James T. Cleland - "The Parable of the Car Wheels" (February 7, 1971)

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	(organ music playing)	0:03
	(choir singing hymn song)	0:47
-	Beloved, let us join together,	3:28
	our hearts and our voices	3:30
	in our prayer of confession.	3:32
	Let us pray.	3:35
	Everlasting God, father of our Lord Jesus Christ,	3:37
	we acknowledge and confess thy judgments to be righteous.	3:42
	We have scorned thy word and taken lightly thy mercies.	3:46
	We have broken thy laws	3:51
	for deceitfully have we wrought everyone with his neighbors,	3:53
	oppression and violence we have not hated.	3:58
	Charity has little appeared among us.	4:02
	We have seldom regarded the voices of thy profits,	4:05
	even thy threatenings we have believed to be vanity.	4:09
	So that in us of ourselves there remains	4:13
	nothing worthy of thy mercy,	4:17
	but oh Lord behold thy mercy and goodness	4:19
	that thou may as purge and remove	4:23
	the burden of our offenses.	4:25
	Let thy love overcome the severity	4:28
	of thy righteous judgments,	4:30
	even as it did in giving to the world thy only son Jesus	4:32
	when all mankind was lost.	4:38
	Regenerate our hearts, oh Lord	4:40
	by the strength of thy holy spirit.	4:43
	Achieve in us true repentance and move our hearts	4:46
	to obey Thee.	4:50
	Remove from our hearts,	4:51
	the contempt of thy word	4:53
	through Jesus Christ our Lord, amen.	4:55
	This prayer of confession, which we have prayed together	5:02
	following the words of one of the great men	5:07
	of the Christian Church, John Knox,	5:10
	is a very, central prayer for the Christian	5:14
	and a very necessary prayer for the earnest Christian	5:19
	who would live constantly in the fellowship of Christ.	5:23
	Just as important as that	5:28
	and justice central is the message from the Old Testament.	5:30
	The book of Micah in chapter seven,	5:37
	which says this,	5:41
	"Who is like unto God, who pardons inequity,	5:44
	and passes over transgression.	5:49
	He does not retain his anger forever	5:52
	because he delights in steadfast love.	5:55
	He will again have compassion upon us.	6:00
	He will tread our iniquities underfoot.	6:04
	He will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea."	6:07
	Amen.	6:13
	(organ music playing)	6:16
	(choir singing hymn song)	7:45
-	We welcome you to this service of worship	13:29
	in the university chapel today,	13:32
	on this Sunday that is tucked in	13:35
	between a basketball game	13:37
	and the opening of the second semester.	13:39
	It being a kind of limbo Sunday,	13:41
	not in the fall semester,	13:44
	not in the spring semester,	13:46
	not a recess.	13:47
	But we don't care about that.	13:50
	When we come together to worship God,	13:51
	we have a good time together in the Lord's presence	13:53
	and in the Lord's house.	13:55
	Perhaps I ought to say a word about the Lord's house.	13:58
	You who have been so very patient with us	14:03
	while we have been coding, the acoustical tile,	14:06
	which was mistakenly installed in the chapel	14:11
	in the beginning,	14:14
	have been very kind to put up with the changes in lighting	14:16
	and the moving of the scaffold.	14:20
	And there isn't very much light here at the great crossing	14:23
	of the chapel today, but just wait	14:26
	and Dr. Cleland begins to preach	14:29
	there'll be a great deal of more illumination up here	14:30
	than there is now.	14:32
	I think you're entitled to know something about the changes	14:36
	that are both intended by what we're doing.	14:41
	And then the changes that have come about	14:45
	as a result of what we're doing	14:47
	In making the tile more resonant	14:51
	or sound carrying or live as it is said,	14:56
	we've experienced some dramatic changes	15:00
	in the ability of the human voice to be heard	15:03
	when spoken into a microphone here in the chapel.	15:07
	You may be experiencing some of that even now, as I talk.	15:10
	We've discovered the last two Sundays that the microphone	15:13
	that we'd been using for all these years	15:16
	to carry the preacher's voice was no longer any good.	15:20
	It ruined everything and last Sunday,	15:24
	we had to switch to the microphone	15:26
	that you see stationed on the pulpit	15:28
	in order to hear Dr. Beach's sermon.	15:30
	Well, now this morning we have yet another one,	15:34
	a brand new mic, that's never been used before.	15:36
	So if Dr. Cleland begins to sound like a chirping bird	15:39
	or like Mephistopheles with a Scottish accent,	15:44
	don't blame it on him.	15:48
	Blame it on the new microphone	15:50
	and we would probably use another one then next Sunday.	15:51
	We do appreciate your patience	15:55
	and we have to count on it,	15:57
	because we don't like to experiment	15:58
	and fiddle around with things	16:03
	in a service of worship.	16:05
	And yet we can't test them out when the chapel is empty,	16:06
	because it doesn't sound like it does when you're here.	16:10
	And it isn't like it is when you're here.	16:13
	It's the people in the church that make the church,	16:16
	the church after all.	16:18
	Well thank you, for letting me make this explanation.	16:23
	And now we turn to the book of Proverbs	16:27
	for the scripture lesson of today,	16:30
	chapter three, starting with verse 13,	16:32
	"Happy is the man who finds wisdom	16:36
	and the man who gets understanding	16:40
	for the gain from it is better than gain from silver	16:44
	and its profit better than gold.	16:47
	She is more precious than jewels	16:50
	and nothing you desire can compare with her.	16:53
	Long life is in her right hand	16:57
	and her left hand are riches and honor.	16:59
	Her way are ways of pleasantness	17:03
	and all her paths are peace.	17:06
	She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her.	17:09
	Those who hold her first are called happy.	17:13
	The Lord by wisdom founded the earth	17:19
	by understanding he established the heavens	17:23
	by his knowledge the deeps broke forth	17:26
	and the clouds dropped down the dew.	17:30
	My son, keep sound wisdom and discretion.	17:34
	Let them not escape from your sight.	17:39
	And they will be life for your soul	17:43
	and adornment for your neck.	17:46
	Then you will walk on your way securely	17:49
	and your foot will not stumble.	17:52
	So be it."	17:56
	(organ music playing)	17:58
	(choir singing hymn song)	18:06
-	The Lord be with you.	18:40
-	And with your spirit.	18:42
-	Let us pray	18:44
	Almighty God,	18:51
	we bring before thee	18:52
	our prayers of thanksgiving and our petitions,	18:55
	our blessings for others and for ourselves.	19:00
	We are grateful to thee that	19:05
	through darkness riseth light,	19:07
	that thou art gracious and compassionate with us	19:11
	when we are losers.	19:15
	We thank thee that we can lose without being lost,	19:18
	that we can sometimes fail without finally being failures.	19:22
	We thank Thee that our past sins through Christ	19:28
	need not keep us from being Christians now.	19:31
	We bless Thee that thou has placed us	19:37
	in a world where struggle is required,	19:39
	where a character is not handed to us on a platter,	19:42
	where choice often is difficult	19:46
	and where we have to pay the price of excellence.	19:49
	Oh God, we thank Thee for a lot of routine things,	19:54
	which we take for granted,	19:57
	what which can suddenly seem terribly important	19:59
	if suddenly removed,	20:02
	our food, the beds we sleep on,	20:04
	warm buildings, the beat of our hearts,	20:08
	the circulation of the blood, the air we breathe,	20:13
	mail service, electricity,	20:19
	the smooth operation of the universe.	20:23
	Most of all oh God, as we express thanks,	20:28
	we are mindful of the meaning of life,	20:31
	which was revealed in Jesus.	20:35
	And we thank Thee that we can know that meaning	20:37
	and that by faith, it can become our very own.	20:41
	Heavenly father as we thank Thee for blessings in the past,	20:49
	we now ask for new blessings,	20:53
	we pray for the safe ending of the astronauts trip	20:56
	to the earth,	20:59
	for the safe beginning of this academic semester	21:01
	and that through the semester,	21:05
	we may gain that wisdom and understanding,	21:07
	which we heard recommended so highly	21:09
	in the book of Proverbs.	21:11
	We pray for our academic program at the university,	21:15
	that it may do a good job of teaching such things	21:18
	as the conjugation of verbs,	21:21
	the date when Columbus came to America and so on.	21:23
	But that it also may teach the reason why discovery	21:27
	should be made and for whom	21:30
	and what message should be conveyed	21:34
	by properly conjugated verbs.	21:35
	Oh God of wisdom and of strength	21:40
	we also pray for our athletic program	21:44
	that it may prosper in developing healthy bodies	21:47
	and promoting good sportsmanship	21:50
	in teaching men, how to accomplish great achievements.	21:53
	And so oh God,	21:58
	we pray for the strengthening and the guidance	21:59
	of those who direct our academic and our athletic programs.	22:02
	Our heavenly father,	22:09
	we offer our prayers for every kind of blessing	22:10
	which we need	22:14
	and which thou does know even better than we do.	22:16
	We pray, especially to Thee	22:20
	that we may be able to accomplish	22:26
	our own objectives for ourselves,	22:29
	the goals and the ideals which we find in Christ	22:34
	being interpreted to our own lives	22:38
	are even beyond our grasp time after time.	22:42
	And oh Thou whose deeds and dreams were one,	22:48
	grant us the courage and the wisdom,	22:52
	that to get done the things which we ourselves	22:57
	feel are right for us	23:02
	through Jesus Christ our Lord.	23:05
	And now we offer onto Thee oh God,	23:08
	the prayer from our hearts	23:13
	using the words which Christ has taught us to use	23:16
	in prayer saying,	23:19
	our father who art in heaven,	23:22
	hallowed be thy name,	23:24
	thy kingdom come,	23:26
	thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.	23:28
	Give us this day our daily bread	23:33
	and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those	23:35
	who trespass against us and lead us not into temptation,	23:39
	but deliver from evil	23:44
	for thine is the kingdom	23:46
	and the power and the glory forever, amen.	23:48
-	The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.	24:20
	The Genesis of this sermon	24:29
	was not in the scripture lesson,	24:32
	which was read in our hearing	24:35
	rather one chapter in a volume of sermons for children	24:39
	entitled, "Safed and Keturah"	24:46
	published 50 years ago.	24:51
	And unfortunately, out of print or the primer	24:55
	The author was William E. Barton,	25:02
	a new England Congregationalists	25:05
	who became famous because of his children's addresses.	25:09
	They dealt with contemporary everyday happenings	25:16
	in a style modeled on the elicit Elizabethan english	25:21
	of the king James version of the Bible.	25:27
	I shall read to you the parable	25:32
	which caught my fancy and stimulated	25:34
	my homiletical imagination.	25:37
	It is entitled "The Car Wheels."	25:41
	Here it is.	25:46
	"A certain man labored in the division terminal	25:49
	of a great railway	25:53
	and it was so that when a train entered the station,	25:56
	that there they changed engines and train crews,	26:00
	and certain men put ice in the coolers	26:05
	and water in the tanks.	26:08
	And there were times when certain others swap the windows	26:12
	so that they might be seen through,	26:16
	but this did not always occur.	26:19
	And the duty which was assigned onto this man was this,	26:22
	that he should begin at the head of the train	26:27
	and walk the length of it and stoop down	26:30
	and strike every car wheel with an hammer.	26:34
	And he did precisely, as he was told.	26:40
	Where he walked the length of every train	26:44
	and struck every wheel on the right side there	26:47
	and then turned himself about	26:52
	and walked back upon the other side of the train	26:54
	and the wheels upon that side,	26:58
	did he strike in light manner.	27:00
	And this he did quickly	27:04
	so that he had it done by the time other man had put ice	27:06
	in the coolers and waste and dope in the boxes of the axles	27:10
	and the engines had been changed.	27:15
	Now it came to pass that after many years,	27:20
	the general superintendent	27:23
	speak onto the president of the road.	27:25
	And he said,	27:28
	"behold this man has been on our payroll	27:29
	for five and 20 years	27:33
	and he had never missed a day.	27:36
	Let us celebrate and recognize his faithfulness	27:40
	and give him a gold watch	27:44
	and a pass for himself and his wife unto California	27:46
	and back, and a little pass of gold,	27:50
	which he may blow in on a good time."	27:54
	And they did even so.	27:58
	And while the celebration was in progress,	28:02
	someone asked of him saying,	28:05
	"what is the reason why the wheels must be struck?	28:08
	And what is the occasion there of?"	28:13
	And he answered	28:17
	"thou mayeth search me.	28:18
	I know nothing say that I draw my pay,	28:23
	for hitting the wheels.	28:26
	And I hit them every time, I never miss a wheel."	28:29
	But he had never listened to the ring of the hammer	28:35
	that he might hear whether the wheels were sound or cracked.	28:39
	Neither had he known nor regarded.	28:44
	But he had done his job and drawn his pay for 25 years."	28:49
	He that hath ears to hear, let him hear	28:57
	and he that hath the mind to reflect,	29:03
	let him reflect with me on this parable of the car wheels.	29:06
	There seemed to be three types of wheel tappers	29:14
	in the railroad services.	29:18
	At least there are for sermonic purposes.	29:21
	First that there is the ignorant,	29:26
	he whom Safed described in his parable.	29:29
	He is one who is without knowledge of what he is doing.	29:34
	He's in the dark, uninformed,	29:39
	unaware of what his job is all about.	29:44
	He does what he does because he is told so to do.	29:48
	He wangs every wheel he is supposed to wang	29:54
	from Monday until Friday	29:58
	and on Saturday and Sunday, if he's lucky,	30:02
	he rests from his labors,	30:06
	but he knoweth not the reason there are for his smiting.	30:09
	Second, there is the skilled wheel tapper.	30:17
	He has knowledge of the difference.	30:21
	The serious important difference	30:23
	between a clear and a cracked sound	30:28
	when the wheel is smitten.	30:32
	And if the ring be dull,	30:35
	he reports the fact to the foreman or the inspector, why?	30:38
	Because he has learned that this he must do	30:45
	and thus, he performs his duty.	30:50
	Third there is the wise,	30:56
	the understanding wheel tapper,	30:57
	like his ignorant mate,	31:01
	he too wangs wheels	31:03
	like his skilled fellow worker,	31:07
	he too distinguishes the clear	31:10
	or dull ring of metal, on metal.	31:13
	He too reports to the foreman.	31:18
	But in addition,	31:23
	our third character knows why one kind of ring	31:25
	signifies wholeness,	31:30
	and why another denotes defectiveness.	31:33
	He's also aware of what the consequence	31:39
	of defectiveness maybe be.	31:42
	He has made out and taken in the meaning of the ring.	31:46
	He is discerning in his understanding of situations.	31:53
	He knows how to deal with them so as to correct them.	31:58
	Such one is to become an inspector,	32:03
	even general manager of the railroad.	32:07
	He's a steadfast as the first stop	32:11
	and the skilled as the second,	32:15
	but he adds the insight of intelligence.	32:18
	Now let's look at these three characters in two situations,	32:23
	more a kin to most of us than railroading	32:28
	after all that's what one is supposed to do	32:33
	with a palatable.	32:35
	First, do we find these three types in the academic world?	32:38
	You bet we do.	32:45
	The ignorant come to college.	32:49
	Maybe not as many as in days of your, maybe more.	32:54
	Why do they come?	33:01
	Because they're drafted.	33:04
	By whom?	33:07
	By their parents, by their social status,	33:09
	by their cultural milieu,	33:15
	to go to college seems to be the fitting thing to do	33:19
	in our day and generation.	33:23
	It's strange to think,	33:26
	that quite a few of our fellows here	33:28
	are not here of their own free will.	33:31
	So they appear	33:36
	and even reappear each September,	33:39
	they go through the routine moral lesson bewilderment.	33:44
	There note books are masterpieces of doodling	33:49
	and tic-tac-toe,	33:52
	they remind me of a divinity student who misread St. Paul,	33:55
	for now we see through a class darkly.	33:59
	They really do not know why they're here,	34:07
	yet some of them actually graduate.	34:10
	To tell an unbelievable story of one who graduated	34:15
	from Harvard.	34:19
	He unrolled his diploma,	34:21
	saw Harvard at the top and muttered that's funny.	34:23
	I thought I was at Yale.	34:29
	Now they often make generous loyal alumni,	34:33
	whether they graduate or not.	34:38
	They show a tremendous esprit de Corps,	34:42
	which they pronounce S print de blinking corpse.	34:46
	They prefer failed BA Duke	34:52
	to a degree from UNC.	34:56
	They tap the wheels for one, two, three, even four years	35:00
	but when you ask them what the academic life	35:08
	is all about,	35:10
	each replies without a sincerity,	35:12
	"thou mayest search me."	35:15
	The skilled also come to college.	35:20
	They know why they're here,	35:24
	though the reason has little to do with higher education.	35:27
	I recall an Amherst student, a junior five eight,	35:32
	who came to my office to tell me,	35:38
	to stop worrying about his brother	35:39
	who was a sophomore	35:42
	and just making a C average.	35:44
	He assured me that that was all his brother would make,	35:49
	but that he would make it.	35:55
	There father remembered his four years at Amherst	36:00
	as the happiest four years of his life	36:05
	and the academic side had never interested him at all.	36:09
	That sophomore was a chip off the old block.	36:15
	He would join his father in business.	36:21
	after four joyous years,	36:23
	uncomplicated with worrying about majors or honors	36:27
	or the three liberal learning.	36:32
	I even had an Amherst advisee	36:35
	who would elect anything I recommended on two conditions.	36:39
	One, no class must meet before 10:00 AM.	36:44
	The second was no class must be up	36:53
	more than one flight of stairs.	36:56
	And so help me we managed to fulfill these conditions	37:01
	all four years and he graduated.	37:08
	And I wonder what he's doing now,	37:13
	probably working in a basement.	37:17
	(congregation laughing)	37:20
	Beginning at noon until four.	37:21
	And he's worth millions.	37:25
	There were and maybe there are lots of Amherst	37:31
	alumni like that,	37:33
	skilled, able to meet the minimum requirements,	37:35
	more aware of what they didn't want to do.	37:41
	None of the college is a home of learning	37:46
	and the society of students.	37:49
	One rather lazy and member of the faculty suggested	37:52
	in faculty meeting	37:56
	that the degree of RA be offered,	37:58
	resident at Amherst	38:02
	at a cost of several thousand dollars per year	38:05
	using the surplus income to finance, genuine scholars.	38:09
	And yet college would be a less interesting place	38:15
	without the scale, academic opera Dodgers.	38:21
	Though many are.	38:27
	The third type, the wise,	38:31
	the understanding,	38:36
	made glad the heart of the faculty	38:38
	and keep it spirit humble.	38:42
	For they help, their instructors to learn	38:46
	what education is all about.	38:50
	Together they try to think the thought out of things.	38:55
	And if that proves impossible,	39:00
	they make you sit with the avenues of art and music	39:04
	and drama and poetry.	39:09
	They cross frontiers in the disciplines.	39:13
	Why does the idea of God change when the foreign policy	39:19
	of a country changes?	39:25
	They open corridors between courses,	39:29
	social science and Charles Dickens or George Bernard Shaw,	39:32
	they have not content when they are informed	39:41
	that something is a lie.	39:43
	They want to know why the lie was told,	39:46
	why it had to be told.	39:52
	They seek the truth.	39:56
	Come whenst it may cost what it will.	39:58
	As an old prayer advises them.	40:03
	And when they graduate,	40:07
	the faculty does well through the president	40:10
	to touch its cap to them.	40:14
	they become good citizens and good parents,	40:18
	and good alumni.	40:22
	They wear well, they continue to be good companions.	40:24
	The ignorant, the skilled, the understanding,	40:31
	all wheel tapers,	40:36
	all with us at Duke,	40:39
	which partly explains why Duke is what it is.	40:43
	These three characters are also to be found in the realm	40:50
	of the spirit, among the things which pertain to God .	40:53
	They even come to chapel	41:00
	though not in the numbers of 20 years ago,	41:03
	the ignorant are here.	41:07
	Why do they come?	41:10
	They were brought up that way.	41:13
	It was their custom, their habit	41:16
	as it was that of their Lord,	41:20
	who went to the synagogue on the Sabbath day,	41:22
	it seems a reasonable courtesy to the Almighty.	41:28
	They want the content of the worship to be static,	41:33
	the King James Version on the lectern	41:39
	thou instead of you, when God is addressed in prayer,	41:45
	old hymns instead of new,	41:54
	with the possible exception of "How great thou art"	41:58
	they're loyal and often generous.	42:04
	But if you ask the average one among them to give reasons	42:09
	for the fee within him,	42:14
	his answer may well be thou mayest search me.	42:18
	Safed may have been thinking of him in the parable	42:25
	of the car of wheels.	42:30
	Out of the skilled in chapel,	42:34
	some of them, some of the time	42:38
	to them religion is a means to an end,	42:44
	but there end is not man's chief end,	42:50
	which is the worship of almighty God.	42:55
	Their end is their own personal advantage.	42:59
	Jesus knew folk like that.	43:04
	He called them hypocrites, play actors.	43:07
	They were people whose basic motives	43:14
	were other than their surface actions.	43:18
	Someone has defined a hypocrite	43:24
	as a person who is not quite himself at church,	43:27
	on Sunday morning.	43:33
	I don't think we suffer too much from them in the chapel.	43:36
	The understanding also here yes, thank God	43:42
	they are of a religious bent	43:49
	because they've come to understand	43:53
	that they do not wholly understand.	43:56
	To them the world is a continuing contradiction.	44:02
	On the one hand it's rhythmic meaning,	44:08
	is somewhat obvious,	44:11
	birth, home, school, business,	44:13
	marriage, children, old age, death.	44:19
	On the other hand, it's rhythmic	44:27
	meaning it's constantly interrupted, shattered by disease,	44:29
	war, futility, absurdity,	44:36
	insanity, unexpected death.	44:42
	Their faith makes room for both types of experience.	44:47
	It points to a creator, redeemer God who is apprehended,	44:54
	apprehended as loud,	45:01
	but he's never comprehended in his fatality.	45:06
	For the fact of evil,	45:13
	natural and model are constantly,	45:15
	it's constantly in their mind.	45:20
	Orthodoxy has always had more than a nodding acquaintance	45:25
	with the devil.	45:30
	A man of understanding is well aware	45:32
	that the reason per se does not give all the answers.	45:35
	He's listening to Pascal,	45:41
	the heart hath its reasons.	45:45
	The reason does not know.	45:49
	So he keeps adding to faith, knowledge	45:53
	and to knowledge, faith.	45:57
	And he walks away of life, which is marked by continuity,	46:01
	depth and dignity.	46:07
	In a sorry world, he stresses that	46:12
	the good outlast, the bad,	46:15
	that beauty is more appealing than ugliness.	46:18
	That love is saner than the fear,	46:23
	which results in hate.	46:29
	The understanding come to the chapel	46:32
	to be reminded of God in prayer,	46:35
	in song, in the lesson, even in the sermon.	46:39
	They believe in someone	46:46
	other greater than themselves,	46:48
	whom they desire to salute	46:54
	and because of that,	46:58
	their lives reflect his life,	47:00
	full of grace and proof and hope.	47:05
	They are humble before God.	47:12
	And that is what proper,	47:15
	they are also joyous.	47:19
	And that is but right.	47:22
	They incarnate the opening words of the scripture lesson,	47:26
	"happy is the man who finds wisdom.	47:31
	And the man who gets understanding."	47:36
	Yes, happy lesson, are they understanding?	47:41
	And blessed, happy is the church,	47:48
	the chapel in whose services they worship.	47:53
	The ignorant, the skilled, the understanding	48:00
	are all wheel tappers	48:05
	and all are here at Duke	48:08
	even in this chapel.	48:13
	Do you know which type we are?	48:16
	Do you know which type we'd like to be?	48:21
	If it is of the understanding, let me say just this.	48:25
	It does not require many brains	48:30
	just the use of all we have.	48:35
	It does require imagination,	48:39
	the capacity to turn daydreaming	48:44
	into a vision splendid.	48:48
	And the last resort, it requires devotion	48:52
	to that, which is true, lovely,	48:58
	and of good report.	49:03
	Safed concludes his parable with this sentence,	49:06
	God knoweth whether men listen for the ring	49:11
	or whether they only hit the wheels.	49:17
	Another sentence is needed.	49:22
	And God knows, whether men just listen for the ring	49:25
	or whether they seek to understand the ring.	49:33
	He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.	49:42
	And let us pray.	49:49
	Lord what we dream and what we do	49:53
	in our weak days,	49:57
	are always to help us (mumbling) undone	49:59
	oh thou whose deeps and dreams worldwide.	50:09
	Amen.	50:16
	(organ music playing)	50:19
	(choir singing hymn songs)	53:37
	(organ music playing)	58:25
-	Almighty God,	1:00:05
	in this act of dedication,	1:00:07
	we do not perfunctorily bring here this money	1:00:10
	to turn it over for thy use.	1:00:13
	We do dedicate this money,	1:00:16
	but along with it ourselves,	1:00:19
	our bodies, our minds,	1:00:22
	our spirits in a total dedication to Jesus Christ.	1:00:24
	Amen.	1:00:30
	Now may the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with us all.	1:00:35
	(organ music playing)	1:00:44
	(choir singing hymn songs)

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Title:

James T. Cleland - "The Parable of the Car Wheels" (February 7, 1971)

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February 7, 1971

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

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Duke University. Chapel

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