Edmund A. Steimle - "Children and Angels" (October 29, 1972)

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-	All mighty and holy God,	0:11
	searcher of the hearts of men,	0:14
	who knows us better than we know ourselves,	0:17
	and see us the sins which are at hides from us,	0:21
	hear our prayer of confession.	0:26
	We confess the sorrows which brought no softening of heart,	0:29
	the chastening	0:34
	which yielded no peaceable fruit of righteousness,	0:35
	the rebukes of conscience which led to no amendment of life,	0:40
	we confess the councils of thy word	0:45
	we have known and not loved,	0:48
	the gospel of thy son, we have believed and not obeyed,	0:52
	the leading of the spirit of truth	0:58
	we have acknowledged and not followed,	1:00
	have mercy upon us, oh God, we humbly intrigue thee,	1:04
	forgive us our sins.	1:09
	Forgive them all for Jesus sake and for our sake, amen.	1:12
	Hear these words of the assurance of forgiveness	1:22
	from the Old Testament and the New,	1:25
	Who is like unto God who pardons inequity	1:29
	and passes over transgression,	1:35
	because He delights in steadfast love,	1:40
	He will again have compassion upon us.	1:43
	He will tread our inequities under foot,	1:48
	He will cast all our sins in the depths of the sea.	1:51
	Jesus said, "Him who comes to me I will not cast out."	1:58
	Our sins are forgiven for Jesus sake.	2:06
	Therefore be of good courage.	2:13
	And knowing that our sins are forgiven,	2:18
	let us us pray together the prayer	2:21
	which Jesus taught His disciple saying,	2:23
	Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name,	2:27
	thy kingdom come,	2:32
	thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.	2:35
	Give us this day our daily bread,	2:39
	and forgive us our trespasses	2:43
	as we forgive those who trespass against us,	2:45
	and lead us not into temptation,	2:49
	but deliver us from evil,	2:52
	for thine is the kingdom,	2:54
	and the power, and the glory, forever, amen.	2:56
	(soft music)	3:04
	(singing faintly)	4:00
	The Lord be with you.	11:37
	(intrinsic)	11:39
	Let us pray.	11:41
	Let us offer a prayer of thanksgiving for the reformation.	11:49
	Almighty God, we remember with gratitude,	11:55
	the Protestant reformation	11:58
	whose anniversary, we celebrate on this day.	12:01
	For this heritage, we give thee thanks.	12:05
	For Martin Luther, who in anxiety and faith,	12:11
	left the church which he loved,	12:16
	that he might remain true to the revelation of thy self,	12:20
	in thy word.	12:24
	For those who supported him with confidence and courage	12:27
	in the fight of faith,	12:32
	for heretics whose insights and interpretations	12:35
	have become orthodoxy,	12:40
	for all who risk health and wealth and home and reputation	12:43
	that an old truth might be respoken,	12:48
	for these reformers, glory be to thee, oh God.	12:53
	We give thee thanks for present performers in thy church,	13:01
	Protestant and Roman,	13:05
	for the interdenominational ecumenical earnestness,	13:09
	which would bring them together at thy son's table,	13:13
	for Pope John XXIII that thee saint,	13:18
	who with whimsy and determination	13:23
	and liveliness and goodwill surprised all men	13:26
	of all lands and creed,	13:31
	and has given us a vision and a confidence	13:34
	that has not yet faded away.	13:38
	For these longings and hopes, glory be to thee, oh God.	13:42
	Accept this our prayer of thanksgiving rooted in memory	13:48
	and blossoming in reassurance, amen.	13:54
	Let us offer a prayer of intercession.	14:00
	We bring before thee, oh God,	14:04
	the troubles and perils of peoples and nations,	14:06
	the sighing of prisoners and captives and refugees,	14:11
	the sorrows of the bereaved, the necessities of strangers,	14:17
	the helplessness of the weak, the despondency of the weary,	14:23
	the failing powers of the aged,	14:29
	oh God, even through us, draw near to each,	14:33
	for the sake of Jesus Christ, our Lord.	14:39
	Let us offer prayer of supplication for ourselves.	14:44
	Oh God, who has given us the grace	14:49
	to carry the sword of thy kingdom of peace,	14:51
	who has made us messengers of peace in a world of strife,	14:56
	and messengers of strife in a world of false peace,	15:01
	make strong our hand, make clear our voice,	15:07
	give us humility with firmness and insight with passion	15:12
	that we may fight not to conquer,	15:20
	but to redeem.	15:25
	Give us the patience of those who understand	15:28
	and the impatience of those who love.	15:32
	That the might of the gentleness may work through us,	15:36
	and the mercy of thy rath may speak through us.	15:41
	In the name of Him who calls us to thy kingdom of peace,	15:46
	and love, and truth, amen.	15:51
	I have been asked by the chapel powers	16:02
	that we who have lead this weekend,	16:06
	to give you an explanation of the Rube Goldberg apparatus,	16:11
	which has been established alongside the pulpit.	16:17
	Ever since 1945, and maybe earlier,	16:23
	the acoustics have been somewhat less than perfect	16:28
	in this building.	16:33
	The loud speaker system by the pulpit	16:36
	is connected only with the microphone	16:39
	on the pulpit lectern.	16:43
	This mic is connected with the old speakers	16:46
	in the triforium.	16:50
	Will you please let us know if there is any improvement	16:52
	or impairment for the ear of the listener?	16:57
	We apologize to Dr. Stanley	17:02
	for involving him in this experiment.	17:05
	Yet as a Presbyterian,	17:09
	I feel that it may have been for ordained for this Luther	17:10
	to be the fifth.	17:15
	And now let us hear the of God,	17:19
	as it is found in the gospel according to St. Matthew,	17:21
	The 18:1-10.	17:26
	"At that time, the disciples came to Jesus saying,	17:36
	'Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?'	17:41
	And calling to Him a child, He put Him in the midst of them	17:47
	and said, 'Truly, I say to you,	17:51
	unless you turn and become like children,	17:56
	you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.	18:00
	Whoever humbles himself like this child,	18:05
	he is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.	18:08
	Whoever receives one such child in my name, receives me,	18:13
	but whoever causes one of these little ones	18:20
	who believe in me to sin,	18:24
	it would be better for him to have a great millstone	18:28
	fastened round neck	18:33
	and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.	18:35
	Woe to the world for temptations to sin,	18:40
	yet it is necessary that temptations come,	18:46
	but woe to the man by whom the temptation comes.	18:51
	And if your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off,	18:57
	throw it from you.	19:03
	It's better for you to enter into life maimed or lame	19:06
	than with two hands or two feet	19:11
	to be thrown into the eternal fire.	19:13
	And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out,	19:18
	throw it from you.	19:24
	It's better for you to enter life with one eye	19:26
	than with two eyes to be thrown into the hell of fire.	19:31
	See that you do not despise one of these little ones.	19:36
	For I tell you, that in heaven,	19:43
	their angels always behold the face of my Father,	19:46
	who is in heaven.'"	19:51
	Amen. Here endeth the lesson.	19:54
	(soft music)	19:58
	(singing faintly)	20:08
	Let us affirm our faith in God.	20:43
	We believe in God who has created and is creating,	20:48
	who has come in the true man, Jesus	20:54
	to reconcile and make new.	20:57
	Who works in us and others by His spirit, we trust Him.	21:00
	He calls us to be in His church, to celebrate His presence,	21:07
	to love and serve others, to seek justice and resist evil,	21:12
	to proclaim Jesus, crucified and risen,	21:19
	our judge and our hope.	21:23
	In life, in death, in life beyond death, God is with us.	21:25
	We are not alone, thanks be to God.	21:32
-	Grace, beyond you and peace from God, our Father,	21:52
	and from our Lord Jesus Christ, amen.	21:56
	There's a world of children and angels in the New Testament,	22:01
	which is both a delight and an embarrassment.	22:05
	An embarrassment,	22:10
	because this is precisely the New Testament world,	22:11
	where it has been so easy to slip into sentimental slop,	22:14
	to bring the whole thing down	22:18
	to the level of "Mother Goose,"	22:19
	"Fairy Godmothers,"	22:22
	"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs."	22:24
	It conjures up sticky pictures of, in Sunday schools,	22:27
	of Jesus cuddling little ones on His knee,	22:31
	of men in white sprouting enormous swing standing around	22:35
	looking at trifold foolish and self conscious.	22:39
	It's hardly a world which offers very much	22:43
	to a serious post scientific, post religious world,	22:46
	bad Jared with tough and ugly problems	22:51
	all over the global as well as the urban map.	22:54
	And yet at the same time,	22:59
	this world of children and angels is a delight,	23:00
	because it hints at the impossible becoming possible,	23:05
	of worlds beyond this world.	23:09
	And other wonder and surprise in life,	23:12
	we can so readily miss as we grow older and wiser	23:14
	in the affairs of the world	23:18
	and the way in which we think it works.	23:20
	At any rate, it is the world so prominent	23:24
	and pervasive in the Bible	23:26
	that if we try to avoid it	23:28
	or look the other way in embarrassment,	23:31
	we simply miss a big part of what the New Testament	23:34
	and what consequently of what life is all about.	23:37
	Prior after all,	23:42
	there were angels there at the birth,	23:43
	angels in the wilderness, angels at the empty tomb.	23:46
	From beginning to end,	23:51
	the story is cluttered with these strange figures.	23:53
	And then when they press Jesus for the secret	23:59
	at the heart of the whole business,	24:01
	He replied, "Unless you turn and become like children,	24:04
	you will never enter the kingdom of heaven."	24:10
	So at the risk of getting sentimental on the one hand,	24:13
	and on the other,	24:18
	oppressing our investigation of this strange world	24:19
	of children and angels	24:22
	so vigorously and rigorously as to miss the point,	24:23
	let's try to come to some kinds of terms with it,	24:27
	and let's start with the world of angels.	24:31
	The Bible was obviously written from within a worldview	24:36
	which took for granted the presence of demons	24:38
	and spirits and angels,	24:41
	and Jesus shared that worldview.	24:44
	As another has pointed out,	24:48
	Jesus was a thoroughly secular man.	24:49
	That is to say a man of His age.	24:53
	And as a man of His age, a secular man,	24:57
	He spoke quite naturally	25:01
	at the presence of demons and spirits and angels.	25:02
	So at the end of this passage about children, He says,	25:06
	"See that you do not despise one of these little ones,	25:09
	for I tell you that in heaven,	25:13
	their angels always behold the face of my Father,	25:16
	which is in heaven.	25:20
	Now these are what we have come to call guardian angels	25:23
	or angels of presence.	25:26
	And they constitute only one of the order of angels.	25:29
	There are others.	25:33
	Specialization is not simply a 20th century phenomenon,	25:35
	it appears in the orders of angels.	25:39
	For example, there was a day observed	25:43
	in some church calendars	25:45
	as the Day of St. Michael and All Angels.	25:47
	Recalling the story of the war in heaven	25:50
	recorded in the book of Revelation	25:53
	when St. Michael and his angelic hosts,	25:56
	a kind of warrior class of angels,	26:00
	routed the dragon serpent, Satan, and his warrior angels,	26:03
	and cast them out of heaven.	26:08
	Other types of angels, communications experts apparently,	26:12
	were busy day and night carrying messages	26:18
	between heaven and earth.	26:20
	Like Jacob's dream of the ladder	26:22
	stretching between earth and heaven	26:24
	with angels ascending and descending upon it.	26:27
	Or like the angel warning Joseph to flee to Egypt,	26:31
	and then another one telling him it was okay	26:36
	that Herod was dead and he could return.	26:38
	Other angels specialized in obstetrics.	26:42
	They appear with birth announcements.	26:46
	To Zachariah and Mary and others.	26:49
	Angels appear at the end of the long temptation	26:53
	in the wilderness	26:56
	to give strength and assurance to our Lord.	26:56
	Other angels appear at the empty tomb	27:00
	to give directions as to what to do next.	27:03
	Well, what in the world are you gonna make	27:08
	of this world of angels?	27:09
	For Jesus and His world, obviously,	27:12
	it meant that the world was simply alive	27:16
	with the presence and the power of God.	27:19
	The angels of presence	27:22
	indicating God's presence, strength, and comfort.	27:24
	The warrior angels in heaven suggest Paul's principalities	27:29
	and powers in the heavenly places,	27:33
	the powers for evil and good constantly at war	27:36
	which transcend the evil and the good	27:41
	in any single one of us.	27:45
	The angels which traffic between heaven and earth	27:49
	indicate the God who speaks to us	27:51
	in the very stuff of birth and life and death,	27:52
	God forever breaking into our lives in grace and judgment.	27:56
	Now, this is all quite obvious,	28:04
	and we readily engage in translation,	28:08
	and in the process of demythologization.	28:11
	But the angels in the biblical record	28:16
	are not there simply to remind us	28:19
	that certain 1st century people	28:21
	believed in spirits and demons and angels,	28:24
	and intriguing as it might have been for them,	28:28
	we can readily dispense with the fiction	28:30
	and lose nothing of the meaning	28:33
	through our customary hermeneutical procedures.	28:36
	There's a lot more to it than that.	28:40
	The angels are there to indicate something	28:44
	as surprising for those 1st century people as for us.	28:46
	And if the angels suggest something	28:52
	of a cock-eyed world in the Bible	28:56
	that makes no sense to us,	28:59
	then we're probably close to being on the right track.	29:04
	Because the task of biblical interpretation,	29:11
	which is what goes on whenever anyone tries to preach,	29:13
	constantly prods us into taking a fresh look	29:18
	at this new thing which is breaking in on us	29:22
	in the birth and the life and the death.	29:24
	Biblical interpretation is the attempt,	29:28
	our grants to you and all, but impossible attempt,	29:30
	but is the attempt to shake our dove familiarity	29:33
	with a story and to see almost as if for the first time,	29:37
	the cock-eyed character of the world,	29:44
	which is actually unfolding in the overly familiar details	29:48
	of a story we've known ever since we were kids.	29:54
	For the God who has disclosed in these familiar details	29:58
	will not be packaged, defined, capsuled,	30:03
	whether into a full blown theological system	30:08
	or into some phrase,	30:12
	even such pregnant phrases as the man for others,	30:16
	or to make life truly human,	30:22
	or the familiar, accept Christ as your personal savior.	30:25
	The resistance to this perennial impulse of ours,	30:31
	to classify, to qualify, to extract the essence of...	30:35
	In other words, to get this God into our pockets, somehow,	30:42
	this God who comes to the accompaniment	30:48
	of angelic choruses in the sky	30:51
	is evident all over the place.	30:55
	It is a cock-eyed world.	30:57
	The world of the New Testament,	31:00
	if you don't think so	31:02
	you haven't been reading it closely lately.	31:03
	It's a world, a cock-eyed world,	31:07
	where a woman breaks a jar of ointment very precious.	31:11
	So precious it was probably worth a whole year's salary,	31:15
	over the head of Him who said	31:20
	that we would be judged by the extent	31:22
	to which we devoted whatever wealth we have	31:24
	to feed the hungry, cloth the naked,	31:26
	and sent a young man away sorrowing	31:30
	because he was unwilling to give his wealth to the poor,	31:33
	and yet commenced this woman	31:37
	for this obvious waste and extravagance.	31:41
	Even Judas, you remember, was bright enough	31:45
	to see the absurd contradiction.	31:48
	The New Testament world is a cock-eyed world	31:52
	where a man who works but one hour in the cool of the day	31:56
	gets paid just as much as those who worked	31:59
	all through the long, tough heat of the day.	32:02
	And that's weird.	32:06
	It's a cock-eyed world where a man, the man,	32:09
	gets caught in a storm at sea	32:13
	and instead of praying to the God he called his Father	32:16
	like any humble trusting Son of God might be expected to do,	32:21
	speaks directly to the raging wind and seas	32:27
	as if they were possessed by demons	32:31
	and tells them to cool it,	32:33
	and there was a great calm.	32:37
	It's a cock-eyed world where Martha doing the grubby work	32:42
	of a servant girl around the house,	32:45
	the very picture of the humble servant of others	32:47
	He tells us to be, get short shrift for her pains	32:50
	because she was not sitting at His feet	32:54
	like Mary drinking in the pearls of wisdom	32:56
	dropping from His lips.	32:59
	It is a cock-eyed world, this world of the New Testament.	33:01
	So the world of angels indicates,	33:08
	not only a world simply alive	33:10
	with the presence and the power of God,	33:13
	but alive with the presence and power of a strange	33:17
	and apparently, unpredictable God.	33:20
	And to grasp that reality, we have to become like children.	33:24
	Not God knows in the conventional and sentimental sense	33:33
	that it's easy for children to believe in the miraculous,	33:36
	the bizarre and the world of angels,	33:39
	but in the sense perhaps	33:42
	that the child capacity for wonder and delight	33:44
	in the presence of the mystery and unpredictability of life.	33:49
	To become like children, it is I suppose,	33:54
	to be a child of God.	34:00
	The unselfconscious acceptance of the gift of life,	34:05
	of life as a gift.	34:09
	The acknowledgement of mystery	34:12
	beyond and within everything around us,	34:13
	the willingness to be accepted just as we are like a child	34:17
	with no striving to make ourselves acceptable,	34:22
	no striving, indeed, to earn anything like a vacation	34:28
	or a nap in the afternoon,	34:35
	or a martini before dinner.	34:38
	In fact, that familiar phrase, "You certainly deserve it,"	34:42
	drops simply out of the vocabulary entirely.	34:47
	But how is all this possible?	34:52
	We try so hard, as Christians at least some of us do,	34:55
	we write and preach long sermons	35:02
	and sit and listen to long sermons.	35:04
	We engage in serious self-study sessions	35:08
	sometimes in years of theological inquiry	35:11
	or perhaps in intensive sensitivity sessions.	35:15
	We take the ills of our society, the poverty,	35:19
	the prejudice of violence,	35:22
	the hidden and overt racism in ourselves	35:24
	and in our community in deadly seriousness.	35:27
	And if we don't, we know we should,	35:31
	we are aware, you are aware,	35:34
	of the dragon in every one of us.	35:37
	The sins, the failures day after today,	35:41
	and we repent and do our own form of penance	35:44
	in one favorite form of penance,	35:46
	is precisely to take ourselves with deadly seriousness.	35:50
	Because after all, the Christian life is serious business,	35:55
	isn't it?	35:58
	It involves suffering and pain and loss	36:00
	and at the center of it all across.	36:03
	And then Jesus comes along	36:06
	with this absolutely absurd talk of becoming like children.	36:07
	Well, you can, you know.	36:17
	At least I can.	36:20
	I've lived some three score years plus a few,	36:23
	and I've seen and experienced,	36:26
	a hell of a lot of hell on earth and in me.	36:28
	And I can't jump outta my skin and recover my lost innocence	36:35
	and become a child again.	36:38
	Nicodemus was right, you know.	36:42
	"How can a man be born again when he is old?	36:44
	Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb	36:48
	and be born?"	36:50
	Nicodemus may have been a little of literal minded,	36:53
	but he had a point.	36:56
	It all sounds so utterly absurd.	36:59
	And quite possibly, even more absurd	37:04
	for those of you who are younger than for us who are older.	37:07
	After all, we who are older have seen so much,	37:11
	are apt to have grown worn and tired with our striving,	37:14
	maybe ready to try almost anything	37:20
	even to become like children,	37:23
	though, how to manage that remains a mystery.	37:27
	But for you who are younger, it is absurd.	37:32
	There are so many avenues of approach	37:33
	to solving your own hangups,	37:35
	as well as the tough and bitter problems	37:38
	of the world around us.	37:40
	There's psychology and politics or the new left.	37:42
	There's sociology, participatory democracy,	37:46
	there's a possibility of working	37:50
	within the establishment for change	37:51
	or wrecking the whole thing	37:54
	and beginning over again from scratch.	37:55
	There's almost an infinite number of possibilities	37:58
	to create a new and better world,	38:01
	which have never really been tried	38:03
	until you give your minds and wits and hands to them.	38:05
	But, unless you turn and become like children,	38:12
	well, I suspect you're not really ready for that yet,	38:21
	are you?	38:25
	As B. Davie Napier has written,	38:28
	"There's another reason	38:30
	why we can't authentic appropriate the vision,"	38:31
	our minds are much too busy being minds,	38:35
	and much too noisy making thinking sound.	38:40
	From morning till night,	38:44
	frantically, we celebrate the work of celebration.	38:45
	We do not want to listen and respond.	38:50
	We want to take command.	38:55
	We want to work, manipulate, celebrate the word.	38:57
	In any case, the hearing of the word comes hard for us.	39:03
	And yet, unless you turn and become like children,	39:10
	you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.	39:18
	How is it possible, assuming that the kingdom of heaven	39:24
	still holds some attraction, what can it possibly mean?	39:28
	Frederick Bakner has suggested and wisely, I think,	39:34
	that we miss the point if we look for the meaning,	39:39
	as I have already been guilty of doing here this morning,	39:41
	trying to find the meaning in the analogies	39:45
	of the child's capacity for wonder and delight,	39:50
	his openness to the future and all the rest of it.	39:54
	The meaning, he suggests,	39:57
	is essentially the shock.	39:59
	The shock itself.	40:02
	And the shock, of course,	40:07
	is in the fact that here is precisely something	40:09
	that we cannot achieve at all by trying or striving,	40:13
	by obedience or commitment,	40:19
	or by jumping out of our skins, or anything else.	40:23
	And that's frustrating, of course.	40:29
	Because when we think we understand the truth in anything,	40:32
	we feel, we must immediately do something about it.	40:36
	And here is something	40:41
	we obviously cannot do anything at all about.	40:42
	And maybe it is there	40:51
	that we come close to probing the mystery,	40:54
	and to the mystery of our stance	40:58
	toward the one who constantly comes to us.	41:00
	If we are shocked into the realization	41:04
	that we cannot, by any trying are striving,	41:08
	become like children, then,	41:12
	then do not we become like children.	41:17
	This is not to say of course,	41:26
	that we are relieved of giving up our striving	41:27
	to be the man for others, to make life more human,	41:29
	to give ourselves to the bitter and perplexing problems	41:35
	in the world around us, the war, the pollution, the poverty,	41:38
	the starving children in the third world,	41:41
	the racism in ourselves and in our communities.	41:44
	All those areas, we're out of our striving.	41:47
	Some change does come and for the good at times,	41:53
	however slowly and discouragingly.	41:56
	But it is to say	42:00
	that we take not only the sufferings of our present time	42:02
	in deadly seriousness,	42:08
	feeding the hungry and clothing the naked,	42:10
	but that we take the world	42:13
	of children and angel seriously, too.	42:14
	The world of angels,	42:18
	which heralds the coming of a cock-eyed world,	42:19
	alive with a presence and power of an unpredictable God.	42:23
	A God who will not be capsuled or defined or celebrated	42:28
	where nothing is set.	42:34
	Nothing completely predictable,	42:36
	where the future is open and full of surprise.	42:39
	Samuel Miller once wrote,	42:45
	"To have faith in God, is to believe in becoming."	42:48
	In the limitless possibilities of becoming,	42:55
	in the kind of becoming a transfigures man	43:00
	and transforms the world and to become like children,	43:04
	is to accept this world	43:10
	of unpredictable comings and becomings.	43:12
	So, the world of children and of angels,	43:19
	the world of angels indicating a world alive	43:26
	with the unpredictable	43:28
	and often cock-eyed presence and power of God,	43:29
	and the world of children	43:34
	alive to the possibilities in a world alive	43:37
	with the unpredictable presence and the power of God.	43:41
	And if that's really so,	43:45
	then that's a pretty good and great world	43:49
	in which to be alive, wouldn't you say?	43:53
	And perhaps the only sensible way for sensible people	44:00
	to respond to a world like that is of course,	44:08
	to feed the hungry and cloth the naked,	44:14
	for the poor you have with you always.	44:15
	But also to go berserk once in a while, you know.	44:18
	And a Christmas, to buy an electric train	44:25
	with all contraptions	44:29
	for your three-month-old first born man child.	44:31
	And more perfume than you can possibly afford	44:36
	for your wife or girlfriend,	44:39
	and dance in the aisles occasionally	44:43
	instead of forever marching,	44:46
	and celebrate the trivial for a change.	44:51
	A year ago in the Columbia-Princeton game,	44:56
	Columbia had just stopped Princeton cold	45:02
	on a drive for an apparent touchdown.	45:05
	And the Columbia band broke out into the "Hallelujah" chorus	45:09
	from Handel's Messiah.	45:13
	Let us pray.	45:20
	Oh God, our Father,	45:27
	as our minds stretch out to explore the mystery,	45:31
	in fitful faith and hesitancy,	45:36
	do thou stoop down to bless us with wisdom and compassion,	45:42
	with wonder, and with joy.	45:50
	Through Christ, our Lord, amen.	45:56
	(soft music)	46:04
	(singing faintly)	46:45
	(soft music)	49:07
	(singing faintly)	50:55
-	Here we offer and present unto thee, oh God,	56:27
	our silver and our gold, the symbol of ourselves,	56:30
	to be a reasonable, holy and lively sacrifice unto thee,	56:36
	through Jesus Christ, our Lord.	56:43
	And may the blessing of God come upon you abundantly.	56:50
	May it keep you strong and tranquil	56:55
	in the truth of His promises,	56:59
	through Jesus Christ, our Lord.	57:02
	(singing faintly)	57:12
	(bell dinging)	59:06
	(soft music)	59:23

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Title:

Edmund A. Steimle - "Children and Angels" (October 29, 1972)

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October 29, 1972

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Steimle, Edmund A.

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