W. Kenneth Goodson - "Forever Beginning" (September 29, 1985)

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	(organ music)	0:06
	(organ music)	1:00
Pastor	Welcome to Duke Chapel.	10:36
	This Sunday our service concludes	10:40
	an historic weekend here at Duke University,	10:43
	with the inauguration of our new president.	10:47
	It is fitting that here in this university,	10:51
	where religion and erudition are wedded,	10:54
	that we should now gather in our chapel	10:56
	to celebrate and to pray God's blessings	11:01
	upon Dr. H. Keith Brodie,	11:05
	as he begins his administration with us.	11:10
	It is also fitting that today	11:14
	we begin broadcasting this service	11:16
	into the rooms of the Duke University hospitals,	11:20
	since Dr. Brodie has spent his academic life	11:25
	as a member of the healing professions.	11:29
	I don't know of a university	11:33
	that can boast its own bishop, except for Duke.	11:35
	And our preacher today is our beloved	11:39
	Bishop-in-Residence at the Duke Divinity School,	11:41
	Bishop Kenneth Goodson.	11:46
	And we welcome him again to the Duke Chapel pulpit.	11:47
	And we also thank Ben Smith and the Duke Chapel Choir,	11:52
	as well as our special guest musicians,	11:56
	for their part in the service,	11:59
	for their presentation of the Joyful Bach Cantata 147.	12:01
	Let us fill this great church with praise.	12:08
	(speaker drowned out by mic noise)	12:25
	(choir singing)	12:45
	(organ music)	14:04
	(choir singing)	14:50
	(organ music)	18:13
	(choir singing)	19:41
Speaker	Oh eternal God,	20:34
	the alpha and the omega,	20:36
	who seest the end from the beginning,	20:38
	we lift our voices and our souls unto thee.	20:42
	Once more in this holy place, we would be still,	20:46
	and know that thou art God.	20:51
	Infinite, almighty, incomprehensible	20:54
	are thy judgements, yet loving are thy ways.	20:58
	We turn to thee in the spirit of Thanksgiving	21:02
	for all that thou hast done,	21:06
	and most especially on this inaugural Sunday	21:08
	for this university,	21:12
	and the one thou hast called to lead it.	21:14
	Fill us now with the spirit of thine only son, Jesus Christ,	21:17
	that we may know the peace	21:22
	which quiets every restless heart,	21:24
	and the trust which fills the soul with gladness.	21:27
	Amen.	21:32
	(organ music)	21:35
	(choir singing)	21:44
Pastor	Let us pray.	22:49
	Open our hearts and minds, oh God,	22:51
	by the power of your holy spirit,	22:53
	so that as the word is read and proclaimed,	22:56
	we might hear with joy what you say to us this day.	22:59
	Amen.	23:04
	The first lesson is taken from the book of Job.	23:07
	Then, Job answered the Lord,	23:11
	"I know that thou canst do all things,	23:14
	and that no purpose of thine can be thwarted.	23:19
	Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?	23:23
	Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand.	23:27
	Things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.	23:32
	Hear, and I will speak.	23:36
	I will question you, and you declare to me.	23:39
	I had heard of thee, by the hearing of the ear,	23:43
	but now my eye sees thee.	23:48
	Therefore I despise myself,	23:51
	and repent in dust and ashes.	23:54
	This ends the reading of the first lesson.	23:58
	(cheerful orchestral music)	24:06
	(choir singing)	24:44
	(tape crackling)	25:01
	(choir singing)	25:02
	(tape crackling)	25:05
	(choir singing)	25:06
	(orchestral music)	28:39
	The Gospel lesson for this day	29:34
	is taken from St. Mark, in the ninth chapter,	29:38
	verses 38 through 50.	29:42
	John said to him,	29:47
	"Teacher, we saw a man casting out demons in your name,	29:49
	"and we forbade him, because he was not following us."	29:54
	But Jesus said,	30:01
	"Do not forbid him,	30:02
	"for no one who does a mighty work in my name	30:04
	"will be able soon after to speak evil of me,	30:08
	"for he that is not against us is for us,	30:13
	"for truly I say to you,	30:18
	"whoever gives you a cup of water to drink	30:21
	"because you bear the name of Christ,	30:24
	"will by no means lose his reward.	30:27
	"Whoever causes one of these little ones	30:32
	"who believe in me to sin,	30:34
	"it would be better for him if a great mill stone	30:38
	"were hung round his neck,	30:41
	"and he were thrown into the sea.	30:44
	"And if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off.	30:49
	"It is better for you to enter life maimed,	30:55
	"than with two hands to go to hell	30:59
	"to the unquenchable fire.	31:02
	"And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off.	31:05
	"It is better for you to enter life lame,	31:11
	"than with two feet to be thrown into hell.	31:14
	"And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out.	31:19
	"It is better for you to enter the Kingdom of God	31:25
	"with one eye, than with two eyes to be thrown into hell,	31:28
	"where their worm does not die,	31:33
	"and the fire is not quenched.	31:36
	"For everyone will be salted with fire,	31:39
	"salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltness,	31:43
	"how will you season it?	31:49
	"Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another."	31:53
	Thus ends the reading of the Gospel.	32:02
	(orchestral music)	32:10
	(soloist singing)	32:48
	(orchestral music)	34:55
	(soloist singing)	35:57
	(orchestral music)	37:49
	(choir singing)	38:08
-	There is no way that I nor any other human being	41:09
	would ever be able to tell you	41:13
	how important and how significant	41:15
	is this weekend on the campus of Duke university.	41:20
	But we have come to do a thing	41:25
	that has been done only 12 times	41:27
	in the history of the institution.	41:31
	And only a little more than half that number	41:36
	in the university itself.	41:40
	And not only is it significant and exciting	41:43
	weekend in the life of Trinity College in Duke University,	41:45
	it is a significant and exciting weekend	41:49
	in the personal and the professional lives	41:53
	of a good many people,	41:55
	and particularly a family that is named Brodie.	41:57
	It is a significant time in the life of Keith Brodie,	42:01
	who comes to an unusual line of distinguished people	42:06
	who have marched before him,	42:10
	and who have worn upon their shoulders	42:12
	as well in the deep of their heart,	42:14
	the medallions that identified them as the presidents	42:17
	of either Trinity College or Duke University.	42:20
	But it also is a significant time	42:25
	in the family experience of a man	42:27
	who is so committed to his family,	42:29
	it is an important time in the life of a girl named Brenda.	42:31
	And it is a time that even yet they do not understand,	42:37
	but someday will appropriate,	42:40
	in the lives of four unusually nice people,	42:42
	whose names are Melissa and Cameron and Tyler and Bryson.	42:46
	Someday they will know,	42:52
	as indeed they do now suspicion.	42:55
	And if I were to use the language of the day,	42:59
	which should never be used in this pulpit,	43:01
	I would say to you that	43:04
	it couldn't have happened to nicer people.	43:05
	But if we're going to completely understand	43:10
	the meaning of all that is transpiring here today,	43:12
	I would remind you that Alex Haley	43:15
	has dramatically reminded us	43:18
	in his unforgettable book entitled "Roots",	43:20
	that in order to plot the future,	43:24
	we must have some kind of an understanding of the past.	43:26
	To fully understand where we need to go,	43:32
	we must have some understanding of where we've been.	43:35
	So our story begins in a little community called Trinity,	43:40
	in Randolph county, scarcely 75 miles away from here.	43:44
	In the year 1830, a small group of people,	43:50
	primarily Quakers and Methodists,	43:54
	gathered together and came as a result of their meeting	43:56
	to an unusual conclusion.	44:01
	And they wrote it down in their journal when they said	44:04
	that ignorance and error are the bane of society,	44:07
	and we need to do something about the problem.	44:13
	So they decided that they would begin	44:17
	the organization of some community schools.	44:19
	There was involved in that meeting	44:22
	a farmer by the name of John Brown,	44:25
	we do not know much about him,	44:28
	except that he was making his living out of the soil,	44:30
	and John Brown decided	44:33
	that he would build a building	44:35
	which an itinerant could come and teach,	44:37
	and they would tackle the problems	44:40
	of ignorance and error.	44:41
	So they organized, and they built	44:44
	a crude, one-room log house,	44:46
	with a wooden chimney and an earthen hearth,	44:49
	and with a roof made out of common boards,	44:53
	and they called it John Brown's Schoolhouse.	44:56
	And there they started.	45:00
	In the year 1838, now almost 150 years ago,	45:03
	a tall, lanky man, 6 feet and 2 inches in height,	45:08
	came to be the principal at John Brown's Schoolhouse.	45:12
	His name was Brantley York.	45:17
	It is a name that is significant	45:20
	in the history of this university,	45:22
	and in the course of the year,	45:24
	Brantley York called the farmers together again,	45:26
	to discuss with them ignorance and error,	45:29
	and he persuaded them that what they needed	45:33
	was a finer institution, and a bigger school.	45:35
	And so they came together out of the countryside,	45:39
	primarily with their own labors and their own lumber,	45:42
	and they built a new building,	45:45
	they built a building twice as large,	45:47
	this one had two rooms.	45:49
	With a fireplace in each room.	45:53
	It was a frame building, as indeed they all were,	45:58
	primarily, in those days,	46:01
	and so they called it John Brown's Schoolhouse again.	46:03
	In the year 1841,	46:07
	a man scarcely yet before his 20th birthday,	46:10
	only a little more than 19, by the name of Braxton Craven,	46:13
	came to the community to teach	46:19
	in what was known as John Brown's Schoolhouse.	46:23
	But now because of its structure	46:26
	was two rooms and two fireplaces,	46:28
	had been given the unusual dignified name	46:31
	of Union Institute.	46:34
	And Braxton Craven, less than 20,	46:37
	came to be the principal of Union Institute.	46:39
	Running a school in those days	46:44
	was as difficult as running a school in our days, I guess,	46:46
	if you're gonna compare difficulty,	46:49
	and he found out what every college president knows,	46:51
	and this one will soon find out,	46:55
	more even than he knows now,	46:57
	that it takes lots of money to run an institution,	46:59
	and Braxton Craven didn't know really	47:03
	where to turn for the money,	47:05
	so he turned to the Methodist church,	47:07
	in the central part of North Carolina,	47:10
	for financial support.	47:12
	And in return for that financial support,	47:15
	he agreed to educate their preachers without charge.	47:18
	In 1851, the state of North Carolina	47:24
	was so impressed with what had happened to Union Institute	47:28
	that they decided to change its name,	47:33
	and the North Carolina legislator chartered a school	47:36
	that was known as Normal College.	47:40
	And that charter enabled the graduates	47:45
	of Union Institute, John Brown's Schoolhouse,	47:47
	Normal College, to be accredited teachers	47:51
	in the public schools of North Carolina.	47:54
	In the year 1856, the Randolph county institution	47:58
	became known by the community in which it lived,	48:04
	and it was called Trinity College.	48:08
	It was a liberal arts school	48:13
	operating under Methodist auspices.	48:14

	Washington Duke, who was way out in front of things,	0:09
	and was ahead of his time,	0:13
	decided that he would give an additional $100,000,	0:14
	if the school would admit women	0:20
	as equals to the other students,	0:24
	so the institution, now in an urban community of Durham,	0:28
	began to grow and develop.	0:31
	On December the 11th, 1924,	0:33
	James Buchanan Duke	0:37
	signed the Duke Indenture,	0:40
	and something great happened in education,	0:44
	then in the south,	0:48
	and now with its vibrations around the world.	0:50
	And out of the mind and heart of philanthropists	0:55
	who had been persuaded to that kind of philanthropy,	0:59
	"Because," as Mr. Duke said,	1:04
	"the goodness of the circuit riders,"	1:06
	John Carlyle Kilgall and William Preston Few,	1:09
	"began to dream	1:12
	"the impossible dream."	1:16
	Then following Dr. Few and the establishment	1:21
	of Duke University and all that it is,	1:24
	and most of it you see,	1:27
	then came Flowers and Edens and Hart and Knight	1:30
	and the Sanford years,	1:36
	so we do it again now for the 12th time.	1:40
	I am reminded of an old hymn, written by Charles Wesley,	1:44
	and published by him in 17 hundred and 49.	1:47
	There is a line in that hymn that says,	1:51
	"We are forever beginning	1:54
	"what never shall end,'	1:58
	so have we come together today,	2:01
	from Brown's school house	2:04
	to the Duke Chapel,	2:08
	forever beginning	2:11
	what never shall end.	2:14
	Enough there are people who would remind us	2:17
	that this age is different.	2:19
	It's different from the day of John Brown	2:21
	and Brown's school house.	2:23
	It's different from the day of Braxton Craven	2:25
	and John Carlyle Kilgall, even of William Preston Few.	2:27
	Surely this age is different,	2:30
	but aren't they all different?	2:34
	There was a Greek philosopher who once observed, long ago,	2:38
	that no person can step	2:43
	into the same river twice.	2:47
	The point of entry may be the same,	2:53
	and the river's boundaries may be constant,	2:56
	but the river moves on,	3:01
	and a new river has come.	3:04
	The University is like that river,	3:07
	forever moving	3:10
	and forever beginning.	3:13
	I assume that education, as most other things,	3:17
	is on trial in our life today.	3:20
	There are a good many ideas of	3:24
	what this kind of education ought to be.	3:26
	There are, primarily, three ideas of education in our day.	3:29
	The first idea is that education is ornamental.	3:33
	It is good to have a diploma.	3:37
	It looks good on the wall.	3:39
	It is a kind of an education that does not	3:44
	have the kind of motivation that began this one,	3:48
	but none the less it is there.	3:54
	There is also a kind of a feeling	3:57
	that education is not only ornamental,	3:59
	it is advantageous commercially.	4:02
	Though I would admit the reality of it, it bothers me a bit.	4:07
	To go to school in order to acquire a better salary	4:12
	is not the real motivation for discovering	4:16
	the yet undiscovered truths	4:19
	of human experience.	4:23
	There is another idea that is traced back,	4:28
	they tell me, even to Plato,	4:30
	where they said that education is to	4:34
	create the craving	4:38
	for the good,	4:41
	the true,	4:43
	the beautiful,	4:45
	and the yet undiscovered.	4:47
	To that end,	4:51
	we inaugurate the new President.	4:53
	There on, I think, primarily four obligations	4:57
	of the kind of higher education	5:00
	to which Duke has committed itself.	5:02
	The first of those obligation is to see clearly.	5:04
	We live in an unusual day,	5:09
	and I wish that I could verbalize it as deeply as I feel it,	5:11
	that the connection between religion and economic activity	5:15
	must be rediscovered in our thinking	5:20
	and in our decision making.	5:22
	We are parallel to the whipsaw of popular culture,	5:26
	involving sex and drugs	5:31
	and the rejection of ancient and traditional values	5:33
	that have helped make suicide	5:37
	into a major killing of young people.	5:39
	And we're going to find out someday	5:44
	that we may not leave	5:45
	a religiously derived morality	5:47
	out of our economic activities	5:53
	and have any hope left to survive.	5:57
	Dr. Harrell Beck, who is a distinguished professor	6:01
	at Boston School of Theology in Boston University,	6:04
	reporting on a recent High School commencement,	6:07
	quoted a sentence from the valedictorian,	6:11
	as she addressed the faculty.	6:14
	She said to them, "You gave us all the spokes,	6:16
	"but you did not give us a hub	6:22
	"in which to place those spokes."	6:24
	Then the oldest alumni at Boston,	6:31
	last year at commencement, was called on to speak.	6:33
	The old man feebly rose, 97 years of age he was,	6:36
	and in a clear voice he said,	6:41
	"I want to thank my alma mater	6:43
	"for setting me free,	6:45
	"but not for setting me adrift."	6:49
	It is the deep commitment of Duke University	6:54
	to set us free but not adrift.	6:58
	Sometimes we think that Albert Einstein was right,	7:03
	when in the closing years of his life, he said,	7:06
	"We live in an age of perfect means	7:09
	and confused ends."	7:14
	You may have heard it so beautifully said,	7:19
	on this campus in the last 48 hours,	7:21
	that, "The scholar has a right to wear the robe,	7:24
	"along with the priest and the judge,"	7:26
	for in the deep of his scholarship,	7:31
	he is seeking to find that truth	7:35
	that once, long years ago, a man said that	7:40
	if you find it, it will set you free.	7:44
	The second obligation, I think, of higher education,	7:49
	of the educated person is to think.	7:53
	Henry van Dyke was ever so right when he said,	7:55
	"To think without confusion clearly."	7:57
	Oh man with his mind, people with their minds,	8:03
	woman with her mind,	8:09
	has mastered the forces of nature	8:12
	and made them their slaves.	8:16
	We can touch the soil; it provides our food.	8:21
	We can speak to the hills,	8:26
	and it gives up their ore and their precious gold.	8:27
	We can command the clippers,	8:32
	and they will take us to the ends of the earth.	8:34
	With the touch of a dial, the world is in my office,	8:38
	but something is missing.	8:47
	Everybody knows something is lacking,	8:50
	something so simple as love	8:56
	and commitment	9:00
	and sheer human justice	9:02
	and trust and honesty.	9:07
	I do not need to remind you that education is more	9:12
	than a rearrangement of one's old prejudices.	9:16
	Another obligation of education is nobility of character.	9:23
	Mere intellect is not enough.	9:26
	A brilliant intellect may be just as cold as an icicle	9:29
	and quite as useless.	9:32
	The greatest danger we face today	9:36
	is that our minds may outrun our spirits.	9:38
	I carry in my wallet,	9:44
	and sometimes I wish I had never seen it,	9:48
	a little one inch clipping from the local newspaper.	9:52
	It haunts me, but I carry it.	9:56
	I would read it to you.	9:59
	It's only a few lines.	10:01
	"The nation's 10 largest defense contractors	10:04
	"all face criminal investigations,	10:10
	"involving fraud,"	10:15
	and I add to that list some familiar household names	10:20
	that I have grown up with and you have grown up with.	10:24
	and I have no desire to call their names.	10:27
	But when I see what's happening,	10:31
	then I understand Dennis Campbell's book,	10:34
	when he says that professional ethics in America	10:39
	is in a crisis stage.	10:44
	The fourth obligation of education, as I see it,	10:52
	is to serve sacrificially.	10:55
	John Brown's school house,	10:59
	so obsolete,	11:03
	so primitive,	11:05
	so long ago,	11:07
	and yet things sometimes have not changed much,	11:10
	for ignorance and error	11:15
	are still the bane of society.	11:20
	What's new?	11:24
	Can it be,	11:27
	can it possibly be,	11:30
	at least I,	11:34
	I bet my life that it's so,	11:36
	that a modern man	11:40
	from ancient Galilee	11:43
	was right after all.	11:46
	The only freedom,	11:50
	the only real freedom,	11:52
	is in finding the truth.	11:56
	That's why we're here.	12:00
	One of my heroes in American education	12:06
	was a man named Ernest Cadman Colwell,	12:08
	who spoke when he was the	12:12
	leader at the University of Chicago,	12:14
	a paragraph that I've heard again and again,	12:17
	but I leave it now with you.	12:20
	Said Dr. Colwell,	12:22
	"If I had to choose between the university and the church,	12:23
	"I will let go of the university	12:30
	"and I will keep the church,	12:33
	"for the church would have the intelligence	12:39
	"to build the university again,	12:41
	"for they did once,	12:45
	"but the university would have	12:49
	"neither the intelligence nor the spirit	12:50
	"to build the church."	12:55
	It is appropriate that this weekend	12:59
	should be culminated in the Chapel.	13:03
	Probably the most widely	13:10
	non-Methodist preacher in this century,	13:11
	and a man who has spoken many times in this pulpit,	13:15
	was a man named Ralph Sockman.	13:18
	He preached in my church for me, in Winston Salem,	13:21
	the last time I ever heard him speak.	13:24
	Our friendship was intimate,	13:30
	and our hours together were many.	13:32
	I don't remember all that he said.	13:36
	I only remember the last sentence.	13:38
	He ended up his sermon that day	13:44
	by saying that, "The hinge	13:46
	"of history	13:50
	"is still fastened	13:53
	"to a stable door in Bethlehem."	13:57
	It has not changed.	14:04
	I salute the new President.	14:08
	I salute the history of the University.	14:12
	A few days ago,	14:17
	emotionally preparing myself for this moment,	14:20
	my Martha and I rode out to the country	14:26
	to a little place called Trinity.	14:30
	I had been there three times before to bury my friends,	14:35
	and I stood for the little while, meditatively,	14:41
	before the grave of Braxton Craven,	14:46
	and all I wanted really to say to his memory	14:54
	was that	14:59
	the river still runs,	15:01
	and we are forever beginning.	15:06
	God bless you, Dr. Brodie.	15:12
	Amen.	15:15
	The Lord be with you.	15:27
Congregation	And also with you.	15:29
	Let us pray.	15:31
	Kind and gracious God,	15:36
	the hope of all who seek and the joy of all who find,	15:41
	we thank You because we know You	15:47
	to be the source	15:49
	of the things we value most.	15:52
	We lay our wants before you, because	15:56
	there are so many things our world needs,	16:00
	which we are powerless to attain through our efforts alone.	16:05
	We thank you for all that is new	16:13
	and changing and beginning in our life here,	16:16
	for new semesters of study,	16:22
	for the changing of the seasons,	16:25
	for startling scientific breakthroughs,	16:29
	for fresh student minds	16:34
	whose questions challenge old faculty answers,	16:37
	for bold new ideas in response to ancient problems,	16:42
	and especially on this day of joy,	16:48
	for new leaders of beloved old institutions.	16:52
	You know our needs as a university, Oh God,	16:59
	our need for minds willing to be stretched	17:04
	to the outer limits of study,	17:07
	our need for scholars with enough vision	17:10
	to protect them from entrapment	17:12
	of intellectually trivial pursuit,	17:15
	our need for students who want an education	17:20
	worthy to make a life,	17:25
	rather than simple training to make a living,	17:28
	our need, in the midst of our research and achievement,	17:33
	publications, and advancement,	17:37
	our need for the honesty to admit	17:41
	all the things we do not know.	17:44
	Therefore, Oh God, thou has given us	17:49
	the gift of a new and energetic President,	17:52
	for the wisdom of our trustees in making so wise a choice,	17:57
	for the generosity of his family in sharing him with us,	18:02
	for his own courage to take up the challenge of leadership,	18:09
	we give You thanks for Keith Brodie.	18:13
	Give him the wisdom,	18:17
	(clears throat)
	the patience,	18:19
	the perseverance he will need to lead us,	18:21
	particularly on those occasions when we display	18:25
	so little of these virtues ourselves.	18:29
	Oh God,	18:34
	(clears throat)
	on such days when we celebrate	18:37
	how good it is to be part of this community of scholars,	18:38
	we realize how great a trust is committed to our care.	18:43
	In a world of hunger, apartheid, separation,	18:50
	war, injustice, despotism, fanaticism, ignorance,	18:53
	and voiceless millions for whom life is little more than	18:58
	suffering without cause for song,	19:02
	to have given us the gifts of science	19:08
	and beautiful music	19:12
	and Bach	19:15
	and youth	19:17
	and ideas and faith,	19:18
	how much you must expect of us.	19:23
	Give us what we need	19:28
	to be worthy of your expectation.	19:31
	Amen.	19:35
	As a grateful people, let us offer ourselves	19:38
	and our gifts to the God who has offered so much to us.	19:41
	(shuffling and clunking)	19:46
	(orchestra and trumpet music)	19:50
	(man singing in foreign language)	20:22
	(orchestra and trumpet music)	20:48
	(singing in foreign language)	20:53
	(organ music)	21:00
	(singing in foreign language)
	(strings music)	21:05
	(singing in foreign language)
	(organ music)	21:12
	(singing in foreign language)
	(orchestra and trumpets music)	21:17
	(singing in foreign language)	21:19
	(organ music)	21:26
	(singing in foreign language)
	(strings music)	21:42
	(strings and trumpets music)	21:51
	(singing in foreign language)
	(orchestra and trumpet music)	22:05
	(singing in foreign language)	22:12
	(trumpet music)	22:23
	(orchestra and trumpet music)	22:26
	(slowing orchestral music)	22:52
	(quiet shuffling)	23:03
	("Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring" by Johann S. Bach)	23:07
	(lively orchestral music)	23:09
	(choir singing in foreign language)	23:27
	(orchestral music)	23:36
	(choir singing in foreign language)	23:40
	(lilting refrain music)	23:49
	(choir singing in foreign language)	24:05
	(orchestral music)	24:14
	(choir singing in foreign language)	24:18
	(lilting refrain music)	24:27
	(choir singing in foreign language)	24:46
	(orchestral music)	24:56
	(choir singing in foreign language)	25:02
	(orchestral music)	25:12
	(choir singing in foreign language)	25:18
	(orchestral music)	25:27
	(choir singing in foreign language)	25:30
	(orchestral music)	25:40
	(lilting refrain music)	25:48
	(slowing orchestral music)	26:04
	(organ music)	26:17
	("All Creatures of Our God and King" by William H. Draper)	26:20
	(organ music)	26:24
	♪ Praise God, from whom all blessings flow ♪	26:35
	♪ Praise Him, all creatures here below ♪	26:42
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	26:49
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	26:52
	♪ Praise Him above, ye heav'nly host ♪	26:56
	♪ Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost ♪	27:02
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	27:09
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	27:12
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	27:15
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	27:19
	♪ Ha-le-lu-jah ♪	27:22
	♪ Ah ♪	27:30
	♪ men ♪	27:34
	Oh everliving God, whose mercy	27:42
	is ever faithful and ever sure,	27:44
	we offer thee thanks and praise	27:48
	for the many blessings of this life.	27:50
	We thank thee for our time and place in history,	27:53
	for the richness of tradition	27:57
	and the legacies we have inherited,	28:00
	for the generosity of those who founded this university,	28:03
	for the lives of all those who have lived	28:07
	and learned in this community.	28:10
	And we thank thee for the possibilities of our future,	28:13
	for the new frontiers of knowledge	28:16
	which remain to be explored,	28:19
	for relationships and commitments	28:21
	which give joy and meaning to life,	28:24
	for the vision of a better world	28:27
	which inspires us to choose	28:29
	self-sacrifice over self-interest.	28:31
	Most of all, we thank thee	28:35
	for the gift of thine only Son, Jesus Christ,	28:37
	our treasure and our strength,	28:41
	who taught us to pray with confidence.	28:44
Congregation	"Our Father who art in heaven,	28:47
	"hallowed be thy name.	28:50
	"Thy kingdom come.	28:52
	"Thy will be done	28:54
	"on earth as it is in heaven.	28:55
	"Give us this day our daily bread,	28:58
	"and forgive us our trespasses,	29:01
	"as we forgive those who trespass against us.	29:03
	"And lead us not into temptation,	29:07
	"but deliver us from evil,	29:10
	"for thine is the kingdom, the power,	29:12
	"and the glory forever."	29:15
	Amen.	29:17
	(organ and trumpet fanfare music)	29:20
	("Rejoice the Lord is King" by Charles Wesley)	29:43
	(melodic organ music)	29:46
	♪ Rejoice, the Lord is King ♪	30:24
	♪ Your Lord and King adore ♪	30:29
	♪ Rejoice, give thanks and sing and triumph ♪	30:35
	♪ E-ver-more ♪	30:41
	♪ Lift up your heart ♪	30:46
	♪ Lift up your voice, rejoice ♪	30:52
	♪ Again, I say rejoice ♪	30:56
	♪ Jesus, the Savior, reigns, ♪	31:06
	♪ The God of truth and love ♪	31:11
	♪ When He has purged our stains He took ♪	31:17
	♪ His seat a-bove ♪	31:22
	♪ Lift up your heart ♪	31:28
	♪ Lift up your voice, rejoice ♪	31:34
	♪ Again, I say rejoice ♪	31:38
	♪ His kingdom cannot fail ♪	31:48
	♪ He rules o'er earth and heav'n ♪	31:53
	(single trumpet music)	31:58
	(accompanying organ music)
	♪ The keys of death and hell are to ♪	31:59
	♪ Our Je-sus giv'n ♪	32:05
	♪ Lift up your heart ♪	32:12
	♪ Lift up your voice, rejoice ♪	32:18
	♪ Again, I say rejoice ♪	32:22
	♪ Rejoice in glorious hope ♪	32:33
	(heavy chords organ music)
	♪ Our Lord and judge shall come ♪	32:39
	♪ And take His servants up to their ♪	32:45
	♪ E-ter-nal home ♪	32:51
	♪ Lift up your heart ♪	32:57
	♪ Lift up your voice, rejoice ♪	33:02
	♪ Again, I say rejoice ♪	33:07
	(heavy organ fanfare music)	33:16
	(heavy organ chords music)	33:32
	The grace of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ,	33:41
	the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit	33:45
	be with you now and always.	33:48
	♪ Ah ♪	33:54
	♪ men ♪	33:57
	♪ Ah ♪	34:00
	♪ men ♪	34:03
	♪ Ah ah ah ah ♪	34:08
	♪ men ♪	34:13
	♪ Ah ah ah ah ♪	34:14
	♪ men ♪	34:20
	♪ Ah ah ah ah ♪	34:23
	♪ men ♪	34:29
	♪ Ah ah ah ♪	34:33
	♪ men ♪	34:43
	♪ Ah ♪	34:48
	♪ Ah ♪	34:53
	♪ men ♪	34:58
	(poignant organ music)	35:13
	(arpeggio organ music)	35:29
	(heavy chords organ music)	35:47
	(minor melodic organ music)	35:50
	(heavy chords organ music)	36:09
	(minor melodic organ music)	36:15
	(heavy chords organ music)	36:29
	(minor melodic organ music)	36:34
	(heavy chords organ music)	36:45
	(minor melodic organ music)	36:53
	(major resolve music)	37:06
	(people shuffling)	37:14
	(quick pace minor organ music)	37:16
	(quick pace minor organ music)	37:38
	(quick pace minor organ music)	38:04
	(quick pace organ music)	38:22
	(quick pace organ music)	38:49
	(heavy busy organ music)	39:16
	(slow heavy chords music)	39:29
	(quick pace organ music)	39:38
	(slow heavy chords music)	39:49
	(slowing heavy organ music)	39:56
	(descending arpeggio organ music)	40:02
	(heavy brightening chords music)	40:12
	(ascending glissando music)	40:19
	(descending glissando music)	40:22
	(flourishing organ music)	40:24
	(heavy chords and arpeggios music)	40:26
	(heavy brightening chords music)	40:30
	(people shuffling and chatting)	40:43

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Title:

W. Kenneth Goodson - "Forever Beginning" (September 29, 1985)

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Sermon start time: (Part 1): 41:09. Sermon end time: (Part 2) 15:18.
This sermon tells the history of the formation of Duke University in order to commemorate the inauguration of Dr. Brodie as the new president of Duke. It offers four primary obligations of higher education: 1.) To see clearly; 2.) To think; 3.) To form nobility of character; 4.) To serve sacrificially (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)
Key quotation: “The only freedom, the only real freedom, is in finding the truth.”

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September 29, 1985

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Goodson, W. Kenneth

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