James T. Cleland - "More Reflections on Nat Turner" (July 14, 1968)
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- | For these and all the countless blessings of our life, | 0:06 |
we bow our hearts gratefully and in reverence. | 0:11 | |
And for Him in Whom life became a redeeming grace, | 0:16 | |
we give thee all thanks and praise and adoration, O Lord. | 0:22 | |
Almighty God, who has committed | 0:31 | |
to thy people the ministry of intercession, | 0:34 | |
hear us now, as we pray for others | 0:38 | |
and grant that our hearts | 0:42 | |
may be filled with peace and charity, | 0:43 | |
that the prayers we pray may become acts of our life | 0:47 | |
to meet our neighbor's need. | 0:52 | |
Let us pray for the whole church of God | 0:56 | |
found throughout the world, | 0:58 | |
particularly for the fourth assembly | 1:00 | |
of the World Council of Churches, | 1:03 | |
as it continues it sessions in Sweden | 1:06 | |
seeking for all of us new ways of renewal, | 1:09 | |
of unity, and of witness in our day. | 1:14 | |
Most gracious Father, | 1:20 | |
we humbly beseech Thee | 1:22 | |
for thy great church universal. | 1:24 | |
Fill it, we ask, with all truth | 1:28 | |
and in all truth, with all peace. | 1:31 | |
Where it is in error, reform it. | 1:35 | |
Where it is in want, furnish it. | 1:38 | |
Where it is right, strengthen and confirm it. | 1:42 | |
And where it is rent asunder, heal Thou its divisions. | 1:46 | |
Almighty and everlasting God who by Thy Holy Spirit, | 1:52 | |
didst presided in the first assembly | 1:56 | |
of the apostles and elders in Jerusalem | 1:59 | |
and has promised to be with thy church always, | 2:02 | |
even unto the end of the world, | 2:05 | |
grant, we pray Thee, unto thy servants | 2:09 | |
and our representatives at the World Council of Churches, | 2:12 | |
Thy gracious presence and blessing. | 2:17 | |
Deliver them, we ask O God from error, | 2:20 | |
from pride and from prejudice. | 2:24 | |
Inspire them with wisdom, love and courage | 2:27 | |
to the end that out of their works, | 2:32 | |
Thy kingdom may be advanced | 2:34 | |
by ministers and congregations renewed | 2:37 | |
and Thy gospel of reconciliation and hope may be made known | 2:40 | |
in our confused and waring world. | 2:45 | |
We beseech Thee to hear us O Lord, | 2:51 | |
as we pray now for all in sickness, | 2:53 | |
in pain, and in distress. | 2:57 | |
We ask that Thou wouldst give strength to the weary, | 3:01 | |
relief to the suffering, and comfort to those are sad. | 3:05 | |
We pray, O Lord, for those | 3:12 | |
who have given up praying for themselves | 3:13 | |
because experience has made the cynical or wary of asking. | 3:17 | |
We pray for of those who dislike what they have become | 3:23 | |
but will not turn unto Thee for forgiveness | 3:27 | |
and for those who have made uneasy peace | 3:31 | |
with their conscience. | 3:34 | |
Lord, hear these our prayers of intercession | 3:37 | |
and strengthen us to be a strength unto others. | 3:40 | |
O Lord, whose vast sight takes in | 3:48 | |
the varied anguish of all men, | 3:50 | |
we beseech look upon us, old and young, | 3:53 | |
gathered in our need to praise Thee | 3:58 | |
and to set our hope on Thee. | 4:01 | |
Thou O Lord art still our refuge | 4:04 | |
and all our confidence is in Thy righteous judgment. | 4:07 | |
If we are young, guide us, we ask, | 4:11 | |
in spite of our perplexities to make clear decisions. | 4:15 | |
If we are old, gird us with the strength of peace | 4:19 | |
that our labors, humble as they may have been, | 4:23 | |
may not have been in vain. | 4:27 | |
If we are working at unpopular task | 4:30 | |
amid indifference or hostility, | 4:33 | |
grant us the courage which only integrity can give. | 4:36 | |
O Lord, this day began, for some of us, joyfully, | 4:42 | |
for others grimly. | 4:47 | |
Some will spend the hours without anxiety. | 4:49 | |
Others will be caught up in the web of living pain. | 4:53 | |
Some will exalt in new vistas of hope | 4:58 | |
and others will carry a burden of heart, | 5:02 | |
too heavy to see very far beyond the moment. | 5:04 | |
Some of us, O Lord, have known Thy forgiveness. | 5:08 | |
And some of us are still seeking it. | 5:12 | |
Some know Thee and some do not know | 5:15 | |
whether they know Thee or not. | 5:18 | |
We are not all alike, | 5:21 | |
but all of us have need of Thee and Thy mercy. | 5:23 | |
We ask now that Thou would minister | 5:27 | |
unto our particular needs | 5:29 | |
as we voice them silently before Thee. | 5:32 | |
God, our Father, we ask | 5:42 | |
that Thou would give us courage | 5:44 | |
to continue to dream dreams and to see visions, | 5:45 | |
the visions of our fathers' faith. | 5:48 | |
Help us to welcome the changes that Thou hast given | 5:51 | |
to be the part and parcel of our time. | 5:55 | |
Teach us so to lay hold on Christ | 5:59 | |
that we, Thy people, might have power to bring to fruition | 6:02 | |
the potentialities of every human being we meet | 6:05 | |
and every human institution to which we belong. | 6:09 | |
Save us, O Lord, from the impatience that would destroy, | 6:14 | |
from the zeal that would spurn the efforts | 6:18 | |
of those who wear different labels | 6:21 | |
or speak with a different tongue. | 6:22 | |
Help us, O Lord, to continue to seek to bring forth | 6:25 | |
and to perfect what is good in all men. | 6:30 | |
Give us, we ask, O God, deep sympathy | 6:34 | |
with all who are depressed by unfulfilled hopes, | 6:37 | |
with all who despair of themselves, | 6:41 | |
with all who are tempted | 6:44 | |
to give up the struggle for better things. | 6:46 | |
May we so live in their midst | 6:49 | |
as followers of Him who came not to destroy, but to fulfill, | 6:52 | |
that they might turn, find Him | 6:58 | |
and in Him find their true life. | 7:02 | |
We ask it for His name's sake. | 7:06 | |
Now we asked Thy continued blessing | 7:10 | |
as we pray the prayer of discipleship | 7:12 | |
that He taught us to pray together saying, | 7:15 | |
"Our Father Who art in Heaven, | 7:18 | |
hallowed be Thy name. | 7:21 | |
Thy kingdom come, | 7:23 | |
Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven. | 7:25 | |
Give us this day our daily bread | 7:29 | |
and forgive us our trespasses | 7:32 | |
as we forgive those who trespass against us. | 7:34 | |
And lead us not into temptation, | 7:38 | |
but deliver us from evil | 7:40 | |
for Thine is the kingdom and the power | 7:43 | |
and the glory forever. | 7:45 | |
Amen." | 7:48 | |
- | This is a second sermon on William Styron's | 8:07 |
The Confessions of Nat Turner, | 8:12 | |
the second of two meditations | 8:15 | |
on the author's meditation on history. | 8:19 | |
The first sermon dealt with racism, with white racism. | 8:24 | |
The wind which has sewn the horror wind of black racism | 8:32 | |
the place of the individual and of the church | 8:39 | |
when Christian was presented as two resources | 8:43 | |
which may transform a battle into a brotherhood | 8:48 | |
and fracas into fellowship. | 8:54 | |
Now today, let us look at Nat Turner, | 8:58 | |
the pathetic hero and tragic villain, | 9:03 | |
and reflect on what awaits him | 9:08 | |
after he has been hung by the neck | 9:12 | |
until he is dead, | 9:15 | |
dead, | 9:18 | |
dead. | 9:20 | |
And let us do so by asking three questions. | 9:21 | |
What, why, and whither? | 9:25 | |
First, the what of it. | 9:32 | |
Nat Turner was born into slavery or October 1st, 1800, | 9:35 | |
the property of Benjamin Turner, hence Nat's surname. | 9:40 | |
But he was a cut above the ordinary farm hands, | 9:47 | |
the faceless and nameless toilers, | 9:52 | |
because he was the son of the cook, | 9:57 | |
and so was brought up to be a house nigger. | 10:01 | |
His mother's lived-by slogan was, | 10:06 | |
"Us folk in the house is quality." | 10:10 | |
As a young boy, he stole a book | 10:15 | |
with the appropriate title, | 10:19 | |
The Life and Death of Mr. Badman by John Bunyan. | 10:21 | |
And the discovery of the theft | 10:26 | |
led to an educational experiment, | 10:28 | |
could a slave be taught to read? | 10:32 | |
He could, but he was not tutored, | 10:38 | |
either to interpret or to understand. | 10:42 | |
His eagerness and capacity to learn | 10:46 | |
led to an apprenticeship in carpentry, | 10:48 | |
to the position of a journeyman | 10:52 | |
and to the promise by his owner that when Nat was 25, | 10:54 | |
he would be emancipated, a free man. | 11:00 | |
But it was not to be. | 11:06 | |
Samuel Turner's estate failed | 11:09 | |
and he quit Virginia for Alabama, | 11:12 | |
leaving Nat to the Christian care of a homosexual preacher | 11:15 | |
who, instead of arranging Nat's freedom, | 11:21 | |
sold him into real slavery. | 11:25 | |
Nat had another string to his bow, | 11:30 | |
besides being a sound carpenter. | 11:32 | |
He became a preacher, sermonizing, baptizing, | 11:35 | |
studying the Word like passages of Isaiah | 11:41 | |
and Ezekiel and Daniel. | 11:46 | |
He seemed to be almost a total stranger | 11:51 | |
to the law in the Old Testament | 11:54 | |
and to the gospel ethic of the New Testament. | 11:57 | |
He came to the conclusion that his duty under God | 12:02 | |
was to lead a rebellion against the white oppressors | 12:06 | |
and set his people free from the burden, | 12:11 | |
the humiliation and the shame of slavery. | 12:15 | |
So both with naivety | 12:20 | |
and with a considerable understanding of tactics, | 12:23 | |
he launched a rebellion as God's agent of judgment | 12:27 | |
when he was 30 years old. | 12:33 | |
His 60 followers managed to kill, | 12:35 | |
with savage abandoned, 55 white people. | 12:39 | |
Men, women and children. | 12:43 | |
Nat was personally responsible for but one death. | 12:46 | |
The resultant judgment was both unrestrained, | 12:53 | |
a lynching be and controlled. | 12:57 | |
Around 24 of the 60 insurgents were acquitted, | 13:01 | |
about 15 were transported, | 13:06 | |
17 were hanged. | 13:09 | |
Man's verdict on that Turner was | 13:13 | |
that he be hung by neck | 13:15 | |
and may the Lord have mercy on your soul. | 13:20 | |
Our question is, "Will the Lord have mercy on his soul?" | 13:25 | |
Now, in order to be able to answer the question, | 13:32 | |
"Will the Lord have mercy on his soul?" | 13:34 | |
We shall have to look at what motivated Nat Turner, | 13:37 | |
the moving "why" he believed himself to be God's agent | 13:42 | |
in a bloody rebellion. | 13:47 | |
And this is not easy in four or five minutes, but let's try. | 13:50 | |
Nat Turner is an unfolding man | 13:54 | |
of conflicting interests and of confused drive. | 13:58 | |
There was little that was simple, | 14:04 | |
full of light in his out outlook on life. | 14:06 | |
He was an angry man, resentful, inflamed, up in arms. | 14:10 | |
This state was compounded from several elements. | 14:17 | |
There was his understandable hatred of the white man, | 14:21 | |
who separated husband from wife | 14:26 | |
and parents from children as they bought and sold slaves. | 14:30 | |
There was his distrust of the white man who said one thing | 14:36 | |
and did another. | 14:39 | |
There was his disappointment in the white man | 14:42 | |
who, at his best, was a paternalistic despot | 14:45 | |
and at his worst, a hypocrite. | 14:49 | |
And the reaction to all this was a wobbly pride in himself | 14:53 | |
as a black man. | 14:58 | |
His first sermon, spontaneous and eloquent, | 15:00 | |
was an attempt to persuade Negroes | 15:04 | |
to have a sense of worth in themselves as black and as men. | 15:06 | |
Another element was the sexual conflict within himself. | 15:15 | |
His desire to remain chaste and celibate | 15:20 | |
and his lusty longings to express himself in fantasy | 15:25 | |
if not in fact. | 15:29 | |
And all combined in the anger of frustration | 15:31 | |
and incapacity to cooperate with the inevitable. | 15:37 | |
Now, a place against these yearnings and anger | 15:42 | |
and self-knowledge his acceptance of the life of a slave, | 15:45 | |
his fellow feeling for other slaves, | 15:51 | |
and even for a poor white whom he baptized. | 15:54 | |
His hatred of hypocrisy, though he himself was a hypocrite. | 16:00 | |
And when all these conflicting desires and drives | 16:06 | |
are interwoven and tangled, | 16:10 | |
the result is rage, hatred, fury. | 16:14 | |
And so Nat Turner was pulled in two directions | 16:19 | |
by force's intention | 16:24 | |
and the outcome was bound to be disastrous. | 16:26 | |
Now, add one more ingredient, | 16:29 | |
a knowledge of the passages of the Old Testament, | 16:32 | |
Isaiah, Ezekiel and Daniel, | 16:36 | |
which promised God's backing | 16:38 | |
for insurrection and violence and bloodshed. | 16:41 | |
Here is a negro who's taught to read without interpretation, | 16:47 | |
who is allowed to savor knowledge, | 16:53 | |
but, who can blame him, flunks out on wisdom. | 16:58 | |
And then, through meditation | 17:03 | |
on the outrages imposed on himself | 17:04 | |
in sympathy for his fellow slaves, | 17:08 | |
in exciting visions induced by fasting | 17:12 | |
and by a literal interpretation of biblical passages | 17:16 | |
taken out of context, | 17:22 | |
he develops a messianic complex | 17:24 | |
and moves out to set his people free, | 17:28 | |
literally by the sword, | 17:32 | |
from their white oppressor. | 17:34 | |
And yet, the pathos of The Book is not there. | 17:37 | |
The personal tragedy is that | 17:42 | |
after the failure of the bloody rebellion, | 17:45 | |
Nat Turner discovers that he has lost contact | 17:50 | |
with God. | 17:56 | |
From his jail cell and from the pit of his own lostness, | 17:58 | |
he faces execution in a short soliloquy. | 18:03 | |
"I will go without Him, | 18:08 | |
I think. | 18:11 | |
I will go without Him because he has abandoned me | 18:14 | |
without any last sign to hold. | 18:20 | |
Was what I'd done wrong in His sight? | 18:24 | |
And if what I'd done was wrong, | 18:30 | |
is there no redemption?" | 18:34 | |
Is there no redemption? | 18:39 | |
Will the Lord have mercy on his soul? | 18:42 | |
We know what happened to the body of Nat Turner. | 18:48 | |
Drewry in the Southampton Insurrectionist told us | 18:52 | |
and Styron quotes him, | 18:55 | |
"The bodies of those executed, with one exception, | 18:57 | |
were buried in a decent and becoming manner. | 19:02 | |
That of Nat Turner was delivered to the doctors, | 19:06 | |
who skinned it and made grease of the flesh. | 19:10 | |
Mr. R.S. Barham's father owned a money purse | 19:15 | |
made of his hide. | 19:19 | |
His skeleton was for many years | 19:21 | |
in the possession of Dr. Massenberg, | 19:23 | |
but has since been misplaced." | 19:26 | |
That's what became of the body. | 19:29 | |
What will God do with the soul | 19:32 | |
of Nat Turner that is with Nat Turner? | 19:35 | |
We cannot know. | 19:41 | |
But what do we think think God should do with him? | 19:44 | |
There are some of us who answer in one word: Heaven. | 19:47 | |
He will see God be forgiven by God | 19:53 | |
and have continuing life with God. | 19:57 | |
If Jesus could tell the woman taken in adultery | 20:00 | |
that he did not condemn her, though she should sin no more. | 20:03 | |
And if he told the friendlier thief on Calvary | 20:07 | |
that he would be with Jesus that very day in paradise, | 20:10 | |
then he isn't going to be over squeamish about | 20:15 | |
Nat Turner, considering his status in life, | 20:18 | |
his religious mania and his emotional instability. | 20:23 | |
Moreover, there are two pluses to be placed to his account. | 20:27 | |
First, unable to kill anyone, | 20:32 | |
but the innocent, friendly, outgoing Margaret Whitehead, | 20:36 | |
he deliberately allowed the Harris farm girl to escape | 20:41 | |
and she spread the alarm, which thwarted the insurrection. | 20:49 | |
And second, he recovered his contact with God | 20:54 | |
in the last pages of The Book. | 20:59 | |
his lawyer finally brought him a Bible | 21:02 | |
and the feel of that in his hands steadied him. | 21:06 | |
Its presence warms the cell. | 21:10 | |
And then, in his mind's eye, | 21:14 | |
he sees Margaret Whitehead, his friend and victim, | 21:16 | |
and hears her speak to him in the language of The New, | 21:21 | |
The New Testament. | 21:28 | |
Here are the last words of the book. | 21:31 | |
"We'll love one another. | 21:34 | |
She seems to be intriguing me very close now. | 21:37 | |
We'll love one another by the light of Heaven above. | 21:42 | |
I feel the nearness of flowing waters, tumultuous waves, | 21:46 | |
rushing winds. | 21:49 | |
The voice of the jailer calls again, 'Come.' | 21:51 | |
'Yes,' I think, just before I turned to greet him, | 21:56 | |
'I would've done it all again. | 22:00 | |
I would've destroyed them all. | 22:04 | |
Yet, I would've spared one. | 22:06 | |
I would've spared her that showed me Him, | 22:10 | |
whose presence I had not fathomed | 22:14 | |
or maybe never even known. | 22:17 | |
Great God, how early it is | 22:21 | |
Until now, I'd almost forgotten His name.' | 22:24 | |
'Come,' the voice booms, but commanding now. | 22:28 | |
Another voice speaks, 'Come, my son' | 22:33 | |
And I turn in surrender." | 22:38 | |
Yes, it's forgiveness and Heaven for him. | 22:42 | |
There are others of us who also answer in one word: Hell | 22:46 | |
"Turner will be separated from God forever. | 22:52 | |
And what's worse, | 22:55 | |
he will know he is separated | 22:56 | |
and that will be the ultimate torture. | 22:59 | |
That is Hell. | 23:02 | |
How can any man who advocated violence as a way of life | 23:04 | |
expect to land anywhere else than with violent men? | 23:08 | |
Jesus was not mealy-mouthed about what happened | 23:12 | |
to the wicked in the hereafter. | 23:15 | |
Read the parable of the sheep and the goats, | 23:18 | |
especially about the goats. | 23:21 | |
He told them to go to a place prepared | 23:24 | |
for the Devil and his angels, | 23:28 | |
which is hardly paradise regained. | 23:30 | |
Nat Turner is in Hell and good riddance." | 23:33 | |
There's so much truth in both answers | 23:38 | |
that it suggests, perhaps, that the truth really lies | 23:40 | |
in the third position. | 23:43 | |
And this I offer tentatively, sincerely | 23:46 | |
and without asking that you believe it. | 23:51 | |
You ready? | 23:53 | |
What will God do with Nat Turner? | 23:55 | |
He will send him to a Protestant purgatory. | 23:58 | |
Now, let me explain and so defend this on usual, | 24:02 | |
but, for chance, valid suggestion. | 24:06 | |
Purgatory, according to our separated Roman brethren, | 24:10 | |
is a place of punishment | 24:14 | |
limited in duration, | 24:16 | |
where those disembodied souls en route to Heaven | 24:20 | |
make amends for past sins, | 24:26 | |
whose guilt is already forgiven. | 24:30 | |
The name is derived | 24:33 | |
from the Latin verb "purgari" to make clean, to purify. | 24:34 | |
And since fire is thought of as a purifying cleanser, | 24:39 | |
fire is intimately linked with purgatory. | 24:42 | |
But that's in the more popular theories of the Roman church, | 24:47 | |
not in its basic theological teaching. | 24:54 | |
The real suffering in purgatory is to be derived | 24:57 | |
of the vision of God, temporarily. | 25:01 | |
Doctrine of Purgatory is not explicitly stated in the Bible. | 25:06 | |
The Roman Catholic church admits that. | 25:09 | |
It's based on tradition, | 25:11 | |
which Rome rightly believes is given of God. | 25:13 | |
Our morning lesson is sometimes construed as purgatorial, | 25:17 | |
Paul talking of being tested by fire. | 25:22 | |
I have reservations about such an interpretation. | 25:24 | |
Now the (indistinct) theory of purgatory, | 25:28 | |
soft pebbles, chastisement and punishment. | 25:30 | |
My Purgatory has a twofold purpose. | 25:35 | |
The first is reformatory, | 25:38 | |
a disciplinary process of cleansing, | 25:41 | |
which changes the mind and renews the heart. | 25:44 | |
Why, Nat Turner would profit from that. | 25:49 | |
The second purpose is pedagogic. | 25:52 | |
A disciplinary process of instruction | 25:56 | |
in a deepened understanding of the things of God | 25:59 | |
and of his Christ | 26:03 | |
and that Matt Turner meet and would prophet by. | 26:05 | |
And then his seemingly literal bibliolatry would be redeemed | 26:10 | |
by an instructed analysis of the biblical text, | 26:14 | |
by a knowledgeable study of its content, | 26:18 | |
by an enlightened commitment to its central teaching, | 26:22 | |
which has something to do with the love of God | 26:26 | |
and of neighbors, | 26:29 | |
all neighbors, white as well as black. | 26:32 | |
Purgatory is a prep school for Heaven. | 26:37 | |
A coaching school for those who are hardly ready | 26:41 | |
to stand before the majesty, the glory | 26:46 | |
and most shattering of all, the grace, | 26:49 | |
the graciousness of God. | 26:52 | |
Purgatory is an optimistic doctrine, | 26:55 | |
both in its Roman and (indistinct) forms. | 26:58 | |
Why do I say that? | 27:02 | |
There's only one door out of Purgatory. | 27:03 | |
It opens directly into Heaven. | 27:07 | |
Purgatory is a Christian doctrine | 27:10 | |
because it recognizes the two aspects of Christian love, | 27:13 | |
justice and mercy. | 27:17 | |
It's a consoling doctrine | 27:21 | |
because salvation is guaranteed | 27:23 | |
after the bootcamp, which we flunked in this life. | 27:27 | |
It's a necessary doctrine | 27:31 | |
because many of us, as Saint Augustine pointed out, | 27:35 | |
are not so bad | 27:40 | |
as to be deemed unworthy of mercy, | 27:42 | |
not so good | 27:46 | |
as to be entitled to immediate happiness. | 27:48 | |
Now, the better we are, the more we admit the truth | 27:54 | |
of that statement of Saint Augustine's. | 27:57 | |
So I think that Purgatory awaits Nat Turner | 27:59 | |
at the hands of a wise God, | 28:03 | |
who knows the necessary relationship | 28:06 | |
between justice and mercy. | 28:09 | |
There, he will be prepared for Heaven | 28:12 | |
so that he may take his place there, | 28:15 | |
Redeemed, instructed, understanding, unembarrassed, glad. | 28:18 | |
And therefore, blessed. | 28:29 | |
I wonder if William Styron will agree with me. | 28:32 | |
He'll tell me because he's asked for a copy of this sermon. | 28:37 | |
I hopefully believe he will | 28:42 | |
because the scripture passages | 28:45 | |
which open and which close his book are as follows, | 28:48 | |
"And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes. | 28:54 | |
And there shall be no more death, | 29:00 | |
neither sorrow | 29:03 | |
nor crying. | 29:05 | |
Neither shall there be any more pain, | 29:07 | |
for the former things are passed away." | 29:11 | |
That precedes the first page. | 29:17 | |
"And he said, unto me, I am Alpha and Omega, | 29:20 | |
the beginning and the end. | 29:25 | |
I will give unto him that is a thirst | 29:27 | |
of the fountain of life freely. | 29:30 | |
He that overcometh shall inherit all things | 29:33 | |
and I will be his God. | 29:37 | |
And he shall be my son." | 29:41 | |
These are the words which come after the last page. | 29:46 | |
And I think we shall leave the matter there. | 29:52 | |
Let us pray. | 29:57 | |
Grant, O God, that where thy justice cannot forget | 30:01 | |
thy everlasting mercy, may in kindness forgive. | 30:06 | |
For the sake of Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen. | 30:12 | |
(uplifting organ music) | 30:19 | |
♪ There's a wideness in God's mercy ♪ | 30:46 | |
♪ like the wideness of the sea ♪ | 30:53 | |
♪ There's a kindness in God's justice ♪ | 30:59 | |
♪ which is more than liberty ♪ | 31:06 | |
♪ There is welcome for the sinner ♪ | 31:14 | |
♪ and more graces for the good ♪ | 31:21 | |
♪ There is mercy with the Savior ♪ | 31:27 | |
♪ there is healing in his blood ♪ | 31:34 | |
♪ For the love of God is broader ♪ | 31:42 | |
♪ than the measures of the mind ♪ | 31:48 | |
♪ and the heart of the Eternal ♪ | 31:55 | |
♪ is most wonderfully kind ♪ | 32:02 | |
♪ If our love were but more simple ♪ | 32:10 | |
♪ we should rest upon God's word ♪ | 32:17 | |
♪ and our lives would be illumined ♪ | 32:24 | |
♪ by the presence of our Lord ♪ | 32:31 | |
♪ Amen ♪ | 32:39 | |
(soft organ music) | 32:50 | |
♪ For all the saints, whom from their labor rest ♪ | 34:56 | |
♪ Who thee by faith before the world confessed ♪ | 35:05 | |
♪ Thy name, O Jesus, be forever blest ♪ | 35:15 | |
♪ Alleluia ♪ | 35:24 | |
♪ Alleluia ♪ | 35:30 | |
♪ Thou was their rock, their fortress, and their might ♪ | 35:38 | |
♪ Thou, Lord, their captain in the well fought fight ♪ | 35:48 | |
♪ Thou, in the darkness dread, their one true light ♪ | 35:58 | |
♪ Alleluia ♪ | 36:07 | |
♪ Alleluia ♪ | 36:13 | |
♪ Oh, may thy soldiers, faithful, true, and bold ♪ | 36:22 | |
♪ Fight as the saints who nobly fought of old ♪ | 36:31 | |
♪ And win with them the victor's crown of gold ♪ | 36:41 | |
♪ Alleluia ♪ | 36:50 | |
♪ Alleluia ♪ | 36:56 | |
♪ Oh, blest communion, fellowship divine ♪ | 37:08 | |
♪ We feebly struggle, they in glory shine ♪ | 37:17 | |
♪ Yet all are one in thee, for all are thine ♪ | 37:26 | |
♪ Alleluia ♪ | 37:36 | |
♪ Alleluia ♪ | 37:42 | |
♪ But lo there breaks a yet more glorious day ♪ | 37:56 | |
♪ The saints triumphant rise in bright array ♪ | 38:04 | |
♪ The King of glory passes on this way ♪ | 38:14 | |
♪ Alleluia ♪ | 38:23 | |
♪ Alleluia ♪ | 38:29 | |
♪ Amen ♪ | 38:53 | |
(uplifting organ music) | 39:02 | |
(congregation sings indistinctly) | 39:29 | |
- | Almighty God, from whom cometh every good | 39:58 |
and perfect gift, | 40:01 | |
grant that the words of Thy book, | 40:03 | |
which we have heard this day with our outward ears, | 40:05 | |
may, through Thy grace, be so grafted inwardly in our hearts | 40:09 | |
that they may bring forth in us | 40:13 | |
the fruit of good and human living | 40:15 | |
to the honor and praise of Thy name. | 40:18 | |
Grant that our gifts, being dedicated to Thy service, | 40:21 | |
may be used for the good of Thy church | 40:24 | |
and the welfare of Thy people. | 40:27 | |
Through Jesus Christ our Lord, | 40:29 | |
to whom with Thee and the Holy Spirit | 40:31 | |
be all glory and praise, a world without end. | 40:33 | |
Amen. | 40:37 | |
Go now in peace to do the work of God in the world | 40:43 | |
and may the love of God the Father | 40:47 | |
and the grace of God the Son | 40:50 | |
and the power of God the Holy Spirit be with you all. | 40:52 | |
♪ Amen ♪ | 41:01 | |
♪ Amen ♪ | 41:08 | |
(bell tolls) | 41:20 | |
(uplifting organ music) | 41:29 |
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