James T. Cleland - "To Walk and Not Faint" (September 20, 1970)

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	(worship piano music)	0:08
Pastor	Let us be seated,	6:40
	and join in the unison prayer of confession,	6:41
	and for pardon.	6:45
	All mighty God,	6:50
	we humbly confess that we are guilty people.	6:52
	We cannot count the sins that we have done,	6:56
	nor can we remember all the evil thoughts of our hearts.	7:00
	We have neglected thy word,	7:04
	and have taken lightly thy mercies.	7:06
	We have not turned away from violence and vanity.	7:09
	We therefore do not deserve the forgiveness	7:14
	for which we pray,	7:16
	but we ask thee to grant	7:18
	that we may from the heart,	7:21
	be turned to thee,	7:23
	and that we may be reconciled to thee,	7:25
	through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.	7:28
	If a man is in Christ,	7:37
	he becomes a new person altogether.	7:39
	The past, is finished and gone.	7:43
	Everything has become fresh and new.	7:46
	God's mercies never end.	7:50
	I tell you in the name of Jesus Christ,	7:53
	we are forgiven.	7:56
	Believe the gospel,	7:58
	and live in peace.	8:00
	(worship piano music)	8:07
	The scripture lesson this morning	13:27
	comes from the book of Isaiah,	13:28
	the 40th chapter verses 18 through 31.	13:30
	"To whom then will you liken God,	13:37
	or what likeness compare with Him?"	13:40
	The idle, a Workman casts it	13:42
	and a Goldsmith overlays it with gold,	13:44
	and cast forward silver chains.	13:47
	He who is impoverished	13:49
	chooses for an offering wood that will not rot.	13:51
	He seeks out a skilled craftsman	13:54
	to set up an image that will not move.	13:56
	Have you not known?	13:59
	Have you not heard?	14:00
	Has it not been told you from the beginning?	14:02
	Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?	14:05
	It is He who sits above the circle of the earth,	14:08
	and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers.	14:11
	It is He who stretches out the heavens like a curtain	14:14
	and spreads them like tented dwelling.	14:17
	It is He who brings princess to naught,	14:20
	and makes the rulers of the earth as nothing.	14:22
	Scarcely are they planted, scarcely sown.	14:25
	Scarcely has their stem taken root in the earth,	14:29
	when He blows upon them and they wither.	14:32
	And the Tempest carries them off like stubble.	14:34
	"To whom then will you compare me	14:38
	that I should be liking?"	14:40
	says the holy one.	14:41
	Lift up your eyes on high and see who created these.	14:43
	He who brings out their hosts by number,	14:47
	calling them all by name,	14:49
	by the graciousness of his mind,	14:51
	and because he is strong in power,	14:53
	not one he's missing.	14:55
	Why do you say, "oh Jacob didn't speak, Oh Israel."	14:58
	My way is hid from the Lord	15:01
	and my rights is disregarded by my God.	15:02
	Have you not known?	15:05
	Have you not heard?	15:07
	The Lord is the everlasting God,	15:09
	the creator of the ends of the earth.	15:11
	He does not faint or grow weary.	15:14
	His understanding is unsearchable.	15:16
	He gives power to the faint and to him who has no might,	15:18
	He increases strength.	15:22
	Even you shall faint and be worried.	15:24
	And young men shall fall exhausted,	15:26
	but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength.	15:28
	They shall Mount up with wings like Eagles.	15:32
	They shall run and not be worried.	15:35
	And they shall walk and not faint.	15:37
	May the Lord bless to us the reading of his word.	15:40
	(worship piano music)	15:44
	The Lord be with you?	16:25
	(crowd murmurs)	16:27
	Let us pray.	16:29
	Almighty God, our heavenly father,	16:38
	we have need to bring many things	16:42
	before you in prayer.	16:46
	Our thanks, and our intersessions for	16:49
	our fellow man,	16:54
	and are prayers for ourselves.	16:57
	Oh God, we do have much,	17:01
	for which to give things.	17:03
	We are grateful for even the failures	17:06
	of our lives,	17:10
	the failures of our unworthy schemes,	17:12
	which forced us to make worthy plans.	17:14
	We thank thee that we did not succeed	17:19
	in our attempts to play God.	17:21
	So that in our frustration,	17:24
	we learned the grace of humility.	17:26
	We express our thanks for friends who encourage us,	17:30
	who recognize our strong points.	17:34
	We are grateful for other friends	17:38
	who help us to see where we are wrong	17:40
	and need to improve.	17:43
	We are thankful that evil is not so strong,	17:46
	but that we can rise above it.	17:49
	When we surrender our wills to thy,	17:51
	and seek thy divine grace.	17:55
	We thank thee four victories of health over disease.	17:59
	Victories of love over hate.	18:03
	Victories of unity over division,	18:07
	of truth over error,	18:10
	of beauty over ugliness,	18:12
	of order over and anarchy.	18:15
	And hearing their	18:19
	victories of peace over war.	18:22
	We express our thanks so God for seed time and harvest,	18:26
	for full barns, full employment,	18:31
	the abundance of industry.	18:35
	for improved distribution,	18:38
	and for a greater sharing of the fruits of honest labor.	18:41
	We thank thee for pioneers	18:49
	who point the way to mark Christian relationships,	18:50
	in the office,	18:54
	in the home,	18:55
	in the market,	18:56
	in the classroom,	18:58
	in the laboratory,	18:59
	in the halls of government.	19:01
	Supremely, we thank thee that while we were yet sinners	19:03
	Christ died for us.	19:07
	And we blessed thee for	19:10
	our hope of the final triumph of righteousness,	19:12
	and the life everlasting, through Jesus Christ, our Lord.	19:16
	Oh God, from whom we come,	19:23
	and to whom our spirits return,	19:26
	we now remember before thee our fellow student, Celso Pinto,	19:29
	whose sudden and tragic death	19:35
	has made our hearts sad here at the beginning of this year.	19:37
	We acknowledge our unwillingness to believe it has happened.	19:42
	We are humbled, and honored.	19:46
	As we contemplate the uncertainty	19:49
	and the brevity of this earthly existence.	19:52
	So teach us to number our days	19:55
	that we may get a heart of wisdom.	19:57
	Grant that thy holy spirit	20:01
	may comfort his loved ones at home,	20:03
	and his friends here on this campus.	20:06
	Father of all mercies,	20:12
	we lived to thee for healing and strength,	20:14
	all of our needy hearts,	20:18
	are broken purposes,	20:21
	are broken lines.	20:22
	Remembering all thy children everywhere.	20:24
	We pray for this bewildered world.	20:28
	May good sense, justice, law,	20:32
	yet rule throughout the earth,	20:37
	that there may be peace in the middle east,	20:40
	and in the far east,	20:43
	and peace at home.	20:46
	We pray for all whose lives are a wilderness,	20:50
	that thou will water them with loving kindness,	20:54
	until they grow again.	20:57
	We pray for all who are beset by evil of every kind,	21:00
	that they may know thee as they're great deliverer.	21:05
	We pray for those who are afraid,	21:10
	some have real fears,	21:13
	others have subjective dangers,	21:15
	be thou their confidence,	21:19
	to lonely ones do thou show Christ as their elder brother,	21:22
	heal the broken heart,	21:29
	and all who are bowed down to that lift up.	21:32
	Oh God who act more great,	21:39
	more ready to hear than we are to pray.	21:41
	Who knows the petitions of those	21:45
	whose lips are silent.	21:48
	Hear the prayers of every heart, here today.	21:51
	We pray for those who are in authority,	21:58
	that they may be given understanding and devotion.	22:01
	Give our leaders the courage of their convictions,	22:07
	and may they have the right convictions.	22:12
	We pray for our own university	22:16
	on this opening Sunday,	22:18
	for its trustees,	22:21
	its president,	22:23
	its faculty and staff,	22:25
	it's alumni,	22:28
	and especially do we pray for	22:30
	the new students who are beginning here, their education.	22:33
	May they become learners,	22:39
	and ever remain learners.	22:42
	Humble and teachable.	22:45
	And those who have not yet learned	22:48
	grant that they may be delivered from the arrogance	22:51
	of posing as teachers.	22:54
	May all of us students and faculty staff,	22:57
	never seek to graduate from the disciplines of life.	23:02
	May we ever press on to new goals and discover new truth.	23:07
	And therefore we commit ourselves, oh God, unto thee.	23:13
	And place our academic year in thy hands.	23:20
	Making our own the prayer which thy son,	23:25
	Jesus Christ has taught all his disciples to pray saying,	23:27
	our Father who art in heaven,	23:32
	hallowed be thy name,	23:35
	thy kingdom come.	23:37
	Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.	23:39
	Give us this day, our daily bread	23:42
	and forgive us our trespasses.	23:45
	As we forgive those who trespass against us,	23:48
	lead us not into temptation,	23:51
	but deliver us from evil,	23:53
	for thine is the kingdom	23:55
	and the power and the glory forever, amen.	23:57
	The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ,	24:23
	be with you all.	24:26
	The first service of a new academic year,	24:31
	is now officially opening Sunday,	24:36
	rather than freshmen Sunday.	24:40
	Therefore the sermon should not be primarily	24:45
	one of introduction to the university service of worship,	24:48
	though we do specially welcome all students,	24:54
	in all the academic disciplines,	24:58
	who out here Duke,	25:01
	for the first time.	25:03
	This service and sermon must	25:07
	somehow be for all of you.	25:09
	New recruits and veterans,	25:12
	persons through and potential graduates.	25:16
	Members of the colleges and up the schools,	25:22
	friends, and camp followers.	25:26
	It's an almost impossible sermonic assignment,	25:30
	to speak to each and all of you.	25:35
	Upset Chubb, variegated you.	25:39
	Yeah, there is one common denominator.	25:43
	You are members of our sojourners in the Duke community,	25:47
	at the university service of worship.	25:54
	Now, puzzling for something to start a train of thought,	26:00
	I recall some words from a meditation,	26:05
	which was read aloud in my home,	26:08
	when I was in my teens.	26:11
	The author was a minister in Tasmania,	26:15
	who published two books a year,	26:18
	for many years.	26:22
	They sold, they still do.	26:25
	His name was Boredom.	26:29
	Boredom, an awkward name for a preacher.	26:32
	And, in his case, quite inappropriate.	26:37
	When he was introduced to the general assembly	26:41
	of the church of Scotland,	26:43
	the moderator did so in one happy sentence.	26:45
	"I present to you the Reverend F W Boredom.	26:48
	whose name is on all our lips.	26:53
	Whose books are in all our studies,	26:57
	and whose illustrations are in all our sermons.	27:01
	Now in one of his sermonic essays,	27:06
	he's dealing with the question,	27:09
	"What is the most trying part	27:11
	of a long journey?"	27:14
	What is the most trying part	27:17
	of a long journey?	27:20
	The first person argued for the beginning,	27:23
	the weary road stretches interminably.	27:28
	The thought of the miles ahead is devastating.	27:32
	Every stick and stone says,	27:38
	"Go back, you not."	27:41
	The second person argued for the end.	27:45
	The body is weary and the feet are blister.	27:49
	The mind is tired and the spirit is unrefreshed.	27:54
	More fork begin than finish.	28:01
	Mr Boredom suggests that they're both wrong.	28:06
	At the start, that is the exhilaration of a challenge.	28:10
	At the end, there are welcome lights	28:17
	and a sense of achievement.	28:20
	But what about the middle stretches	28:25
	out of sight of stopped and finish,	28:29
	and their encouragement?	28:34
	What about the monotony	28:37
	and the grind	28:39
	and the boredom	28:42
	of a long distance Walker?	28:44
	And there was the sermonic thought for the opening surface	28:48
	of the academic year, 1970, 71.	28:53
	I decided to concentrate on the years between	28:58
	the freshmen and the senior.	29:02
	And as I thought about the sophomores and the juniors,	29:06
	and their kinsmen in the schools,	29:10
	that came to mind the passage of scripture	29:13
	which was out in less than.	29:16
	Isaiah 40:18-31.	29:18
	Now why? Well, let's look at it.	29:23
	The setting of Isaiah chapter 40 to 55 was Babylon.	29:28
	While an enforced colony of Jews,	29:36
	had been in exile.	29:40
	Since the destruction of the Jewish state	29:42
	and the sack of Jerusalem	29:46
	in 587 BC.	29:48
	And the unknown author of these chapters,	29:52
	whom the scholars call second or Deutero Isaiah,	29:56
	was a spokesman to them of comfort and hope.	30:02
	He watched the rise of Cyrus of media.	30:08
	And believed that the God of history	30:14
	was using Cyrus	30:18
	to defeat Babylon,	30:20
	and set free the Jews to return to Palestine,	30:22
	and to rebuild Jerusalem.	30:26
	He actually called Cyrus	30:29
	the Messiah,	30:32
	the Christ,	30:35
	which were something of a shock	30:37
	to more conservative Jews.	30:39
	(indistinct) in 539	30:43
	Cyrus did capture Babylon.	30:46
	And shortly thereafter,	30:50
	he allowed the Jewish exiles to return to Jerusalem.	30:52
	He aided their subsequent rebuilding.	30:57
	Now second Isaiah,	31:01
	the anonymous prophet of the Babylonian exile,	31:03
	who believed that Yahweh	31:08
	the God of all the world,	31:10
	creator and Redeemer,	31:13
	would you Cyrus,	31:15
	for the wellbeing of the remnant of Israel,	31:17
	in Babylon and in Jerusalem,	31:21
	he wrote a Rhapsody of the anticipated delivery.	31:24
	They who wait for the Lord,	31:30
	shall renew their strength.	31:33
	They will Mount up with wings like Eagles.	31:37
	They shall run	31:41
	and not be weary.	31:44
	They shall walk and not faint.	31:47
	This is his poetic vision of the return from exile.	31:52
	It will begin with enthusiasm with rapture,	31:57
	with heads high,	32:00
	with eyes sparkling, with hopes soaring,	32:02
	the returning exiles will have wing and feet.	32:06
	They'll Mount up with wings as Eagles.	32:10
	The trek will end with a rush.	32:14
	They'll swarm up Zion to the temple site,	32:16
	with the shrine, somehow the worst of the ware,	32:22
	but still the earthly home of their God	32:26
	whose through Cyrus,	32:31
	had ended the expatriation.	32:33
	They shall run and not be weary,	32:35
	but, walk about the middle streets.	32:38
	Day after day after day.	32:42
	When the first ecstasy has gone,	32:46
	and no sight of the holy city,	32:50
	thrills that are (indistinct).	32:53
	Did he see them trudging along the fertile Crescent route	32:56
	up the Tigris and Euphrates rivers	32:59
	down through what once was Syria and Israel,	33:02
	or will the risk the route across the Arabian desert,	33:06
	the dangerous way, without a military escort,	33:11
	will they walk and not think in that long drag.	33:16
	The prophet takes a deep breath	33:24
	and believes that they'll make it	33:28
	on one condition.	33:30
	The inspiration of religion,	33:33
	the faith that their God is in it with them,	33:37
	the prerequisite to mounting and running and walking is	33:42
	they who wait upon the Lord,	33:48
	shall renew their strength.	33:53
	It's faith in God,	33:56
	which will nerve them for	33:57
	the least dramatic part of the journey,	33:59
	when Babylon and Jerusalem are both out of sight.	34:02
	And tension and strain and fatigue sap their strength,	34:08
	and weaken their will, religion.	34:13
	The (indistinct) second Isaiah	34:17
	gives power to the faint and increases strength.	34:19
	God is the comforter.	34:25
	That is the one who makes them wrong together.	34:27
	That is second Isiah's promise	34:33
	he's be a good cheer.	34:37
	And one or more of you	34:41
	looks critically at me and matures maybe.	34:44
	But what is religion?	34:50
	And I look some bewildered at you,	34:56
	and I wonder how I can define and delucidata,	35:01
	for you of different denominations,	35:07
	even have different pastes,	35:12
	to say nothing of the gentle agnostics in our midst,	35:16
	and those who come because of the music	35:21
	and scarcely tolerate the sermon.	35:23
	Well, let me offer you a wide, broad, general definition.	35:28
	One which I have long respected.	35:33
	Religion is self committal	35:38
	to the more themselves,	35:43
	with penetrating synthetic.	35:46
	Religion itself committal to the more themself	35:50
	with penetrating sincerity,	35:55
	and you're rightfully ask me what is the more themselves.	35:58
	There are various answer.	36:05
	But they have one thing in common.	36:08
	Whatever the more than self is.	36:11
	It is God for you.	36:16
	Let's look at some of these gods	36:21
	to which different groups among us we'll give ourselves.	36:22
	There is truth,	36:28
	conformity to facts or reality.	36:31
	Some of you will find it	36:35
	in an algebraic equation,	36:37
	or in the discovery of something new	36:41
	or forgotten, or the better interpreted	36:45
	because of your work.	36:48
	You will hunt for truth with a passion.	36:52
	You give to it on ultimate devotion.	36:57
	This is the quality of the scientific attitude at its best.	37:02
	Do you recall how (indistinct)?	37:08
	Where did it in Paresmith?	37:10
	In the prayer of a scientist?	37:13
	God give me unclouded eyes	37:16
	and freedom from haste.	37:22
	God, given me a quiet and relentless anger	37:25
	against all pretense	37:30
	and all pretentious work,	37:33
	and all work left slack and unfinished.	37:36
	God, give me a restlessness	37:42
	whereby I may neither sleep,	37:45
	nor accept praise	37:48
	till my observed results	37:51
	equal my calculated results,	37:54
	or in pious glee.	37:57
	I discover under assort my error.	38:00
	God, give me strength,	38:04
	Not to trust to God.	38:08
	What will the outcome be?	38:14
	The truth will make you free,	38:17
	or it will make you mad.	38:22
	There is beauty which may be defined as grace	38:28
	or fitness, exciting human enjoyment,	38:34
	unexpected perfection, which satisfied.	38:39
	You may find it in the art museum,	38:44
	on East campus.	38:47
	You may sense it here	38:49
	in this chapel this afternoon,	38:51
	as our Chumpy quartet,	38:55
	fresh from European triumphs this summer,	38:58
	delights and satisfies its listener.	39:02
	Beauty turns up in athletics.	39:06
	The elegance of a Ted Williams at bat.	39:09
	The poise of a quarterback products along	39:13
	your name and,	39:17
	the harmony of a basketball team.	39:19
	And the result is the realization of a perfection	39:22
	which appeals first to the senses,	39:26
	and then to the spirit of the observer,	39:30
	and some worship at that shrine.	39:36
	That is goodness	39:41
	that which is ethically praise worthy.	39:42
	It is the law.	39:46
	The Torah to a Jew.	39:48
	It is the new commandment.	39:52
	The twin new commandments to a Christian.	39:54
	The lover of goodness is not a duty.	39:58
	The true worshiper does not endure God,	40:02
	he enjoys this God.	40:07
	There's a flare to this type of goodness,	40:11
	the Deborah T May have the heart of a Puritan,	40:16
	but he carries himself, like a cavalier.	40:22
	Ms More than a touch of Robin hood and	40:27
	the Scotland temper now	40:29
	in his joyous obedience	40:32
	to the good.	40:35
	And then there is a companionship,	40:38
	the fellowship of people of like-mind.	40:41
	Companionship really means	40:45
	the breaking of bread together.	40:47
	One symbol of willing association.	40:51
	It's what each one of us desires.	40:55
	We were not made to walk alone.	40:58
	It's heard in the whale of the co-end,	41:03
	who said to the Dean of women,	41:07
	"I came here to be went with,	41:10
	and I didn't."	41:12
	And understanding of companionship bridges	41:17
	if it does not close the generation gap,	41:20
	it's a worthy object	41:24
	of self commitment and it is not unknown	41:27
	on this campus.	41:32
	And there Judeo-Christian tradition,	41:34
	one of the dominating strengths	41:38
	in the warp and woof of Western civilization.	41:40
	It's partly Jewish,	41:45
	because it understands	41:47
	that goodness is a mark of the creating	41:50
	and sustaining God	41:55
	and has to be practically expressed in behavior.	41:58
	It's partly Greek,	42:05
	because it has almost accepted the belief	42:07
	that goodness and beauty	42:11
	are intimately related in Godhead.	42:14
	You know how the Greek word for a gentleman was?	42:19
	The combination of two adjectives.	42:24
	Kalos Kagathos.	42:27
	Kalos means beautiful.	42:30
	Agathos means good.	42:32
	The beautiful and the good,	42:36
	that described the gentlemen.	42:37
	It's partially Roman,	42:42
	because it has sought to continue the concept of justice,	42:45
	which undergirds the universe	42:49
	as freedom, human freedom,	42:53
	within a framework of reasonableness and order.	42:57
	And so it says with Keats,	43:01
	that beauty is truth, truth beauty,	43:03
	or with bridges	43:06
	live without thy life	43:08
	between beneath the making sun	43:10
	to beauty, truth,	43:14
	and love in thee are one.	43:16
	Yes, religion is self committed to the more than self.	43:22
	Now, choose that more than self with care.	43:26
	It was 10 due in good	43:33
	stand in the middle stretches of the academic road,	43:35
	a person to whom religion is a reality	43:40
	keeps on keeping on	43:44
	because the living center of his life	43:48
	is a thing of the spirit.	43:53
	Some 15 years ago, Dr AL Sachar,	43:58
	the president of Brandeis university in Massachusetts,	44:02
	spoke at the dedication on his campus,	44:06
	of three chapels,	44:10
	Jewish, Roman Catholic,	44:13
	Protestant, set together.	44:16
	He wrote three short paragraphs from his address.	44:21
	The principle of separation of state and church	44:25
	she's deeply set in American life,	44:27
	from the very beginning about a national existence,	44:32
	it was considered wises,	44:35
	not to bring denominational differences	44:38
	to the Blackboard.	44:41
	From the days of Thomas Jefferson to our own	44:44
	great non-sectarian schools of learning,	44:47
	have therefore striven for complete objectivity	44:51
	in the patterns of their curriculum,	44:55
	and the presentation of their courses.	44:57
	Brandeis university has been set squarely	45:01
	in this lofty framework,	45:05
	and has faithfully chosen its students and its faculty,	45:07
	on the basis of merit,	45:11
	has taught its courses without doctrinal slab,	45:14
	has avoided the slightest temptation to use the classroom	45:18
	as a recruiting ground for denominational loyalty.	45:22
	Yet it has never followed	45:27
	that the religious experience,	45:29
	so basic in our lives,	45:33
	must be deliberately ignored.	45:36
	Young people on a college campus,	45:39
	especially where they're away from home,	45:43
	must have some opportunity to express their faith,	45:46
	to link themselves with the enduring lessons	45:50
	of their historic past,	45:53
	the experience must be made available	45:56
	to them in a meaningful way.	45:58
	This is the theory behind the three chapels,	46:00
	which are being dedicated.	46:04
	Chapels have been erected	46:07
	with the Ray of architectural imagination,	46:08
	to provide each of the great Western faiths with facilities	46:11
	that are adequate and aesthetic.	46:16
	So that those who wish to worship,	46:19
	to meditate, to receive religious counseling,	46:22
	may have here	46:27
	the opportunity which they see.	46:29
	So, it's not something like that,	46:35
	which Duke is trying to say in its motto.	46:37
	Eruditio et Religio,	46:41
	education and devotion,	46:46
	reverence for truth,	46:50
	and a sense of the holy,	46:53
	These are not identified.	46:57
	The motto is not Eruditio est Religio.	47:00
	The two are allies, partners.	47:06
	They are not necessarily identical.	47:11
	This chapel is in name and in fact interdenominational,	47:15
	more than that,	47:22
	it's student weddings have been ecumenical,	47:23
	with priests and ministers officiating together.	47:28
	though, tell it not to the Bishop.	47:33
	Someday this Chapel may be an interfaith shrine,	47:38
	for God is too great to be any one faith monopoly.	47:46
	It's our hope that at the university service of worship,	47:55
	the music, the liturgy,	47:59
	the lessons, the sermon,	48:02
	we'll give you a lift Sunday by Sunday,	48:05
	as you journey through Duke.	48:07
	So that as freshmen,	48:10
	you may Mount up with wings as Eagles.	48:13
	So that as seniors,	48:17
	you'll may run and not be weary.	48:19
	So that as sophomores and juniors	48:24
	in any of the colleges or schools,	48:27
	you may walk	48:30
	and walk and walk	48:33
	and not faint.	48:38
	Let us pray.	48:42
	Oh God, the source about being	48:46
	the goal about desire.	48:48
	The guide of these our Pilgrim days,	48:51
	fill us with thy spirit,	48:55
	that we may have strength for our tasks,	48:58
	wisdom for our responsibilities,	49:02
	insight for the times in which we live,	49:06
	and courage to meet all demands.	49:10
	To thy glory	49:14
	and for our good. Amen.	49:17
	(worship piano music)	49:22
	All mighty God,	59:38
	because thou has prospered the work of our hands upon us.	59:40
	We are able to bring this offering of money.	59:43
	We pray that this may be dedicated to thy service.	59:47
	And that the money which get remains in our possession	59:51
	and all other strengths of ours,	59:55
	may be committed to the glory of Christ in his name.	59:57
	Now may the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with us all.	1:00:06
	(worship piano music)	1:00:18

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Title:

James T. Cleland - "To Walk and Not Faint" (September 20, 1970)

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Date:

September 20, 1970

Speaker:

Cleland, James T. (James Tough), 1903-1974

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Duke University. Chapel

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