W. Arthur Kale - "Man's Continuing Glory, Shame, and Hope" (January 12, 1969)

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	(liturgical organ music)	0:04
	(choir singing in foreign language)	2:12
	(liturgical choral music)	3:15
-	Because of our need of repentance for our sins,	6:20
	our confession of them, and our being pardoned,	6:22
	may we unite our hearts and our voices	6:27
	in our prayer of confession, let us pray.	6:30
	Have mercy upon us, oh God,	6:34
	according to thy loving kindness,	6:36
	according to the multitude of thy tender mercies,	6:39
	blot out our transgressions, wash us thoroughly	6:42
	from our iniquity and cleanse us from our sin,	6:46
	for we acknowledge our transgressions,	6:50
	and our sin is ever before us.	6:53
	Create in us clean hearts, O God,	6:56
	and renew a right spirit within us,	6:59
	cast us not away from thy presence	7:02
	and take not thy Holy Spirit from us.	7:05
	Restore unto us the joy of thy salvation	7:08
	and uphold us with thy free spirit.	7:12
	Amen.	7:15
	It is comforting to know that in the New Testament,	7:19
	we are told that God has no pleasure	7:23
	in the death of the wicked,	7:25
	but rather that we should turn and repent	7:29
	so that he can heal us and restore us into his fellowship.	7:34
	And to know that we are sinners in the hands	7:40
	of this kind of a God is a comforting thing,	7:42
	when we are made aware of our shortcomings	7:47
	and desire to flee from them.	7:52
	Amen.	7:56
	(liturgical choral music)	8:05
-	The scripture reading for today is Psalm eight,	11:15
	and Matthew two, one through 12.	11:18
	Oh Lord, our God, how majestic is thine name	11:22
	and all the earth.	11:26
	Thou whose glory above the heavens is chanted	11:27
	by the mouths of babes and infants.	11:29
	Thou has founded a bulwark because of thy foes	11:32
	to still the enemy and the avenger.	11:35
	When I look at the heavens, the works of thy fingers,	11:38
	the moon and the stars, which thou hast established,	11:41
	what is man that thou art mindful of him,	11:44
	and the son of man that thou does care for him?	11:47
	Yet thou has made him less than God,	11:51
	and does crown him with glory and honor.	11:54
	Thou has given him dominion over the works of thy hands.	11:57
	Thou has put all things under his feet.	12:00
	All sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field,	12:03
	and the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea,	12:07
	whatever passes along the paths of the sea.	12:11
	Oh Lord, our God.	12:14
	How majestic is thine name in all the earth.	12:16
	Now, when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea,	12:23
	in the days of Herod the king, behold,	12:26
	wise men from the east came to Jerusalem saying,	12:31
	where is he who has been born king of the Jews?	12:34
	For we have seen his star in the east	12:37
	and have come to worship him.	12:39
	When Herod the king heard this, he was troubled,	12:41
	and all Jerusalem with him.	12:44
	And assembling all the chief priests	12:46
	and the scribes of the people,	12:48
	he inquired of them where Christ was to be born.	12:50
	And they told him in Bethlehem of Judea,	12:53
	for so it is written by the prophet.	12:56
	And you, O Bethlehem, in the land of Judah	12:59
	are by no means least among the rulers of Judah.	13:02
	And from you shall come a ruler	13:05
	who will govern my people Israel.	13:07
	When Herod summoned the wise men secretly	13:09
	and ascertained from them what time the star appeared,	13:12
	and he sent them to Bethlehem saying,	13:15
	go and search diligently for the child.	13:18
	And when you have found him,	13:21
	bring me word that I too may come and worship him.	13:22
	When they had heard the king, they went on their way.	13:27
	And lo the star, which they had seen in the east	13:29
	went before them, till it came to rest	13:32
	over the place where the child was.	13:35
	When they saw the star, they rejoiced	13:37
	exceedingly with great joy.	13:39
	And going into the house, they saw the child	13:41
	with Mary, his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him.	13:44
	Then opening their treasures, they offered him gifts,	13:48
	gold and frankincense and myrrh,	13:51
	and being warned in a dream not to return to Herod,	13:53
	they departed to their own country by another way.	13:56
	(liturgical choral music)	14:03
-	The Lord be with you.	14:57
	(congregation murmurs)
	Let us pray.	15:00
	Almighty God, who has made us,	15:09
	and from whom all blessings flow, we bring to thee	15:12
	our thankful hearts for thy many blessings to us.	15:17
	Thanks be to thee for the messengers who have brought	15:22
	to us the good news of thine incarnation in Jesus Christ.	15:24
	For every good parent, we give thee thanks.	15:31
	For every good teacher, every dedicated coach,	15:35
	we bless thy name.	15:40
	For every friend who brings out the best	15:43
	that is in us, we praise thee.	15:45
	For the multiplied services and sacrifices	15:49
	of maids and janitors, bus drivers, unlikely people,	15:54
	unnumbered hosts whose toil and planning	16:03
	have helped us to be what we are today,	16:06
	we now thoughtfully and unhurriedly	16:10
	offer our thanks to thee.	16:15
	And we pray that we shall remember	16:19
	to give our thanks to them.	16:22
	Even as we are mindful, O God, of past mercies,	16:28
	we are conscious of more blessings we need.	16:32
	And for which we now pray.	16:35
	We need an up-to-date sense of thy will	16:39
	and of thy plan for our personal lives.	16:43
	We pray that thy will reveal onto us ways	16:47
	by which we can work for peace through the tangled jungles	16:50
	of national selfishness and stubborn pride.	16:54
	Reveal to us what we need to do, what we can do	17:00
	to make a creative peace in the earth.	17:03
	We pray for the blessing of good relations	17:09
	with our roommates, our sweethearts, our parents,	17:10
	and especially the people whom we do not like.	17:16
	May we have grace and insight into what will help	17:21
	bad feelings become good feelings.	17:24
	May the sick find the kind of help	17:29
	they need to be made whole.	17:30
	May divine love be joined with human love	17:34
	in every situation where there is physical	17:37
	or mental illness, so that we may receive	17:40
	the health which flows from love.	17:44
	And grant us faith and hope to add to that love.	17:48
	O God, we need a sense of balance which will	17:55
	keep us from spoiling the opportunities at hand	17:58
	during the final examination period,	18:02
	during critical interpersonal relationships,	18:07
	and in athletic contests.	18:11
	Help us when we are victorious not to lose the triumph	18:15
	through pride or base indulgence.	18:17
	When we're defeated, help us to learn the lessons of defeat	18:22
	and not to become discouraged.	18:25
	When we find ourselves behind in our assignments,	18:30
	help us not to despair, but to learn	18:36
	the lessons that come from judgment.	18:39
	When we are tired and weak, give us patience	18:44
	to wait for the renewal of strength,	18:47
	which will surely come by thy grace.	18:50
	When we are misunderstood, keep us from bitterness,	18:54
	and teach us to remember that we have	18:59
	been misunderstanding of others.	19:01
	And in every situation,	19:06
	teach us how to live one day at a time.	19:07
	Strengthen our faith, that what is for us	19:12
	is greater than what is against us.	19:16
	Keep us secure in him who is our mighty	19:20
	fortress and our everlasting strength.	19:22
	And now, our heavenly father,	19:27
	we thy children place ourselves in thy hands,	19:29
	asking that we may be fully consecrated to thee,	19:34
	that our minds may honestly grapple with the thy truth,	19:38
	that our hearts may unfaintedly love thee,	19:42
	that our stubborn wills may be disciplined to the right,	19:46
	that our money may be used only for that which will bring	19:51
	glory to Jesus Christ, our Lord,	19:57
	and that in every way,	20:01
	we may honor him and receive his blessings.	20:03
	We make this prayer in his name,	20:09
	as we remember the words he has taught us to use in prayer.	20:11
	Our father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name,	20:16
	thy kingdom come, thy will be done,	20:21
	on earth as it is in heaven.	20:24
	Give us this day, our daily bread,	20:27
	and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those	20:29
	who trespass against us and lead us not into temptation,	20:33
	but deliver us from evil, for thine is the kingdom	20:38
	and the power and the glory forever, amen.	20:42
-	In the name of the Father,	21:06
	and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.	21:08
	The completion of the recent journey to the moon	21:15
	has put an old question into a new perspective.	21:20
	The old question was expressed by a biblical poet,	21:28
	and has been preserved for us in the eighth psalm.	21:34
	And I read the question in the context of that psalm.	21:39
	When I behold the heavens,	21:44
	the moon and the stars,	21:47
	what is man?	21:52
	The end of the year 19 hundred 68,	21:57
	a year which Life magazine calls the incredible year,	22:00
	was a good time for somebody to do something	22:07
	that had never been done before.	22:12
	Something spectacular, something risky,	22:15
	something successful.	22:20
	Other events of that same year had left in the minds of men	22:24
	an abundance of anxiety, intermingled with resentment,	22:30
	lingering resentment, and increasing anger.	22:38
	And while our mood has not basically changed today,	22:46
	at least we can say that because of the success	22:53
	of Apollo Eight and the courageous men	22:58
	who traveled in the spacecraft, our craving for encouraging	23:02
	news has at least been partially satisfied.	23:10
	Perhaps we can add that our depression has been temporarily	23:16
	relieved or at least set slightly aside.	23:22
	Three astronauts,	23:31
	with of course the support of about a quarter of a million	23:36
	other persons who had participated in the planning,	23:39
	and who performed a multitude of functions	23:44
	at the earthly level, all together met the requirements	23:47
	and provided something spectacular, something risky,	23:54
	and as it turned out, something technically successful.	24:00
	We are now in the period of protracted celebration,	24:07
	we have read the various news reports.	24:14
	One of my favorites was prepared by Jim Hammond,	24:18
	a writer from the control center in Houston,	24:22
	who under the dateline of December 30 wrote	24:26
	a quarter of a million Americans	24:31
	worked five years to build it.	24:34
	Instruments so delicate that some	24:38
	were assembled under microscopes guided it.	24:40
	And then in the season revered by most Christian men	24:45
	as the season above all seasons, Apollo Eight carried	24:50
	three finite men into the infinite universe,	24:57
	and whirled them in triumph and reverence around the moon.	25:02
	You can detect, can you not, something of the emotional lift	25:11
	that had come to him, a kind of lift	25:17
	that all of us felt we needed,	25:22
	and all of us agree, came to us at that time.	25:25
	In this period of protracted celebration	25:31
	of the success of this flight,	25:35
	as we honor the three men, Frank Borman,	25:38
	James Lovell, Junior, and William Anders,	25:41
	we can feel that we are somewhat in the mood to ask again	25:47
	the question the psalmist asked, what is man.	25:53
	For a short period, we spontaneously rejoice in man's glory	26:00
	while we are still aware of his finitude	26:06
	and still conscious of that he is mortal.	26:10
	At least we can say today something	26:16
	the psalmist could not say.	26:19
	We can now say with confidence and truth	26:21
	man is no longer earthbound.	26:25
	And this puts the old question	26:32
	what is man into a new perspective.	26:37
	To be sure the psalmist was conscious of cosmic immensities.	26:45
	Undoubtedly he had been stirred	26:52
	by the loveliness and mystery of the night sky.	26:54
	Truly, he must have been been moved	27:01
	by the beauty of starlight and moonlight.	27:05
	He asked the question as an earthbound thinker,	27:11
	observing from the surface of the earth	27:20
	the moon, as well as the stars.	27:24
	Today,	27:29
	we ask the question not solely as residents	27:31
	of the planet earth who can observe the moon,	27:36
	but at least we now may look through the eyes	27:38
	of three humans who could see the earth	27:41
	from near the surface of the moon.	27:46
	The psalmist answered his question as a thinker	27:52
	who was deeply aware that the planet earth	27:56
	bound him or restricted him to its surface	28:01
	as the place of his residence and labor.	28:06
	And in that context, his chief feeling was man	28:10
	is an insignificant creature in comparison	28:19
	to the immensities of creation.	28:24
	Yet he does possess an abundance of glory and honor.	28:27
	Addressing himself to the creator,	28:35
	the poet cried when I behold the heavens,	28:39
	the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars	28:44
	which thou hast established, I have to cry out,	28:48
	what is man that thou dost remember him.	28:54
	I, mortal man, that thou doth pay attention to him.	28:58
	This biblical poet speaks	29:08
	for every generation of mortal men.	29:09
	Through their risk taking ventures into the unknown,	29:15
	and through costly searching after life's meaning,	29:22
	men do find a measure of honor.	29:28
	In biblical lore, we find many examples.	29:34
	Abraham found meaning and honor by leaving Ur of Caldea	29:38
	and traveling by faith, not knowing	29:46
	where he went or where he was to go.	29:49
	Wise men from the east found meaning and honor	29:54
	by following a star that led them to the City of David,	29:59
	and to a child destined to be called king of kings.	30:04
	Outside the Bible, the list of travelers who have found	30:10
	meaning and honor through spectacular	30:13
	and risky journeys is lengthy.	30:16
	Of course it includes Columbus and Erickson and Magellan.	30:20
	It likely also should include Lewis and Clark,	30:26
	Perry, and Byrd, and Wilbur and Orville Wright,	30:30
	and Charles A. Lindbergh, and the list could be extended.	30:37
	In every era, some crown of glory is given to man,	30:42
	the perennial explorer of jungle	30:48
	and forest, of desert and sea.	30:54
	And now of space.	30:59
	Likewise, in every era, some crown of glory is granted	31:04
	to those humans who pursue with equal dedication	31:08
	the meaning of life, who search in laboratory and library,	31:15
	and in communication one with another,	31:20
	regarding the meaning of life or the nature of truth.	31:23
	Let it be noted today that this latest crown of glory	31:30
	that we're placing upon the brow of man	31:37
	must be designated for homo technicus.	31:42
	For it is the fruit of the technical skill and dedication,	31:52
	and labor, sustained labor that the success	31:59
	of Apollo Eight was guaranteed.	32:04
	Again, quoting Jim Hammond of Houston,	32:07
	the flight of Apollo Eight was the greatest	32:12
	single triumphant technology in history.	32:17
	But may I continue by suggesting that in this season	32:24
	of protracted celebration, something additional must be said	32:31
	in answer to the ancient question, and that the success	32:39
	of the Apollo Eight flight provides	32:44
	a new perspective for this additional comment.	32:49
	While man's glory continues,	32:55
	there is yet another fact to be acknowledged.	33:00
	Namely, the fact of man's perennial inglorious living.	33:06
	something of man's glory is tarnished when one takes account	33:16
	of the many types of shameful living	33:22
	present in all generations to some degree and in many forms,	33:27
	but acutely present in the generation	33:32
	to which you and I belong.	33:37
	So today I add to all that I have spoken up to this moment,	33:40
	the comment that the glory and brilliance	33:45
	of the achievements of homo technicus	33:50
	makes more starkly real the shame that is man.	33:53
	In the middle of the 17th century,	34:05
	the famous French mathematician, physicist	34:08
	and philosopher Pascal, young and destined to die early,	34:13
	had his experience beneath the starry heavens.	34:22
	At this point in the message today, I think it appropriate	34:29
	for me to quote one of his famous thoughts.	34:33
	It is dangerous, said Pascal, to show man too frequently	34:37
	in his greatness without his baseness.	34:45
	It is yet more dangerous to leave him ignorant of both.	34:53
	It is very desirable to show him the two together.	35:01
	When Rheinhold Niebuhr delivered his Gifford lectures	35:09
	at the University of Edinburgh 20 years ago this year,	35:13
	he began by saying man has always been	35:17
	his own most vexing problem.	35:21
	How shall he think of himself?	35:26
	Every affirmation which he may make	35:29
	about his stature, virtue or place in the cosmos	35:31
	becomes involved in contradiction.	35:36
	Are we not somewhat disturbingly aware	35:41
	of the contradictions in man as we celebrate today?	35:46
	Perhaps the wisdom of Pascal is appropriate	35:54
	for America this morning.	35:58
	While applauding men's achievements in space,	36:01
	we cannot escape or ignore his baseness	36:05
	in many aspects of his earthly living.	36:13
	I want to mention two examples of man's continuing shame.	36:20
	The first is his abuse,	36:30
	his regular abuse of his own planet.	36:34
	Is it not a bit ironical that simultaneously	36:42
	with the event of traveling beyond the planet,	36:45
	man is found to be only partially successful,	36:50
	indeed disappointingly involved in the solution	36:57
	of such earthly problems as air pollution,	37:02
	soil erosion, and the exploitation of the seas.	37:07
	Now without air and soil and water we'd have no earth.	37:15
	The returning astronauts reported, as we had anticipated,	37:21
	that the moon has no water, no air,	37:25
	and its surface is not likely to be what we call soil.	37:30
	Is it not somewhat ironical that we can travel into space	37:37
	and rejoice in the triumph of these days,	37:42
	while at the same time admitting something	37:46
	less than the success with the earthly	37:49
	problems to which I have just referred.	37:53
	Let me speak somewhat more specifically	37:56
	regarding the exploitation of the sea.	37:58
	For centuries, the oceans have provided	38:03
	the most substantial boundaries behind	38:05
	which nations could develop insecurity.	38:08
	They have made it possible for several nations	38:13
	to rise to the position of world power.	38:15
	The freedom of the seas has been regarded	38:20
	as a basic principle in international relations.	38:24
	And the sea was looked upon with a sense of awe	38:31
	and great respect, and a feeling	38:35
	that in the depths there was mystery.	38:37
	Today, because of new technology, the oceans are looked upon	38:43
	in somewhat of another fashion.	38:48
	They are in truth great store houses of wealth,	38:52
	untold uncalculated quantities of minerals	38:58
	and food stuff are there.	39:04
	Now, what will man do with the billions of dollars	39:08
	of riches and life sustaining nutrients that are there?	39:12
	The answer is by no means certain.	39:20
	We have more confidence in placing	39:23
	men actually on the moon next summer	39:27
	than we have in solving the problems	39:30
	of what to do about the seas.	39:32
	Some national leaders are already proposing	39:36
	the exploitation of the new submarine continent	39:40
	solely for the benefit of the wealthy	39:46
	and the technically developed countries.	39:49
	Can man display, will man display the wisdom necessary	39:53
	to plan an orderly and controlled	40:00
	and co-operative development of this new	40:03
	and marvelous source of wealth and sustaining life?	40:08
	It is to man's shame that at this late date,	40:15
	no adequate laws affecting the use of the ocean's floor	40:19
	and its subsoil, and in some areas,	40:23
	no laws at all have been developed.	40:26
	My second example of man's shame	40:32
	is his abuse of himself and his fellows.	40:38
	I want to speak specifically	40:47
	of man's abuse of human values,	40:52
	specifically in several forms of violence,	41:00
	which America tolerates and even officially endorses.	41:05
	When I say violence is endorsed, I mean, of course	41:14
	that the violence of war has our approval.	41:19
	The wealthiest of all generations is involving half	41:26
	of its financial strength in the fighting of wars	41:30
	or in the preparation to fight other wars.	41:34
	Officially and legally and in actual practice,	41:38
	we endorse this form of violence,	41:42
	and we bring it, through the medium of television,	41:45
	into our living rooms daily.	41:48
	Man, proud and triumphant that he can	41:52
	actually conquer space, full of shame that he cannot	41:56
	control his passion and rule	42:03
	the impulsive natures of community life,	42:06
	or of national and international relationships.	42:10
	We also endorse violence through the inadequate laws	42:15
	controlling the possession and use of firearms.	42:18
	Mr. Alec Hoffman at the Center for the Study	42:24
	of Democratic Institutions reports that since 1900,	42:27
	Americans have killed more fellow Americans with guns	42:32
	here at home than have been killed in all the wars	42:36
	fought in the same period of time.	42:38
	More disturbing than this is the fact,	42:43
	or the realization that man seems almost impotent	42:48
	in his effort to avert war and terminate war.	42:54
	And this is illustrated by the behavior	43:03
	of the negotiators at the Paris Conference today,	43:05
	where their efforts might be termed farcical,	43:12
	were they not altogether pathetic and chiefly tragic.	43:18
	Man in paradox.	43:26
	His behavior contradictory.	43:30
	His efforts to save himself often brings on ruin.	43:33
	His attempts to avert war pit him into war.	43:39
	His efforts to guarantee	43:44
	material security disrupt the economy,	43:44
	the movements to free men from social slavery,	43:49
	plunge men into other struggles which increase their burden.	43:52
	And with all, man's sense of the significance	44:00
	of living seems to be fading.	44:05
	I pick up the following topics of discussion from seminars	44:11
	and groups on college and university campuses,	44:17
	and from newspaper editorials symbolizing, do they not,	44:21
	the fact that man's sense	44:28
	of significance seems to be suffering.	44:30
	The facelessness of students	44:38
	in the modern factory university,	44:42
	the vast anonymous masses	44:47
	with their thoroughly dull responses.	44:49
	From a British writer whose volume was reporting conditions	44:56
	among the factory workers of his own country this sentence.	45:01
	We are encouraging a sense not of the dignity	45:05
	of each person, but of a new aristocracy,	45:09
	the monstrous regiment of the most flat faced.	45:14
	Thousands of us live and come to the end of life	45:23
	without finding the answer to the question what is man.	45:26
	Of us, it it can be said, as it was said of Willy Loman	45:31
	in "The Death of a Salesman," he never knew who he was.	45:35
	But I have saved just a few moments	45:46
	to attempt to say that there	45:49
	is another thought that must be spoken.	45:51
	Man has his moments of glory and honor.	45:55
	Man confesses that he is full of shame,	46:00
	as he recognizes the baseness of much of his conduct.	46:03
	But there is another thought that can be spoken.	46:10
	It was stated, I thought rather helpfully,	46:15
	by an editorial in the Duke Chronicle	46:19
	last Thursday, January nine,	46:21
	coming near the end of an editorial under the caption	46:26
	an open letter to Richard Nixon.	46:28
	I do not report the full editorial,	46:32
	you have read it perhaps, but near the end,	46:35
	the writer said one of the most enduring	46:39
	and endearing human qualities is hope.	46:43
	Hope expressed and held to in the most	46:50
	seemingly hopeless situation.	46:57
	I'm not sure this particular writer intended to propose	47:03
	that the coming of Mr. Nixon	47:07
	into the president's office makes us,	47:09
	brings us all into a hopeless situation necessarily,	47:12
	but he was on, I think, a very important and proper	47:18
	or appropriate theme, as he reminds us that whatever occurs,	47:23
	there is a part of man's nature that tenaciously clings	47:30
	and hopefully clings the possibility of advancement	47:36
	out of shame in the direction of a proper glory.	47:43
	I think the editor must have had in mind	47:49
	something beyond what we call optimism.	47:51
	He was quite guarded in his language,	47:55
	perhaps he feels as I do, and as others do,	47:58
	and perhaps our governmental leaders do,	48:02
	that we have not really been hopeful enough.	48:06
	We do not hope enough.	48:12
	And because leaders do not hope enough,	48:14
	they surrender the quality of life	48:19
	to a variety of irrationalities,	48:23
	such as, I have illustrated already, the assignment	48:27
	of almost half our wealth to armaments and preparations	48:31
	for war while claiming to seek peace.	48:38
	The power of hope is an untapped power.	48:44
	And I would this morning direct your attention	48:50
	to some possibilities here worthy of reflection	48:54
	in other hours after this day of worship.	48:58
	The power of hope I think has been seen	49:02
	in the civil rights movement and is present	49:05
	in the theme song that we have been singing and still sing.	49:08
	And I think appropriately we'll continue to sing.	49:13
	We shall overcome someday.	49:16
	This kind of hope I think is basically human.	49:21
	It is not shallow optimism.	49:26
	It is filled with some feelings or some sense	49:29
	of desperation, some feelings of apprehension.	49:32
	And yet it is characteristic of man.	49:37
	If we can hope to place humans	49:44
	on the surface of the moon next summer,	49:46
	and we can, can we not also hope to make	49:51
	faster progress in the solution of the generation gap,	49:58
	and of the race issue, and of the problem of war,	50:04
	and specifically the problem of the Vietnam War.	50:08
	If we hope to travel to more distant heavenly bodies,	50:13
	to the planets in our own galaxy and even beyond,	50:18
	and I think we can and do hope that,	50:24
	can we also not hope to achieve a greater objective,	50:28
	namely full recognition of man's humanity?	50:34
	Let us pray.	50:44
	For men who can look at stars,	50:50
	and for men who can travel in the direction of stars,	50:54
	and for men who can ponder the meaning of life	51:03
	in the context of space travel,	51:09
	we offer our thanks to thee, O thou creator of all,	51:13
	thou, sustainer of all, thou, leader and Lord of all.	51:18
	Amen.	51:28
	(liturgical music)	51:34
-	Almighty God, as we dedicate this money	1:00:49
	and ourselves to thy glory,	1:00:51
	we also dedicate it and ourselves to man's glory,	1:00:55
	his true glory, and not to his shame.	1:01:00
	May we follow Christ and his plan for our lives.	1:01:04
	We ask in his name.	1:01:08
	Amen.	1:01:11
	Now may the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.	1:01:15
	(liturgical music)	1:01:21

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W. Arthur Kale - "Man's Continuing Glory, Shame, and Hope" (January 12, 1969)

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January 12, 1969

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Kale, W. Arthur

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