James T. Cleland - "Machinery and Religion" (October 12, 1969)
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(gentle angelic music) | 0:03 | |
(choir singing in foreign language) | 0:06 | |
(gentle angelic music) | 2:22 | |
(choir singing in foreign language) | 3:03 | |
- | Because we are not perfect | 4:29 |
and because we'd have shortcomings, | 4:34 | |
each one of us could fashion his own words | 4:38 | |
or acknowledging his sins and transgressions | 4:43 | |
but may we unite our thoughts, our hearts, | 4:50 | |
and our voices and words, which the psalmist has given us | 4:54 | |
to express our feeling of repentance | 5:01 | |
and the confession of our sins. | 5:07 | |
Let us pray. | 5:10 | |
Have mercy upon us oh God. | 5:12 | |
According to thy loving kindness, | 5:16 | |
according to the multitude of thy tender mercies, | 5:19 | |
blot out our our transgressions. | 5:24 | |
Washed us thoroughly from our iniquity | 5:27 | |
and cleanse us from our sin, | 5:31 | |
for we acknowledge our transgressions | 5:35 | |
and our sin is ever before us. | 5:38 | |
Created in us clean hearts oh God | 5:42 | |
and renew a right spirit within us, | 5:46 | |
cast us not away from thy presence | 5:50 | |
and take not thy holy spirit from us. | 5:54 | |
Restore unto us the joy of thy salvation | 5:58 | |
and uphold us with thy free spirit. | 6:04 | |
Amen. | 6:08 | |
(gentle angelic music) | 6:10 | |
(choir singing in foreign language) | 6:22 | |
- | Old testament. | 8:36 |
The Book of Numbers, the seventh chapter, | 8:37 | |
the first through the ninth verses. | 8:41 | |
"And it came to pass on the day | 8:46 | |
"that Moses had fully set up the tabernacle | 8:48 | |
"and had anointed and sanctified it | 8:52 | |
"and all the instruments thereof, | 8:56 | |
"both the altar and all the vessels thereof | 8:58 | |
"and had anointed them and sanctified them, | 9:02 | |
"that the princess of Israel, | 9:07 | |
"heads of the houses of their fathers, | 9:09 | |
"who were the princes of the tribes and were over them | 9:12 | |
"that were numbered, offered. | 9:16 | |
"And they brought their offering before the Lord, | 9:19 | |
"six covered wagons and 12 oxen. | 9:22 | |
"A wagon for two of the princes and each one an ox | 9:26 | |
"and they brought them before the tabernacle | 9:32 | |
"and the Lord spake unto Moses saying", | 9:35 | |
"Take it of them that they may be to do the service | 9:39 | |
"of the tabernacle of the congregation | 9:44 | |
"and i shall give them unto the Levites, | 9:47 | |
"to every man according to his service. | 9:50 | |
"And Moses took the wagons and the oxen | 9:54 | |
"and gave them unto the Levites, | 9:58 | |
"two wagons and four oxen he gave unto the sons of Gershon, | 10:01 | |
"according to their service | 10:06 | |
"and four wagons and eight oxen | 10:08 | |
"he gave unto the sons of Merari, | 10:11 | |
"according unto their service. | 10:14 | |
"Unto the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron, the priest, | 10:17 | |
"but unto the sons of Kohath he gave none | 10:24 | |
"because the service at the sanctuary belonging unto them | 10:28 | |
"was that they bear upon their shoulders." | 10:33 | |
(gentle angelic music) | 10:49 | |
(choir singing in foreign language) | 11:00 | |
- | The Lord be with you. | 11:46 |
(indistinct) | 11:48 | |
Let us pray. | 11:50 | |
Let us offer on the God are prayers of thanksgiving, | 12:02 | |
our prayers, intersession, | 12:07 | |
our prayers of supplication and the Lord's prayer. | 12:11 | |
All mighty God our heavenly father. | 12:18 | |
On this holy Lords day, | 12:23 | |
we come to express our gratitude for the joy of fall | 12:27 | |
and the cool weather after the heat of summer, | 12:33 | |
for the thrill of a beautiful new day following the night, | 12:40 | |
for the promise of a new chance in life | 12:48 | |
even when yesterday was not a complete success, | 12:52 | |
for the sense of satisfaction | 13:01 | |
which comes to us from a job well done, | 13:04 | |
or even which comes to us from having made progress | 13:11 | |
toward the completion of a good piece of work. | 13:16 | |
We thank thee for great music, | 13:25 | |
for great musicians, | 13:29 | |
for inspiring art, inspired artists. | 13:33 | |
We bless thee for a storehouse of learning | 13:41 | |
which beckons us, | 13:44 | |
for books and teachers who guide us | 13:48 | |
in the use of them. | 13:54 | |
We thank thee for parents who really care for us. | 13:58 | |
We thank you for the affectionate response | 14:04 | |
of sons and daughters | 14:08 | |
who are learning to be themselves | 14:12 | |
without breaking their relationship to their parents. | 14:17 | |
We blessed thee for the creative relationships of love | 14:23 | |
between true lovers, | 14:28 | |
who unselfishly are devoted to each other. | 14:32 | |
We thank thee above everything else | 14:40 | |
and above every one else for Jesus Christ, | 14:42 | |
who purifies an a nobles every relationship of life. | 14:48 | |
And now our father we come with our intersessions | 14:57 | |
for our fellow man, | 15:03 | |
whom thou does love as much as thou does love us. | 15:05 | |
We pray for the sick that they may know it is possible | 15:13 | |
for each one of them to receive a blessing | 15:20 | |
and although not all the blessings they can receive | 15:26 | |
are the same, we pray that they may have hope | 15:32 | |
and expectation to receive the blessing | 15:39 | |
that is possible for them. | 15:43 | |
We pray for the bitter | 15:49 | |
who've made up their minds of they're never in this life | 15:52 | |
going to forgive certain people, | 15:56 | |
that they may be given grace, actually to forgive them, | 16:00 | |
that they may be delivered from hatred in their hearts | 16:08 | |
and from the kind of relationship which hatred sustains. | 16:13 | |
We pray for those who have prejudged their fellows | 16:23 | |
because of their nationality or their politics or their race | 16:29 | |
or their religion, | 16:36 | |
that they may cease to pre-judge any individual | 16:40 | |
and may relate to people as people. | 16:48 | |
We have come to intercede for the person | 16:55 | |
who is quite sure that he has gone too far | 16:59 | |
from the path of right ever to return, | 17:03 | |
help him to know that while there is life, | 17:08 | |
there is always hope. | 17:15 | |
If he will but return under the heavenly father | 17:17 | |
and ask forgiveness. | 17:22 | |
We come praying thy blessings upon the leaders of the church | 17:27 | |
an upon the leaders of our state, of our nation, | 17:35 | |
the leaders of every nation, | 17:41 | |
that in this hour of history, | 17:45 | |
they may be led by a wisdom and a love | 17:49 | |
which comes from Jesus Christ. | 17:54 | |
We pray for those whose lives and whose welfare are at stake | 18:00 | |
in the mighty events of the world today, | 18:05 | |
that they may not be injured and bruised, | 18:12 | |
that they may be protected by not only thy wisdom | 18:19 | |
but wisdom in the part of our leaders. | 18:25 | |
We pray thee our father for those who were making plans | 18:32 | |
for a marriage, | 18:36 | |
for those who have just began their marriage, | 18:38 | |
for parents who have new children in their homes. | 18:44 | |
Actually, oh God, we need to pray for a great many people | 18:51 | |
and we now offer our intersections for all our fellow man, | 18:58 | |
those we know, those we shall never meet, | 19:04 | |
those who call us friend, those who call us enemy, | 19:10 | |
those who have found Christ as savior, | 19:17 | |
those who are estranged from him, | 19:22 | |
we pray for all of them through Jesus Christ our Lord. | 19:26 | |
(gentle angelic music) | 19:34 | |
(choir singing in foreign language) | 19:51 | |
(gentle angelic music) | 21:27 | |
(choir singing in foreign language) | 21:30 | |
And now as our savior Christ has taught us, | 24:22 | |
we humbly pray together saying | 24:26 | |
our father who art in heaven, | 24:30 | |
hallowed be thy name, | 24:34 | |
thy kingdom come, | 24:36 | |
thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. | 24:39 | |
Give us this day our daily bread | 24:44 | |
and forgive us our trespasses | 24:48 | |
as we forgive those who trespass against us | 24:51 | |
and lead us not into temptation, | 24:56 | |
but deliver us from evil for thine is the kingdom | 24:59 | |
and the power and the glory forever. | 25:04 | |
Amen. | 25:09 | |
The peace of God be with you all. | 25:34 | |
What did you make of the nine verses | 25:45 | |
from Numbers chapter seven, which were read the lesson? | 25:49 | |
I'm fairly sure that you could not see much point to them. | 25:58 | |
If they had been read in the King James version, | 26:07 | |
there would have been even less seeable point to them. | 26:12 | |
Some of you probably feel that only your presbyterian | 26:21 | |
would choose a passage like that as holy scripture. | 26:25 | |
Yet I'm convinced that in these nine verses | 26:33 | |
is a spiritual truth of vital importance to all times. | 26:39 | |
And therefor to us. | 26:48 | |
Let us look first at the old testament background. | 26:53 | |
The children of Israel are in the wilderness of Sinai, | 27:00 | |
under the leadership of Moses, | 27:06 | |
he is endeavoring to whip them into a unit | 27:12 | |
strong enough to attack and subdued Palestine. | 27:19 | |
It is an early machine age civilization. | 27:27 | |
They transport their goods and chattels in wagons, | 27:33 | |
they even a specified amount | 27:42 | |
of ecclesiastical furniture in wagons. | 27:46 | |
But according to the editor Numbers | 27:53 | |
there are several holy objects, | 27:58 | |
particularly the Ark of the Covenant | 28:04 | |
which Moses refused to have transported on wheels. | 28:10 | |
The sons of Gershon may have two wagons and four oxen | 28:20 | |
to covey the curtains of the tabernacle | 28:27 | |
and the door hangings and all the instruments | 28:32 | |
of their servers. | 28:38 | |
The sons of Merari may have four wagons | 28:41 | |
and eight oxen to tow the boards | 28:47 | |
and the bars of the tabernacle, the sockets, | 28:52 | |
the pins and the cords, | 28:57 | |
but the sons of Kohath may have neither wagons nor oxen. | 29:04 | |
There charge was the ark | 29:15 | |
and with it the table, the candlesticks, the alter. | 29:22 | |
The most holy things | 29:33 | |
and the most holy of all the holy things | 29:38 | |
was the Ark of the Covenant of Yahweh. | 29:42 | |
The symbol of God's presence in the camp, | 29:49 | |
more of that, the embodiment | 29:55 | |
the container of God's presence in the camp. | 30:00 | |
The very heart of Israel's religious life. | 30:07 | |
The ark in particular must be born on the shoulders of men. | 30:15 | |
Now why was the ark so holy? | 30:30 | |
Well we have to go back | 30:37 | |
to the theological thinking of the time | 30:39 | |
to answer the question. | 30:44 | |
In those times God's were local, | 30:48 | |
constricted and confined by tribal boundaries. | 30:55 | |
Each was tied to the soil, | 31:03 | |
actually to the soil of a small piece of territory. | 31:06 | |
When a man crossed a tribal boundary. | 31:14 | |
He literally left his old God, | 31:20 | |
that fact is evidenced again and again | 31:26 | |
in the early chapters of the old testament. | 31:31 | |
But the children of Israel loved this new God | 31:38 | |
who Moses had found in the desert. | 31:44 | |
They believed that it was he | 31:51 | |
who had delivered them from Egypt | 31:53 | |
and because they loved him, | 31:58 | |
they didn't want to leave him behind in Sinai | 32:01 | |
when they invaded and settled down in the promise land, | 32:08 | |
in what was to become Palestine. | 32:16 | |
So what did they do? | 32:22 | |
They decided to carry him from Sinai into the promised land. | 32:25 | |
They build a box and in it they placed two stones. | 32:39 | |
We know them as the stones, | 32:48 | |
the tablets of the 10 commandments, | 32:51 | |
perhaps probably they were originally two boulders | 32:57 | |
from off the mountain in Sinai, | 33:06 | |
were Moses had talked with Yahweh. | 33:11 | |
They place the stones in the box, | 33:17 | |
which came to be called the Ark of the Covenant | 33:23 | |
thus they had Yahweh in the box. | 33:30 | |
Remember that God's were local, | 33:36 | |
tied to the terrain and the two pieces | 33:40 | |
of the terrain in that box | 33:44 | |
and then they picked him up | 33:49 | |
and carried him into Palestine | 33:53 | |
and there they naturalized him and make him their God, | 33:57 | |
the God, their. | 34:05 | |
Now of course they didn't really, but they thought they did | 34:09 | |
but notice he was not transport in a wagon, | 34:15 | |
at least not at this time, | 34:23 | |
but on the shoulders of men. | 34:27 | |
Moses distinguished between that which was less holy | 34:33 | |
and that which was more holy, | 34:39 | |
the latter was given a more personal, | 34:44 | |
a more intimate treatment, | 34:50 | |
that which was most holy | 34:54 | |
men carried on their own shoulders. | 35:00 | |
Now is there a word here | 35:08 | |
from an early mechanical age to our machine civilization | 35:12 | |
about the religious life. | 35:22 | |
Is it something like this? | 35:26 | |
In religion there is one fact | 35:30 | |
which is so basic as to be the holy fact | 35:38 | |
namely the relationship between a person | 35:48 | |
and his God, | 35:54 | |
between a group of persons and there God, | 35:58 | |
and one another. | 36:05 | |
It is an I, thou relationship, | 36:09 | |
A we, you kinship, affinity. | 36:15 | |
The result of which is the happiness | 36:23 | |
which the Bible calls blessedness that is the holy fact, | 36:29 | |
the continuing symbolic Ark of the Covenant. | 36:38 | |
It is Isaiah in the temple. | 36:45 | |
It is Jesus on the Mount of Temptation | 36:50 | |
and in the garden of Gethsemane. | 36:55 | |
It is Paul on the Damascus road. | 36:59 | |
It is Luther monkey cell | 37:06 | |
working with half a dozen words, | 37:11 | |
the just shall live by faith. | 37:15 | |
It is Schweitzer, | 37:22 | |
refusing to be God's man for nine years | 37:24 | |
and then deciding for a medical degree | 37:32 | |
and a missionary medical practice. | 37:38 | |
It is a student here in a dormitory room, | 37:43 | |
correlating his, her talents with a community need | 37:50 | |
in the light of the I, the thou relationship with God. | 37:59 | |
This is the heart of the matter, | 38:07 | |
but the heart of the matter is constantly | 38:14 | |
being lost sight of, | 38:20 | |
tough as constantly recover. | 38:23 | |
Now why? | 38:27 | |
Well, one reason is because man begins to make too holy. | 38:30 | |
The formed, the symbol, the medium | 38:38 | |
through which we believe God makes contact with us. | 38:47 | |
How did God make himself known to the Jew? | 38:54 | |
Through the law. | 38:59 | |
Now one emphasis of the law was the tithe. | 39:04 | |
10% of ones income for God, | 39:11 | |
but often this payment, this holy tax became | 39:19 | |
mechanical, prefatory. | 39:26 | |
So that Jesus said of it, "Alas for you lawyers | 39:32 | |
and Pharisees, hypocrites that is frauds. | 39:41 | |
"You pay tithes of mint and dill and cumin | 39:50 | |
"but you have over looked | 40:00 | |
"the weightier demands of the law, | 40:02 | |
"justice, mercy and good faith, | 40:07 | |
"it is these you should have practiced | 40:14 | |
"without neglecting the others blind guides." | 40:19 | |
For many Christians, God makes himself known | 40:29 | |
through the church which in time | 40:33 | |
becomes a professional holding company | 40:38 | |
with a power structure be it Roman Catholic | 40:44 | |
or Southern Baptist or United Presbyterian. | 40:50 | |
And the along come a weekly and a Frances | 40:58 | |
and a Luther and a Wesley and a John 23, | 41:05 | |
to tell us that some ecclesiastical paraphernalia | 41:15 | |
and some sacerdotal apparatus may be carried in wagons, | 41:22 | |
but that the encounter of God and man. | 41:31 | |
Of God and man is very personal | 41:39 | |
and symbolically carried on the shoulders | 41:46 | |
and hearts persons. | 41:50 | |
Let me clarify what I'm trying to say here. | 41:55 | |
Machinery is good, | 42:01 | |
we much to be grateful to it for in our ordinary life | 42:05 | |
abundance of goods improving in quality | 42:12 | |
and diminishing price. | 42:16 | |
Drudgery eliminated and the chance of leisure. | 42:19 | |
Comfortable homes with a variety of labor saving devices. | 42:24 | |
Unbelievable facilities for travel | 42:30 | |
and miraculous means of communication | 42:35 | |
and we in the United States are both heirs | 42:40 | |
and lords of the machine, | 42:44 | |
but there is one caveat the machine is a good servant, | 42:49 | |
but a bad master. | 42:58 | |
When the machine begins to shape the spiritual | 43:02 | |
and ethical and political ends | 43:07 | |
then man becomes a devil or a slave, | 43:13 | |
this is true in the religious sphere. | 43:22 | |
Even on campus. | 43:25 | |
When we are swamped with committee work | 43:29 | |
and an endless succession of called meetings | 43:34 | |
and a growing number of petitions to be signed. | 43:40 | |
It's time to ask about the relationship of busy work | 43:47 | |
to the holy spirit. | 43:53 | |
When religious offices pour their printed documents | 43:58 | |
and mimeograph broad sheets in an epistolary Niagara, | 44:02 | |
then it's time to ask | 44:10 | |
what is more holy and what is less holy? | 44:13 | |
I know one Methodist minister | 44:20 | |
who keeps his spiritual sanity | 44:23 | |
by never opening any envelope | 44:28 | |
which comes from Nashville Tennessee. | 44:32 | |
(congregation laughs) | 44:35 | |
When the National Council of Churches | 44:41 | |
or any national student organization | 44:45 | |
becomes the ex officio Delphic oracle for one group | 44:49 | |
and the voice of anti Christ for another, | 44:58 | |
then it's time to ask about the relative importance | 45:03 | |
of absentee steamroller wagons | 45:09 | |
and the visible small body of Christopher's. | 45:15 | |
Christ bearers on the local scene. | 45:21 | |
The spiritual sons and daughters of Kohath | 45:28 | |
who voluntarily carry the symbol of God on their persons. | 45:35 | |
Now let us be clear about what's being said | 45:44 | |
it is not the elimination of machinery which is desire, | 45:48 | |
but it's subordination. | 45:53 | |
It is that our entanglement in organizing, | 45:58 | |
worse than that, our enjoyment of organization, | 46:04 | |
be a secondary and not a primary concern, | 46:11 | |
that has differentiate between means and ends | 46:17 | |
and among the kinds of means | 46:22 | |
which implement the desire end of a person and God | 46:26 | |
in valid contact. | 46:33 | |
This proposition that some holy things | 46:37 | |
are holier than others is evidence | 46:40 | |
both analogically and effectually in the areas of life | 46:44 | |
which are not synonymous with religion, | 46:50 | |
but which are influenced by religion. | 46:54 | |
One is an education. | 47:00 | |
It's obvious from the revamped curricular | 47:04 | |
in almost all areas of the university's academic life, | 47:08 | |
that many people were worrying about the mechanical, | 47:15 | |
impersonal, stereo typed implementation | 47:21 | |
of a rather rigorous and out of date corpus of course, | 47:29 | |
this may be illustrated if somewhat caricatured | 47:37 | |
by the incident of a, the French Minister of Education, | 47:42 | |
being interviewed by a Britisher. | 47:49 | |
The minister pulled out his watch, looked at it and said, | 47:54 | |
every child in France, in such, in such a grade, | 48:01 | |
is at this moment composing a Latin verse. | 48:09 | |
Now think of it. | 48:16 | |
Every child in France, not just in Paris, | 48:17 | |
of a certain age was composing of Latin verse | 48:24 | |
at that specific moment, | 48:30 | |
maybe 40 million French men can be wrong. | 48:34 | |
Machinery was controlling and carrying | 48:41 | |
what individual men and women should've been carrying | 48:46 | |
in concert with boys and girls | 48:51 | |
in understood local situation. | 48:55 | |
Nowadays a student may almost become an IBM Card | 49:00 | |
whose one humane cry is that he be not stapled, | 49:08 | |
mutilated or bent. | 49:14 | |
Now it's too expensive too impossible | 49:19 | |
to return to Mark Hopkins at one end of a log | 49:24 | |
and a farm boy at the other | 49:30 | |
but it is possible to make sure that education | 49:36 | |
is not a systematic conglomeration of card indices, | 49:43 | |
right and wrong quizzes, strangely known as objective tests. | 49:51 | |
A rated diploma and an alumni membership card, | 49:59 | |
that is why this student body is on the right lines, | 50:07 | |
when it selects professors whom it deems worthy | 50:13 | |
of public and cooperate recognition. | 50:20 | |
We still need and thanks be to God, | 50:28 | |
we still find men and women like Garmin or Ramos | 50:32 | |
of whom it was said, he wrote on the hearts of man. | 50:40 | |
He wrote on the hearts of man. | 50:50 | |
The second area is in the realm of marriage. | 50:56 | |
I often think of Duke students | 51:02 | |
at whose weddings I'm hounded to officiate. | 51:05 | |
In my minds eye I watch these young people standing there | 51:12 | |
before the communion table, looking at each other, | 51:24 | |
hands clasped, flighting their (indistinct) | 51:31 | |
and I do promise in covenant | 51:37 | |
before God and these witnesses | 51:41 | |
to be thy loving and faithful husband, | 51:47 | |
wife, in plenty and in want, | 51:51 | |
in joy and in sorrow, | 51:57 | |
in sickness and in health | 52:00 | |
as long as we both shall live. | 52:04 | |
Now what's going to make them keep that vow? | 52:10 | |
A washing machine and a self defrosting icebox, | 52:17 | |
a vacuum cleaner and a color TV, | 52:24 | |
a garbage disposal unit? | 52:30 | |
Well, they'll help. | 52:35 | |
Let's not fool ourselves. | 52:42 | |
Thank God for the machine age, blessings on it, | 52:46 | |
there's good use for the wagons, | 52:51 | |
but they're not essential for the joint pilgrimage. | 52:56 | |
Robert Burns poem, "John Anderson my Jo, John", | 53:02 | |
should show that. | 53:07 | |
Do you recall the lines? | 53:09 | |
An old woman's talking to an old man | 53:12 | |
remembering their life when they were first married. | 53:16 | |
Now they've not merely climb the hill together, | 53:23 | |
their looking at a road | 53:29 | |
as it dips into the valley, | 53:32 | |
but she knows they will walk down together | 53:36 | |
and be buried at the foot together. | 53:45 | |
"John Anderson my jo, John, when we were first acquent | 53:51 | |
"your locks were like the raven, | 53:58 | |
"but now your brow is beld", that is unwrinkled. | 54:02 | |
"But now your brow is beld John", bold, | 54:09 | |
he's got a high forehead. | 54:13 | |
"Your locks are like the snaw, | 54:17 | |
"but blessing on your frosty pow. | 54:22 | |
"John Anderson my Jo. | 54:26 | |
"John Anderson my jo, John, | 54:30 | |
"we climbed the hill the gither | 54:32 | |
"and many a canty day John, We've had wi' ane anither. | 54:36 | |
"Now we maun totter down, John, | 54:43 | |
"but hand in hand well go and sleep the gither | 54:49 | |
"at the foot. | 54:55 | |
"John Anderson my Jo." | 54:57 | |
Now that requires understanding, sympathy, humor | 55:01 | |
and the capacity for not being equally mad at the same time. | 55:11 | |
It comes from affection, confidence, | 55:22 | |
and valuing of each other in terms of the highest | 55:28 | |
and the deepest, they know. | 55:33 | |
Paid labor with machines will build a house | 55:38 | |
and furniture and labor saving devices | 55:45 | |
will equip the house and there they stop, | 55:49 | |
were they should stop. | 55:57 | |
They've done their job. | 56:00 | |
But of the making of the house into a home | 56:04 | |
is something created by mutual love, | 56:10 | |
something born on the shoulders | 56:16 | |
and in the hearts of a man and a woman. | 56:21 | |
Yes, Moses had a sound idea, | 56:28 | |
a right idea. | 56:34 | |
Life make sense when things are in their proper place | 56:38 | |
and things should always be in a subordinate place. | 56:47 | |
Machinery, wagons, they are to be used | 56:57 | |
to handle the paraphernalia of the good life, | 57:03 | |
in marriage, in education, in religion | 57:08 | |
but the Ark of the Covenant, | 57:13 | |
the symbol of the God, | 57:20 | |
of God, is the light burden, the easy yoke, | 57:25 | |
on the shoulders of men and women | 57:37 | |
who are of the tribe of Kohath | 57:42 | |
and of the lineage of Jesus. | 57:48 | |
Amen. | 57:56 | |
Let us pray. | 57:58 | |
Grant us oh God to know what comes first in our faith | 58:03 | |
and what is second. | 58:11 | |
What this holy and what is the Holy of Holies | 58:16 | |
and to discriminate wisely | 58:26 | |
and rightly between them in the manner of Moses | 58:29 | |
and of our Lord Jesus Christ. | 58:38 | |
Amen. | 58:44 | |
(gentle angelic music) | 58:48 | |
(choir singing in foreign language) | 59:46 | |
(gentle angelic music) | 1:03:22 |