Harry B. Partin - "Christian Solidarity" (July 23, 1967)

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	(liturgical music begins)	0:03
-	Carl Sandburg wrote a prayer poem,	0:39
	entitled "Prayers Of Steel" in which he prayed.	0:43
	"Lay me on an anvil, O God.	0:49
	Beat me and hammer me into a crowbar."	0:52
	These words of Sandberg who died yesterday	0:58
	suggest something of the hard discipline,	1:02
	which is needed to make our spirits,	1:05
	the kind of tools which God can use	1:08
	for the rebuilding of a new world.	1:12
	The first part, and perhaps the most painful of all	1:15
	of this beating and hammering	1:19
	is the acknowledgement that we are sinners.	1:22
	Let us now therefore beloved together, confess our sins.	1:26
	Let us pray.	1:32
	O Lord, most holy	1:34
	God, most mighty.	1:36
	Who hast found us wanting and yet has not forsaken us.	1:38
	We confess that we have often witnessed to our pride	1:43
	and vanity instead of witnessing to thy grace.	1:47
	The peace and joy thou did offer us.	1:51
	We sold for power and prestige.	1:54
	We have trusted too much in the work of our hands	1:58
	and in the fruit of our laboratories.	2:02
	We have not remembered our total need of thy wisdom.	2:04
	Save us from all sin.	2:08
	We humbly pray through Jesus Christ, our Lord.	2:11
	Amen.	2:15
	And now beloved, let us hear the comforting words	2:17
	of the holy scriptures,	2:20
	which were given for folks such as you and me.	2:22
	"Who is like unto God,	2:27
	who pardons iniquity, passes over transgressions.	2:30
	He does not retain his anger forever	2:35
	because he delights in steadfast love.	2:38
	He will again have compassion upon us.	2:42
	He will tread our iniquities underfoot.	2:46
	He will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea."	2:50
	These words from Micah are comforting	2:55
	to those who need forgiveness of their sins.	2:59
	And now as Christians have done through 19 centuries,	3:04
	may we again, meaningfully today	3:08
	make our own the prayer of which Christ	3:11
	has taught his disciples to pray.	3:13
	Saying, "Our father who art in heaven,	3:15
	hallowed be thy name.	3:19
	Thy kingdom come.	3:21
	Thy will be done	3:23
	on earth as it is in heaven.	3:24
	Give us this day our daily bread,	3:27
	and forgive us our trespasses,	3:30
	as we forgive those who trespass against us,	3:32
	and lead us not into temptation,	3:36
	but deliver us from evil.	3:38
	For thine is the kingdom,	3:40
	and the power, and the glory,	3:42
	for ever."	3:44
	Amen.	3:45
	(liturgical music)	3:49
	The Lord be with you.	7:02
	Let us pray.	7:06
	Oh God, who dust	7:10
	give us a new day and a new opportunity.	7:12
	We come now to offer our thanks for giving us	7:16
	a chance to ennoble our lives by worshiping thee.	7:19
	We thank thee for all the open doors,	7:24
	which thou does set before us	7:27
	and which no man may shut.	7:29
	If our health is less than perfect.	7:33
	We thank thee that there are doctors and nurses	7:36
	and medicines and hospitals.	7:40
	If our spiritual health is at a low ebb,	7:44
	we thank thee that we have thy loving invitation.	7:49
	Whosoever will, may come.	7:54
	And that thou has provided us with the scriptures,	7:57
	the church, teachers, preachers, counselors, friends.	8:01
	If we have failed to establish righteousness	8:11
	and order in our world.	8:13
	We thank thee for a new day,	8:16
	new resources and a new chance to try.	8:19
	God of our fathers.	8:26
	We come to thee in worship today.	8:28
	To intercede and to make supplication for	8:32
	the fulfillment of the needs of	8:35
	our brothers and of ourselves.	8:37
	Be thou to us what our fathers have said,	8:41
	thou word to them.	8:44
	We too are tossed about by the storms	8:47
	and uncertainties of life.	8:49
	We too need a basic security as they did.	8:52
	We long for justice, for order, brotherhood, peace.	8:57
	We need the strength to endure.	9:05
	Our fathers have testified that thou work to them,	9:09
	a pillar of cloud by day and a fire by night.	9:12
	That thou did lead them.	9:16
	That thy word was a lamp under their feet	9:19
	and a light under their path.	9:22
	Be that to us.	9:26
	We too are pilgrims and pioneers,	9:29
	not able to predict the end of our journey,	9:31
	not knowing what we shall encounter along the way.	9:33
	O, God of the pilgrims and pioneers	9:38
	lead us in paths of righteousness for thy name's sake.	9:41
	Lead us in the paths of progress	9:46
	of saint order and of peace.	9:49
	Our fathers have said that thou word their friend,	9:54
	their unseen companion in the journey	9:57
	in whom they could confide.	10:00
	Be that to us.	10:03
	We too need friendship.	10:06
	While we blessed thy name for earthly friends	10:09
	who buy their care at beauty to our lives.	10:12
	Yet O God, we find a need to know a friendship	10:17
	beyond the earthly.	10:20
	To feel the everlasting arms beneath us	10:22
	and even to speak onto thy as a man speaks with a friend.	10:26
	O Lord,	10:33
	As we think of our university, of our city,	10:34
	our nation, our world,	10:38
	we're driven to ask for the graces,	10:41
	which Christian faith offers.	10:44
	We need light, forgiveness, love, fairness.	10:47
	As we ponder the unrest and riots in our own land,	10:54
	we pray for forgiveness for	10:59
	those who incite riots by their hot words.	11:01
	And for those who incite riots by their cold attitudes.	11:06
	For those who incite riots by inflamed speech.	11:11
	For those who incite riots by their	11:16
	greedy unconcerned for the poor.	11:18
	Forgive them and forgive us, O Lord.	11:22
	As we think of our sick, our confused,	11:28
	our poor, our lonely, our orphans.	11:32
	We remember the testimony of our fathers	11:38
	that thou work to them, a friend, a savior,	11:40
	the great physician, their heavenly father.	11:44
	Be that to us.	11:50
	And we shall thee the praise and glory	11:52
	through Jesus Christ, Our Lord for ever.	11:55
	Amen.	12:00
	Let us hear now the reading of the holy scripture,	12:08
	our lesson for today is composed of two passages.	12:13
	One from the old Testament and one from the new,	12:18
	which are very similar.	12:21
	Which have to do with the relationship	12:24
	of brother to brother.	12:26
	The first one,	12:29
	and this is taken from the Genesis 45.	12:30
	And it breaks in,	12:34
	in the middle of a story.	12:36
	With which I think most of you are familiar.	12:38
	The story of the reunification of Joseph with his brothers.	12:41
	We begin at the first verse of the 45th chapter.	12:46
	"Then Joseph could not control himself before	12:52
	all those who stood by him.	12:55
	And he cried, 'Make everyone go out from me.'	12:57
	So no one stayed with him when Joseph made himself	13:02
	known to his brothers.	13:04
	"And he wept aloud, so that the Egyptians heard it,	13:07
	and the household of Pharaoh heard it.	13:10
	"Joseph said to his brothers,	13:13
	'I am Joseph! Is my father still alive?'	13:16
	But his brothers could not answer him	13:21
	for they were dismayed at his presence.	13:24
	"So Joseph said to his brothers,	13:28
	'Come near to me, I pray you.'	13:30
	They came near.	13:32
	He said, 'I am your brother, Joseph,	13:34
	whom you sold into Egypt.	13:36
	"And now do not be distressed or angry with yourselves	13:39
	because you sold me here,	13:43
	for God sent me before you to preserve life.	13:45
	"For the famine has been in the land these two years,	13:50
	and there are yet five years in which there	13:53
	will be neither plowing nor harvest.	13:57
	And God sent me before you to preserve for you	14:00
	a remnant on earth, and to keep alive	14:04
	for you many survivors.	14:08
	"So it was not you who sent me here, but God.	14:11
	And he has made me a father to Pharaoh,	14:14
	and Lord of all his house	14:18
	and ruler over all the land of Egypt."	14:20
	"Make haste and go up to my father and say to him,	14:23
	'Thus says your son, Joseph,	14:27
	God has made me Lord of all Egypt.	14:29
	Come down to me, and do not tarry.'	14:32
	"You shall dwell in the land of Goshen,	14:36
	and you shall be near me,	14:39
	you and your children and your children's children,	14:41
	and your flocks, your herds, and all that you have.	14:44
	"And there I will provide for you,	14:49
	for there are yet five years of famine to come,	14:51
	lest you and your household, and all that you have,	14:55
	come to poverty.	14:58
	"Now your eyes see, and the eyes of	15:00
	my brother Benjamin see,	15:03
	that it is my mouth that speaks to you.	15:05
	You must tell my father of all my splendor in Egypt,	15:09
	and of all that you have seen.	15:14
	Make haste and bring my father down here.	15:16
	Then he fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck and wept,	15:20
	and Benjamin wept upon his neck.	15:24
	And he kissed all his brothers and wept upon them.	15:27
	And after that his brothers talked with him."	15:31
	And now we turn to the other story of the brothers.	15:37
	This one was told by our Lord, Jesus.	15:44
	Jesus said, "There was a man who had two sons.	15:48
	The younger of them said to his father,	15:51
	'Father give me the share of property that falls to me.'	15:54
	And he divided his living between them.	15:58
	"Not many days later, the younger son	16:01
	gathered all that he had,	16:03
	and took his journey into a far country	16:04
	there he squandered his property in loose living.	16:07
	And when he had spent everything,	16:12
	a great famine arose in that country	16:15
	and he began to be in one.	16:17
	So he went and joined himself to one	16:19
	of the citizens of that country who sent him	16:21
	into these fields to feed swine.	16:24
	He would gladly it fed on the pods that the swine ate.	16:28
	No one gave him anything.	16:32
	But when he came to himself, he said,	16:35
	'How many of my father's hired servants	16:37
	have bread enough and to spare.	16:39
	But I perish here with hunger.	16:42
	I will arise and go to my father.	16:45
	I will say to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven.	16:47
	And before you, I am no longer worthy	16:50
	to be called your son,	16:53
	treat me as one of your hired servants.'	16:55
	He arose and came to his father.	16:59
	"But while he was yet at a distance,	17:02
	his father saw him and had compassion	17:05
	and ran and embraced him and kissed him.	17:09
	"And the son said to him,	17:11
	'Father I've sinned against heaven.	17:13
	And before you, I am no longer worthy	17:15
	to be called your son.'	17:17
	But the father said to his servants,	17:19
	'Bring quickly the best robe	17:21
	and put it on him and put a ring on his hand	17:22
	and shoes on his feet, bring the fatted calf and kill it.	17:24
	Let us eat and make merry for this	17:28
	My son was dead and is alive again.'	17:32
	He was lost and is found,	17:37
	and they began to make merry.	17:40
	"Now his elder son was in the field.	17:44
	As he came and drew near the house,	17:47
	he heard music and dancing.	17:49
	He called one of his servants and asked what this meant.	17:52
	Servant said to him,	17:56
	'Your brother has come and your father has killed	17:57
	the fatted calf because he has received him safe and sound.'	18:00
	"But he was angry, refused to go in.	18:07
	His father came out and had treated him,	18:12
	but he answered his father,	18:14
	'low these many years, I have served you	18:15
	and I never disobeyed your command.	18:18
	Yet you never gave me a kid	18:20
	that I might make merry with my friends.	18:22
	But when the son of yours came,	18:26
	who has devoured your living with harlots,	18:28
	you killed for him, the fatted calf!'	18:31
	"And he said to him, 'Son, you are always with me.	18:34
	And all that is mine is yours.	18:40
	It was fitting to make merry and be glad for this year,	18:44
	brother was dead and is alive,	18:48
	He was lost and is found.'"	18:52
	Let us pray.	19:47
	May the words of our mouth	19:52
	and the meditations of our hearts	19:56
	be acceptable in thy sight.	19:59
	O Lord, Our strength and our Redeemer.	20:02
	Amen.	20:08
	The parable of the prodigal stock is among other things,	20:14
	a study in contrast.	20:20
	Most notably, the contrast between human prodigality	20:26
	and divine forgiveness.	20:32
	But there are other contrasts as well.	20:37
	Towards the end of the parable,	20:43
	there is a conversation between	20:45
	the father and his stay at home elder son	20:48
	who refuses to go into the house	20:56
	where the returned prodigal is being feasted and fitted.	20:59
	Father and son are speaking about the prodigal.	21:08
	In this context occurred two phrases,	21:13
	which express one of the sharpest	21:19
	of the parables several studied contrast.	21:23
	The elder son refers to his brother	21:30
	as this thy son.	21:37
	In the revised standard version.	21:41
	This son of yours.	21:44
	He refuses to accept the father's description	21:49
	of the other son as thy brother.	21:54
	And we'll only refer to him as thy son.	22:00
	It is you see a calculated repudiation of relationship.	22:07
	He will not call him brother.	22:16
	The father refuses to acquiesce in this repudiation	22:21
	as he patiently reiterates this thy brother.	22:30
	He seeks in the elder son,	22:39
	the same loving and forgiving	22:43
	uninterruptedness in relationship.	22:46
	Which he somehow had been able to maintain.	22:52
	The parable ends on this note, as you heard.	22:58
	It was fitting to make merry and be glad.	23:04
	For this thy brother was dead	23:09
	and is alive.	23:14
	He was lost and is found.	23:16
	If we look for ourselves in this parable,	23:22
	we find ourselves easily.	23:26
	Yes, we are the prodigal son	23:32
	that we occasionally acknowledge,	23:38
	but we are also the elder son.	23:45
	Prodigal?	23:51
	Yes.	23:51
	But also proud, obstinate, unforgiving.	23:53
	We are ready to let God	24:01
	go on loving his creatures.	24:07
	While we refuse our common familiness with them.	24:11
	They may be sons of God,	24:20
	but that does not mean they are our brothers.	24:23
	If we look for God in the parable,	24:29
	we find him in the father, the wild,	24:33
	the prodigal was yet at a distance,	24:37
	saw him and had compassion	24:40
	and ran and embraced him and kissed him	24:43
	Here as in the incarnation itself is the gospel.	24:49
	The good news about God.	24:56
	God sublimity is not aloofness,	25:02
	nor is his glory remote.	25:09
	His majesty is in his out reaching toward us	25:14
	in the self-giving of redemption.	25:20
	God's purposes are not finally achieved	25:25
	by delegation, by command, by remote control.	25:30
	They are undertaken by a love that refuses merely to sin,	25:39
	but insist to cop.	25:46
	God is with us,	25:50
	with us, not merely in terms of a heavenly benignity,	25:55
	but of an earthly incarnation.	26:02
	The gospel is not simply that God's in his heaven,	26:08
	but that he's come from it into our world.	26:17
	It is you see this divine involvement,	26:26
	which is the ground	26:31
	and pattern	26:34
	and inspiration	26:37
	of our involvement with our fellows.	26:38
	By it, by this divine involvement,	26:44
	we are both taught and enabled to do likewise.	26:50
	Christians are or ought to be involved in mankind.	26:58
	And that's not in some abstract way, but concretely.	27:08
	Concretely, we have to translate to specify,	27:14
	to give flesh to what may readily be only an abstraction	27:19
	or a remote ideal.	27:26
	Here I suspect we are as much limited	27:29
	by our imagination as by our reluctance to get involved.	27:34
	I was recalling yesterday the last sermon	27:44
	I preached from this pulpit	27:49
	and realized that it to had to do with involvement	27:52
	and solidarity.	27:57
	Where it was based on the account,	27:59
	which we find in the first chapter of the gospel,	28:00
	according to mark of Jesus healing of a leper.	28:03
	That account, that remarkable account	28:08
	in which Mark tells us that Jesus	28:12
	stretched out his hand and touched the leper.	28:17
	Of the intimacy of that relationship.	28:23
	Of the physical,	28:28
	as well as the spiritual involvement with Jesus	28:29
	with the leper.	28:33
	I want this morning to talk of solidarity among Christians,	28:36
	but I find that I cannot do that	28:44
	without first acknowledging	28:48
	and celebrating the human solidarity.	28:50
	The human solidarity,	28:56
	to which the incarnation itself is clear witness	28:59
	and which we are called to realize ever more fully.	29:02
	Nothing must be said or presumed about the church,	29:08
	which obscures this truth and this demand.	29:14
	The gospel addresses me as one of a human whole	29:21
	before it makes me one of a Christian whole.	29:30
	The church is set within the human whole	29:36
	and not somehow over against it	29:40
	or against a part of it.	29:42
	Jesus was a man for others,	29:47
	in the language of some of our contemporaries.	29:51
	So must his church, that church,	29:56
	which gives his body as the scriptures speak of it.	29:59
	That church, which is his body, be a church for others.	30:04
	At the same time, the gospel of God's will	30:12
	to fellowship with man creates a community	30:15
	of responsive inner coherence and mutuality.	30:21
	The church.	30:28
	It would be strange I think if it were not otherwise.	30:30
	The God who calls us into fellowship	30:35
	with himself through forgiveness and reconciliation	30:38
	creates at the same time,	30:43
	a community of the forgiven and forgiving.	30:45
	And overruled all the sources of otherness	30:50
	by the magnitude of his love.	30:55
	The Apostle Paul writes of this community,	31:00
	when it is true to its own nature, as God's creation.	31:04
	"There is neither Jew nor Greek,	31:09
	there is neither slave nor free,	31:14
	there is neither male nor female,	31:18
	for all you are one in Christ, Jesus."	31:22
	In the New Testament, we find this unity in Christ	31:29
	breaking down and riding over	31:35
	the most stubborn, othernesses of the Roman world.	31:41
	The fellowship with God,	31:48
	to which the gospel invites generates	31:52
	a consequent fellowship among its wondering	31:56
	and forgiven heroes.	32:00
	That you may have fellowship with us.	32:04
	Whose fellowship is with the father	32:10
	and with his son Jesus Christ.	32:12
	These words from John 1 express	32:17
	the constant desire of the church vis-a-vis the world.	32:21
	Fellowship with him	32:26
	and fellowship with one another, these belong together.	32:28
	As Christians, we are first of all, involved with all.	32:34
	And that I think by the nature of what makes us Christians.	32:44
	But we are also and richly involved in one another.	32:48
	This solidarity among Christians	32:57
	and within the church is something we need to understand	33:01
	and reverently to acknowledge.	33:06
	How often it seems to be thought by Christians	33:13
	that unity in Christ is something revocable at will.	33:15
	We seem to treat the fellowship as something we are free	33:24
	to sunder at our own behest.	33:29
	Sometimes on the flimsiest grounds,	33:33
	we dissociate	33:37
	and disintegrate,	33:42
	repudiate relationship.	33:44
	But the fellowship which we treat	33:49
	as if it belong to us	33:53
	and were indeed our creation,	33:57
	is something to which we belong.	34:01
	Nowhere in the New Testament,	34:06
	I think is there any ground for thinking	34:07
	that fellowship is sundurable at our will.	34:11
	If others, in the Christian whole think and act so.	34:16
	Ours it is as far as in us lies	34:24
	to repudiate the isolation	34:30
	and to maintain the fellowship.	34:34
	The Christian Church is not an agreement to associate.	34:40
	It is not like some club or society	34:50
	which men put together for as long as they want it,	34:56
	and then put apart.	35:00
	On the contrary, all the metaphors,	35:03
	which the New Testament uses in speaking	35:07
	of this Christian society, the church,	35:09
	all these metaphors.	35:13
	Our corporate and organic.	35:16
	We find many of these corporate and organic metaphors	35:22
	in Ephesians.	35:27
	There the church is likened unto a building,	35:29
	a brotherhood, a body and a bride.	35:35
	A building, a brotherhood,	35:43
	a body and a bride.	35:45
	None of these entities is properly,	35:49
	some of them even conceivably,	35:53
	self disbanded.	35:55
	A structure, a family,	35:58
	a body, a marriage.	36:03
	These are integral unities.	36:06
	Architecture, laud, physical light,	36:10
	matrimony,	36:16
	these deal in inorganic harmonies.	36:19
	Columns and lentils, brothers and sisters,	36:25
	limbs and faculties, husband and wife.	36:31
	These belong together, inextricably.	36:36
	They cannot be likened to the bandit	36:44
	and disbanded occupants of a ferry boat.	36:48
	Whose passengers board land and disperse.	36:52
	This truth of the organic unity of the Christian fellowship	37:01
	should not be obscured by the fact	37:09
	that it does appear to be gathered.	37:12
	There is I think deep and indispensable	37:17
	meaning in the congregational principle	37:19
	that the church is gathered into its local expression.	37:23
	My own church tradition is strongly congregational.	37:29
	And I appreciate the value of this tradition	37:32
	as a witness to a truth about the Christian community.	37:35
	The Lord added to the church reports the Book of Acts,	37:43
	the number of the disciples was multiplied.	37:49
	It tells us again.	37:55
	Added,	37:58
	multiplied.	38:01
	These are arithmetical terms.	38:03
	But not everything that can be added or multiplied	38:07
	can rightly be divided.	38:13
	A growing Cathedral, increases in number of stones.	38:17
	Stone is added to stone.	38:26
	But at the same time that Cathedral	38:30
	increases in coherence and unity.	38:32
	What a thing is,	38:39
	is not the same as how it comes to be.	38:42
	Men are invited in to fellowship	38:47
	and they come into it one by one.	38:50
	But what they are invited into is not something	38:54
	they have thereby agreed to constitute.	38:58
	Something they have themselves created.	39:03
	A serious part of our being apprehended	39:09
	to use the language of the New Testament	39:12
	is just this truth of our Christian solidarity.	39:16
	We have great need of accepting that we are parts of a whole	39:21
	or better partners in a whole	39:26
	of accepting that the whole is not ourselves.	39:30
	That refusal of wholeness is treachery	39:36
	to our own allegiance.	39:39
	That the true part is in open,	39:42
	humble patient seeking of the whole.	39:46
	Do we not need to renounce our chronic instinct	39:52
	to aloofness, and to ask ourselves	39:57
	whether what we believe we have distinctively entrust	40:02
	is not better served by involvement than by installation.	40:08
	Do we need to see eye to eye	40:17
	before we beat heart to heart?	40:23
	And shall we ever see eye to eye in so far as we should,	40:25
	until we have begun to beat heart to heart.	40:31
	In his first letter to the Corinthians,	40:36
	the Apostle Paul addresses himself	40:39
	to the dissensions and divisions	40:42
	within the church at Corinth.	40:44
	Passionately he pleads for unity in Christ,	40:47
	but as harken to Paul's please	40:51
	for undividedness within the body of Christ.	40:54
	How vehemently Paul castigates all the familiar	40:58
	and mistaken pleas for partisanship.	41:02
	In his sure instinct	41:09
	for the prerogatives of the holy spirit.	41:11
	Paul calls for the subordination	41:15
	of ministry and the ministers to truth.	41:17
	For the sovereignty of God's wisdom	41:21
	For the authority of the mind of Christ	41:24
	and the centrality of the cross.	41:27
	The most arrogant of all the partisans	41:32
	of whom first Corinthians tells us	41:36
	were those who irrigated Christ to themselves,	41:40
	suggesting a monopoly of all part and lot in him.	41:46
	Such a Christ,	41:51
	And I would put the name in quotes in this context.	41:53
	Such a "Christ" is one of our own imagination,	41:56
	not after the image of him.	42:03
	Who died with arms outstretched upon a cross.	42:05
	One wonders.	42:12
	One wonders in the light of this call for unity	42:14
	in Corinthians 1,	42:17
	how the New Testament might express itself.	42:20
	If it had followed rather than preceded by centuries,	42:24
	our divided fellowship.	42:31
	It would surely have a word directly for us.	42:35
	As it is the pattern of reproach to us	42:41
	is clear enough and ought to hasten us	42:45
	in our holding efforts to realize	42:49
	and express the unity which God has given us.	42:53
	Are we managing the Christian Church,	42:59
	taking it under our own authority and aegis.	43:04
	Taking it under our own authority and aegis.	43:12
	Taking that which properly understood.	43:17
	we are ourselves creatures and surface.	43:22
	Or is its majesty dominating	43:28
	and controlling us in the discipline of his wholeness.	43:32
	And the self forgetfulness of its own gospel.	43:38
	Let us pray.	43:44
	Pardon O Lord, a fellowship.	43:51
	Our insulated churchmanship	43:56
	Our self regarding isolation from our fellows,	44:02
	Our unimaginative membership	44:08
	In the body that is the whole.	44:13
	Save us from the partiality of our self sufficiency	44:17
	and open our hearts and minds to the fullness	44:23
	of our unity in thy son.	44:27
	That so our witness of him in the world	44:31
	may no longer be impaired.	44:34
	In his name who took our common nature	44:38
	and bore the cross, which is the salvation of us all.	44:44
	Even Jesus Christ, our savior.	44:51
	Amen.	44:55
	(liturgical music)	44:59
	All mighty God, our heavenly father.	54:39
	We pray that you to accept these gifts of thy sons.	54:42
	Asking that they may be used	54:46
	to create solidarity with thy other sons	54:49
	our brothers around the earth,	54:54
	through Jesus Christ.	54:57
	Our Lord.	54:59
	Now may the peace of God,	55:02
	which passes on the same,	55:04
	keep your heart in the night and love of God.	55:06
	And in his son Jesus Christ, Our Lord.	55:12
	And the blessing of God almighty the father,	55:15
	the son, and the holy spirit.	55:18
	Rest upon you and abide with you, now and evermore.	55:20
	(liturgical music)	55:25

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Title:

Harry B. Partin - "Christian Solidarity" (July 23, 1967)

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July 23, 1967

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Partin, Harry B.

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