Waldo Beach - "The Earth Is the Lord's" (September 19, 1971)
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- | Witness to our pride and vanity, | 0:03 |
instead of witnessing to thy grace. | 0:07 | |
The peace and joy without its offer us | 0:11 | |
we sold for power and prestige. | 0:14 | |
We have trusted too much in the work our hands | 0:18 | |
and in the fruit of our laboratories. | 0:22 | |
We have made the cleaner dirty. | 0:26 | |
And we have behaved as though we were the last generation | 0:29 | |
which would need to live on this planet. | 0:34 | |
We have not remembered our total need of the wisdom. | 0:37 | |
Save us from all sin, we humbly pray, | 0:42 | |
through Jesus Christ our Lord. | 0:47 | |
Amen. | 0:50 | |
Hear the good news. | 0:53 | |
This statement is completely reliable | 0:56 | |
and should be universally accepted. | 0:59 | |
Christ Jesus entered the world to rescue sinners. | 1:04 | |
So let it be. | 1:12 | |
(sacred organ music) | 1:17 | |
♪ O how amiable are thy dwellings ♪ | 2:47 | |
♪ Thou Lord of hosts ♪ | 2:58 | |
♪ My soul hath a desire and longing ♪ | 3:14 | |
♪ To enter into the courts of the Lord ♪ | 3:24 | |
♪ My heart and my flesh rejoice in the living God ♪ | 3:32 | |
♪ Yea, the sparrow hath found her an house ♪ | 3:55 | |
♪ And the swallow a nest where she may lay her young ♪ | 4:05 | |
♪ Even thy altars ♪ | 4:19 | |
♪ O Lord of hosts ♪ | 4:24 | |
♪ My King and my God ♪ | 4:31 | |
♪ Blessed are they that dwell in thy house ♪ | 4:41 | |
♪ They will be always praising thee ♪ | 4:52 | |
♪ The glorious majesty of the Lord our God be upon us ♪ | 5:13 | |
♪ Prosper thou the work of our hands upon us ♪ | 5:23 | |
♪ O prosper thou our handy work ♪ | 5:34 | |
♪ O prosper thou our handy work ♪ | 5:44 | |
♪ O God, our help in ages past ♪ | 6:10 | |
♪ Our hope for years to come ♪ | 6:24 | |
♪ Our shelter from the stormy blast ♪ | 6:36 | |
♪ And our eternal home ♪ | 6:49 | |
- | The reading for the morning comes from the 104th Psalm. | 7:17 |
Bless the Lord, my soul. | 7:25 | |
O Lord my God, thou art great indeed, | 7:28 | |
clothed in majesty and slender | 7:31 | |
and wrapped in a robe of light. | 7:34 | |
Thou has spread out the heavens like a tent | 7:37 | |
and on their waters laid the beams of thy pavilion. | 7:40 | |
Who taketh the clouds for thy chariot, | 7:43 | |
riding on the wings of the wind. | 7:46 | |
Who maketh the winds thy messengers | 7:48 | |
and flames of fire thy servants. | 7:51 | |
Thou didst fix the earth on its foundation | 7:54 | |
so that it never can be shaken. | 7:57 | |
The deep overspread it like a cloak | 8:00 | |
and the waters lay above the mountains. | 8:03 | |
At thy rebuke they ran, at the sound of the thunder | 8:06 | |
they rushed away, flowing over the hills, | 8:10 | |
pouring down into the valleys to the place | 8:12 | |
appointed for them. | 8:14 | |
Thou didst fix a boundary which they might not pass. | 8:16 | |
They shall not return to cover the earth. | 8:20 | |
Thou makes springs break out in the gullies | 8:23 | |
so that their water runs between the hills. | 8:26 | |
The wild beasts all drink from them. | 8:29 | |
The wild asses quench their thirst, | 8:31 | |
the birds of the air nest on their banks | 8:34 | |
and sing among the leaves. | 8:37 | |
Countless are the things which thou hast made, O Lord. | 8:40 | |
Thou hast made all by thy wisdom | 8:43 | |
and the earth is full of that creatures, | 8:46 | |
beasts great and small. | 8:49 | |
Here's the great immeasurable sea in which move | 8:51 | |
creatures beyond number, here ships sail two and fro, | 8:54 | |
here is Leviathan whom thou has made thy plaything. | 8:59 | |
All of them look expectantly to thee to give them their food | 9:03 | |
at the proper time. | 9:06 | |
What thou giveth them they gather up. | 9:08 | |
When thou openest thy hand they eat their fill. | 9:11 | |
Then thou hideth thy face and they are restless | 9:15 | |
and troubled. | 9:18 | |
When thou taketh away their breath they fail | 9:19 | |
and they return to the dust from which they came. | 9:22 | |
But when thou breatheth into them, they recover. | 9:26 | |
Thou giveth new life to the earth. | 9:30 | |
May the glory of the Lord stand forever | 9:33 | |
and he rejoices in his works. | 9:35 | |
When he looks at the earth it quakes, | 9:37 | |
when he touches the hills they pour forth smoke. | 9:40 | |
I will sing to the Lord as long as I live, | 9:44 | |
all my life I will sing psalms to my God. | 9:47 | |
(sacred organ music) | 9:52 | |
♪ Glory to the Father ♪ | 10:01 | |
♪ And to the Son and to the Holy Ghost ♪ | 10:05 | |
♪ As it was in the beginning ♪ | 10:13 | |
♪ Is now and ever shall be ♪ | 10:17 | |
♪ World without end ♪ | 10:23 | |
♪ Amen, amen ♪ | 10:26 | |
- | The Lord be with you | 10:35 |
- | And also with you. | 10:37 |
- | Let us pray. | 10:39 |
Let us offer first a prayer of thanks. | 10:47 | |
We thank thee, gracious God, for things we take for granted. | 10:52 | |
For another day of life, | 10:58 | |
for bread upon the table, | 11:02 | |
for friends who love us in spite of what we are, | 11:05 | |
for mercy given us beyond our deserving, | 11:10 | |
for the immeasurable joy of joy, | 11:15 | |
for the holy saints and for the holy heretics, | 11:21 | |
for the opportunity of worship in this good place, | 11:27 | |
for Jesus Christ, our risen Lord, unto whom with thee | 11:33 | |
and the Holy Spirit be all glory and majesty, | 11:38 | |
world without end. | 11:42 | |
Let us offer a prayer of intercession. | 11:46 | |
O God who has taught us that we are members one of another | 11:50 | |
and has formed us for fellowship with one another, | 11:55 | |
hear our prayer for all kinds and conditions of men. | 12:01 | |
We bring before thee our world, | 12:06 | |
torn, distraught, anguished. | 12:09 | |
Grant strength and courage abundant to all who work | 12:15 | |
for a world of reason and understanding, | 12:19 | |
Especially to the United Nations. | 12:25 | |
We bring before thee our own nation, | 12:30 | |
land privilege and opportunity, | 12:33 | |
land of prejudice and irreverence, | 12:37 | |
land of memory and of hope. | 12:42 | |
Grant us to realize that what unites us | 12:46 | |
is more lasting than what divides us | 12:50 | |
so that we may be the United States in fact | 12:54 | |
and not merely in name. | 13:00 | |
We pray for our civic community | 13:06 | |
so often set in rivalry to our academic fellowship, | 13:10 | |
where town and gown avoid, | 13:15 | |
rather than despise each other. | 13:18 | |
Teach us that we are members one of another | 13:23 | |
and that it is good for brethren to dwell in unity, | 13:26 | |
that in courtesy and appreciation is our mutual wellbeing. | 13:32 | |
We ask this in the name of the Prince of Peace, | 13:40 | |
even Jesus Christ, our Lord. | 13:44 | |
And let us offer a prayer of supplication for ourselves. | 13:49 | |
O Lord be with us so that we feel thee like hands upon us. | 13:57 | |
Uphold us so that we know the like strength beneath us. | 14:05 | |
Go with us so that we have thee like love within us. | 14:14 | |
Before us in our goodness and against us in our evil, | 14:22 | |
keep us from all things shallow and unholy | 14:30 | |
and move our wills to seek the deep being of thyself. | 14:36 | |
Protect us from all times and places that destroy | 14:41 | |
and deceive and give us grace to show the justice | 14:45 | |
and mercy to all men that we would ask for ourselves. | 14:50 | |
Make fruitful our prayers. | 14:57 | |
And now as our Savior, Christ, has taught us | 15:01 | |
we humbly pray together saying. | 15:04 | |
Our Father who art in in heaven, hallowed be thy name, | 15:08 | |
thy kingdom come, thy will be done | 15:14 | |
on earth as it is in heaven. | 15:18 | |
Give us this day our daily bread | 15:21 | |
and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those | 15:25 | |
who trespass against us. | 15:29 | |
And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil | 15:32 | |
for thine is the kingdom and the power | 15:37 | |
and the glory forever. | 15:40 | |
Amen. | 15:44 | |
- | In this secure garden spot of beauty and holiness | 16:13 |
we may for the moment feel safe and exempt | 16:20 | |
from the environmental crisis. | 16:25 | |
But it's really not far away at all, | 16:29 | |
no further than the litter and messiness in the halls | 16:33 | |
you may have waded through on your way here this morning | 16:37 | |
and the dirt paths you traverse across the green lawns | 16:43 | |
of this campus. | 16:47 | |
If I were a per block, | 16:50 | |
sometimes I do a cartoon to illustrate | 16:54 | |
the marvelous inconsistency of which | 16:57 | |
the human frame is capable, showing a gang of Duke students | 17:00 | |
roaring along route 751 in a convertible | 17:06 | |
and the caption would be that one of them is saying | 17:11 | |
to or the other, while tossing his beer can | 17:15 | |
out of the side of the car, | 17:20 | |
you know, Joe, the only way to solve this | 17:21 | |
environmental crisis is to have federal laws | 17:25 | |
against pollution. | 17:28 | |
There's no need to rehearse at length the dire dimensions | 17:32 | |
of the crisis which we can begin to make out | 17:36 | |
looming in the smog. | 17:41 | |
The awareness that if he follows his present lifestyle, | 17:45 | |
in relation to the earth, man is headed for catastrophe. | 17:50 | |
Until recently, conservation was regarded as a hobby | 17:58 | |
for bird watchers worried about the fate of flamingos. | 18:04 | |
Now, as Senator Muskie has put it, quote, | 18:11 | |
it is no longer a question about preserving the whale, | 18:16 | |
the wolf or the roseate spoonbill, | 18:21 | |
man himself has joined the list of the endangered species, | 18:27 | |
end quote. | 18:32 | |
There are many enormous forces | 18:35 | |
which put man's very existence in jeopardy. | 18:38 | |
These are in the dynamics of our national economy. | 18:42 | |
For one thing, the using up of unreplenishable | 18:48 | |
natural resources. | 18:53 | |
Our technological industrial urban economy | 18:56 | |
has an insatiable appetite in raiding the earth | 19:01 | |
and plundering the planet. | 19:08 | |
In strip-mining, in slash forestry, in bleeding the soil, | 19:11 | |
we devastate with no conscience for posterity. | 19:19 | |
For another thing, the tools of technology are used | 19:27 | |
in the dynamics of our me to increase productivity | 19:31 | |
and efficiency, the gross national product, | 19:36 | |
at whatever cost to the earth | 19:41 | |
and to the delicate balance of life with life | 19:44 | |
in nature's system. | 19:49 | |
If in insecticides increase the yield of fields | 19:53 | |
and orchards, then we pay the price of a silent spring | 19:56 | |
where no birds call. | 20:03 | |
If we've got to pipe oil from the Yukon | 20:06 | |
than the whole ecological balance of Alaska is expendable. | 20:09 | |
If we've got to get there faster in super jets | 20:15 | |
to stay number one in the world, | 20:22 | |
then the noise and pollution of air, | 20:25 | |
not to speak of the hunger of the poor, | 20:28 | |
is the cost Of high speed living. | 20:32 | |
In all the talk of the new prosperity | 20:37 | |
promised for all fellow Americans, | 20:42 | |
no one dares to whisper the radical doubt that there may be | 20:46 | |
an inverse ratio between quantity and quality of life. | 20:50 | |
To suggest that a man's life does not consist | 20:59 | |
in the abundance of things he possesses | 21:02 | |
would be dismissed as un-American, | 21:07 | |
even un-Christian. | 21:11 | |
Though it is a suggestion from the Bible. | 21:13 | |
For another thing, our rate of waste | 21:18 | |
is polluting the whole place, | 21:22 | |
making it barely habitable. | 21:26 | |
Production waste pollutes the air with smog | 21:30 | |
and our water with filth. | 21:33 | |
Exhaust fumes from the internal combustion engine | 21:37 | |
account for about a half of the air pollution. | 21:40 | |
Consumer waste pollutes the landscape with bottles, cans, | 21:45 | |
trash, cars, | 21:48 | |
9 million abandoned every year, | 21:52 | |
about 150 each day in New York City alone. | 21:55 | |
We pollute the airwaves with such blasts of noise | 22:01 | |
that we become deaf to real sound heard in stillness. | 22:06 | |
We are creators of more noise than our souls can absorb | 22:14 | |
or endure. | 22:20 | |
The forms of pollution are subtle | 22:24 | |
and made out to be almost benign. | 22:27 | |
A calm voice on TV reassures us | 22:33 | |
we are working to keep your trust. | 22:37 | |
Texaco will never willfully pollute the environment. | 22:42 | |
But is not the air willfully polluted by exhaust fumes? | 22:48 | |
And the scenery polluted by larger and larger signs | 22:55 | |
with bigger and bigger stars? | 22:58 | |
And the airwaves polluted by commercial ads, | 23:02 | |
celebrating the pure motives of Texaco? | 23:05 | |
Mix some other factors into the crisis, | 23:13 | |
such as the population explosion, | 23:15 | |
the growing gap between the line of population growth | 23:19 | |
moving sharply upward and the line showing the resources | 23:23 | |
of the earth to sustain life moving downward. | 23:27 | |
Or the political factor of the international | 23:33 | |
imbalance of power between the nations that have | 23:35 | |
and the nations that have not. | 23:39 | |
America has 6% of the world's population | 23:42 | |
and controls 30 to 40% of the world's resources. | 23:46 | |
Add all these into the mix and one can sense | 23:52 | |
even from this beautiful place, the dire, | 23:57 | |
the apocalyptic dimensions of the crisis. | 24:03 | |
Now to be sure, the ecological crisis of our man's misuse | 24:11 | |
of the earth is not exactly new. | 24:18 | |
William Blake wrote of England's dark, satanic mills. | 24:25 | |
And Wordsworth, you remember, found his London of 1802 | 24:32 | |
a fin of stagnant waters. | 24:40 | |
Plain living and high thinking are no more. | 24:45 | |
Well if Wordsworth could visit Newark or Lake Erie | 24:51 | |
he might agree that the rate of the ecological crisis of man | 24:59 | |
in the imbalance with this environment | 25:03 | |
has mounted considerably. | 25:05 | |
Well how will it all end? | 25:11 | |
With a whimper or a bang? | 25:14 | |
Under the threat of nuclear weapons, we've long felt | 25:19 | |
that it would most likely end with a big bang | 25:23 | |
when somebody pushes the wrong button in a panic. | 25:29 | |
But given the facts of the environmental crisis, | 25:35 | |
it's more realistic to expect that it will end | 25:39 | |
when the last man staggered out of the last parties | 25:45 | |
poisoned by the mercury in his tuna fish salad sandwich | 25:52 | |
to drop finally to the asphalt, | 25:58 | |
overcome by the fumes from his car exhaust | 26:03 | |
and whimpers to nobody in particular, | 26:09 | |
well, we blew it, man. | 26:14 | |
But the muzak would continue indefinitely to play. | 26:18 | |
And that would be a good definition of hell, | 26:26 | |
a situation of indeterminable muzak | 26:29 | |
and nobody left around to turn it off. | 26:32 | |
The American conscience is being alerted | 26:41 | |
to the environmental crisis. | 26:44 | |
We're increasingly sensitized to the future shock to come. | 26:48 | |
There are institutes and books and programs and courses | 26:54 | |
and university centers. | 26:57 | |
Ecology is one of the interests of the new | 27:01 | |
Institute for Policy Sciences in public affairs | 27:04 | |
here at Duke. | 27:07 | |
It may seem almost irreverent to suggest this | 27:11 | |
amidst the established religion of scientism | 27:17 | |
before the holy of holies, the great computer, | 27:22 | |
but it should be pointed out to these institutes | 27:30 | |
that there is theological wisdom to be brought | 27:35 | |
to this crisis, theological wisdom in understanding | 27:39 | |
how we got into this impasse and how we might get out of it. | 27:44 | |
For it is not by technical expertise alone | 27:52 | |
that we may be saved. | 27:58 | |
All the data in the world about geology, soil, chemistry, | 28:01 | |
demography, sociology, economics, politics, | 28:08 | |
fed into the computer will not yield the answers | 28:14 | |
to the questions of values and ends, of good and evil, | 28:21 | |
of the priorities in the loves of man's heart, | 28:27 | |
of what he worships. | 28:32 | |
If we ask, how come? | 28:37 | |
Who or what is the villain of the peace? | 28:40 | |
Is it the machine itself? | 28:46 | |
Technology that has swerved us to the brink of genocide? | 28:49 | |
Is it the city, the proud towers of Babel | 28:57 | |
whose economy requires us to befoul the earth? | 29:04 | |
Is it the system, the establishment, | 29:09 | |
the military industrial complex and the kings of the economy | 29:13 | |
are who are to blame? | 29:18 | |
In the last analysis, when we track the devil | 29:23 | |
back to his lair we'll find him in our own hearts. | 29:28 | |
We have met the enemy and he is us. | 29:34 | |
It is our greed, our passion for affluence, comfort, speed, | 29:39 | |
efficiency, show, national pride and power | 29:47 | |
that sustain these demons who ravage and litter the earth | 29:53 | |
to feed our pride and vain glory. | 29:58 | |
And this diagnosis is what the Hebrew Christian tradition | 30:02 | |
has been making for quite some time. | 30:05 | |
Out of the heart of man are the issues of life, | 30:11 | |
noble and foul. | 30:16 | |
Viewed theologically, the nub of the ecological crisis | 30:20 | |
is the encounter between the love of the Lord God, | 30:27 | |
the creator, and the sin of man. | 30:30 | |
There is Biblical wisdom as well as technical knowledge | 30:36 | |
needed for this crisis. | 30:41 | |
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom | 30:44 | |
and to depart from evil is understanding. | 30:50 | |
How might this wisdom be phrased? | 30:57 | |
Unlike Eastern mysticism, | 31:05 | |
the Hebrew Christian faith | 31:09 | |
is very earthy, mundane, materialistic, secular. | 31:11 | |
The created order of things by the hand of God. | 31:19 | |
Whatever is in its created nature is good. | 31:25 | |
The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof. | 31:29 | |
The myth of Genesis and the songs of the Psalmist | 31:37 | |
celebrate the good order of all things. | 31:42 | |
Nature from sand to stars is not a veil of illusion | 31:45 | |
to be transcended, but a garden. | 31:51 | |
The created order is an interdependent organic ecosystem, | 31:56 | |
delicate yet also resilient, | 32:04 | |
where what is done with one part profoundly affects another. | 32:09 | |
All things by immortal power, near or far, | 32:16 | |
hiddenly to each other, linked are | 32:21 | |
that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling a star. | 32:27 | |
The created order of balance of all creatures | 32:36 | |
with all other creatures | 32:39 | |
is given as the ground and setting for man, | 32:42 | |
the crown of creation to use, to cultivate, to till | 32:45 | |
and to keep in reverence. | 32:51 | |
In accountability to the Lord of creation | 32:56 | |
for his stewardship. | 33:00 | |
One reading of the Biblical myth blames | 33:04 | |
our exploitation of the earth on the Hebraic ethic | 33:08 | |
which put man over nature in prestige | 33:12 | |
as privileged to subdue the earth | 33:17 | |
in arrogance over nature. | 33:22 | |
That's a bad misreading of the whole matter. | 33:26 | |
For one who lives truly in reverence, | 33:31 | |
in awe at the wonder of the magnificence of creation | 33:36 | |
and who feels the solemn obligation of stewardship, | 33:44 | |
of its bounty, for the service of neighbor | 33:48 | |
cannot willfully exploit or pollute the environment. | 33:54 | |
That would be to play God himself. | 34:00 | |
God the creator sets the terms of this covenant | 34:05 | |
to be taken seriously. | 34:10 | |
They are not violated with impunity. | 34:14 | |
When I am basically inconsiderate toward things and people | 34:19 | |
and say, who cares? | 34:24 | |
Somebody else can clean up my mess after I'm out of here. | 34:28 | |
The mess will come back upon me, maybe in another form | 34:33 | |
the next place I go. | 34:39 | |
In an interdependent economy, man cannot cop out of | 34:42 | |
being his brother's keeper. | 34:47 | |
He cannot escape his obligation to protect the earth | 34:49 | |
for his neighbor's life and health. | 34:55 | |
And his neighbor is the far neighbor | 34:58 | |
as well as the near neighbor, | 35:03 | |
far off in space and far ahead in time. | 35:06 | |
When man exploits the earth in arrogance | 35:13 | |
with no concern for the distant neighbor in posterity, | 35:17 | |
then the earth become the wasteland, becomes the enemy. | 35:24 | |
Man encounters its violent backlash | 35:29 | |
and read theologically, this is God's judgment. | 35:33 | |
The left hand of God's sovereignty. | 35:38 | |
As one ecologist put it, | 35:43 | |
there's no such thing as a free lunch. | 35:45 | |
Every benefit derived from nature has a cost factor. | 35:49 | |
You don't take out of the ecosystem without paying for it. | 35:54 | |
And the price may be one that a man's children | 35:59 | |
and his children's children will have to face, | 36:04 | |
the bitter one of a ravaged earth | 36:09 | |
and of a strangled brutality of life in the city. | 36:14 | |
But the God of the Christian faith is also the God of grace | 36:22 | |
who offers forever to man in whatever extremity | 36:31 | |
the opportunity to return, to renew his life, | 36:36 | |
to come back to his senses. | 36:41 | |
God gives us in grace, a conscience, | 36:45 | |
the haunting sense of trouble, of oughtness | 36:49 | |
and always a measure of freedom to make new choices | 36:54 | |
to live again in the style of the order of creation. | 37:00 | |
Man's response to grace and forgiveness | 37:07 | |
lies by way of returning to the covenant terms | 37:11 | |
of the ecosystem. | 37:16 | |
The use of the earth for the service of neighbor | 37:19 | |
out of reverence to its Lord. | 37:24 | |
A response to be expressed in public ways, | 37:30 | |
in witness for public policy that controls pollution | 37:35 | |
and the exploitation of the soil, by law, | 37:40 | |
and in private ways in his style of life at home, | 37:44 | |
in the dorm, on the road. | 37:49 | |
One real sign of grace, I think incidentally, | 37:54 | |
is the new simplicity of the lifestyle among the disciples | 37:59 | |
of the counterculture. | 38:03 | |
The new generation of the free people, | 38:06 | |
the cyclists, backpacking all their worldly goods, | 38:11 | |
returning to the elements of nature. | 38:17 | |
They a refreshing judgment on the American delusion | 38:21 | |
to which most obese, bored middle-Americans are prey. | 38:28 | |
That you have to have a mountain of mechanical gadgets | 38:36 | |
and creature comforts to survive. | 38:40 | |
All the decisions of consumer choices for simplicity | 38:45 | |
are marks of health among us, signs of grace and renewal. | 38:50 | |
In the ethical writings of the medieval monks and mystics, | 39:00 | |
there often appears a curious, startling phrase. | 39:07 | |
To pick up a straw for the love of God. | 39:14 | |
This is the spirit of the Christian life. | 39:20 | |
That is the most insignificant, menial tasks of daily life | 39:24 | |
can be transmuted into significance if done | 39:32 | |
out of a heart of reverence | 39:36 | |
within the total context of existence. | 39:41 | |
True worship is to be expressed | 39:47 | |
in the right use of the heart | 39:50 | |
in picking up a straw, in plowing and harvesting, | 39:55 | |
in conserving the soil, | 40:00 | |
in considerateness toward property and persons. | 40:03 | |
That medieval command might be translated into our culture | 40:08 | |
by this phrase. | 40:13 | |
To pick up a beer can for love of God. | 40:18 | |
The God who puts into our keeping this earth | 40:24 | |
as a precious, precarious home | 40:30 | |
and the one with whom in our stewardship of all things | 40:34 | |
we must ultimately reckon. | 40:41 | |
Amen. | 40:46 | |
Let us pray. | 40:47 | |
Almighty God who has entrusted us with the good earth | 40:56 | |
as our home and charged us to watch and keep it undefiled, | 41:00 | |
renew now within us, we pray thee, a right spirit | 41:09 | |
toward all its forms of life and a will to care | 41:16 | |
for thy glory and our good, | 41:23 | |
through Jesus Christ our Lord. | 41:28 | |
Amen. | 41:33 | |
("This Is My Father's World" organ music) | 41:36 | |
♪ This is my Father's world ♪ | 42:21 | |
♪ And to my listening ears ♪ | 42:27 | |
♪ All nature sings, and round me rings ♪ | 42:34 | |
♪ The music of the spheres ♪ | 42:40 | |
♪ This is my Father's world ♪ | 42:47 | |
♪ I rest me in the thought ♪ | 42:54 | |
♪ Of rocks and trees, of skies and seas ♪ | 43:01 | |
♪ His hand the wonders wrought ♪ | 43:08 | |
♪ This is my Father's world ♪ | 43:15 | |
♪ The birds their carols raise ♪ | 43:22 | |
♪ The morning light, the lily white ♪ | 43:29 | |
♪ Declare their Maker's praise ♪ | 43:36 | |
♪ This is my Father's world ♪ | 43:43 | |
♪ He shines in all that's fair ♪ | 43:51 | |
♪ In the rustling grass I hear Him pass ♪ | 43:58 | |
♪ He speaks to me everywhere ♪ | 44:05 | |
♪ Amen ♪ | 44:14 | |
(sacred organ music) | 44:30 | |
(choir singing in Latin) | 45:19 | |
(sacred organ music) | 52:18 | |
♪ Praise God from whom all blessing flow ♪ | 52:50 | |
♪ Praise Him, all creatures here below ♪ | 52:56 | |
♪ Alleluia, alleluia ♪ | 53:01 | |
♪ Praise him above, ye heavenly hosts ♪ | 53:08 | |
♪ Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost ♪ | 53:14 | |
♪ Alleluia, alleluia ♪ | 53:20 | |
♪ Alleluia, alleluia ♪ | 53:27 | |
♪ Alleluia ♪ | 53:34 | |
♪ Amen ♪ | 53:42 | |
- | Here we offer and present unto thee, O Lord, | 53:54 |
the symbol of ourselves to be a reasonable, holy | 53:58 | |
and lively sacrifice unto thee. | 54:06 | |
Now unto God's gracious mercy and protection | 54:15 | |
do we commit you. | 54:18 | |
The Lord bless you and keep you. | 54:21 | |
The Lord make his face to shine upon you | 54:27 | |
and be gracious unto you. | 54:31 | |
The Lord lift up his countenance upon you | 54:34 | |
and give you peace this day and forever more. | 54:38 | |
♪ Amen ♪ | 54:50 | |
♪ Amen ♪ | 54:58 | |
♪ Amen ♪ | 55:08 | |
♪ Amen ♪ | 55:14 | |
♪ Amen ♪ | 55:20 | |
♪ Amen ♪ | 55:28 | |
♪ Amen ♪ | 55:42 | |
♪ Amen ♪ | 56:03 | |
(bell ringing) | 56:28 | |
(sacred organ music) | 56:50 |