James T. Cleland - "19 Men and Asahel" (March 1, 1970)

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	(organ music)	0:03
Pastor	It is a great and thrilling thing	0:08
	to praise our maker for his truth, for his holiness	0:10
	and his love.	0:15
	But in so doing, we become aware of our lack of greatness	0:17
	at all these points, and of our need	0:22
	for relying upon the forgiveness of God	0:25
	made available to us through his son,	0:29
	Jesus Christ, our Lord, may we therefore be seated	0:32
	and join together our hearts and voices in singing	0:36
	our confession of reliance upon Jesus.	0:40
	♪ Lo, the Good Shepherd ♪	1:11
	♪ For the sheep is offered ♪	1:18
	♪ The slave hath sinned ♪	1:27
	♪ And the Son hath suffered ♪	1:32
	♪ For our atonement ♪	1:43
	♪ While we nothing heeded ♪	1:51
	♪ God interceded ♪	1:59
	♪ For me kind Jesus ♪	2:10
	♪ Was thy incarnation ♪	2:18
	♪ Thy mortal sorrow ♪	2:27
	♪ And thy life's oblation ♪	2:35
	♪ Thy death of anguish ♪	2:44
	♪ And thy bitter passion ♪	2:53
	♪ For my salvation ♪	3:03
	♪ Amen ♪	3:16
Pastor	The love that let us hear	3:33
	these comforting words of assurance, Jesus Christ,	3:34
	our God own son, for us to Earth descended	3:40
	and all our sin has he atoned.	3:46
	And so death's rule has ended, all death's power here below	3:48
	is now avain, an empty show, his sting is lost forever.	3:54
	Hallelujah, Amen.	4:00
	(gentle organ music)	4:10
	The gospel is made known and is celebrated	10:13
	in a wide variety of ways through the reading	10:16
	of the gospels, through the preaching of the gospel,	10:20
	through the singing of hymns, of anthems	10:24
	through organ music, other instrumental music,	10:29
	through art and architecture.	10:33
	In recognition of this, Dr. Rudolph Kramer	10:37
	will play an organ concert in the chapel	10:42
	next Sunday afternoon.	10:45
	Dr. Kramer, as you will remember, was for two years,	10:48
	our chapel organist, he is Head of Organ	10:51
	at the University of North Carolina.	10:54
	I call this to your attention because	10:57
	there was as an announcement erroneously printed	10:59
	in yesterday's Durham's Sun, that he would play today.	11:02
	He will not play here today, but he will play next Sunday.	11:06
	Trust the announcement that you find	11:10
	printed in today's chapel bulletin, not the one	11:13
	in yesterday's newspaper.	11:17
	Now I'm not giving that to you as a general principle,	11:19
	because we are as capable of making errors as anyone else.	11:22
	But in this specific instance, trust the chapel bulletin	11:26
	rather than the newspaper, thank you.	11:29
Man	The scripture lesson this morning	11:43
	is found in the second, the book, the second book of Samuel,	11:45
	the second chapter, it concerns David's succession	11:49
	to the throne of Israel, the translation is by Moffatt.	11:55
	We begin to read from the eighth verse.	12:00
	"Now Abner, the son of Ner, commander of Saul's army,	12:05
	had taken Saul's son Ishbel, across the Mahanaim,	12:09
	where he made him king over Gilead, the Asherites,	12:13
	Jezreel, Ephraim and Benjamin.	12:17
	In fact, over all Israel, only the house of Judah	12:19
	adhered to David, then Abner the son of Ner	12:23
	and the adherence of Ishbel, the son of Saul,	12:28
	marched from Mahanaim nine to Gibeon.	12:30
	Joab, the son of Zeruiah and David's adherence,	12:34
	also marched out and met them at the reservoir at Gibeon.	12:38
	That day, the fight that followed was most fierce,	12:43
	but Abner, the son of Ner and the men of Israel	12:49
	were beaten by the adherence of David.	12:52
	Zeruaih's three sons were there,	12:56
	Joab, Abushai and Asahel, Asahel was swift-footed	13:00
	as a wild deer.	13:05
	So Asahel chased Abner, and as he ran,	13:07
	he turned neither to left nor right in his pursuit of Abner,	13:11
	then Abner glanced behind him and said,	13:14
	'Is that you, Asahel?'	13:17
	'Yes.'	13:19
	He answered.	13:20
	So Abner said to him,	13:21
	'Turn to your left or turn to your right,	13:24
	catch one of the young men and take his spoil.'	13:26
	But Asahel would not turn aside from his chase.	13:30
	Then Abner's said again to Asahel,	13:35
	'Turn aside from following me, why should I strike you down?	13:37
	How could I look your brother Joab in the face after that?'	13:41
	But he would not turn aside.	13:45
	And so Abner gave him a backwards stroke in the belly.	13:47
	The spear came out of his back	13:50
	and he dropped dead on the spot.	13:51
	All before noon, Abner and his men	13:55
	made their way through the wadi of Araba,	13:57
	crossing the Jordan and passing right through the ravine	14:00
	until they had reached Mahanaim.	14:04
	As for Joab, he returned from his pursuit of Abner.	14:06
	When he had mustered all the troops, 19 of David's adherence	14:11
	were missing, besides Asahel, Asahel they lifted	14:16
	and buried him in his father's grave in Bethlehem."	14:20
	Let us pray that God will bless to us	14:25
	the understanding of this scripture, Amen.	14:28
	♪ Glory be to the Father ♪	14:42
	♪ And to the Son ♪	14:46
	♪ And to the Holy Ghost ♪	14:49
	♪ As it was in the beginning ♪	14:54
	♪ Is now and ever shall be ♪	14:58
	♪ World without end ♪	15:04
	♪ Amen, Amen ♪	15:07
-	The Lord be with you.	15:16
Congregation	And with your spirit.	15:17
-	Let us pray.	15:19
	Almighty God, by whose wisdom the earth was founded	15:30
	and the heavens established, thou has taught us that wisdom	15:35
	is more precious than rubies.	15:40
	That it is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon it.	15:42
	We therefore gather here and do now pause	15:47
	to give thee thanks that the founders of thy church	15:51
	and of this university fulfill their obligation	15:55
	to impart the treasures of faith and knowledge	16:00
	to succeeding generations, and that they gave us	16:03
	a place where by searching, wisdom and faith may be found.	16:07
	We thank thee that by their planning and sacrifice,	16:14
	we have come into a great inheritance of truth.	16:17
	Enable us, we pray thee, to guard and to expand	16:23
	this blessing.	16:27
	We offer our gratitude that we were born into a generation,	16:30
	which has a great and challenging responsibility.	16:34
	We are thankful, oh God, that the times	16:39
	call out the best that is in us and will not allow us	16:41
	to be complacent.	16:45
	We blessed thee that before this world was ours,	16:47
	it belonged to thee, that before the responsibilities	16:50
	of this university were upon our shoulders,	16:55
	thou didst love it and care for it.	17:00
	And that even now the administrators,	17:03
	the faculty and the students here are more truly	17:06
	thy children than they are any of ours.	17:10
	For thy divine companionship in this endeavor,	17:16
	we are profoundly grateful, and so God,	17:21
	we offer our prayers of intercession for students everywhere	17:26
	that they may have grace to learn both facts and wisdom,	17:30
	to learn about life and to learn to live,	17:36
	as they achieve their own individuality,	17:40
	their own separate personhood, grant them the grace	17:43
	to rebel without becoming rebellious,	17:47
	that they may be able to handle skepticism fully,	17:51
	without becoming paranoid.	17:56
	That they may have good judgment to hear all voices,	17:59
	without becoming the slaves of any.	18:04
	Grant that they may choose just one master, Jesus.	18:07
	We offer, oh God, also our prayers for administrators,	18:14
	that they may be given the grace of wisdom	18:19
	in the midst of confusion, the grace of patience	18:22
	under continual annoyance, the grace of independence	18:26
	in a network of interrelatedness.	18:30
	The grace to wait while immature people grope for maturity,	18:33
	give them the understanding which is necessary	18:40
	to accept the misunderstanding of the public,	18:42
	give them skill in attracting necessary financial support,	18:45
	and success in maintaining academic freedom.	18:50
	Give them strength in defending the university	18:55
	against both the anarchists and the bigots,	18:57
	and oh God grant them that degree of human	19:01
	and divine support without which no individual can endure.	19:03
	Oh God who art the judge of all,	19:10
	who knowest what is in man and requires truth.	19:13
	We pray on behalf of all our fellows,	19:19
	not simply those here at the university, hear us	19:22
	as we pray for the poor and the ignorant,	19:27
	the friendless and the lonely.	19:30
	Those who are tempted, those who are unbelieving,	19:34
	be merciful to those who had counted	19:38
	on being in happier circumstances	19:40
	than they are this morning.	19:42
	Soothe their disappointment and help them to understand it.	19:45
	Grant strength to those who carry a cross of suffering.	19:50
	Be thou the strong arm of those in danger.	19:54
	We pray thee, to pour out thy spirit upon all of us,	19:59
	that we may learn how to have clean laughter	20:03
	and good sportsmanship, that we may know how to be happy	20:07
	as well as to follow duty.	20:12
	May we be simple in purpose and noble in achievement	20:17
	and oh God, as we are so often impressed with our failures	20:24
	and with our inability to measure up to the challenge	20:27
	of the day, keep us openly mindful of our need	20:30
	to rely upon thee, so that in our weakness we may be strong	20:34
	through thy strength.	20:39
	Give us the capacity to love our fellows,	20:43
	for all of us need to receive and to give love.	20:46
	And without it, we are sick.	20:49
	Do thou make us whole, we pray for grace	20:52
	to love beyond the circle of our friends,	20:56
	our teammates, our fraternity brothers,	20:58
	those who see things as we do and agree with us	21:01
	and compliment us, help us to love the unlovely.	21:05
	Even as we who are unlovely have been loved.	21:09
	Oh thou who doest send rain and sunshine upon the just,	21:14
	and the unjust, send thy spirit into our hearts.	21:19
	That we may love as thou dost love.	21:24
	We pray in the name of him who revealed this love to us,	21:28
	even Jesus Christ our Lord.	21:32
	Now, in order that we may capture more of his spirit,	21:36
	we use the words, oh God,	21:40
	which he has taught us to use in prayer to thee,	21:42
	saying, Our Father who art in Heaven,	21:45
	hallowed be thy name.	21:49
	Thy kingdom come, thy will be done	21:51
	on earth as it is in heaven.	21:54
	Give us this day our daily bread	21:57
	and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those	21:59
	who trespass against us and lead us not into temptation,	22:03
	but deliver us from evil, for thine is the kingdom	22:07
	and the power and the glory forever, Amen.	22:11
Man	The peace of God be with you	22:37
	and with all the people of God.	22:40
	Let us place in juxtaposition two stories,	22:46
	one contemporary, and one biblical, both concerned	22:52
	with soldiers who died in war.	22:58
	The first story is told in the November 26th issue	23:04
	of the Christian Century for last year.	23:08
	It describes Veterans Day, November 11	23:12
	in Birmingham, Alabama.	23:18
	It was an opportunity for understandable	23:21
	national and civic pride, for a school holiday	23:25
	and an elaborate parade, for a Veterans Day	23:32
	world peace luncheon and the patriotic rally	23:37
	at the municipal auditorium.	23:42
	The celebration ended with a pledge of allegiance	23:45
	to the flag, and that was that.	23:49
	Or was it?	23:56
	The new story has another side to it, I quote,	23:59
	"The real drama of the day unfolded	24:05
	during the noon hour, away from the downtown area	24:08
	at Elmwood cemetery.	24:13
	For over 60 years, the final resting place	24:18
	of the city's aristocracy, outside the main gate	24:22
	some 300 people gathered for a prayer vigil	24:28
	in memory of private first class Bill Terry,	24:32
	killed in action in Vietnam in July.	24:38
	Bill had requested that in the event of his death	24:44
	in the war, he be buried in Elmwood.	24:47
	So his mother could see his grave	24:53
	from the family home nearby,	24:55
	but his request had been denied by the cemetery management.	24:58
	On the sole ground that his skin	25:04
	was the wrong color, black.	25:07
	November 11 was the biggest Veterans Day	25:13
	yet seen in Birmingham, perhaps in the nation,	25:17
	the soldiers marched, the bands played,	25:21
	the politicians made their speeches	25:25
	and Bill Terry's father sat outside the gates	25:29
	of Elm cemetery and wept.	25:34
	Bill Terry died in the service of a democracy.	25:41
	He could not be buried Democratic.	25:46
	Now the other story is from second Samuel, chapter two,	25:52
	our scripture lesson, it tells of a civil war	25:55
	long, long ago For the control	25:59
	of the succession of the throne of Saul,	26:04
	the first king of Israel who had been slain in action	26:09
	against the Philistines.	26:13
	The party which backed Ishbel, Saul's son,	26:16
	was led by Abner, the party which followed David	26:20
	the giant killer was under the command of Joab.	26:25
	Joab defeated Abner in the first trial of strength.	26:31
	And at this point Asahel, the brother of Joab,	26:35
	comes into the picture.	26:38
	He was the youngest son of David's sister,	26:41
	and was famed for his speed.	26:44
	"As swift of food as a wild gazelle,"	26:47
	is how the Bible describes him.	26:52
	He was one of David's 30 heroes,	26:54
	commander of a division in David's army.	26:57
	He decided to kill or capture Abner	27:02
	as the Davidic followers pursued the defeated enemy	27:07
	from the battlefield.	27:10
	He had almost overtaken his quarry	27:13
	when Abner suggested that he ease up and slow down.	27:15
	With the argument that he would rather not kill Asahel,	27:21
	as he could never look Joab, Asahel's brother,	27:25
	in the face again.	27:29
	Asahel persisted, so Abner slew him.	27:32
	And the verse which intrigues me is the one	27:37
	which enumerates the casualties among David's followers.	27:40
	There lack is they were missing of David servants,	27:45
	19 men and Asahel, 19 men and Asahel.	27:51
	Now, where was Asahel buried?	28:02
	In the tomb of his father, which was at Bethlehem.	28:04
	Why not?	28:09
	Bethlehem was David's town.	28:11
	And David was Asahel's uncle,	28:14
	two dead soldiers and two cemeteries.	28:18
	These are our two stories in juxtaposition,	28:26
	two dead soldiers and two cemeteries,	28:32
	why the difference?	28:34
	Oh, one answer is obvious, Asahel was top brass.	28:36
	Terry was a private first class,	28:42
	the Bible tells us that as Asahel's mother	28:47
	was David's sister.	28:50
	The newspaper article does not say who Terry's mother is,	28:53
	Asahel was a member of the dominant race.	28:59
	Terry was not, Asahel belonged to the in-group.	29:03
	Terry certainly as a corpse, belonged to an out group,	29:11
	far out, Asahel was an all-Israelite.	29:18
	Terry was not, for most people and all-American.	29:24
	One wonders if the attitude of Birmingham	29:30
	would've been different if Terry had been	29:32
	a brigadier general or even a bird colonel.	29:35
	Or if he'd just been a white private first class?	29:43
	His color was wrong, his rank was wrong.	29:48
	His family tree was wrong, his community status was wrong.	29:52
	He was just a Christian and an American	30:00
	and a soldier who had died in war for his country.	30:05
	But that was not enough to make him	30:10
	persona grata, corpus gratum.	30:13
	For some people in one part of our democratic republic.	30:20
	One would think that a cemetery,	30:25
	as the ante room to heaven or hell	30:28
	would be a place of no discrimination.	30:31
	Is it the Morovians who call a graveyard	30:36
	the city of the equal death?	30:38
	That thought came to my mind some years ago in Salisbury,	30:43
	Salisbury North Carolina, not England.	30:46
	There's a Negro college there.	30:51
	Livingstone college, named for David Livingstone.	30:53
	Scotland's greatest missionary,	30:59
	an African explorer and an opponent of slavery.	31:02
	Now there are both drama and irony	31:09
	in the commemoration of David Livingstone	31:12
	in this neighboring town.	31:17
	Why?	31:21
	Because David Livingstone's eldest son	31:24
	was buried there in Salisbury,	31:30
	before his father knew that such a place existed.	31:33
	Perhaps Robert Livingstone, his father	31:39
	couldn't get along with each other.	31:43
	In despair, the boy fled from Africa,	31:45
	not to Scotland, but to the United States.	31:49
	He had resolved to fight in the civil war.	31:53
	Landing in New York he enlisted in the Northern forces	31:56
	under an assumed name,	32:00
	lest he dishonor his father's reputation.	32:02
	He was wounded near Laurel Hill in Virginia, captured,	32:07
	detained in a prisoner of war camp at Salisbury	32:12
	and died there on December 5th, 1864, age 18.	32:17
	I visited the national cemetery there	32:25
	and asked to see his grave.	32:27
	I was told that the actual grave is unmarked and unknown.	32:29
	If Robert Livingstone had been an officer,	32:36
	the burial site would be known.	32:39
	He was just a private, and his remains	32:43
	are in one of 18 trenches set apart	32:46
	as a common burying ground for ordinary soldiers,	32:50
	the city of the equal dead?	32:56
	David Livingstone's body lies in Westminster Abbey,	33:01
	the historic Valhalla of the late British empire.	33:06
	Now we know the rebuttal in theory,	33:14
	to such discrimination, be the corpse	33:17
	Robert Livingstone or Bill Terry.	33:20
	It's in the Old Testament and the New Testament.	33:25
	It's in the creeds and hymns of Judaism and Christianity.	33:29
	It tells us that there can be no love of God	33:35
	without love of his most beloved creature, man.	33:40
	That's how the Dutch catechism puts it.	33:46
	It adds,	33:49
	"The law of love knows no limits.	33:51
	Love never says it is enough."	33:55
	Love never says it is enough, to put it pedantically,	34:01
	the principle of respect for personality in all men	34:08
	is a fundamental, the fundamental	34:12
	Christian social principle.	34:17
	To put it absolutely, Christian love recognizes	34:20
	the infinite worth of the downest man,	34:24
	to put it practically, Christian love	34:30
	means reading statistics with compassion,	34:34
	"Reading statistics, with compassion."	34:42
	That's how the late Bishop Gore put it.	34:46
	Robert Burn summed it all up in seven words.	34:50
	"A man's a man for all that."	34:54
	A man is not an IBM card, not a social security number,	35:00
	not a dog tag.	35:05
	He's a man, a child of God, a comrade,	35:09
	a brother for all that than for all anything else.	35:13
	Is this too highfalutin for us?	35:20
	Too idealistic, too impossible?	35:24
	Then listen to a page or two from a novel,	35:29
	which has just been made into a motion picture	35:31
	for the second time.	35:35
	Last year, Judith Chris listed	35:38
	among the 10 worst movies of 1969.	35:41
	It's James Hilton's,	35:46
	Goodbye, Mr. Chips.	35:49
	Mr. Chips has come out of retirement	35:53
	to become acting headmaster of an English prep school.	35:55
	During the First World War.	35:58
	One of his duties was to read in chapel,	36:00
	the names of old boys who had been killed in the war.	36:04
	Here are two pages from the book.	36:09
	"On Sundays in chapel it was he who now read out	36:13
	the tragic list, and sometimes it was seen and heard	36:16
	that he was in tears over it.	36:20
	Well, why not?	36:24
	The school said, he was an old man.	36:25
	They might have despised anyone else for the weakness.	36:30
	One day he got a letter from Switzerland,	36:35
	from friends there.	36:37
	It was heavily censored, but conveyed some news.	36:39
	On the following Sunday after the names and biographies	36:44
	of old boys, he paused a moment and then added,	36:47
	'Those few of you who were here before the war	36:52
	will remember Max Staefel, the German master.	36:56
	He was in Germany visiting his home when war broke out.	37:02
	He was popular while he was here and made many friends.	37:09
	Those who knew him will be sorry to hear	37:13
	that he was killed last week On the Western front.'	37:17
	He was a little pale when he sat down afterward,	37:23
	aware that he had done something unusual.	37:26
	He had consulted nobody about it.	37:29
	No one else could be blamed,	37:33
	later outside the chapel he heard an argument.	37:35
	'On the Western front?' Chip said,	37:39
	'Does that mean he was fighting for the Germans?'	37:42
	'I suppose it does.'	37:45
	'Seems funny then to read his name out with all the others,	37:47
	after all, he was an enemy.'	37:52
	'Oh, just one of Chip's ideas I expect,	37:57
	the old boy still has 'em.'	38:01
	Chip's in his room again, was not displeased by the comment.	38:05
	Yes, he still had 'em, those ideas of dignity and generosity	38:10
	that were becoming increasingly rare in a frantic world."	38:18
	Those ideas of dignity and generosity that were becoming	38:24
	increasingly rare in a frantic world,	38:30
	each dead alumnus had his name read out,	38:34
	in that school service, there was no summary sentence,	38:39
	'There were killed 19 men and Asahel.'	38:42
	Each man, whatever his family, his rank,	38:47
	his prowess, was an Asahel.	38:50
	Some of you're going to Scotland this year, as tourists,	38:55
	as students, as assistant ministers.	39:00
	Visit Iona, that little island off the west coast,	39:05
	where Columba brought Christianity to the Highlands	39:11
	in 563, visit the graveyard, 60 Kings are buried there.	39:15
	48 are Scottish, eight are Norwegian and four are Irish.	39:25
	Macbeth is in interred there.	39:34
	So is Duncan, who Macbeth murdered.	39:38
	There are other folk also, clan chiefs, ecclesiastics.	39:43
	There is about one 20th century grave.	39:47
	If my memory is accurate, that of a Nazi aviator,	39:51
	whose body was washed to shore on Iona	39:59
	in the Second World War, he lies among the Kings.	40:04
	I wonder if anyone knows his name.	40:14
	I wonder if his family ever came over from Germany	40:17
	to stand beside his grave on that foreign holy island.	40:21
	This sermon began with a new story from Birmingham, Alabama,	40:31
	but it concluded with another one from Birmingham.	40:37
	Here it is as recorded in the Durham Morning Herald	40:41
	of January 4th, 1970, and in the Christian century	40:44
	of January 14th, on Saturday, January three,	40:48
	private first class Bill Terry was buried	40:54
	in Elmwood cemetery after a five month legal battle	40:59
	against racial restriction.	41:07
	A federal judge ruled last week that the restrictive clauses	41:11
	in the contracts with other plot owners were illegal.	41:16
	Elmwood did not appeal the decision.	41:21
	Bill Terry lies within sight of the house	41:26
	in which he grew up.	41:30
	His white pastor, father Eugene Farrow	41:33
	said to the congregation,	41:38
	"I hope this burial is a symbol of a new age.	41:41
	This may be the last barrier of discrimination.	41:46
	This is not a time of mourning, it is a time of rejoicing."	41:52
	Then Bill Terry is a contemporary Asahel?	41:59
	No, he probably wouldn't want to be.	42:05
	He probably would rather be Bill Terry,	42:12
	a Roman Catholic Christian, a black American	42:15
	who died in one of his country's wars.	42:21
	He was and is a child of God, he's in that white cemetery	42:26
	because a group of blacks and whites under God	42:34
	and through the law, were able to make a point clear	42:40
	that inner democracy, which owes so much	42:46
	to the Judeo-Christian heritage, a man is a man, is a man.	42:51
	Be he Jew or Christian, black or white,	42:59
	Asahel or Bill Terry.	43:04
	We worshipping in this service know that in Christ,	43:09
	there is no East or West, in him no North or South.	43:14
	So let us affirm that faith by singing it,	43:22
	the hymn is 1, 9, 2.	43:28
	♪ In Christ there is no East or West ♪	43:54
	♪ In Him no South or North ♪	44:00
	♪ But one great fellowship of love ♪	44:06
	♪ Throughout the whole wide Earth ♪	44:11
	♪ In Him shall true hearts everywhere ♪	44:17
	♪ Their high communion find ♪	44:23
	♪ His service is the golden cord ♪	44:29
	♪ Close binding all of mankind ♪	44:35
	♪ Join hands then people of the faith ♪	44:41
	♪ Whate'er your race may be ♪	44:47
	♪ Who serve thy Father lamb of God ♪	44:53
	♪ Is surely kin to me ♪	44:59
	♪ In Christ now meet both East and West ♪	45:05
	♪ In Him meet South and North ♪	45:12
	♪ All Christly souls are one in Him ♪	45:17
	♪ Throughout the whole wide Earth ♪	45:24
	♪ Amen ♪	45:31
	(gentle organ music)	45:50
	(congregation singing)	47:44
Pastor	Eternal God, giver of every good	52:46
	and perfect gift, who seekest above all thy gifts,	52:49
	to give thyself to us.	52:53
	Grant that with these token gifts of our hands,	52:56
	we may more fully give ourselves in joyous obedience	53:00
	and service through Jesus Christ, our Lord.	53:04
	Now may the grace of the Lord, Jesus Christ be with us all.	53:13
	♪ Amen ♪	53:22

Item Info

Title:

James T. Cleland - "19 Men and Asahel" (March 1, 1970)

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https://idn.duke.edu/ark:/87924/r47944w1n

Date:

March 1, 1970

Speaker:

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

Contributor:

Duke University. Chapel

Identifier:

UA.17.01.0003 RR-0511
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duke:628555
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ark:/87924/r47944w1n
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Duke Chapel Recordings

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Duke University Chapel recordings, 1954-2005

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English

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North Carolina
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