W. Wallace Fridy - "Life's Most Powerful Force" (August 22, 1965)
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| - | Him who loved us and gave Himself for us, | 0:03 |
| Jesus Christ, our Lord, | 0:08 | |
| Amen. | 0:13 | |
| (church organ plays) | 0:18 | |
| (church organ plays) | 2:32 | |
| ♪ Rise up my heart with gladness ♪ | 2:38 | |
| ♪ And hear the news today ♪ | 2:45 | |
| ♪ Now that all gloom and sadness ♪ | 2:52 | |
| ♪ Be gone without delay ♪ | 2:58 | |
| ♪ Lifeless, our Savior lay ♪ | 3:05 | |
| ♪ So too shall we one day ♪ | 3:10 | |
| ♪ But we shall know God's love ♪ | 3:15 | |
| ♪ And rise to heaven above ♪ | 3:21 | |
| (church organ interlude) | 3:28 | |
| ♪ With joy the foe hath shouted ♪ | 3:35 | |
| ♪ When Christ was laid in the tomb ♪ | 3:41 | |
| ♪ But now the foe is routed ♪ | 3:49 | |
| ♪ His joy is turned to gloom ♪ | 3:55 | |
| ♪ Christ's gains are victory ♪ | 4:02 | |
| ♪ Through Him we all are free ♪ | 4:07 | |
| ♪ He who was born to save ♪ | 4:12 | |
| ♪ Has triumphed over the grave ♪ | 4:18 | |
| (church organ music) | 4:31 | |
| (congregation singing) | 5:13 | |
| - | Eternal God, our heavenly Father, | 5:53 |
| we present these gifts | 5:57 | |
| with humble and thankful hearts, | 6:00 | |
| and in presenting them, | 6:05 | |
| we present ourselves | 6:07 | |
| and we pray that both may be used | 6:12 | |
| to the glory of Thy kingdom | 6:15 | |
| through Jesus Christ, our Lord, | 6:18 | |
| Amen. | 6:22 | |
| (church organ softly plays) | 6:25 | |
| - | In the name of the Father and of the Son | 6:58 |
| and of the Holy Spirit, | 6:59 | |
| Amen. | 7:02 | |
| The person who knows that he is loved by God | 7:04 | |
| can never be defeated by life. | 7:09 | |
| And so God knew that love is a language | 7:13 | |
| everyone understands. | 7:16 | |
| And so He sent Jesus into the world, | 7:18 | |
| for in Jesus Christ we see the incarnation of love. | 7:22 | |
| He appeals to men of all ages, | 7:27 | |
| of all races, of all clans, | 7:30 | |
| because they see in Him love. | 7:32 | |
| There is no word in any tongue today that is more needed | 7:36 | |
| than this four letter word, L-O-V-E. | 7:40 | |
| The extent of its application in today's world | 7:44 | |
| is determinative of the future of mankind, | 7:48 | |
| basic in every marriage bond, | 7:51 | |
| essential in all lasting friendships | 7:54 | |
| necessary in all relationships. | 7:56 | |
| This word holds the key | 8:00 | |
| to that brave new world of which we dream | 8:02 | |
| and toward which we strive. | 8:05 | |
| And certainly it was because of this that Paul said, | 8:07 | |
| "And now abideth faith, hope and love, these three, | 8:11 | |
| but the greatest of these is love. | 8:15 | |
| Wherefore make love your aim." | 8:18 | |
| This is the supreme virtue. | 8:21 | |
| And yet I guess that there is no word | 8:24 | |
| that is more misused and misunderstood | 8:26 | |
| than this magnificent word. | 8:29 | |
| And one reason for such misunderstanding | 8:32 | |
| is perhaps the association surrounding this word | 8:35 | |
| on the stage, the screen, | 8:39 | |
| the standardized love story, the radio, the TV, | 8:41 | |
| what shallowness is used to depict its meaning. | 8:45 | |
| What an empty love it is we see and read and hear. | 8:49 | |
| What false assumptions oftentimes are given | 8:54 | |
| for a brotherhood in the name of love. | 8:57 | |
| Too often, it is a love without demand, | 9:00 | |
| a love that does not have as its base justice, | 9:05 | |
| a love without the process of maturing, | 9:10 | |
| a love that is fantastically fallen into | 9:13 | |
| and not climbed into. | 9:16 | |
| Frequently, it is a love that has as its foundation | 9:18 | |
| only physical attraction, | 9:23 | |
| merely infatuation, | 9:25 | |
| a concern based on another, on expediency. | 9:26 | |
| Well, if we turn to a dictionary | 9:31 | |
| for a definition of this word, | 9:35 | |
| we find such scientific definitions as seen as that | 9:37 | |
| love is a feeling of strong, personal attachment | 9:41 | |
| induced by sympathetic understanding, | 9:46 | |
| its ordered affection, | 9:48 | |
| its solicitude for the welfare of another and so on. | 9:50 | |
| But such descriptions leave us cold | 9:54 | |
| for love is such a mighty word. | 9:57 | |
| It's such a mysterious word. | 10:00 | |
| It's such a gentle word that it defies definition. | 10:02 | |
| In reality, | 10:06 | |
| only as we live and experience it | 10:08 | |
| in all of its fullness can we know something of its depth | 10:12 | |
| and something of its real meaning. | 10:16 | |
| So Paul was right. | 10:19 | |
| Life's greatest virtue is love. | 10:21 | |
| And in Jesus Christ, we see the incarnation of love, | 10:24 | |
| the highest expression of it we know. | 10:27 | |
| And He commissioned His disciples to, | 10:31 | |
| that they would go out and love one another. | 10:34 | |
| He insisted that His followers be known | 10:38 | |
| by their love for Him and for one another. | 10:41 | |
| Jesus came not to lay down a set of rules | 10:44 | |
| for human behavior, | 10:47 | |
| but rather to manifest the Spirit, | 10:49 | |
| a way of life. | 10:51 | |
| Without this Spirit of love, life is incomplete. | 10:53 | |
| It's imperfect, it is defective. | 10:56 | |
| Well, let us look then at this power in life, | 11:00 | |
| this love which is life's most powerful force. | 11:05 | |
| Well, in the first place, | 11:10 | |
| we know that love has the power | 11:11 | |
| of reawakening a person to the good life. | 11:14 | |
| It has a certain transforming power about it. | 11:18 | |
| Paul says that love is very patient. | 11:21 | |
| It's very kind. | 11:23 | |
| Love knows no jealousy. | 11:25 | |
| Love makes no parade, gives itself no airs. | 11:26 | |
| It's never rude, never selfish, | 11:29 | |
| never irritated, never resentful. | 11:31 | |
| What a demand is made upon us to really love. | 11:35 | |
| It's not easy to be patient and kind. | 11:40 | |
| And when life today is so speeded up and complex, | 11:43 | |
| with nerves on edge, with anxiety in the heart, | 11:48 | |
| to be patient and very kind | 11:51 | |
| demands a strength not our own. | 11:54 | |
| It requires patience that is born of God | 11:57 | |
| and comes from communion with Him. | 11:59 | |
| It is to be patient with little children | 12:01 | |
| who do not understand an adult world, | 12:03 | |
| to understand why people act like they do, | 12:06 | |
| to put one's self in another's place, | 12:09 | |
| to know that all have reasons for their actions, | 12:11 | |
| whether they be right reasons or not. | 12:14 | |
| All such takes forbearance, | 12:17 | |
| which is a quality of love. | 12:19 | |
| Yes, there is a transforming power about it. | 12:22 | |
| It often causes a man | 12:26 | |
| to take a new lease on life, | 12:28 | |
| merely by falling in love with a gracious lady. | 12:30 | |
| It is a power that brings out the good. | 12:32 | |
| It is to accept another for what he is. | 12:36 | |
| Love, you see, says you are accepted. | 12:41 | |
| And this in a real sense is the Good News. | 12:45 | |
| The Good News is to communicate with another, | 12:49 | |
| that you are accepted, | 12:52 | |
| that God loves you, | 12:56 | |
| that you are accepted just as you are, | 12:58 | |
| and I understand, and I'm willing to walk with you | 13:01 | |
| through life that you might become | 13:05 | |
| that which you were intended to be. | 13:08 | |
| It is the Good News. | 13:10 | |
| The Good News for little children, you are accepted. | 13:12 | |
| This is the Father's world and love surrounds you. | 13:15 | |
| It is the Good News. | 13:18 | |
| Well, Monica's outgoing love | 13:20 | |
| for her son Augustine is a classic example | 13:22 | |
| of this power of love to reawaken a person to the good life. | 13:26 | |
| We find Augustine's confessions | 13:31 | |
| filled with expressions about his mother's love, | 13:33 | |
| which followed him always through disgrace | 13:36 | |
| and remorse and through sin. | 13:39 | |
| And when finally converted, he offered as a grateful prayer, | 13:42 | |
| "Oh God, if I am Thy child, | 13:44 | |
| it is because Thou didst give me such a mother." | 13:47 | |
| He could not escape a woman of such prayers, | 13:51 | |
| out of such love. | 13:54 | |
| Like a magnet, it lifted the good within him. | 13:55 | |
| It is said that students of the late Dean Briggs of Harvard | 13:59 | |
| found in him a man who believed in their possibilities | 14:04 | |
| and whose personal concern brought them forth. | 14:07 | |
| President Elliott of Harvard, | 14:11 | |
| when he was conferring on Dean Briggs, | 14:12 | |
| the honorary degree of LLD, | 14:15 | |
| he said of him that the Dean was a man | 14:18 | |
| convinced of the overwhelming predominance of good | 14:21 | |
| in the student world. | 14:25 | |
| And commenting on President Elliott's statement, | 14:27 | |
| a former student said so warm and glowing | 14:30 | |
| was this conviction that it kindled something | 14:33 | |
| in even the least responsive among us. | 14:37 | |
| Well, this faith and love | 14:41 | |
| that was Dean Briggs for his students, | 14:42 | |
| brought out of them that best. | 14:46 | |
| You see love always does that. | 14:48 | |
| It reawakens a person | 14:51 | |
| to the good life. | 14:53 | |
| And Jesus possessed this gift | 14:55 | |
| of calling forth the best in men, | 14:57 | |
| His love looking beyond the rough exteriors | 14:59 | |
| to the latent goodness and compelled it to come out. | 15:03 | |
| His was a power that reawakened the nobility in men. | 15:08 | |
| 'Go and sin no more' were words | 15:13 | |
| which sent men and women on new adventures, | 15:15 | |
| determined to live bigger and nobler lives. | 15:18 | |
| And who of us today does not need | 15:23 | |
| the warmth and the power of this love | 15:26 | |
| that can make us know that we are accepted, | 15:31 | |
| that this is God's world, | 15:33 | |
| that we are part of His world | 15:35 | |
| and that we have a place in it, | 15:37 | |
| that God accepts us just as we are. | 15:39 | |
| Love has a power of reawakening a person to the good life. | 15:42 | |
| Well in the second place, | 15:46 | |
| love is protective. | 15:48 | |
| Paul says that love is never glad | 15:50 | |
| when others go wrong. | 15:56 | |
| But love is gladdened by goodness, | 15:58 | |
| always slow to expose, | 16:00 | |
| always eager to believe the best. | 16:02 | |
| Well, are we eager to believe the best about our friends | 16:06 | |
| and about those from whom we are estranged? | 16:09 | |
| Do we grasp eagerly for good news, | 16:13 | |
| rejoicing in another's success? | 16:16 | |
| Do we refrain from idle talk that injures another's name? | 16:19 | |
| Well, Paul gives us here a measure | 16:24 | |
| of our relationship with people, | 16:26 | |
| a measure which is Christian | 16:29 | |
| and how it searches our motives | 16:30 | |
| and how it strikes at our pettiness. | 16:32 | |
| Dr. Archibald Rutledge, from his rich observation of nature, | 16:35 | |
| gives us a meaningful picture | 16:39 | |
| of this characteristic note in love. | 16:41 | |
| It seems that one day he was walking | 16:44 | |
| through his woods at Hampton | 16:47 | |
| and on this trail, | 16:50 | |
| he saw a huge pine whose trunk was covered | 16:52 | |
| with a lovely clinging, yellow Jessamine vine. | 16:55 | |
| The pine represented might | 17:00 | |
| while the vine represented grace and beauty. | 17:03 | |
| He supported her while she adorned him. | 17:07 | |
| Well, years later, he was walking through the same trail | 17:11 | |
| following a fierce hurricane. | 17:15 | |
| And he noticed that in the turmoil of the wind, | 17:17 | |
| that the pine had been severed, | 17:22 | |
| broken from its base, | 17:25 | |
| some 20 feet from the ground. | 17:27 | |
| And there it was, lying prostrate in his path. | 17:29 | |
| But he noticed that the yellow Jessamine still clung to him, | 17:34 | |
| providing a protective covering, | 17:39 | |
| hiding his impotence, | 17:42 | |
| foliage and blossom concealed his wound from public gaze. | 17:45 | |
| Well, how often have you and I | 17:51 | |
| witnessed this quality in a wife, | 17:53 | |
| the love of a wife trying to cover up | 17:57 | |
| the failure of a husband? | 17:59 | |
| Whoever of us has not seen a man protect | 18:01 | |
| the name of his friend from degradation? | 18:04 | |
| It is understandable, | 18:08 | |
| for real love is always slow to expose, | 18:09 | |
| always eager to believe the best. | 18:13 | |
| Well in the third place, | 18:17 | |
| love has not only this transforming power about it, | 18:19 | |
| bringing out the good within, | 18:24 | |
| and love is not only protective, | 18:27 | |
| but sacrificial love is the greatest power in life. | 18:30 | |
| It is this quality of love | 18:36 | |
| which goes beyond what is expected. | 18:38 | |
| It is a power that lays on us as lays hold of us. | 18:42 | |
| There's nothing else. | 18:46 | |
| In 1935, it is said that 2000 people gathered together | 18:47 | |
| in the courtyard of Hull House to pay their last respects | 18:51 | |
| to Jane Addams, its founder. | 18:56 | |
| And on this occasion, a minister said, | 18:59 | |
| if you would see her monument, | 19:01 | |
| look around you at these thousands of people | 19:04 | |
| brought together in common sorrow, | 19:08 | |
| well, why were they so moved that day? | 19:11 | |
| Why did tears flow so freely? | 19:15 | |
| It was because men realized that here was one | 19:18 | |
| who gave up an inherited fortune | 19:22 | |
| and the ease and comfort with such would bring, | 19:24 | |
| to minister to the needs of Chicago's forgotten thousands, | 19:27 | |
| Mexicans, Jews and Greeks. | 19:31 | |
| Yes, Jane Addams took it upon herself, | 19:34 | |
| not because she had to, | 19:36 | |
| but because she wanted to. | 19:38 | |
| She was impelled by something within. | 19:41 | |
| You remember the scene in Victor Hugo's 'Les Miserables', | 19:44 | |
| the unforgettable picture in the courtroom | 19:48 | |
| where Jean Valjean, who many years ago, | 19:53 | |
| committed a crime and having escaped detection, | 19:56 | |
| lived a notable life for decades, | 19:59 | |
| and of how he voluntarily confesses to his crime | 20:02 | |
| in order that the innocent one being convicted | 20:05 | |
| might go free, | 20:07 | |
| and Hugo writes of the crowd in that courtroom. | 20:10 | |
| He said all felt dazzled at heart, | 20:14 | |
| as by a sort of electric revelation, | 20:18 | |
| comprehended instantly and at a single glance, | 20:22 | |
| the simple, magnificent story of a man giving himself up | 20:26 | |
| that another might not be condemned in his place. | 20:32 | |
| It's life's most powerful force. | 20:37 | |
| Oh, it's hard for the world | 20:41 | |
| to understand such sacrificial love, | 20:42 | |
| for the world says you scratch my back | 20:44 | |
| and I'll scratch your back. | 20:46 | |
| It asks what's in it for me. | 20:48 | |
| The world in that early day, | 20:51 | |
| they looked on Jesus and thought Him mad. | 20:52 | |
| His family said He is beside Himself, | 20:54 | |
| and even his closest friends forsook him, | 20:56 | |
| saying by their actions, now this is taking it too far. | 20:58 | |
| And by the usual standards of our world, | 21:03 | |
| such love is crazy. | 21:06 | |
| It's idealistic, impractical. | 21:08 | |
| When Francis of Assisi surrendered luxury | 21:11 | |
| for latent poverty, his father said, | 21:13 | |
| my son has gone clean out of his mind. | 21:15 | |
| And when William Carey sailed for India as a missionary, | 21:18 | |
| his friends said that, | 21:21 | |
| "Here is a fanatic going on a fool's errand." | 21:22 | |
| And when the church was born at Pentecost, | 21:27 | |
| men ridiculed and laughingly said, these men are drunk. | 21:30 | |
| Thus it has always been | 21:34 | |
| when men have dreamed dreams and have seen visions | 21:36 | |
| and acted upon them, | 21:39 | |
| and have given themselves in sacrificial love, | 21:41 | |
| to the world's standard of measurement, | 21:44 | |
| they are beside themselves. | 21:47 | |
| And yet this power, | 21:50 | |
| this power of sacrificial love | 21:52 | |
| is the greatest power in the world. | 21:54 | |
| It melts hard hearts. | 21:58 | |
| It captures seasoned criminals. | 22:00 | |
| It causes a Judas realizing what he has done, | 22:03 | |
| to fling himself upon a rock. | 22:06 | |
| It turns enemies into friends. | 22:08 | |
| It focuses the eyes of the world | 22:11 | |
| on the tiny island of Molokai | 22:13 | |
| when father Damien voluntarily becomes a missionary | 22:15 | |
| to the lepers, | 22:18 | |
| knowing full well that he too would become one. | 22:20 | |
| And such a sacrificial act wins not only | 22:23 | |
| the concern of the world for the needs of lepers, | 22:26 | |
| but it captivates the heart of those lepers. | 22:30 | |
| You see, we cannot escape the power | 22:35 | |
| and the attraction of such love, | 22:38 | |
| the like of which prompted Jesus to go to the cross. | 22:42 | |
| And I'm thinking today, | 22:46 | |
| how such love is needed out here in the world. | 22:47 | |
| Eventually, love like this cannot be escaped. | 22:52 | |
| It sooner or later wins, | 22:56 | |
| and who knows | 22:59 | |
| but what America has been called for an hour like this, | 23:01 | |
| somehow to exhibit love like this? | 23:06 | |
| What would happen in our personal relationships | 23:11 | |
| if we love like this? | 23:16 | |
| And surely God knew that the only way that, | 23:18 | |
| to win the hearts of mankind | 23:22 | |
| was through the sacrificial goodness of His Son. | 23:24 | |
| And so His love was so great | 23:27 | |
| for us all that He was willing to do it. | 23:30 | |
| Mankind may evade and sidestep such affection | 23:33 | |
| and such acceptance | 23:38 | |
| and may go its feudal and foolish ways for a time, | 23:40 | |
| but it can never completely get away from it. | 23:47 | |
| George Terrell, you remember, | 23:50 | |
| in that oft quoted statement put it like this. | 23:52 | |
| He said again and again, | 23:55 | |
| I have been tempted to give up the struggle, | 23:56 | |
| but always the figure of that strange man | 23:59 | |
| hanging up on the cross, | 24:03 | |
| drives me back to my task again. | 24:05 | |
| Well, love is not only a language that everyone understands, | 24:09 | |
| but love is a contribution that everyone can make. | 24:16 | |
| The meekest and the humble can play a part. | 24:20 | |
| We're all tempted at times to think that | 24:24 | |
| in the midst of the majestic and in the presence of those | 24:27 | |
| who have great ability and unusual endowment, | 24:31 | |
| how can we add our little bit? | 24:35 | |
| What difference can I make? | 24:38 | |
| And yet we should never be tempted to underestimate | 24:42 | |
| the importance of that which we have to add to life, | 24:46 | |
| however small it might seem to us to be. | 24:50 | |
| Another has said that one bucket full of water | 24:53 | |
| will not quench a raging fire, | 24:56 | |
| but the principle is right. | 24:57 | |
| And many buckets fills well. | 25:00 | |
| Man's life is placed in a system of relations | 25:02 | |
| and into that web, | 25:06 | |
| we each can pour our contribution of love and goodwill. | 25:09 | |
| It's like dropping a pebble into a still pool. | 25:14 | |
| No section of that pool is undisturbed by the movement. | 25:17 | |
| And so the Christian contribution | 25:22 | |
| that you and I can make in life will not go unfelt, | 25:24 | |
| but will play its part in the ongoing pool of life. | 25:29 | |
| The Christian cause began with the man of Nazareth | 25:33 | |
| and His Galilean friends, | 25:37 | |
| and on that bleak first Good Friday | 25:38 | |
| when His cause seemed doomed on the cross, | 25:41 | |
| we know it was then that the stream of salvation rolled on, | 25:44 | |
| and love finally won, | 25:48 | |
| and has been winning ever since. | 25:50 | |
| The stream has now become a great ocean of love, | 25:53 | |
| shallow in places, | 25:56 | |
| mighty in other places. | 25:58 | |
| How could it have prospered apart from the contribution | 26:00 | |
| of little people like ourselves, | 26:04 | |
| who having seen the flame, | 26:06 | |
| lighted their lamps, | 26:08 | |
| and have helped to illumine a darkened world. | 26:10 | |
| Well, love is a contribution all can make. | 26:14 | |
| We can love one another in the church, | 26:18 | |
| in our homes, in our business and at our play. | 26:21 | |
| We can let go from our lives the light of love | 26:24 | |
| lighted by the central sun, Jesus Christ, | 26:27 | |
| from whose energy we draw our light. | 26:29 | |
| We can refuse to hate | 26:32 | |
| when others have abused us. | 26:35 | |
| We can enlarge our circle of love | 26:37 | |
| by including people we do not like. | 26:40 | |
| We can love those of all races | 26:43 | |
| and offer the opportunities equal to our own. | 26:44 | |
| Real love has a magic power. | 26:48 | |
| You can feel its healing influence. | 26:51 | |
| It has a presence on its own. | 26:54 | |
| You can tell when a person really loves you | 26:57 | |
| and feels kindly toward you. | 27:00 | |
| It conveys a message even without words, | 27:02 | |
| it assumes an attitude, it radiates a warmth. | 27:05 | |
| But to love, | 27:09 | |
| one has to first be loved. | 27:12 | |
| An old English priest used to pray, | 27:16 | |
| "O God, help me to let Thee love me." | 27:19 | |
| Yes, only as we are loved can we really love. | 27:25 | |
| And when we accept God's love for us | 27:31 | |
| and when we depend upon it, | 27:34 | |
| and when we receive it into every area of life, | 27:37 | |
| then it is that we can love those around us. | 27:41 | |
| This is my commandment that you love one another, | 27:45 | |
| even as I have loved you. | 27:50 | |
| And so, love is the greatest power in life. | 27:55 | |
| And when we see love reflected here upon the cross, | 28:02 | |
| we know that it is Love's last word. | 28:06 | |
| It tells us that we need never despair, | 28:11 | |
| for at the heart of the universe | 28:14 | |
| is One who cares, One who accepts us, | 28:16 | |
| and One who shares. | 28:21 | |
| Some years ago, | 28:22 | |
| a well-known British journalist, the late W.T. Stead, | 28:24 | |
| after witnessing the Passion play at Oberammergau, | 28:30 | |
| came away saying to himself, | 28:34 | |
| this is a story which has transformed the world. | 28:37 | |
| And then he seemed to hear | 28:42 | |
| an echo from the Bavarian hills about him, | 28:44 | |
| saying, "Yes, and will transform it." | 28:47 | |
| Now abideth faith, hope, love, these three, | 28:54 | |
| but the greatest of these is love. | 28:58 | |
| And let us pray. | 29:04 | |
| O Thou eternal God, | 29:12 | |
| do Thou free us from fear of the future, | 29:15 | |
| from anxiety of the morrow, | 29:18 | |
| from bitterness toward anyone, | 29:22 | |
| from cowardice in face of danger, | 29:23 | |
| from laziness in face of work, | 29:25 | |
| from failure before opportunity, | 29:27 | |
| from weakness when Thy power is at hand. | 29:30 | |
| But grant, O God, that Thou would fill us with a love | 29:34 | |
| that knows no barrier, | 29:36 | |
| with courage which cannot be shaken, | 29:38 | |
| with faith strong enough for the darkness, | 29:42 | |
| with strength sufficient for my tasks, | 29:45 | |
| with loyalty to Thy Kingdom's goal, | 29:50 | |
| with wisdom to meet life's complexities, | 29:53 | |
| with power to lift men unto Thee. | 29:56 | |
| O God, take us and use us, | 29:59 | |
| and send us out, knowing that Thou art our Father | 30:02 | |
| and we are Thy children. | 30:06 | |
| And now may the peace of God which passes all understanding, | 30:09 | |
| keep our hearts and minds in the knowledge and love of God | 30:13 | |
| and of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, | 30:17 | |
| and the blessings of God Almighty, | 30:21 | |
| the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit | 30:22 | |
| be among you and remain with you always. | 30:25 | |
| Amen. | 30:31 | |
| (bell ringing) | 30:34 | |
| (church organ plays) | 30:47 |
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