par for the course? | 2:27 | |
Do you know the Song of Solomon | 2:32 | |
sometimes called the Song of Songs in the Old Testament? | 2:36 | |
That little book of eight chapters. | 2:40 | |
St. Bernard of Clairvaux preached 86 sermons on it, | 2:45 | |
and he got barely beyond the second chapter. | 2:52 | |
So grant me a fourth and last on the prodigal. | 2:56 | |
But why do we need a fourth? | 3:05 | |
We have looked at the younger son | 3:08 | |
and the elder son and the father, | 3:10 | |
doesn't that exhaust the parable, | 3:14 | |
if not, the congregation? | 3:17 | |
There is one reason for a further effort | 3:22 | |
in the conjoint Parables of the Lost Sheep and the Lost Coin | 3:28 | |
the stories end with three hearty cheers. | 3:35 | |
The meandering sheep was restored to the flock. | 3:41 | |
The missing coin was found. | 3:45 | |
And of course the younger son was reinstated at home. | 3:49 | |
Only the elder boy remained on the outside, | 3:57 | |
still lost. | 4:04 | |
But he was angry and refused to go in. | 4:07 | |
So far as we know, he never went in. | 4:13 | |
He deliberately shut himself out. | 4:18 | |
Now, do we leave the matter there | 4:23 | |
on a note of defeat? | 4:26 | |
To whom did Jesus speak these parables? | 4:32 | |
The opening verses of the passage tell us | 4:37 | |
how the tax collectors and sinners | 4:41 | |
were all drawing near to hear him, | 4:44 | |
and the Pharisees and scribes murmured saying, | 4:48 | |
this man receives sinners | 4:53 | |
and eats with them. | 4:59 | |
So he told them this Parable of the Lost Sheep. | 5:02 | |
Then he told them another. | 5:09 | |
Then he added a third, a double one. | 5:12 | |
These parables were addressed | 5:18 | |
to men who were like the elder brother. | 5:20 | |
The Pharisees, men who were legalistically devout, | 5:25 | |
legalistically upright, | 5:30 | |
legalistically righteous. | 5:33 | |
They were therefor not enthusiastic about the gospel, | 5:37 | |
which was saturated with the goodness, | 5:42 | |
the grace, the love of God for sinners, | 5:46 | |
who were not devout or upright or righteous, | 5:51 | |
according to Pharisee extenders, | 5:57 | |
Jesus in these parables was vindicating his good news | 6:01 | |
in the presence of his critics. | 6:06 | |
Did he succeed? | 6:11 | |
No. | 6:14 | |
And yes. | 6:17 | |
One elder brother, | 6:20 | |
a militant Pharisee, | 6:23 | |
a contemporary of Jesus was converted. | 6:27 | |
This parable is the forerunner of a miracle, | 6:33 | |
a spiritual miracle. | 6:38 | |
One elder brother came to understand | 6:42 | |
a new meaning for salvation | 6:47 | |
through the acceptance of God's grace. | 6:50 | |
He was made aware of the unvarnished fact | 6:55 | |
that one is right with God, if he just wants to be, | 6:59 | |
because that is what God wants. | 7:07 | |
This elder brother's name was Saul. | 7:12 | |
We know him better as St. Paul. | 7:17 | |
Paul was an enthusiastic Pharisee. | 7:23 | |
He says so. | 7:27 | |
Circumcised on the eighth day | 7:29 | |
of the people of Israel, | 7:32 | |
of the tribe of Benjamin. | 7:35 | |
A Hebrew born of Hebrews. | 7:37 | |
As to the law, | 7:40 | |
a Pharisee as for righteousness under the law, | 7:42 | |
blameless. | 7:48 | |
Blameless. | 7:52 | |
Doesn't that sound like the prodigals big brother? | 7:53 | |
"Lo, these many years I have served you, | 7:57 | |
"and I never disobeyed your command." | 8:01 | |
Paul repeats this boast in another letter. | 8:06 | |
"I advanced in Judaism | 8:09 | |
"beyond many of my own age among my people. | 8:11 | |
"So extremely zealous was I | 8:16 | |
"for the traditions of my fathers." | 8:19 | |
Now here's a Pharisee | 8:22 | |
who is proud of his spiritual pedigree. | 8:23 | |
Judaism was not merely a tradition which he accepted. | 8:28 | |
It was a heritage into which he zealously | 8:32 | |
and enthusiastically entered. | 8:37 | |
And the best way he knew to express his loyalty to Judaism | 8:40 | |
was to persecute the young Christian Church. | 8:45 | |
And he did so furiously and effectively. | 8:50 | |
And then Paul was converted, | 8:56 | |
turned around, headed in another direction. | 9:01 | |
We know the story of the Damascus road incident. | 9:05 | |
We know how he came to link the crucifixion | 9:10 | |
and the resurrection in his thinking. | 9:13 | |
We know how in utter loyalty to the new commitment | 9:17 | |
he suffered execution. | 9:21 | |
But what did he find so exciting? | 9:25 | |
So compelling? | 9:30 | |
So satisfactory in Christianity? | 9:31 | |
He laid hands on something very simple, | 9:36 | |
but very devastating. | 9:40 | |
He was jarred into a realization of the fact | 9:43 | |
that it is not a nervous, hysterical, | 9:49 | |
frantic observance of every jot | 9:55 | |
and tittle of the law, which brings inner peace. | 9:57 | |
This comes about when one excepts the fact | 10:05 | |
that God loves him, | 10:11 | |
cares for him, | 10:15 | |
and wants him to be in a father-son relationship. | 10:18 | |
Isn't that what the father | 10:23 | |
tried to tell the elder boy in the parable? | 10:24 | |
"Son, you are always with me, | 10:27 | |
"and all that I have is yours." | 10:33 | |
But the boy couldn't grasp it. | 10:41 | |
Paul finally did. | 10:44 | |
And he became the apostle of grace. | 10:48 | |
Grace is the spontaneous unmerited favor | 10:52 | |
with which God regards man. | 10:58 | |
He also became the apostle of faith. | 11:03 | |
Faith is the responsive man to God's grace, | 11:08 | |
which results in commitment, obedience, | 11:12 | |
and the peace in the heart, | 11:19 | |
which reveals itself as poised. | 11:20 | |
The capacity to maintain one's spiritual equilibrium. | 11:25 | |
Paul discovered the happiness, which Jesus called blessed. | 11:31 | |
He could never get over the wonder of it. | 11:38 | |
Like what is the outcome of such a conversion. | 11:43 | |
Such an acceptance that God loves man, | 11:48 | |
even though man doesn't deserve it. | 11:54 | |
Well, two things. | 11:57 | |
First, Paul worked as hard as ever he did | 11:59 | |
before he became a Christian, perhaps harder. | 12:03 | |
He described his work | 12:09 | |
in a semi embarrassed autobiographical passage, | 12:11 | |
where he is in a slanging match | 12:17 | |
with some legalistic Jewish Christians. | 12:20 | |
He says, I wish I didn't have to argue like this, | 12:24 | |
but this is the way they argue, | 12:27 | |
so let me argue this way too. | 12:29 | |
Let them want as they please. | 12:33 | |
I'm equal to them. | 12:36 | |
Mind, this isn't the role of a fool. | 12:38 | |
Are they Hebrews? | 12:42 | |
So am I. | 12:45 | |
Israelites? | 12:47 | |
So am I. | 12:49 | |
Descended from Abraham? | 12:52 | |
So am I. | 12:55 | |
Ministers of Christ? | 12:57 | |
Yes. | 13:00 | |
Perhaps, but not so much as I am. | 13:01 | |
I'm mad to talk like this. | 13:06 | |
With all my labors, with all my lashes, | 13:09 | |
with all my time in prison, | 13:11 | |
a record longer far than theirs. | 13:14 | |
I'd been often at the point of death. | 13:18 | |
Five times have I had 40 lashes all but one from the Jews. | 13:21 | |
Three times I have been beaten by the Romans. | 13:26 | |
Once pelted with stones. | 13:29 | |
Three times shipwrecked. | 13:31 | |
Adrift at sea for a whole night and day. | 13:33 | |
I've been often in my travels. | 13:37 | |
I've been in danger from rivers and robbers, | 13:39 | |
from Jews and Gentiles, | 13:42 | |
through dangers of town and the desert, | 13:44 | |
through dangerous on the see, | 13:46 | |
through dangers among false brothers. | 13:48 | |
Through many a sleepless nights, | 13:51 | |
starving many a time. | 13:54 | |
Cold and ill clad and all the rest of it. | 13:56 | |
And then there is the pressing business of each day. | 14:01 | |
The care of all the churches. | 14:06 | |
One is saved to serve. | 14:12 | |
Relaxation maybe a valid sign of faith. | 14:16 | |
I think it is. | 14:21 | |
But relaxation is not to be equated with loafing. | 14:23 | |
And secondly, his hard work was penetrated with joy, | 14:29 | |
almost with gusto. | 14:34 | |
Here is what he wrote to his favorite church at Philippi. | 14:36 | |
"Well then my brothers rejoice in the Lord, | 14:40 | |
"I'm repeating this word, rejoice, in my letter, | 14:45 | |
"but that never tires me, | 14:50 | |
"and it's the same course for you." | 14:52 | |
And so he penned his song of love in 1 Corinthians 13, | 14:57 | |
and the whole chapter of bubbling gratitude | 15:03 | |
to the junior varsity scene in Romans 16. | 15:08 | |
This is the saga of an elder brother | 15:15 | |
who became a son of the father. | 15:19 | |
This is the miracle, | 15:24 | |
which is a valid ending to the parable | 15:26 | |
of the other lost boy. | 15:30 | |
Moreover, this is the miracle | 15:33 | |
which is repeated over and over again | 15:36 | |
in the long history of the church. | 15:39 | |
When a church becomes organized and institutionalized, | 15:43 | |
it inevitably becomes legislator, executor and judge. | 15:48 | |
This is understandable, | 15:55 | |
but heresy arises | 15:58 | |
when the emphasis is laid on good works, | 16:02 | |
carefully spelled out as the root of salvation. | 16:06 | |
The root of salvation. | 16:12 | |
Rather than as the fruit, | 16:15 | |
the fruit of salvation. | 16:18 | |
Legalism may be the necessary consequence | 16:21 | |
of corporate Christianity. | 16:24 | |
Almost all denominations have judicial bodies | 16:27 | |
and appropriate penalties for breaches of the rules. | 16:30 | |
But one does not become a Christian | 16:35 | |
by obedience to any theological or ecclesiastical code. | 16:39 | |
One becomes a Christian | 16:47 | |
by an acceptance of the graciousness of God. | 16:50 | |
The laws may implement faith, | 16:58 | |
but the laws are not a prerequisite to faith. | 17:04 | |
Every now and again, | 17:10 | |
someone tries to tell the church this. | 17:11 | |
Occasionally they are younger brothers | 17:15 | |
back from the far country | 17:19 | |
and so overwhelmed by the father's love | 17:21 | |
that they have to broadcast it. | 17:25 | |
People like Augusta and Francis of Assisi and John Newton. | 17:26 | |
But sometimes they are elder brothers. | 17:35 | |
Martin Luther is such a one. | 17:42 | |
He had his own words. | 17:45 | |
"It is true I was a pious monk. | 17:48 | |
"And so strict in the performance of my duties | 17:52 | |
"that I can say, | 17:56 | |
"if ever a monk reached heaven through Monkery, | 17:57 | |
"I would surely have entered there. | 18:01 | |
"All my friends will bear witness to this, | 18:05 | |
"for if it had lasted any longer, | 18:08 | |
"I should have tortured myself to death | 18:10 | |
"with waking, praying, reading, and other work." | 18:13 | |
Now this is the autobiographical misery | 18:20 | |
of justification by works. | 18:24 | |
The human effort to persuade God | 18:27 | |
that one is worthy to be accepted as a son. | 18:29 | |
And then Luther read the words | 18:34 | |
of a converted elder brother, St. Paul. | 18:37 | |
"The just shall live by faith." | 18:42 | |
And that led Luther back to grace. | 18:50 | |
And he became a converted elder brother | 18:55 | |
and the reformation was on its way. | 18:58 | |
John Wesley, spiritual pilgrimage is just similar. | 19:01 | |
A hardworking and thoroughly worried priest | 19:05 | |
of the Church of England. | 19:10 | |
Then the olders get experience, | 19:13 | |
and then the exuberance of the Methodist revival. | 19:16 | |
But let me share with you a doer character. | 19:21 | |
A Scots Presbyterian of last century, Thomas Chalmers. | 19:25 | |
After a brilliant academic career, | 19:32 | |
he was licensed to preach at the age of 19, | 19:38 | |
after graduation from seminary. | 19:41 | |
For eight years he scolded his people for their sins. | 19:46 | |
Here is how his biographer writes of Chalmers | 19:53 | |
preaching during this period. | 19:56 | |
"Why did he persist in preaching | 19:58 | |
to these decent, well meaning | 20:00 | |
and law abiding Scottish farmers | 20:02 | |
in a strain that implied they ought all to be in jail? | 20:05 | |
Why Sabbath after Sabbath | 20:10 | |
did he thunder at them concerning the wickedness of theft, | 20:12 | |
of murder, and of adultery? | 20:15 | |
After a hard weeks work in field and stable, | 20:18 | |
barn and dairy, | 20:21 | |
these sturdy Scotsman drove to the church | 20:23 | |
at the sound of the Sabbath bell, | 20:25 | |
only to find themselves wretched by the minister | 20:28 | |
as though they had spent the week in open shame. | 20:31 | |
Now and again, the brilliant and eloquent young preacher | 20:36 | |
turned aside from this line of things | 20:40 | |
to denounce the designs of Napoleon. | 20:43 | |
But as (indistinct) farmers | 20:48 | |
saw no way in which the arguments of their minister | 20:50 | |
would likely to come under the notice of Napoleon, | 20:53 | |
and turn him from his failed purpose of invading Britain. | 20:57 | |
They would as much perplexed by these sermons | 21:01 | |
as by the others. | 21:04 | |
Eight years of that. | 21:06 | |
And they still kept coming to church. | 21:10 | |
That proves that in Presbyterianism | 21:14 | |
discernment has taken the place of the doctrine of penance. | 21:16 | |
(congregation laughing) | 21:21 | |
And then Chalmers read | 21:25 | |
what Paul said to a jailer in Philippi. | 21:26 | |
"Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ | 21:31 | |
"and thou shall be saved." | 21:35 | |
And he moved from do and live to believe and live, | 21:37 | |
and change in the pulpit was dramatic. | 21:45 | |
He thundered against the grass of crimes no more. | 21:50 | |
He ignored Napoleon. | 21:55 | |
Every Sunday he had something fresh to say | 21:59 | |
about the love of God. | 22:03 | |
And works followed. | 22:07 | |
He established schools, he reorganized the parochial system. | 22:09 | |
He wrote on poor relief | 22:15 | |
and he spearheaded numerous civic reforms. | 22:18 | |
He too was saved to serve, | 22:25 | |
seeking to find and to rescue his prodigal younger brothers. | 22:30 | |
The miracle didn't end with St. Paul, | 22:36 | |
it's part of a continued and continuing story. | 22:39 | |
Now, this gospel of the converted elder brother | 22:46 | |
is for us too. | 22:51 | |
It's a hard gospel for some of us to stomach. | 22:55 | |
It runs so contrary | 23:01 | |
to the way in which we have been brought up. | 23:03 | |
We were drilled in the 10 commandments | 23:07 | |
and Sabbath observance. | 23:10 | |
We have been taught to be law-abiding and sober. | 23:13 | |
We sometimes wonder where the church | 23:19 | |
and the world would be without us. | 23:21 | |
We feel God owes us something, | 23:25 | |
blessedness in heaven, if not happiness on earth. | 23:28 | |
We sometimes think that maybe the boy who stayed at home | 23:33 | |
understood his younger brother better than the father did. | 23:37 | |
Well, maybe he did | 23:42 | |
from our point of view. | 23:44 | |
But is our viewpoint that of Jesus? | 23:46 | |
A Chinese artist once painted | 23:50 | |
the story of the return of the prodigal. | 23:53 | |
He pictured the father at the gate, | 24:00 | |
standing, waiting for his son | 24:03 | |
who could be seen approaching in the distance. | 24:07 | |
A christian friend criticized the painting. | 24:11 | |
"Oh no, you don't have it right. | 24:15 | |
"The father shouldn't be standing, waiting. | 24:18 | |
"He should be running to meet his son." | 24:23 | |
The artist countered with the comment, | 24:27 | |
"But no Chinese father could do that." | 24:30 | |
The critic replied, "That's just the point. | 24:36 | |
"No human father would. | 24:39 | |
"But this is the astonishing story of a father | 24:43 | |
"that tells us about God's amazing love. | 24:47 | |
"He loves us like that." | 24:51 | |
And be artist answered, "I see." | 24:55 | |
And he painted another picture | 25:00 | |
which showed the father running to meet his son. | 25:02 | |
And in his hurry, | 25:08 | |
the father had put on shoes that didn't match. | 25:12 | |
The second painting caught what Jesus came to broadcast, | 25:21 | |
the extravagant love of God. | 25:26 | |
With shoes on which don't match, | 25:30 | |
eager to welcome a failure, | 25:35 | |
merely because he was his son. | 25:38 | |
That's what Paul and Luther and Wesley | 25:42 | |
and Chalmers finally discovered. | 25:45 | |
I know we're living in an age | 25:50 | |
when the gospel of grace | 25:53 | |
is dramatically challenging, again, | 25:58 | |
the sub Christian gospel of justification by works. | 26:02 | |
When father Gustav (indistinct), | 26:11 | |
the distinguished Jesuits scholar | 26:14 | |
and preacher died this month, | 26:17 | |
it was a Jewish rabbi | 26:21 | |
who first called The Christian Century, | 26:25 | |
a Protestant journal, | 26:28 | |
to tell the editor the distressing news. | 26:31 | |
Jesuit, rabbi, protestant. | 26:37 | |
When St. Andrew's United Church in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan | 26:43 | |
burned last December, | 26:48 | |
it was a Jewish synagogue | 26:51 | |
which offered its facilities | 26:53 | |
to the homeless Protestant congregation | 26:55 | |
of the cathedral of the prairie. | 26:59 | |
And the first contribution to the rebuilding fund | 27:02 | |
came from the Roman Catholic sisters | 27:07 | |
and students at St. Louis college, | 27:10 | |
a secondary school. | 27:14 | |
And here are the words | 27:16 | |
which accompanied that Roman Catholic check. | 27:17 | |
"May we see St. Andrews rise again. | 27:21 | |
"A witnessed to your congregation's faith in Christ." | 27:26 | |
And when Pope Paul VI spoke in Bethlehem recently. | 27:34 | |
He said, "We salute with great reverence and affection, | 27:39 | |
"the illustrious and venerated heads | 27:46 | |
"of other churches here present." | 27:50 | |
Now this acknowledgement by a pope | 27:56 | |
that non-Roman churches are churches | 28:00 | |
is an unprecedented event. | 28:06 | |
The gospel of grace is doing things | 28:11 | |
too and with some whom we thought of | 28:14 | |
as unregenerate, though upright elder brothers. | 28:17 | |
Now don't imagine that all elder brothers | 28:23 | |
are becoming St. Pauls. | 28:26 | |
Some members of the Curia and some Orthodox Jews, | 28:30 | |
and some venerable Presbyterians are intransigent. | 28:37 | |
The more so because of their spiritual | 28:43 | |
and ecclesiastical pedigrees. | 28:45 | |
But what about us? | 28:48 | |
What kind of Christians are we? | 28:51 | |
Elder brothers before conversion? | 28:55 | |
Upright. | 29:00 | |
Oh yeah. | 29:02 | |
But so often without joy | 29:04 | |
are elder brothers after conversion? | 29:10 | |
Upright because of joy. | 29:15 | |
God wants free sons and daughters | 29:20 | |
spontaneous in their goodness | 29:24 | |
at home in their father's house. | 29:27 | |
Glad that they have inherited from him | 29:31 | |
what Saint Paul happily and gratefully called | 29:34 | |
the ministry of reconciliation. | 29:38 | |
And he gets them. | 29:46 | |
For the miracle of the conversion of the elder brother | 29:50 | |
is constantly being repeated. | 29:57 | |
Yesterday in church here | 30:03 | |
was the Feast of the Conversion of Saint Paul. | 30:05 | |
And so far our prayer after the sermon | 30:13 | |
preceding the benediction, | 30:15 | |
let us use the collect for that day. | 30:17 | |
Let us pray. | 30:21 | |
Oh God, who through the preaching | 30:27 | |
of the blessed of apostle thee Paul | 30:29 | |
has caused the light of the gospel | 30:31 | |
to shine throughout the world. | 30:33 | |
Grant we beseech thee | 30:36 | |
that we having his wonderful conversion and remembrance | 30:37 | |
may show forth our thankfulness unto thee for the same, | 30:42 | |
by following the holy doctrine, | 30:47 | |
which he taught through Jesus Christ, our Lord. | 30:50 | |
And may the blessing of the Lord | 30:55 | |
come upon you abundantly, | 30:57 | |
may it keep you strong and tranquil | 31:00 | |
in the truth of his promises, | 31:04 | |
through Jesus Christ, our Lord. | 31:07 | |
(gentle music) | 31:18 | |
(bell ringing) | 31:58 | |
- | The questioning of jurors this morning | 32:12 |
in the trial of teams for President James | 32:14 | |
pump on jury tampering charge. | 32:16 | |
Wilson said we must proceed, | 32:19 | |
in two full days we have not selected a single juror. | 32:20 | |
He ordered the attorneys for both sides | 32:24 | |
submit their questions for prospective jurors | 32:26 | |
to him in writing. | 32:28 | |
The defense objected to the judges move | 32:30 | |
and asked for a recess. | 32:32 | |
But Wilson overruled it, | 32:33 | |
and order the selection of the jury | 32:35 | |
to continue without delay. | 32:36 | |
At the rate we are now going | 32:38 | |
he said it will take three weeks just to choose the jury. | 32:39 | |
That's the news, (indistinct) Robinson reporting. | 32:42 | |
- | What do women notice first about a mans appearance? | 32:45 |
Some answers are on Fashion Notes, | 32:49 | |
today on this CBS Radio nine alert station. | 32:50 | |
WDNC, WDNC FM, Durham, North Carolina. | 32:54 | |
10 minutes past 10 o'clock. | 32:58 | |
- | Good morning, Gladys. | 33:00 |
(gentle music) | 33:02 | |
(indistinct) | 33:09 | |
Johnny Packer and the Orchestra. | 33:12 | |
Legacy (indistinct) was celebrating | 33:15 | |
my 30th anniversary with CBS | 33:17 | |
and what a ball we've been having. | 33:19 | |
It's been a very good morning all this week for me. | 33:21 | |
As you might've heard. | 33:25 | |
And I hope that you heard that show yesterday | 33:26 | |
because I wasn't quite sure | 33:28 | |
whether it was Godfrey Show or the Jackie Gleason Show, | 33:30 | |
but it came off beautifully. | 33:34 | |
We had a few of our good friends from Hollywood with us | 33:35 | |
and Mr. Richard Nixon was here | 33:38 | |
and made news when Jackie Gleason in his shy way, | 33:41 | |
he asked him if he was gonna be a candidate. | 33:44 | |
And Mr. Nixon said, "Well, my hat's in the ring." | 33:48 | |
And so this is our week to make news, | 33:51 | |
and we're gonna do it again today with a terrific cast. | 33:53 | |
Here in New York city, lovely sweet Mary Healy | 33:57 | |
and her handsome husband, Peter Lind Hayes. | 34:01 | |
- | Here, here. | 34:04 |
- | Who very kindly came over here | 34:05 |
from another network. | 34:06 | |
- | That'll be nameless. | 34:08 |
(laughing) | 34:10 | |
- | Oh, not at all, not at all, | 34:10 |
everybody has to start someplace. | 34:12 | |
(laughing) | 34:14 | |
(indistinct) | 34:17 | |
There he is, Peter Lind Hayes. | 34:21 | |
On Mary's left, is my idea of friend and associate patron, | 34:23 | |
without whom this just isn't any fun anymore. | 34:27 | |
- | (indistinct), before we go any further | 34:30 |
I like to explain to my wife, | 34:31 | |
if I come home to Hollywood, a little bleary eyed | 34:33 | |
and with, you know, kind of a hangover look, | 34:37 | |
it's because I sat next to Jackie Gleason yesterday. | 34:43 | |
(laughing) | 34:46 | |
- | (indistinct) Hailey, huh. | 34:48 |
- | I have found out now that Dean Martin is a social drinker. | 34:49 |
(laughing) | 34:54 | |
- | Okay, and over on Peter Lind Hayes' right | 34:58 |
is the one and only, Jack Carter. | 35:01 | |
Just flew from Florida. | 35:03 | |
- | I just flew up here for the good weather on New York. | 35:05 |
- | Oh come on, don't be (indistinct). | 35:08 |
(indistinct) | 35:10 | |
- | But I came up here because I heard you can't hold a job. | 35:13 |
- | 30 years, that's ridiculous. | 35:15 |
(indistinct) | 35:18 | |
(laughing) | 35:22 | |
- | 30 years! | 35:23 |
- | Rufus Jarman is sitting next to you, Jack. | 35:29 |
I don't think you've met him up till now. | 35:32 | |
Have you? | 35:34 | |
- | Well, we shook about a minute ago. | 35:35 |
- | Well, Rufus Jarman is from Las Casas Tennessee. | 35:37 |
This casas, Las Casas (indistinct) | 35:41 |
Isaac | In the general direction from here | 0:03 |
from as Florida is but that's the | 0:06 | |
only similarity. | 0:08 | |
Rufus | Tennessee. | 0:09 |
Isaac | Tennessee, that's right. | 0:11 |
And next to Rufus sits Johnny Nash | 0:12 | |
who came all the way over here | 0:15 | |
just to do this for us today. | 0:17 | |
Where are you playing these days Johnny? | 0:18 | |
Johnny | Nowhere right now I just got back | 0:20 |
in town from a record promotion tour. | 0:22 | |
Isaac | Oh, what's the record you're working on? | 0:25 |
Johnny | Well, I'm leaving. | 0:28 |
(audience laughs) | 0:29 | |
Isaac | Steve Lawrence I just overheard. | 0:33 |
And next to, next to Johnny, what did Steve say? | 0:35 | |
Wait a minute Steve, it's not your turn yet. | 0:37 | |
- | (indistinct) | 0:39 |
Participant | He said, where have You been, | 0:40 |
and he said nowhere | 0:42 | |
(crowd laughs) | 0:43 | |
and Steve Lawrence said he's looking nowhere. | 0:44 | |
(crowd laughs) | 0:46 | |
Isaac | And next to Johnny Nash is | 0:47 |
Richard Hayes. And Arthur, the way things | 0:49 | |
have been going I hope you have a nice weekend. | 0:51 | |
Arthur | Thank you so much | 0:53 |
Isaac | Billy Dupree next to him. Now look, | 0:55 |
down in Philadelphia in the city of | 0:57 | |
brotherly love sits | 0:59 | |
Steve Lawrence and Abe Burrows | 1:01 | |
Woman | Oh Abe Burrows! I love that | 1:03 |
Abe Burrows. | 1:05 | |
Abe | Hello Isaac. | 1:06 |
Isaac | Hi brother. | 1:08 |
Participant | Your lover, you got the wrong | 1:09 |
girl on the phone. | 1:10 | |
(crowd laughing) | 1:11 | |
Ave | Who's there. | 1:13 |
Steve | Hi Steve in Philadelphia. | 1:14 |
Happy anniversary. | 1:15 | |
Arthur | Thank you Steve! | 1:16 |
Isaac | Happy Anniversary Arthur. | 1:17 |
Tell us Dave about where goes Sam. Oh, | 1:18 | |
what's the name of it? | 1:20 | |
Dave | What do you mean where goes Sam? | 1:21 |
(indistinct) | 1:24 | |
- | It's what makes Sammy run. | 1:26 |
- | Oh, that's it. | 1:28 |
- | Yeah. Steve is starring and he's wonderful. | 1:29 |
I'm directing it. I don't know | 1:30 | |
if I'm so wonderful, but he's great. | 1:31 | |
- | I'll attest to that Abe. He's | 1:33 |
marvelous. Tell me remember Abe is marvelous. | 1:34 | |
He's directing our show. | 1:36 | |
(crowd laughs) | 1:37 | |
(indistinct) | 1:38 | |
- | Sammy Davis is already there. | 1:40 |
- | I've been there already twice. | 1:41 |
- | Listen, ask him the question | 1:44 |
he wanted to ask him before. | 1:44 | |
Woman | Who Abe? | 1:47 |
- | Yeah | 1:48 |
Woman | When, when does your play open | 1:49 |
or what makes Sammy run open Abe? | 1:49 | |
Abe | It opens on the 15th | 1:52 |
of February at the 54th street theater in New York. | 1:54 | |
And you all coming. | 1:57 | |
Everybody's invited | 1:59 | |
Woman | You know, we're coming. | 2:00 |
- | You can just wear our tickets | 2:01 |
(indistinct) | 2:04 | |
(crowd laughs) | 2:06 | |
(indistinct) | 2:09 | |
(indistinct) | 2:11 | |
(crowd laughs) | 2:13 | |
(indistinct) | 2:16 | |
- | Arthur what you did there was quite Bettie. | 2:17 |
(crowd laughs) | 2:20 | |
- | We got Lady Glad Bettie out in California. | 2:22 |
(indistinct) | 2:24 | |
- | Out there in KX. You hear that voice | 2:26 |
whispering in there. That's Pat Boone. | 2:27 | |
And Pat, who's that lovely girl with you? | 2:31 | |
- | You got a singer besides me? | 2:33 |
(crowd laughs) | 2:35 | |
- | Yeah. I heard you needed a young singer | 2:36 |
on the show today. You've only got five. | 2:37 | |
- | No, we've got Abigail Nidira who's | 2:40 |
another young singer on the dispatch side. | 2:42 | |
And one of the loveliest ladies I've ever known. | 2:45 | |
How are you Abby? | 2:47 | |
Abby | Hello darling, how are you? | 2:48 |
- | I'm just fine. | 2:51 |
- | Is that dear Abby right? | 2:52 |
I've been writing to her for years. | 2:53 | |
I thought as a man I've been writing dear A.B. | 2:56 | |
(crowd laughs) | 2:59 | |
Abby | Thank you. | 3:02 |
Abe, Abe Burrows I'll send you all your | 3:04 | |
A.B. letters. | 3:08 | |
(crowd laughs) | 3:09 | |
(indistinct) | 3:11 | |
(indistinct) | 3:14 | |
- | I think you're right though. She does sound | 3:15 |
like a man. | 3:17 | |
(indistinct) | 3:18 | |
Abby | That's supposed to be sexy. | 3:19 |
- | I don't know what. | 3:20 |
(indistinct) | 3:21 | |
(crowd laughs) | 3:24 | |
- | You don't even have to try to do that honey. | 3:28 |
Tell me are those two good looking kids of yours? | 3:29 | |
Abby | Oh, they're wonderful, thank you. | 3:32 |
And by the way, my daughter sends her love. | 3:33 | |
- | Oh! Oh! Take a bundle of it back to you. | 3:38 |
And that's a good looking boy too. | 3:41 | |
Abby | Thank you and he sends his regards | 3:43 |
that's what is should be. | 3:45 | |
- | That's the still slips. | 3:46 |
- | That's exactly the way that they're two | 3:47 |
normal children and I'm happy. | 3:49 | |
Abby | Yes indeed. | 3:51 |
(indistinct) | 3:53 | |
(crowd laughs) | 3:56 | |
(indistinct) | 3:59 | |
(crowd laughs) | 4:01 | |
(indistinct) | 4:04 | |
(crowd laughs) | 4:07 | |
- | Do you know, we're glad to have you directing | 4:10 |
and producing these wonderful things. | 4:13 | |
But we sure do miss entertaining p***y yards | 4:15 | |
on the air. | 4:18 | |
- | We come down Philadelphia, we 're | 4:18 |
constantly entertaining. | 4:20 | |
- | No, I get on once in a while out there, | 4:22 |
you know me, I get on those panels. | 4:23 | |
Everybody, I'm always working, sitting down. | 4:25 | |
If you see me sitting down, I'm working and you know | 4:27 | |
everybody says to me, I look taller in person. | 4:30 | |
I told them I got a short set. | 4:32 | |
- | Well, I'll hold it a minute, will you? | 4:36 |
we'll have a very short set. | 4:38 | |
If I don't sell this Ovaltine. | 4:39 | |
You see how I slide into this commercial. | 4:40 | |
Isn't that cute, yeah that's clever. | 4:42 | |
Ovaltine! | 4:44 | |
This is the stuff that I've been on | 4:45 | |
for breakfast now for the last month or so. | 4:47 | |
And you know, it works! You have a cup | 4:48 | |
of tea first when you get up or I do. | 4:51 | |
I love my tea, maybe you like coffee; go ahead! | 4:53 | |
Have your coffee. And then the next cup | 4:55 | |
make it Ovaltine made with skim milk. | 4:58 | |
And, and you will have received | 5:00 | |
on board 27 important vitamins minerals and food elements. | 5:02 | |
And you may find as I have that | 5:06 | |
that's all the breakfast you need for the day | 5:09 | |
and around noon time, you begin to feel hungry again. | 5:12 | |
And this is a good way | 5:15 | |
for you to diet without a doctor's prescription. | 5:17 | |
You know? | 5:20 | |
And that's what most of us do because here | 5:21 | |
we do get the vitamins, minerals and food elements | 5:23 | |
that we need. | 5:26 | |
And we'll get it, if a doctor prescribed the diet | 5:28 | |
for us properly, why don't you try it? | 5:30 | |
I bet you it's been a long time since you | 5:33 | |
drank Ovaltine and you will be delighted with it. | 5:34 | |
It comes in two flavors. | 5:38 | |
Remember natural and chocolate Ovaltine for you. | 5:39 | |
Now, before we get too far into it yesterday | 5:44 | |
never got a chance to get on the air. | 5:46 | |
I want you guys to listen to my boy, Billy Dupree, come | 5:48 | |
on now. | 5:51 | |
I want you to sing this blues thing for him. | 5:52 | |
Now. All, all of you listen to this. | 5:54 | |
Cause yesterday sat here during the whole show | 5:56 | |
and never had a note. | 5:58 | |
Let me see what we do with them. | 6:00 | |
(music begins) | 6:04 | |
♪ Them that's got ♪ | 6:17 | |
♪ Shall get ♪ | 6:19 | |
♪ Them that's not shall lose. ♪ | 6:22 | |
♪ So the Bible said ♪ | 6:26 | |
♪ And it still is news ♪ | 6:30 | |
♪ Mama may have ♪ | 6:34 | |
♪ Papa may have ♪ | 6:36 | |
♪ But god bless the child that's got his own ♪ | 6:39 | |
♪ That's got his own ♪ | 6:46 | |
♪ Yes, the strong gets more ♪ | 6:51 | |
♪ While the weak ones fade ♪ | 6:55 | |
♪ Empty pockets don't ♪ | 6:59 | |
♪ ever make the grade ♪ | 7:03 | |
♪ Mama may have ♪ | 7:07 | |
♪ Papa may have ♪ | 7:10 | |
♪ But God bless the child that's got his own ♪ | 7:13 | |
♪ That's got his own ♪ | 7:20 | |
♪ Money ♪ | 7:27 | |
♪ you've got lots of friends ♪ | 7:30 | |
♪ Crowding round ♪ | 7:34 | |
♪ Your door ♪ | 7:39 | |
♪ But when you're gone ♪ | 7:42 | |
♪ And spending ends ♪ | 7:44 | |
♪ They don't come no more ♪ | 7:49 | |
♪ Rich relations give ♪ | 7:55 | |
♪ Crust of bread and such ♪ | 7:59 | |
♪ You can help yourself ♪ | 8:03 | |
♪ But don't take to much ♪ | 8:06 | |
♪ Mama may have ♪ | 8:10 | |
♪ And Papa May have ♪ | 8:14 | |
♪ But God bless the child that's got his own ♪ | 8:17 | |
♪ That's got his own ♪ | 8:23 | |
♪ (instrumental music begins) ♪ | 8:28 | |
♪ (instrument music ends) ♪ | 8:56 | |
♪ Crust of bread and such ♪ | 9:02 | |
♪ You can help yourself ♪ | 9:06 | |
♪ But don't take to much ♪ | 9:09 | |
♪ Mama may have ♪ | 9:14 | |
♪ Papa may have ♪ | 9:17 | |
♪ But God bless the child that's got his own ♪ | 9:20 | |
♪ That's got his ♪ | 9:31 | |
♪ Own ♪ | 9:34 | |
(music ends) | 9:43 | |
(audience clapping) | 9:47 | |
- | Billy Diupres and Martin house baked beans | 9:52 |
is our sponsor. | 9:55 | |
Note as needed it's Martin house Salisbury, | 9:56 | |
steak and mushroom gravy same. | 9:59 | |
- | Martin? That's Arthur's middle name is it? | 10:01 |
- | That's right, sweetie. | 10:03 |
- | I remembered. | 10:04 |
- | Thank you and I wish owned some | 10:06 |
of this here stock, this Morton House food. | 10:07 | |
(indistinct) | 10:11 | |
You can get Morton House roast beef | 10:14 | |
and gravy or the beans or whatever else they put up. | 10:16 | |
Whenever you see the label Morton house buy | 10:19 | |
it is the best. | 10:23 | |
All right Abby tell us now what goes on | 10:24 | |
with you and Pat Boone out there in K.N.N. | 10:26 | |
Abby | Well | 10:29 |
- | You'll be reading about it. | 10:30 |
Abby | Pat, don't say that you got nine | 10:32 |
children I have six. | 10:34 | |
- | How many did you you say I have? | 10:36 |
Abby | You have nine children? | 10:37 |
- | I got four at just one time | 10:39 |
but you haven't looked this afternoon. | 10:42 | |
- | How is Shirley? | 10:45 |
- | She's just fine. | 10:46 |
- | Tell me Steve speaking of wives, | 10:48 |
where's that gorgeous gal of yours? | 10:49 | |
- | She literally just showed up here and | 10:51 |
my children are here, just two of them. | 10:53 | |
- | How many family you got? | 10:54 |
- | Well, at last count, I got two boys. | 10:58 |
- | Oh, what? | 11:00 |
- | Hey Tammy, work out something. | 11:01 |
Steve that's what do you got? | 11:04 | |
- | That's. What do you got, four girls, huh? | 11:06 |
- | Yeah. | 11:08 |
- | Just for one, we can make an exchange. | 11:09 |
- | All right. Arthur, I have this will | 11:10 |
mean nothing to your audience, | 11:12 | |
but to start of an inside impression | 11:13 | |
that I've been working on, you know, I'm very | 11:15 | |
grateful for you, | 11:16 | |
he practically raised our children for us. | 11:17 | |
I worked for Arthur for four and a half years and I'd just | 11:19 | |
like to challenge him and see if he can tell me | 11:22 | |
who I'm doing. Are you ready? | 11:24 | |
Arthur, Peter called and wants to know if | 11:27 | |
it'd be all right for him to work with | 11:29 | |
Ron and Blue for two weeks? | 11:31 | |
- | That's Mr. James Schumer. | 11:33 |
(indistinct) | 11:35 | |
(crowd laughs) | 11:38 | |
(indistinct) | 11:40 | |
(indistinct) | 11:42 | |
(indistinct) | 11:45 | |
(indistinct) | 11:47 | |
- | I've been with him long as you've been with BBS. | 11:50 |
- | You were in touch with him though? | 11:53 |
- | Yeah he is. Lou Irwin's my age and | 11:55 |
if he hadn't | 11:58 | |
taken them pictures around | 11:59 | |
and gone around all the TV stations | 12:00 | |
and all the TV networks and executives | 12:04 | |
I wouldn't be in radio today. | 12:06 | |
(crowd laughs) | 12:09 | |
(indistinct) | 12:13 | |
(crowd laughs) | 12:15 | |
- | Richard hay! | 12:19 |
Who's your agent? | 12:21 | |
Richard | I have no agent. | 12:22 |
(indistinct) | 12:25 | |
I hadn't been a contractor. | 12:27 | |
And they never even took pictures. | 12:32 | |
They would bend them back. | 12:34 | |
- | You know if they cared about agents they'd | 12:38 |
(indistinct) | 12:41 | |
and they get 10s of 10's of what we make | 12:42 | |
and you get in a bracket like you, I might | 12:45 | |
(Participant coughs) | 12:46 | |
after all years and the government takes | 12:47 | |
90 percent. | 12:49 | |
- | I understand that. | 12:50 |
- | I'll admit it. | 12:53 |
(indistinct) | 12:55 | |
So then you figure out, you gotta cut somewhere. | 12:57 | |
So what do you do of government? | 13:01 | |
(Indistinct) | 13:04 | |
(indistinct) | 13:07 | |
(laughter) | 13:10 | |
(group chattering) | 13:12 | |
(laughter) | 13:15 | |
(group chattering) | 13:18 | |
Woman | No, I don't have an agent. | 13:21 |
I've never had an agent. | 13:23 | |
- | What do you think Peter is? | 13:25 |
Woman | Huh? | 13:26 |
- | What do you think Peter does? | 13:27 |
- | That isn't Mary that's Abby. | 13:28 |
- | Oh, Abby. | 13:30 |
- | All right Abby, what do you think Peter does? | 13:31 |
(music begins) | 13:35 | |
(music playing) | 13:36 | |
(group chatting) | 13:44 | |
(music playing) | 13:51 | |
(Instrumental music playing) | 13:55 | |
(Instrumental music playing) | 14:04 | |
(Instrumental music playing) | 14:13 | |
(Instrumental music playing) | 14:21 | |
(music playing) | 14:31 | |
(Instrumental music playing) | 14:36 | |
(Instrumental music playing) | 14:45 | |
(group chatting) | 14:50 | |
(Instrumental music playing) | 14:54 | |
(music ends) | 14:58 | |
(group chatting) | 15:00 | |
- | We all heard his orchestra chorus | 15:03 |
Al of course on the trumpet and I can't | 15:06 | |
get started a great old song that we like best | 15:09 | |
of all buy a Funny Felix. | 15:12 | |
Twenty three and a half past twelve | 15:14 | |
stay tuned for the 12:30 dimension feature | 15:15 | |
and Theresa Brewer right now. | 15:18 | |
(music beings) | 15:20 | |
♪ Half as much half as much ♪ | 15:23 | |
♪ Half as much half as much ♪ | 15:26 | |
♪ If you loved me half as much as I love you ♪ | 15:31 | |
♪ Half as much half as much ♪ | 15:36 | |
♪ You wouldn't worry me ♪ | 15:39 | |
♪ half as much as you do ♪ | 15:43 | |
♪ Half as much half as much ♪ | 15:46 | |
♪You're nice to me ♪ | 15:48 | |
♪ when there's no one else around ♪ | 15:52 | |
♪ You only build me up ♪ | 15:58 | |
♪ to let me down ♪ | 16:03 | |
♪ If you missed me half as much as ♪ | 16:09 | |
♪ I miss you ♪ | 16:13 | |
♪ Half as much half as much ♪ | 16:16 | |
♪ You wouldn't stay away half as much as ♪ | 16:18 | |
♪ you do ♪ | 16:24 | |
♪ Half as much half as much ♪ | 16:25 | |
♪ I know that I ♪ | 16:27 | |
♪ would never be this blue ♪ | 16:31 | |
♪ If you only loved me ♪ | 16:36 | |
♪ half as much as I love you ♪ | 16:41 | |
♪ If you love me half as much as I love you ♪ | 16:47 | |
♪ You wouldn't worry me half as much as you do ♪ | 16:58 | |
♪ I know that I would never be this blue ♪ | 17:09 | |
♪ If you only loved me half as much as ♪ | 17:15 | |
♪ I love you ♪ | 17:20 | |
♪ Half as much half as much ♪ | 17:24 | |
♪ If you only loved me half as much as I ♪ | 17:27 | |
♪ love ♪ | 17:33 | |
♪ You ♪ | 17:35 | |
(music ends) | 17:43 | |
(radio jingle) | 17:46 | |
(radio jingle) | 17:48 | |
(radio jingle) | 17:50 | |
(radio jingle) | 17:53 | |
(radio advertisement) | 17:55 | |
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(music begins) | 18:52 | |
♪ Sweetie Pie and my honey bees ♪ | 18:55 | |
♪ Once you see my sweetie pie ♪ | 19:01 | |
♪ Sweet sweet sweetie pie ♪ | 19:05 | |
♪ I'll be in love with honey bees ♪ | 19:06 | |
(group chattering) | 19:10 | |
♪ Want you be my sweetie pie ♪ | 19:13 | |
♪ Sweet sweet sweetie pie ♪ | 19:15 | |
♪ Ill be in love with honey bees ♪ | 19:17 | |
(group chattering) | 19:19 | |
(group chattering) | 19:22 | |
(group chattering) | 19:25 | |
(group chattering) | 19:28 | |
(group chattering) | 19:31 | |
(group chattering) | 19:33 | |
(group chattering) | 19:36 | |
(group chattering) | 19:39 | |
(end of audio) | 19:41 |