Franklin W. Young - "Surely Goodness and Mercy" (March 8, 1970)
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| (singing) | 0:54 | |
| (singing) | 2:57 | |
| - | The scripture lesson is taken from the 23rd Psalm | 6:42 |
| and the 12th chapter of Luke, | 6:46 | |
| verses one through seven. | 6:48 | |
| The Lord is my shepherd, | 6:53 | |
| I shall not want, | 6:55 | |
| he makes me lie down in green pastures. | 6:57 | |
| He leads me beside still waters. | 7:00 | |
| He restores my soul. | 7:03 | |
| He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. | 7:04 | |
| Even though I walked through the valley | 7:05 | |
| of the shadow of death, | 7:05 | |
| I fear no evil, for thou art with me, | 7:06 | |
| thy rod and thy staff. | 7:08 | |
| Thy comfort me, thou preparest a table before me in the | 7:09 | |
| presence of my enemies. | 7:11 | |
| Thou anointest my head with oil, my cup overflows, | 7:11 | |
| surely goodness and mercy shall follow me | 7:12 | |
| all the days of my life. | 7:13 | |
| And I shall dwell in the house of the Lord, forever. | 7:14 | |
| In the meantime, | 7:15 | |
| when so many thousands of the multitude had gathered | 7:16 | |
| together that they tried upon one another, | 7:17 | |
| he began to say to his disciples first, | 7:18 | |
| be aware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is Hipocracy. | 7:18 | |
| Nothing is covered up. | 7:19 | |
| That will not be revealed or hidden. | 7:20 | |
| That will not be known. | 7:21 | |
| Whatever you have said in the dark, | 7:22 | |
| she'll be heard in the light. | 7:23 | |
| And what you have whispered in private rooms shall be | 7:23 | |
| proclaimed upon the house tops. | 7:24 | |
| I tell you, my friends do not fear those who kill the body. | 7:25 | |
| And after that have no more that they can do, | 7:26 | |
| but I will warn you home to fear, | 7:27 | |
| fear him who after he has killed, | 7:28 | |
| has power to cast into hell. | 7:28 | |
| Yes, I tell you fear him, | 7:29 | |
| are not five sparrows sold for two pennies | 7:30 | |
| and not one of them is forgotten before God. | 7:31 | |
| Or even the hairs of your head are all numbered. | 7:32 | |
| Fear not, you are of more value than many sparrows, Amen. | 7:33 | |
| (piano playing) | 7:33 | |
| (singing) | 7:34 | |
| The Lord be with you? | 7:35 | |
| Let us pray. | 7:36 | |
| Let us offer first the prayer of thanksgiving | 7:37 | |
| oh Lord our God who has set before us an open door, | 7:38 | |
| which no man can shut except the praise, | 7:38 | |
| with which we come before thy throne, | 7:39 | |
| in the name of Jesus Christ thy son | 7:40 | |
| for the open door, into thy presence, | 7:41 | |
| through praise and prayer. | 7:42 | |
| We're in we may come to know thee | 7:43 | |
| and be known of thee, | 7:43 | |
| not only as we are, | 7:44 | |
| but as we may be, | 7:45 | |
| we bless thee and praise thee, | 7:46 | |
| oh God, for the open door to thy word, | 7:47 | |
| through which we come to study, to meditate | 7:48 | |
| and to be nourished with that, | 7:48 | |
| which is the bread of life. | 7:49 | |
| We bless thee and praise thee, Oh God | 7:50 | |
| for the open door to fellowship with one another, | 7:51 | |
| through which we come, no more strangers, | 7:52 | |
| but as fellow citizens with the sense, | 7:53 | |
| we bless and praise thee, oh God, | 7:54 | |
| for the open door to the joy of loving and being loved. | 7:54 | |
| We bless and praise thee, oh God, | 7:55 | |
| let us offer prayers of intercession. | 7:56 | |
| First for all kinds and conditions of men, | 7:57 | |
| we bring before thee, oh God, | 7:58 | |
| the troubles and perils of peoples and nations, | 7:59 | |
| the sighing of prisoners and captives and refugees. | 7:59 | |
| The sorrows of the bereaved, | 8:00 | |
| the necessities of strangers, | 8:01 | |
| the helplessness of the weak, | 8:02 | |
| the despondency of the weary, | 8:03 | |
| the failing powers of the agent, | 8:04 | |
| oh God, draw near to each, | 8:04 | |
| for the sake of Jesus Christ, our Lord, | 8:05 | |
| and prayer of intercession for the church. | 8:06 | |
| Most gracious father, | 8:07 | |
| We humbly beseech thee for thy holy Catholic church. | 8:08 | |
| Fill it with all truth, in all truth, with all peace, | 8:09 | |
| where it is corrupt, project it. | 8:09 | |
| Where it is a narrow, direct it. | 8:10 | |
| Where anything is a miss, reform it. | 8:11 | |
| Where it is alright, strengthen and confirm it. | 8:12 | |
| Where it is in want, furnish it. | 8:13 | |
| Where it is divided and rent a sander, | 8:14 | |
| do without me cup the breaches in it, | 8:14 | |
| for the sake of thy son, | 8:15 | |
| whose church it is. | 8:16 | |
| And let us offer a prayer of supplication for our university | 8:17 | |
| oh God who art the fountain of all wisdom | 8:18 | |
| and source of all grace, | 8:19 | |
| be present always we beseech thee, | 8:19 | |
| with this university, | 8:20 | |
| to direct and bless it. | 8:21 | |
| Established in faith in the, | 8:22 | |
| and in doubt for the service of truth. | 8:23 | |
| May it have a arrest under thy gracious benediction. | 8:24 | |
| We pray thee, to use the university | 8:24 | |
| for the glory of Christ and to make it a pure | 8:25 | |
| fountain of sound knowledge, holy principles, | 8:26 | |
| and godly learning. | 8:27 | |
| Make us studious, truthful, | 8:28 | |
| pure, and temporary in all things. | 8:29 | |
| So that by the grace, the same mind may be in us, | 8:29 | |
| which was in Christ that our character | 8:30 | |
| would be formed in his holy likeness. | 8:31 | |
| prosper thou oh lord our laborers, | 8:32 | |
| and may the good name and influence of this university, | 8:33 | |
| be handed down from generation to generation. | 8:34 | |
| For the comfort of this nation | 8:34 | |
| and for thy glory. | 8:35 | |
| And now as our savior Christ hath taught us, | 8:36 | |
| we humbly pray together, | 8:37 | |
| saying, our father who art in heaven, | 8:38 | |
| hallowed be thy name, | 8:39 | |
| thy kingdom come, | 8:39 | |
| thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. | 8:40 | |
| Give us this day, | 8:41 | |
| our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive | 8:42 | |
| those who trespass against us and lead us, | 8:43 | |
| not into temptation, | 8:44 | |
| but deliver us from evil, | 8:44 | |
| for thine is the kingdom | 8:45 | |
| and the power and the glory forever, amen. | 8:46 | |
| Let the words of our mouth | 8:47 | |
| and the meditations of our hearts. | 8:48 | |
| be always acceptable in thy sight, oh Lord, | 8:49 | |
| our strength and our Redeemer, amen. | 8:49 | |
| There may be persons living today who do not feel the crunch | 8:50 | |
| of human existence, but it is difficult to imagine such | 8:51 | |
| certainly the prevailing anxieties and moods of the world. | 8:52 | |
| I guess even this segment of the world, | 8:53 | |
| the duke university campus, Bobby for the crutch | 8:54 | |
| the following piece, from the New York times, | 8:54 | |
| Mang ring a bell, | 8:55 | |
| not unfamiliar to us, | 8:56 | |
| even way down here in program. | 8:57 | |
| the subway train is crowded as it pulls into the station, | 8:58 | |
| a young woman under five feet tall, | 8:59 | |
| tries to make her way out. | 8:59 | |
| A large man blocks her path. | 9:00 | |
| She tries to move around him and brushes his coat. | 9:01 | |
| He grabs her arm and swings her around. | 9:02 | |
| She screams and he is restrained by some passengers, | 9:03 | |
| a transit policeman arrives, but the man is not arrested. | 9:04 | |
| The woman continues onto her office | 9:04 | |
| where she breaks down in his historic, | 9:05 | |
| tensions on the subway, predatory, motorists, | 9:06 | |
| and aggressive pedestrians, | 9:07 | |
| argumentative cab drivers, | 9:08 | |
| monking arms, | 9:09 | |
| solely waiters, | 9:09 | |
| antagonistic clerks, | 9:10 | |
| quarrels, quarrels, some customers clush, anger, I still it | 9:11 | |
| few people believe that the prevailing tautness and rudeness | 9:12 | |
| are merely the symptoms of surface irritation are merely the | 9:13 | |
| random or evolutionary loosening of manners. | 9:14 | |
| There's a good deal of hurting taking place. | 9:14 | |
| And there never has been a period in history, | 9:15 | |
| more self-consciously analytical of its predicament. | 9:16 | |
| If there is any one thing | 9:17 | |
| that is consistent in the most thoughtful analysis, | 9:18 | |
| it is this, | 9:19 | |
| that modern man has been subject subjected | 9:19 | |
| to a tragic dehumanization. | 9:20 | |
| And one of the most consistent expectations is this, | 9:21 | |
| that man recover his humanity | 9:22 | |
| without intending to suggest | 9:23 | |
| that other analysis are not significant and informative. | 9:24 | |
| I wish to concentrate on one particular effort to shed light | 9:24 | |
| upon man's predicament. | 9:25 | |
| For a number of years, Dr. Samuel King, | 9:26 | |
| a theologian profoundly influenced | 9:27 | |
| by the philosopher, Gabriel Marcel | 9:28 | |
| has been absorbed with a problem of modern man in | 9:29 | |
| relation to his loss of the sense of mystery in life. | 9:32 | |
| It is his contention | 9:33 | |
| that man is suffering from what he calls | 9:34 | |
| any clips of wonder. | 9:35 | |
| A loss which eventuates in a type of slavery, and myths. | 9:35 | |
| It is an age he said, | 9:36 | |
| which he is fascinated with mastering and controlling the | 9:37 | |
| immediate environment and has little interest in questions | 9:38 | |
| about the ultimate significance of life | 9:39 | |
| penultimate concerns he says are dominant | 9:40 | |
| and the ultimate concerns are unconscious or repressed. | 9:40 | |
| Dr. King season modern man, a tragic change | 9:42 | |
| from what he calls homo AD morons. | 9:42 | |
| Man, the wonder, | 9:43 | |
| wondering at the mysterious source of existence, | 9:44 | |
| a tragic chain to homo Faber, | 9:45 | |
| man the worker or fabricating man. | 9:46 | |
| Homo AD morons, he says view creation | 9:47 | |
| as a gift latent with mystery | 9:48 | |
| purpose and possibility of novelty. | 9:49 | |
| A sense of wonder which escape, | 9:50 | |
| the modern pride that man creates | 9:50 | |
| his own meaning, in his product, | 9:51 | |
| his possession things which thereby become limitations of | 9:52 | |
| his self-understanding since he is so identified with them. | 9:53 | |
| Homo Faber sees nature and history as simply raw material | 9:54 | |
| without any intrinsic meaning for him. | 9:55 | |
| Now, if keen is correct, then to neglect, | 9:55 | |
| the eclipse of wonder may be to overlook | 9:56 | |
| One of the most important aspects | 9:57 | |
| of the dehumanization of man, | 9:58 | |
| it is certain, I believe , | 9:59 | |
| that to eliminate the sense of wonder is | 10:00 | |
| to remove one of the crucial capacities of man, | 10:00 | |
| as understood in the scriptures. | 10:01 | |
| This is evident from the scripture readings you heard today, | 10:02 | |
| a passage that is as probably as familiar to many of you as | 10:03 | |
| any other that could have been read, | 10:04 | |
| say, perhaps the Lord's prayer. | 10:05 | |
| The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want, | 10:05 | |
| he makes me to lie down in green pastures. | 10:06 | |
| He leads me beside still waters. | 10:07 | |
| He restores my soul. | 10:08 | |
| He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. | 10:09 | |
| Even though I walked through the valley | 10:10 | |
| of the shadow of death, | 10:10 | |
| I fear no evil for thou art with me, | 10:11 | |
| thy rod and thy staff, | 10:12 | |
| They comfort me. | 10:13 | |
| Thou preparest a table before me | 10:14 | |
| in the presence of my enemy, | 10:15 | |
| thou anointest my head with oil, | 10:15 | |
| my cup overflows, | 10:16 | |
| surely goodness and mercy shall follow me | 10:17 | |
| all the days of my life. | 10:18 | |
| And I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever. | 10:19 | |
| You know when the translators | 10:20 | |
| of the revised standard version | 10:20 | |
| came to translate this time, | 10:21 | |
| so conscious where they have the place it held in | 10:22 | |
| Christian experience as remembered | 10:23 | |
| from the king James version | 10:24 | |
| that they refrain from altering the translation at | 10:25 | |
| points where they knew the translation could be improved. | 10:25 | |
| For example, through the valley of the shadow of death, | 10:26 | |
| it should undoubtedly be through the valley of the dark, | 10:27 | |
| but I'm not concerned with such minor changes, | 24:17 | |
| which in general do not touch the substance of a meaning. | 24:21 | |
| It is interesting | 24:28 | |
| that this poem so completely pastoral in setting | 24:30 | |
| and therefore, so utterly alien | 24:36 | |
| to the complex industrial technological | 24:37 | |
| urban world in which we live should retain its hold on some | 24:41 | |
| people to be sure it may be pure sentimentality | 24:46 | |
| or pathetic nostalgia for the past. | 24:53 | |
| What it may be, | 24:59 | |
| that it's meaningful persistence points to a | 25:01 | |
| best stage of homo AD morons. | 25:04 | |
| Man, the wonder in our life | 25:08 | |
| or it is essentially a poem of wonder, | 25:13 | |
| wonder which by its very nature transcends | 25:18 | |
| the circumstances that are happening. | 25:22 | |
| Look more closely at the Poem. | 25:27 | |
| It is one of complete receptive. | 25:31 | |
| He makes me lie down. | 25:36 | |
| He leads me beside still waters. | 25:39 | |
| He restores my soul. | 25:42 | |
| He leads me in paths. | 25:44 | |
| I walked, but thou are with thy rod | 25:47 | |
| and thy staff comfort me. | 25:50 | |
| Thou preparest a table, | 25:53 | |
| thou anoints my head. | 25:55 | |
| The copy is overflow. | 25:58 | |
| Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me. | 26:00 | |
| This is not homo Faber, | 26:06 | |
| man the manipulator, man the maker. | 26:10 | |
| Again notice, nature is close and real. | 26:16 | |
| Green pastures, waters, paths of life, food and drink. | 26:22 | |
| And they are present not as things man-made | 26:30 | |
| or acquired or possessed, | 26:33 | |
| but realities in which he participates | 26:37 | |
| lie down in green pastures beside, still a lot | 26:43 | |
| nature is confronted as a gift to be received, | 26:50 | |
| not taken by storm. | 26:55 | |
| The valley of deep darkness is present and real | 27:00 | |
| dispelled, but not ultimately by human ingenuity. | 27:08 | |
| The enemies are present and real, | 27:15 | |
| but not overcome by man couldn't drive slaughter. | 27:21 | |
| Homo Faber will want to say this poet is plainly diluted. | 27:30 | |
| Doesn't he know that man is always in want | 27:36 | |
| the green pastures have to be made. | 27:39 | |
| That unpolluted still waters are scarce. | 27:42 | |
| That paths of righteousness are difficult to locate, | 27:47 | |
| that when you are in the valley of deep shadows, | 27:51 | |
| it's scary as hell, | 27:54 | |
| that our rod and staff is small comfort against arm force, | 27:56 | |
| that you can't eat with your enemies. | 28:01 | |
| That cups just don't overflow without hard work, | 28:05 | |
| that mercy and goodness are dead. | 28:09 | |
| Yes, I surmise the poet knew this. | 28:16 | |
| If I know anything about how his time, | 28:20 | |
| and the time, when he might have lived. | 28:25 | |
| But his angle of vision was not in slave to this. | 28:30 | |
| for homo Faber looks upon nature and mankind from a singular | 28:40 | |
| angle of vision and a particular mode of thinking. | 28:45 | |
| He is primarily devoted to making, getting, | 28:48 | |
| having possessing what is observable to the eye and | 28:53 | |
| quantitatively measurable, | 28:58 | |
| maneuverable and capable of manipulation is important. | 29:01 | |
| The concern of his technical reason is with repeatable | 29:06 | |
| formulations that are provable past fact and experience | 29:09 | |
| becomes the engulfing criteria for understanding, | 29:14 | |
| present and future. | 29:18 | |
| He is void of wonder, | 29:20 | |
| which is posited in the openness to the incalculability in | 29:23 | |
| nature and history. | 29:29 | |
| But it is just out of wonder that the incalculable vision of | 29:33 | |
| the poet eminates in Cal, | 29:39 | |
| in the valley of deep shadows. | 29:45 | |
| (murmering) | 29:48 | |
| Thou prepares the table before me | 29:52 | |
| In the presence of my enemies | 29:56 | |
| (mummering) | 30:01 | |
| This whole poem is infused with a sense of wonder that he | 30:05 | |
| could write as you rock. | 30:09 | |
| And it is a confession and a prayer and a celebration | 30:13 | |
| culminating in the word. | 30:19 | |
| Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me. | 30:21 | |
| There seems to be a next trickable | 30:29 | |
| relationship between the confession that goodness | 30:31 | |
| and mercy follow him | 30:35 | |
| and the transfiguring vision of the world, | 30:38 | |
| which he had fore seen, | 30:42 | |
| A vision which was not only | 30:46 | |
| the culmination of a new understanding of | 30:49 | |
| himself in relation to the world, | 30:51 | |
| but a new actualizing of his being in the world. | 30:55 | |
| And it was 8B in the world, | 31:01 | |
| which he could designate under the sun | 31:06 | |
| of the presence of goodness and mercy. | 31:10 | |
| Surely goodness | 31:16 | |
| and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life. | 31:17 | |
| Someone will say | 31:20 | |
| can modern man release stomach | 31:23 | |
| with the horrors of the Vietnam war, | 31:27 | |
| that complex perplexities of racial strife, | 31:32 | |
| that dehumanization of technological society, | 31:35 | |
| the overpopulation, crowded existence, | 31:39 | |
| pollution, broken families, | 31:42 | |
| the sense of loss ness in a world of sudden change, | 31:44 | |
| reluctant decay and cancerous growth. | 31:47 | |
| This is an angle of vision, | 31:53 | |
| realistic though painful. | 31:57 | |
| According to the gospel of Luke, | 32:02 | |
| Jesus said, even the hairs of your head are numbered | 32:05 | |
| is this far from goodness and mercy shall follow you | 32:15 | |
| all the days of your life. | 32:19 | |
| But one will say I have a social cure, security number, | 32:23 | |
| a draft number, a student number an IBM number and the | 32:27 | |
| corporation, a driver's license number I'm numbered alright, | 32:30 | |
| but apart from these, | 32:35 | |
| you count me out. | 32:36 | |
| No one I care about or cares about me has my number 11 long, | 32:39 | |
| a number of the hairs on my head. | 32:45 | |
| That is an angle of age. | 32:51 | |
| Realistic, though painful life | 32:54 | |
| but it is evacuated of one day. | 32:59 | |
| It is totally to calculate. | 33:05 | |
| There are protests today against the loss of wonder | 33:12 | |
| you and I may find them strange or foreign. | 33:18 | |
| Some of them, | 33:21 | |
| and most of us will never follow the way they indeed, | 33:22 | |
| but let's not fail to pay attention to them. | 33:27 | |
| For example, the contemporary interest in astrology, | 33:33 | |
| which has been thriving in recent years, | 33:39 | |
| Dr. George Ferrell has said recently | 33:44 | |
| that astrology may thrive | 33:48 | |
| today because it expresses the oldest wish of mankind for | 33:52 | |
| the stars to care. | 33:57 | |
| The wish he says is fraught with cosmic loneliness in an | 34:03 | |
| intellectual scientific military world, | 34:09 | |
| a world associated with precision experiments in computers. | 34:12 | |
| He says that those who turned to astrology may be protesting | 34:18 | |
| the loss of mystery and holiness. | 34:22 | |
| It is a protest he says against their rational world, | 34:27 | |
| that uses reason to produce germ warfare | 34:31 | |
| that is imaginative | 34:35 | |
| about killing and so utterly helpless in situations. | 34:36 | |
| The young people find important. | 34:41 | |
| Sir, this is a protest against the loss of wonder | 34:45 | |
| the Christian faith was born in wonder. | 34:55 | |
| who could ever predict that, | 35:01 | |
| that a group of insignificant Jews would spread the news | 35:03 | |
| that in the crucifixion of another insignificant Jew, | 35:08 | |
| the unseen creator of all mankind had spoken to a man and to | 35:12 | |
| care for his the gospel | 35:17 | |
| to man as the goodness and mercy, | 35:21 | |
| which pursues him in all ages. | 35:24 | |
| And the sense of wonder was ingredient in the Christian | 35:30 | |
| tradition in Western culture for a century, | 35:34 | |
| but in modern times, | 35:39 | |
| subtle changes in transformation in | 35:42 | |
| self understanding and interpretation | 35:45 | |
| of its message have taken place | 35:47 | |
| discussing some of these changes, | 35:51 | |
| Dr. Harvey Cox has recently written. | 35:54 | |
| Christianity has often adjusted too quickly to modernity. | 35:59 | |
| It has speeded industrialization by emphasizing man as the | 36:05 | |
| soberly responsible worker and husbandman, | 36:09 | |
| it has nerdy science by stressing the order of creation and | 36:14 | |
| the gift of reason. | 36:18 | |
| Christianity has recognized that man is the worker and | 36:20 | |
| toolmaker the reason are and thinker, | 36:24 | |
| but in doing all this. | 36:29 | |
| It is often failed to give sufficient attention to vital | 36:30 | |
| dimensions of human reality. | 36:35 | |
| Some of which are more clearly seen | 36:37 | |
| by other religious tradition, | 36:39 | |
| consequently Western culture though, | 36:43 | |
| we rightly speak of it as highly developed in some senses | 36:46 | |
| is woefully under developed in others. | 36:51 | |
| It has produced too many pedestrian personalities | 36:55 | |
| whose capacity for vision and ecstasy is sadly crippled. | 36:59 | |
| It has resulted in a deformed man whose sense of a | 37:05 | |
| mysterious origin and cosmic destiny as nearly as a Fater. | 37:09 | |
| man has all, but lost his sense of wonder | 37:17 | |
| the new Testament is full of the sense of wonder | 37:25 | |
| one of the greatest passages infused with wonder | 37:30 | |
| is found in the 13th chapter | 37:33 | |
| of Paul's first letter to the Corinthians. | 37:35 | |
| And I believe that at the end of that passage, | 37:38 | |
| he brings together three aspects of human life, | 37:40 | |
| which are the essential ingredients of wonder when he writes | 37:44 | |
| these three abide, faith, hope and love. | 37:48 | |
| I believe it is no exaggeration to say | 37:56 | |
| that there are no other terms | 37:59 | |
| more important for understanding | 38:00 | |
| what the new Testament means by being human, | 38:03 | |
| or they do not refer just to attitudes | 38:09 | |
| that may come and go | 38:13 | |
| so important are they | 38:16 | |
| that they must be designated structures of life or | 38:18 | |
| essential dispositions, | 38:22 | |
| which are ingredients of being human. | 38:24 | |
| In its most elemental sense, | 38:31 | |
| faith designates the capacity of man, | 38:33 | |
| if he lives to accept and surrender, | 38:38 | |
| even if he is unable to predict the full chorus consequence | 38:42 | |
| of his action. | 38:49 | |
| Human existence depends on that. | 38:52 | |
| In its elemental sense, | 38:56 | |
| hope is that capacity of man to face the future with | 38:57 | |
| expectancy that in some incalculable way, | 39:00 | |
| life will be affirm. | 39:04 | |
| Human existence depends on that. | 39:08 | |
| In the words of Eric from | 39:11 | |
| if man has given up all hope, | 39:14 | |
| he has entered the gates of hell, | 39:16 | |
| whether he knows it or not. | 39:19 | |
| And he has left behind his own humanity. | 39:22 | |
| In its elemental, | 39:27 | |
| sense love is that capacity of man to seek unity and | 39:28 | |
| community in calculable with other sense. | 39:34 | |
| To be human depends on this. | 39:40 | |
| It is just in this openness of faith to commitment before | 39:46 | |
| the facts understandable to Manary and in the openness of | 39:51 | |
| hope to an incalculable future. | 39:57 | |
| The openness of love to the unpredictable possibility of | 39:59 | |
| unity and community with other cells | 40:04 | |
| that the possibility of one here reside | 40:08 | |
| and in the wonder, | 40:13 | |
| the possibility of confession, | 40:15 | |
| surely goodness and mercy shall follow me | 40:17 | |
| all the days of my life. | 40:22 | |
| Modern man, including Christian man cannot be, | 40:27 | |
| and honestly suddenly share the honest fruits of the | 40:32 | |
| technical and scientific knowledge, | 40:36 | |
| which has been achieved | 40:38 | |
| at great price through the generations. | 40:40 | |
| To do so would be to abandon faith, | 40:43 | |
| to an indefensible credulity, | 40:46 | |
| to squander hope on precious fantasy. | 40:49 | |
| And doing adults love in your responsible and wasteful | 40:54 | |
| sentiment talent, | 40:58 | |
| but man is confronted with a new problem today or his giant | 41:00 | |
| achievements in scientific and technical knowledge chip | 41:07 | |
| dwarfed him as homo AD moron, | 41:11 | |
| man as the being who is fake in his own, is mad | 41:16 | |
| nor can modern man, | 41:25 | |
| including Christian man up out of the technological society | 41:28 | |
| in which he lives | 41:32 | |
| and must live given the complexities of the | 41:34 | |
| human situation and its continued existence. | 41:38 | |
| But the crucial question is whether or not man can hope for | 41:43 | |
| a rebirth of his humanity, | 41:49 | |
| which includes the recovery of a sense of wonder a new | 41:52 | |
| emancipation of faith, hope and love. | 41:57 | |
| Christians have always lived within the range of the | 42:05 | |
| proclamation of a vision of man, | 42:09 | |
| the man Christ Jesus. | 42:14 | |
| It is a vision of one who called men to enter into the | 42:18 | |
| fullness of their humanity of faith, hope and love. | 42:21 | |
| It is a vision of one who himself revealed through humanity | 42:29 | |
| in his faith, hope and love. | 42:34 | |
| It is a vision of one who in that humanity became four men, | 42:39 | |
| a word from BI | 42:45 | |
| from the father. | 42:49 | |
| proceeding unexpectedly and uncalculated into the | 42:51 | |
| well of human existence is saying surely goodness | 42:59 | |
| and mercy shall follow you all the days of your life. | 43:06 | |
| As our vision grown dim, | 43:13 | |
| let us pray that the light of his humanity may search out | 43:18 | |
| the best features of our faith, hope, love | 43:22 | |
| that we may be revived in wonder in the | 43:30 | |
| midst of the crunch today and tomorrow. | 43:35 | |
| In the name of the father, | 43:42 | |
| the son and the holy ghost. | 43:44 | |
| (piano playing) | 43:51 | |
| (singing) | 44:18 | |
| (piano playing) | 46:53 | |
| (singing) | 49:22 | |
| Here we offer and present onto thee, oh God, | 53:53 | |
| our silver and our gold, | 53:57 | |
| the symbol of ourselves to be a reasonable, | 54:00 | |
| holy and lively sacrifice unto thee through Jesus Christ, | 54:04 | |
| our Lord and the grace of the Lord. | 54:11 | |
| Jesus Christ. | 54:16 | |
| Be with you all. | 54:18 | |
| (singing) | 54:24 | |
| (piano playing) | 56:00 | |
| (indistinct) | 56:42 |