James T. Cleland - "The Duke Chapel Blues" (June 7, 1970)
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| - | "If with all your hearts, ye truly seek me, | 0:15 |
| ye shall surely find me." | 0:20 | |
| Thus says our God. | 0:22 | |
| Draw an eye to God and he will draw an eye to you. | 0:26 | |
| Humble yourselves before God, and he will lift you up. | 0:32 | |
| The hour is coming and now is | 0:38 | |
| when the true worshipers | 0:42 | |
| will worship the Father in spirit and truth | 0:44 | |
| for such the Father seeks to worship Him. | 0:49 | |
| God is spirit, | 0:53 | |
| and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth. | 0:55 | |
| Let us worship God as we sing hymn 28. | 1:02 | |
| (light organ music) | 1:08 | |
| The scriptures say to us that if we say we have no sin, | 4:48 | |
| we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us, | 4:54 | |
| for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. | 4:59 | |
| Because of that, | 5:04 | |
| we are all in need of confessing our sins | 5:05 | |
| before almighty God and asking His forgiveness. | 5:09 | |
| So let us pray our prayer of confession. | 5:14 | |
| Our heavenly father, | 5:19 | |
| we have much to confess because we are very sinful. | 5:21 | |
| We have made complaints against Thee, | 5:27 | |
| and against our fellow men. | 5:30 | |
| We have complained that we are too busy | 5:33 | |
| when others have asked us to do things for them. | 5:37 | |
| But in turn, | 5:42 | |
| we have been impatient when others | 5:43 | |
| have not given perfect service. | 5:46 | |
| We are sinners in that we have tried to pretend | 5:51 | |
| that issues are complicated which Thou has made very simple. | 5:54 | |
| And we have declared impossible things | 6:02 | |
| which Thou has said are possible with Thy grace. | 6:07 | |
| We have been sinful in that we have believe | 6:15 | |
| that if we would only ignore our problems, | 6:17 | |
| they would go away. | 6:20 | |
| Whether our personal problems or our world problems. | 6:23 | |
| We have emphasized exterior beauty | 6:28 | |
| when we should have emphasized interior beauty and grace. | 6:31 | |
| We have acted as though we could repeal Thy moral laws | 6:38 | |
| by our own majority vote. | 6:42 | |
| We have even tried to act as though we were God. | 6:47 | |
| We have reserved to ourselves, little precincts, | 6:52 | |
| little pockets of time of interest, | 6:56 | |
| Which we have not been willing to surrender to Thee. | 7:00 | |
| Oh God, we are sinful in that we have failed | 7:06 | |
| to love the sinner in our zeal to eradicate the sin. | 7:09 | |
| We have failed sometimes also to hate sin | 7:15 | |
| in our emphasis upon loving the sinner, | 7:19 | |
| so we have failed to keep a proper balance | 7:23 | |
| between these two. | 7:25 | |
| Some of us have sinned in thinking that knowledge and wisdom | 7:28 | |
| consists of holding degrees, | 7:32 | |
| having good marks on a card. | 7:36 | |
| Oh God, | 7:40 | |
| as we are conscious of Thy presence and feel Thy spirit, | 7:41 | |
| we know ourselves to be sinners in many ways. | 7:46 | |
| We ask Thy forgiveness. | 7:50 | |
| We do not want to be sinners | 7:53 | |
| and we do not want to be guilty. | 7:54 | |
| Only Thou can help us. | 7:57 | |
| And we pray for that help, | 8:01 | |
| for that forgiveness and restoration | 8:02 | |
| through Jesus Christ our Lord. | 8:06 | |
| Amen. | 8:08 | |
| The love it in the first book of John, | 8:12 | |
| we find these comforting and reassuring words. | 8:14 | |
| This is the message which we have heard from Jesus | 8:19 | |
| and proclaimed to you. | 8:23 | |
| That God is light and in him is no darkness at all. | 8:25 | |
| If we walk in the light, as he is in the light, | 8:32 | |
| we have fellowship one with another. | 8:36 | |
| And the blood of Jesus, His Son, cleanses us from all sin. | 8:39 | |
| Amen. | 8:47 | |
| (light organ music) | 8:54 | |
| Dear friends, we have much for which to be thankful. | 9:43 | |
| We need to express our thanks together. | 9:47 | |
| Many, many years ago, Saint Francis of Assisi wrote words, | 9:51 | |
| which expressed the Thanksgiving | 9:57 | |
| which we need To bring before God. | 9:59 | |
| So may we now in our bulletins, | 10:03 | |
| join our hearts and our voices | 10:06 | |
| in our unison prayer of Thanksgiving. | 10:09 | |
| Let us pray. | 10:12 | |
| Almost high almighty Lord God, to you belong praise, | 10:14 | |
| glory, honor, blessing, and Thanksgiving. | 10:21 | |
| We thank you for the sun which brings us the day. | 10:25 | |
| For the moon and the stars. | 10:30 | |
| We thank you for the wind, and for the air, and cloud, | 10:32 | |
| and all weather by which you uphold life in all creatures. | 10:37 | |
| We are grateful for water, | 10:42 | |
| which is very serviceable unto us and precious and clean. | 10:44 | |
| We bless you for fire | 10:50 | |
| through which you give us light in darkness. | 10:52 | |
| It is bright and pleasant. | 10:55 | |
| We thank you for the earth, | 10:58 | |
| which sustains and keeps us | 10:59 | |
| and which brings forth fruits and flowers. | 11:02 | |
| Praise be the Lord | 11:05 | |
| for all who pardon one another for love's sake, | 11:07 | |
| who endure weakness and tribulation. | 11:11 | |
| We thank you for those who peaceably endure. | 11:14 | |
| We thank you for those who are found walking | 11:18 | |
| by your most holy will | 11:21 | |
| for earth shall have no power over them. | 11:23 | |
| We praise and bless you, oh Lord. | 11:27 | |
| And give thanks unto You through Jesus. | 11:30 | |
| Amen. | 11:33 | |
| (light organ music) | 11:42 | |
| (chanteuse singing foreign church song) | 11:46 | |
| "I was glad when they said to me, | 14:58 | |
| 'Let us go to the house of the Lord.'" | 15:01 | |
| Our feet have been standing within your gates, O Jerusalem. | 15:04 | |
| Jerusalem built as a city, which is bound firmly together. | 15:08 | |
| To which the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord, | 15:12 | |
| as was decreed for Israel | 15:17 | |
| to give thanks to the name of the Lord. | 15:19 | |
| Their thrones for judgment were set, | 15:22 | |
| the Thrones of the house of David. | 15:25 | |
| Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. | 15:28 | |
| May they prosper who love you. | 15:31 | |
| Peace be within your walls and security within your towers. | 15:34 | |
| For my brethren and companion sake, I will say, | 15:41 | |
| peace be within you. | 15:44 | |
| For the sake of a house of the Lord, our God, | 15:47 | |
| I will seek your good. | 15:49 | |
| He looked up and saw the rich, | 15:59 | |
| putting their gifts into the treasure. | 16:00 | |
| And he saw a poor widow put in two copper coins. | 16:03 | |
| And he said, "Truly, I tell you, | 16:07 | |
| this poor widow has put in more than all of them, | 16:10 | |
| or they all contributed out of their abundance, | 16:14 | |
| but she out of her poverty | 16:17 | |
| put in all the living that she had." | 16:19 | |
| And as some spoke of the temple, | 16:23 | |
| how it was adorned with noble stones and offerings. | 16:25 | |
| He said, "As for these things which you see, | 16:29 | |
| the day will come when there shall not be left here | 16:33 | |
| one stone upon another that will not be thrown down." | 16:36 | |
| (light organ music) | 16:43 | |
| (light organ music continues) | 16:52 | |
| (choir singing in unison) | ||
| - | The Lord, be with you. | 17:24 |
| Congregation | And also with you. | 17:27 |
| - | Let us pray. | 17:28 |
| Almighty God, on a day when action is the order of things, | 17:35 | |
| we pause in Thy presence to get our bearings. | 17:42 | |
| All about us and within us, we are aware of stirring action. | 17:46 | |
| In distant lands, men take up arms against each other. | 17:52 | |
| In our own land, | 17:57 | |
| we strive earnestly against them who oppose us. | 17:58 | |
| Oh Creator of the universe, | 18:03 | |
| help us to know that Thou are also active. | 18:06 | |
| That the living God is not dead nor does he sleep. | 18:11 | |
| Grant unto us the vision to see Thy works, | 18:16 | |
| and the wisdom to join the divine action. | 18:19 | |
| Heavenly Father, | 18:24 | |
| we are not sure that all the voices we hear, | 18:25 | |
| or even that all the words we speak are really very wise. | 18:29 | |
| We pray for grace to know where good judgment may be found. | 18:34 | |
| We don't mind being disturbed and in turmoil, | 18:40 | |
| if we can really feel that progress is being made | 18:44 | |
| and that Thy will is being worked out in all of this. | 18:47 | |
| And so amid all the loud contentions and counter claims, | 18:53 | |
| help us to hear Thy still small voice. | 18:58 | |
| We ask this both for others and for ourselves. | 19:02 | |
| And now, oh God, | 19:09 | |
| as we have come here at the end of this academic year, | 19:12 | |
| and at the beginning of the summer, | 19:15 | |
| for reunion, for taking stock, and for looking ahead, | 19:18 | |
| Enable us to compose our thoughts, | 19:23 | |
| to sift the importance from the expendable, | 19:26 | |
| the transient Separated from the permanent. | 19:31 | |
| While in Thy providence, | 19:37 | |
| we follow the vocation in which Thy spirit has led us. | 19:40 | |
| And in this, we pray Thee, | 19:46 | |
| to give clarity to those who are confused. | 19:47 | |
| Give nerve to those who are hesitant. | 19:51 | |
| Give tranquility to the fevered mind. | 19:55 | |
| Give love to the lonely. | 19:59 | |
| Give relaxed courage to the defeated. | 20:02 | |
| We pray for fresh grace to be given to those | 20:07 | |
| who suffer from the traditional ills, | 20:10 | |
| such as sickness, sorrow, | 20:13 | |
| tragic accidents in that sort of thing. | 20:16 | |
| But who find these traditional problems | 20:20 | |
| very pointedly personal when they become the victim. | 20:22 | |
| And so we pray for them. | 20:28 | |
| We pray for those who planned their marriage. | 20:32 | |
| Those who are newly married. | 20:35 | |
| Those who have a baby. | 20:37 | |
| Those who have a son or daughter | 20:39 | |
| graduating from high school, | 20:41 | |
| planning the future. | 20:44 | |
| We pray for the leaders of our own student body here. | 20:48 | |
| For those who will be leading it next year. | 20:54 | |
| For the faculty. | 20:57 | |
| For Terry Sanford | 20:59 | |
| and all the officers of the administration. | 21:01 | |
| for the trustees and the alumni, the athletic council, | 21:04 | |
| the religious council. | 21:08 | |
| We pray for all these individuals and groups, oh God, | 21:11 | |
| asking that they may remind themselves | 21:17 | |
| that they are standing under Thy awful judgment. | 21:21 | |
| And that they may see themselves also as candidates | 21:25 | |
| for Thy amazing grace. | 21:29 | |
| We pray, especially today for the parents who sacrifice | 21:33 | |
| that there may be students here. | 21:36 | |
| We pray for fathers and mothers | 21:41 | |
| upon whom the world must depend | 21:44 | |
| for the present and the future. | 21:48 | |
| Give them sobriety, give them love, patience, strength. | 21:51 | |
| And give them, oh God, the willingness to wait if need be, | 22:00 | |
| many years for the reward of their devotion. | 22:05 | |
| Most of all grant Thy self to all of us. | 22:11 | |
| We ask in the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord, | 22:16 | |
| who has taught us when we pray to say together, | 22:20 | |
| our Father who art in heaven, | 22:24 | |
| hallowed would be Thy name, | 22:27 | |
| Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, | 22:29 | |
| on earth as it is in heaven. | 22:32 | |
| Give us this day our daily bread, | 22:35 | |
| and forgive us our trespasses | 22:38 | |
| as we forgive those who trespass against us. | 22:40 | |
| And lead us not into temptation, | 22:44 | |
| but deliver us from evil. | 22:47 | |
| For thine is the kingdom, | 22:49 | |
| and the power, and the glory. | 22:51 | |
| Forever. Amen. | 22:53 | |
| - | The peace of God be with us | 23:17 |
| and with all who worship with us. | 23:21 | |
| It is not only appropriate, | 23:27 | |
| but almost inevitable that the University Service of Worship | 23:30 | |
| should be unofficially scheduled event | 23:36 | |
| on the calendar of alumni weekend. | 23:40 | |
| The chapel is a dominant feature | 23:46 | |
| in the academic and emotional topography. | 23:49 | |
| It is for most alumni, a respected piece of architecture. | 23:56 | |
| And for quite a few, a beloved place. | 24:02 | |
| You worshiping with us this morning, | 24:08 | |
| erecting out the opening words of the scripture lesson. | 24:12 | |
| "I was glad when they said unto me, | 24:17 | |
| 'Let us go into the house of the Lord.'" | 24:21 | |
| We are glad that you are glad. | 24:26 | |
| We are glad you gladly returned to worship | 24:31 | |
| in this beautiful house of God. | 24:35 | |
| For we want to share with you our worries, | 24:39 | |
| our disappointments, and our fears about this place. | 24:43 | |
| That is why the sermon is entitled, "The Duke Chapel Blues." | 24:51 | |
| There is a melancholy to it, a despondency. | 24:59 | |
| Why not? | 25:05 | |
| One dictionary definition of blue devil is a billful demon. | 25:07 | |
| That is one distress with pain and sorrow, and that's me. | 25:15 | |
| What's worrying those of us | 25:23 | |
| whose responsibility is the care of the chapel. | 25:25 | |
| Let me tell you. | 25:30 | |
| For a start, | 25:34 | |
| one sympathetic and enlightened friend of the chapel | 25:35 | |
| has prepared a five page monograph | 25:40 | |
| on the acoustical properties of the chapel. | 25:43 | |
| On the lack of acoustical properties. | 25:48 | |
| Here are some sentences from his first page. | 25:52 | |
| Considerable research undertaken in the last year | 25:56 | |
| has underscored two observations about the building, | 26:01 | |
| the architecture is excellent, | 26:06 | |
| and the acoustic are abysmal. | 26:11 | |
| Unfortunately, the lineage between gothic | 26:17 | |
| and neogothic architecture falters at the entrance | 26:20 | |
| to the chapel for nowhere within does one hear the echoes | 26:26 | |
| of Canterbury, St. Paul's, and Westminster Abbey. | 26:30 | |
| Instead, there is something more kin to the suppressed hush | 26:36 | |
| of the contemporary office building. | 26:41 | |
| And this is the tragedy of Duke Chapel. | 26:45 | |
| It is a feast for the eyes and meager fair for the ears. | 26:49 | |
| There are two reasons for this condition, | 26:59 | |
| the acoustical tile which takes the place of stone | 27:03 | |
| from about 14 feet above the floor, | 27:08 | |
| all the way to the ceiling | 27:11 | |
| except in the ribs of the arches and in the pillars. | 27:15 | |
| This tile absorbs 50% of the sound, | 27:21 | |
| The sound spoken, sung, play 50%. | 27:30 | |
| The Guastavino family who developed this tile, | 27:41 | |
| structurally strong and economically advantageous. | 27:44 | |
| Unfortunately, believed that the suppression of sound | 27:49 | |
| was an ideal condition for churches. | 27:54 | |
| Thus, the oral and coral and played word at Duke | 27:58 | |
| is mumbled, spongy, | 28:05 | |
| lacking in vigor and incisiveness and crispness. | 28:10 | |
| The tile is the first and primary reason | 28:18 | |
| for our acoustical problem. | 28:22 | |
| The second and a secondary reason | 28:26 | |
| is the inadequacy of our public addressed system. | 28:28 | |
| It is a sound system which is unsound. | 28:34 | |
| The baccalaureate sermon of last Sunday | 28:41 | |
| was better heard over the radio and in the grove | 28:44 | |
| than it was by the seniors in the chapel. | 28:50 | |
| On Easter Sunday, the projection of the voice petered out | 28:55 | |
| from both the lectern and the pulpit. | 29:00 | |
| The choir hears almost nothing of the sermon | 29:05 | |
| and that disappoints them some of the time. | 29:09 | |
| In addition, the chancel organ is dying. | 29:16 | |
| It's almost in the throes of rigor mortis. | 29:22 | |
| Organists, choir director, and clergy are about to say, | 29:28 | |
| (priest speaking in foreign language) | 29:35 | |
| Here are excerpts from memorandum | 29:41 | |
| sent me by our able young organist. | 29:43 | |
| The first is dated December 10th, 1969. | 29:47 | |
| "The chapel organ did not work last night | 29:53 | |
| for the first part of the choir rehearsal for the Messiah. | 29:56 | |
| Fortunately, it responded to tricks and began to function. | 30:01 | |
| This is one of at least 15 similar occurrences this fall." | 30:08 | |
| Second memorandum is dated May 15th of this year, | 30:16 | |
| less than a month ago. | 30:21 | |
| "The following is a 'Progress' report." | 30:24 | |
| And progress is in quotation mark. | 30:27 | |
| "A progress report on the deteriorating condition | 30:30 | |
| of the Aeolian organ. | 30:35 | |
| The problems with the generator have persisted. | 30:37 | |
| Every two to three weeks, the organ will not start, | 30:41 | |
| and the electrician will must be called in. | 30:45 | |
| So far, we have been fortunate that it has not happened | 30:48 | |
| just before a service or recital." | 30:51 | |
| I differ with them there. | 30:54 | |
| I think it's unfortunate that it didn't happen | 30:55 | |
| before a service or a recital. | 30:58 | |
| "Certain other occurrences, | 31:02 | |
| such as all the pedal stops sticking | 31:03 | |
| in the middle of the vacuum has happened to Dr. Kramer | 31:07 | |
| in his 1969 baccalaureate recital, | 31:12 | |
| or stops coming off in one's hand | 31:17 | |
| during the playing of hymns at the Sunday Morning Service. | 31:20 | |
| They're very frustrating, | 31:25 | |
| but they're taken stride by those | 31:28 | |
| of who have had experience playing the Aeolian. | 31:29 | |
| However, it's very hard to try to explain to a student, | 31:33 | |
| the day before the senior recital, | 31:38 | |
| which he has worked for all year | 31:41 | |
| that the coupler tabs on the right side of the organ | 31:44 | |
| have suddenly stopped working, | 31:48 | |
| and that the organ maintenance man | 31:51 | |
| will be unable to fix the problem | 31:54 | |
| until the day after her recital. | 31:56 | |
| It's very difficult to console other students | 32:00 | |
| who after having spent long hours working | 32:04 | |
| to make their pieces sound just right, | 32:06 | |
| find that in the public performance, | 32:09 | |
| the effect is ruined anyway, | 32:12 | |
| by stops that refuse to come on at a crucial time | 32:14 | |
| or by important notes that won't sound when played. | 32:18 | |
| And it's quite discouraging, | 32:23 | |
| even for one who's had more experience | 32:26 | |
| playing in the Aeolian | 32:28 | |
| to be told three weeks before | 32:30 | |
| the baccalaureate organ recital | 32:31 | |
| that a serious problem has arisen with the organ pistons | 32:34 | |
| that will take a good deal of money | 32:38 | |
| and two or three months to correct." | 32:40 | |
| Paragraph. | 32:44 | |
| "I shall let you know about any further problems that occur. | 32:45 | |
| Perhaps our organist should concentrate on blues music." | 32:52 | |
| Let me touch on two or three other sorrows. | 33:00 | |
| The heat in summer always annoying and sometimes unbearable | 33:04 | |
| is now more obvious in its effects than before, | 33:10 | |
| because the chapel along with page | 33:14 | |
| are the two great buildings which are not air conditioned. | 33:18 | |
| Would you as a student | 33:24 | |
| come from an air conditioned dorm in summer | 33:27 | |
| to worship in a humid hothouse, | 33:31 | |
| when you can hear the service | 33:35 | |
| over the radio for free at that? | 33:37 | |
| Do you realize that the chaplain to the university | 33:43 | |
| has no office? | 33:46 | |
| He has to use the best tree from which he has to scurry away | 33:49 | |
| when it's in demand for weddings, funerals, baptism. | 33:54 | |
| Do you know that the choir cannot come | 34:01 | |
| from its roaming room downstairs to the front of the chapel | 34:03 | |
| in order to process? | 34:07 | |
| Why? | 34:10 | |
| Because the passageway in the basement | 34:11 | |
| is cluttered with an accumulation of art, | 34:13 | |
| treasures, and non-ecclesiastical junk. | 34:16 | |
| One tenant wind his way among or through the conglomeration. | 34:22 | |
| Do you notice that the one face in shadow | 34:30 | |
| in the carvings at the top of the rear door | 34:34 | |
| is the central one that of our Lord? | 34:38 | |
| It has been that way for the 25 years, I have been here. | 34:44 | |
| Perhaps, the emolument Christ is symbolic | 34:50 | |
| of the Duke Chapel Blues. | 34:55 | |
| And just last Sunday, | 34:59 | |
| the carillonneur from the National Cathedral in Washington | 35:00 | |
| who played the commencement and recital said | 35:04 | |
| that the bells are in good condition, | 35:07 | |
| but the action which makes them sound hurt is almost, | 35:11 | |
| "Shot to pieces." | 35:16 | |
| This then is a quick sketch of what is worrying us, | 35:21 | |
| who are somewhat responsible for the ongoing of the chapel. | 35:26 | |
| What's the cause of this miserable condition? | 35:33 | |
| Very simply and perhaps too generally, | 35:37 | |
| the chapel is on almost no one's priority list. | 35:41 | |
| Trustees, administration, | 35:47 | |
| Duke Endowment, faculty council, student government, | 35:51 | |
| YMCA, YWCA, alumni fund. | 35:58 | |
| It isn't that the chapel is low man on the totem pole. | 36:03 | |
| It isn't on the totem pole, | 36:09 | |
| beyond routine or needful maintenance. | 36:13 | |
| Now this is understandable. | 36:17 | |
| We lack a worthy student union, and a proper music center, | 36:21 | |
| and a fit swimming pool. | 36:28 | |
| More overlay appeal to more people. | 36:32 | |
| We need students scholarships and loans, | 36:35 | |
| and more distinguished Professorial Chair. | 36:38 | |
| Let's face it, | 36:42 | |
| the chapel is not considered essential | 36:44 | |
| for the ongoing of the university. | 36:49 | |
| Do you know the definition of The Classics, | 36:55 | |
| the books which everyone admires and no one reads. | 36:58 | |
| The chapel is in a comparable position. | 37:06 | |
| The building which everyone loves, | 37:10 | |
| and no one really cares for. | 37:14 | |
| What can be done about it? | 37:19 | |
| What can you do So that something may be done about it? | 37:21 | |
| Let me try to tell you, | 37:26 | |
| We have a plan worked out | 37:29 | |
| with the cooperation of the music department, | 37:32 | |
| which will widen the use of the chapel. | 37:36 | |
| Hence, while the worship of God | 37:41 | |
| will continue to be of primary important, | 37:43 | |
| the chapel will also be used on any day | 37:47 | |
| and all days of the week | 37:51 | |
| for the playing and singing of the manifold music, | 37:54 | |
| which has been written to God's glory. | 37:58 | |
| One sign of this liaison is the director of coral music | 38:02 | |
| is now a member of the music department. | 38:07 | |
| Now to implement this vision, if visions can be implemented, | 38:13 | |
| there are seven steps to be taken, | 38:19 | |
| which must be thought of together | 38:22 | |
| rather than in a chronological sequence. | 38:25 | |
| One, the Guastavino tile, | 38:29 | |
| which now absorbs 50% of the sound | 38:33 | |
| can be quoted with a transparent sealer. | 38:38 | |
| This will reduce the absorption to 1/10 of 1%. | 38:44 | |
| Two, the sound system, | 38:53 | |
| so antiquated in conception as to be almost antediluvian, | 38:56 | |
| more or less a washout, | 39:03 | |
| should be replaced in such a way | 39:06 | |
| that anyone with normal hearing | 39:09 | |
| seated anywhere in the chapel may hear any sound | 39:13 | |
| intentionally spoken into any microphone, | 39:20 | |
| strategically and functionally located. | 39:25 | |
| Three, a great new organ | 39:31 | |
| should be placed in the nave narthex location | 39:35 | |
| now occupied by the antiphonal organ. | 39:40 | |
| This will lead the congregational praise, | 39:44 | |
| play all the preludes, interludes, and postludes, | 39:48 | |
| and be the major recital organ. | 39:53 | |
| It would be a North European Baroque organ, | 39:57 | |
| I'm told by those who know. | 40:02 | |
| The chancel organ should be replaced by a smaller instrument | 40:06 | |
| but in the same great 19th century | 40:11 | |
| romantic symphonic tradition. | 40:14 | |
| A French organ though made in the USA. | 40:18 | |
| Its use will be to accompany the choir, | 40:24 | |
| to give recitals of a different nature | 40:28 | |
| from the nave narthex organ, | 40:30 | |
| and to play at the numerous services | 40:33 | |
| held here in the chancel. | 40:35 | |
| Let me add that if we do lay possessive hands | 40:40 | |
| on two such instrument, | 40:44 | |
| then along with the Mary Duke Biddle organ | 40:47 | |
| in the Memorial Chapel, | 40:50 | |
| this building will be the greatest organ room | 40:52 | |
| on the East Coast. | 40:58 | |
| Musicians and listeners will flock to us. | 41:01 | |
| The possibilities are almost beyond imagination. | 41:06 | |
| Air conditioning is almost a must. | 41:15 | |
| I'm sorry, it's so cool this morning, | 41:18 | |
| but I could prove it to you. | 41:20 | |
| The human impetus behind this drive | 41:24 | |
| is the vice president for health affairs. | 41:27 | |
| He's so suffered in the human heat | 41:32 | |
| of a funeral service last summer | 41:35 | |
| that he's putting his name and influence | 41:38 | |
| and act human behind our cool need. | 41:41 | |
| He stated the matter rather simply, | 41:47 | |
| "When I am remembered here in this place | 41:51 | |
| at a funeral or my memorial service, | 41:54 | |
| I want my friends to mourn in comfort." | 41:58 | |
| Six, the basement should be given back to the chapel | 42:05 | |
| for its use and uses. | 42:11 | |
| Choir rooms, offices for the staff. | 42:14 | |
| An underground passage that's viable | 42:19 | |
| from the east end to the west end. | 42:22 | |
| And the rear dust should be floodly, | 42:26 | |
| so that the beauty of its carving may be revealed, | 42:30 | |
| so that the face of our Lord may be transfigured in light. | 42:34 | |
| Perhaps we would then realize | 42:40 | |
| that there's actually a great cross, eight feet high, | 42:43 | |
| as the apex of that screen. | 42:48 | |
| Now these are the seven steps, | 42:53 | |
| seven being a sacred number to bring our vision to life | 42:56 | |
| and to put to death, the perpetual nightmare, | 43:02 | |
| which has haunted us so long. | 43:05 | |
| What prevents the implementation of such a program? | 43:08 | |
| You know. So do I. | 43:12 | |
| I've almost come to the conclusion | 43:16 | |
| that it is the lack of money rather than the love for money, | 43:18 | |
| which is the root of all evil. | 43:24 | |
| The author of 1st Timothy to the contrary. | 43:27 | |
| However, we have some money in hand, | 43:31 | |
| Mary Duke Biddle Foundation | 43:35 | |
| has given 50% of the cost of treating the tile | 43:37 | |
| and building a new sound system. | 43:42 | |
| A $35,000 gift that the university has not matched the sum. | 43:45 | |
| An anonymous donor has pledged $125,000 | 43:53 | |
| for the nave narthex organ. | 44:00 | |
| Provided the amount is matched by October one. | 44:03 | |
| If it is not matched, | 44:09 | |
| the organ goes to some other institution. | 44:11 | |
| The entire cost of the lighting of the rear dust | 44:16 | |
| has been promised by one | 44:20 | |
| for whom the chapel is a top priority. | 44:23 | |
| We know the remedy for our ills, in theory. | 44:29 | |
| What's the mode of treatment to cure the Duke Chapel Blue? | 44:34 | |
| Here is where you alumni of Duke, | 44:40 | |
| and we friends of Duke can help. | 44:44 | |
| There are three things that we can do. | 44:46 | |
| First, talk with members of the administration, | 44:50 | |
| and with the university trustees | 44:55 | |
| about the possibility of the chapel being thought of | 44:59 | |
| in terms of a reasonable priority. | 45:04 | |
| Put the chapel back on the totem pole. | 45:10 | |
| Second, write the members of the Duke Endowment Board, | 45:16 | |
| about the possibility of the chapel | 45:21 | |
| receiving special consideration | 45:23 | |
| in the allocation of the undesignated fund. | 45:27 | |
| It was Mr. Duke's idea | 45:32 | |
| to have a chapel at the center of the university. | 45:35 | |
| Third, turnover in your minds this question, | 45:41 | |
| has the time come | 45:46 | |
| to form a Friends of the Chapel Organization at Duke? | 45:48 | |
| A Friends of the Chapel Organization. | 45:57 | |
| Princeton has such a society. | 46:00 | |
| Our own library as a Friends of the Library. | 46:04 | |
| Could be an exciting project in all kinds of ways. | 46:08 | |
| Now there are such friends though nameless. | 46:13 | |
| One group has just given $1,000 | 46:17 | |
| toward the nave narthex organ. | 46:21 | |
| Two individuals have each promise $1,000 | 46:26 | |
| for the same profit. | 46:31 | |
| Perhaps, here is the nucleus | 46:34 | |
| of the Friends of the Duke Chapel. | 46:37 | |
| Well, so what? | 46:41 | |
| If nothing is done, | 46:45 | |
| the chapel will still be used | 46:48 | |
| for worship on Sundays at 11:00 AM, | 46:50 | |
| for student weddings, and faculty funerals, | 46:55 | |
| for the capping of student nurses, | 47:00 | |
| and the tapping of Red Friars. | 47:03 | |
| As a shelter from tear gas, | 47:07 | |
| and as a haven for protest groups | 47:10 | |
| who prefer it to page auditorium, | 47:13 | |
| maybe on the theory that Jesus was a revolutionary. | 47:16 | |
| And yet it was Jesus | 47:22 | |
| who expected the destruction of the temple. | 47:25 | |
| The Duke Chapel of Jerusalem. | 47:30 | |
| Is the faculty member correct, who said that in 50 years, | 47:34 | |
| this chapel would be used as a repository for old books. | 47:39 | |
| Or will the chapel have a new, a fuller, a richer life, | 47:47 | |
| which will redown to the glory of God | 47:55 | |
| and the enrichment of our academic community? | 47:58 | |
| It is in part for you to say, | 48:03 | |
| "I shall not be here to see its glory." | 48:07 | |
| Some of you may, as you return for reunion. | 48:12 | |
| In anticipation of a happy, a blessed outcome. | 48:19 | |
| Let us sing hymn 480, all five stanzas. | 48:27 | |
| I love the Thy kingdom Lord, the house of Thy abode. | 48:33 | |
| Maybe we can start the renovation | 48:38 | |
| by singing the "Blues Away" 480. | 48:41 | |
| (light organ music) | 48:49 | |
| (light organ music) | 49:13 | |
| (choir singing in unison) | ||
| (light organ music continues) | 51:33 | |
| (chanteuse singing foreign church song) | 52:52 | |
| (light organ music continues) | 57:14 | |
| (choir singing in unison) | ||
| - | Almighty God, we offer unto Thee, this chapel, | 58:32 |
| these offerings, ourselves, | 58:37 | |
| in dedication to the causes and purposes | 58:40 | |
| for which Jesus Christ lived and died and was raised again. | 58:44 | |
| In His name. | 58:51 | |
| Now may the peace of God which passeth all understanding, | 58:57 | |
| keep our hearts and minds in the knowledge and love of God | 59:02 | |
| and of His Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord. | 59:06 | |
| And the blessing of God almighty, | 59:09 | |
| the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit | 59:11 | |
| be upon us and remain with us now and evermore. | 59:14 | |
| Amen. | 59:18 | |
| (church bell ringing) | 59:22 | |
| (light organ music) | 59:36 |
