James T. Cleland - "The Duke Chapel Blues" (June 7, 1970)

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

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Title:

James T. Cleland - "The Duke Chapel Blues" (June 7, 1970)

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Date:

June 7, 1970

Speaker:

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

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Duke University. Chapel

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