Louis H. Evans, Sr. - "Your Gift to the World" (May 27, 1962)
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- | I want to say that I could well consider this a capstone | 0:03 |
of some spring flitting around at various universities, | 0:06 | |
some time ago, and they rather vicious spring, | 0:12 | |
I get it on the sleet | 0:15 | |
into Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, | 0:18 | |
and in one of the worst rainstorms in history, | 0:21 | |
I floated into Yale University, | 0:24 | |
then I went down to Texas and there I blew into the meeting | 0:28 | |
and that's wonderful to come to Sunny Durham | 0:32 | |
and walk here under splendid, Dixie sky, | 0:35 | |
a little warmer however, | 0:39 | |
my youngest boy years ago prayed at his mother's knee, | 0:42 | |
dear Jesus, please bless my daddy | 0:46 | |
and may he be a good preacher, | 0:48 | |
and may his sermons perspire the people. | 0:50 | |
And after the prayer, | 0:54 | |
he lifted his big brown eyes to his mother | 0:55 | |
and said, well mother, I guess he means inspire, doesn't he? | 0:57 | |
Well, she said, son I think | 1:01 | |
that's what you did mean inspire, | 1:05 | |
but daddy wouldn't mind if people did perspire a little bit | 1:06 | |
and get the work after the message. | 1:09 | |
Is that kind of a day, | 1:12 | |
it's a real privilege to be back to Duke University, | 1:15 | |
and once again, to hear this choir | 1:18 | |
that matches the splendor of this very stately alter of God | 1:21 | |
that you have erected to his worship and to his service. | 1:25 | |
I like to spend about two months a year | 1:31 | |
in this rather fast getting about in Dixie | 1:33 | |
because I like to brush up on my southern accent, | 1:37 | |
I am sure it's going to be the language of heaven. | 1:40 | |
I remember I was speaking down in Houston, | 1:43 | |
then a fine young lady from Alabama who was a Director | 1:46 | |
of Christian Education, said, you know Dr. Evans, | 1:52 | |
I can hardly understand you sometimes, | 1:54 | |
but while I said, I can hardly understand you | 1:56 | |
sometimes either, but it's a glorious experience. | 1:59 | |
She said, it reminds me of the girl who in class asked | 2:01 | |
the teacher, teacher how do you spell a rat? | 2:07 | |
Well he said R A T honey. | 2:09 | |
She said, no, I don't mean the cheese eating kind of rat, | 2:11 | |
I mean right now, so it's fine to be here. | 2:14 | |
and I want to say we had better make a decision right now. | 2:19 | |
I was rather suspecting that | 2:24 | |
at this time when a college begin somewhat to disintegrate | 2:28 | |
in the early summer, | 2:32 | |
when so many have gone home already to the refuge | 2:34 | |
of the kindly harsh side | 2:37 | |
and others are cramming for examinations, | 2:38 | |
that would be a less commendable number worshiping | 2:41 | |
than there aren't today, | 2:44 | |
not splendid this is. | 2:47 | |
And do I ask this same pending question of you Collegians, | 2:51 | |
what will be your gift to the world? | 2:55 | |
It's been very lavish and it bestows upon you, | 2:57 | |
you are quite conscious of that. | 3:00 | |
Are you give back what in return? | 3:03 | |
In this world of yours will, you'll give it a vacuum | 3:07 | |
or evasion. | 3:11 | |
It's quite a situation your fathers | 3:14 | |
have left you to sweep up. | 3:16 | |
A teacher was asking Billy at Grammar school | 3:21 | |
this question in geography. | 3:23 | |
Billy what the shape of this world? | 3:26 | |
He said, I don't know exactly teacher, | 3:27 | |
but my dad he says it's in the worst shape | 3:30 | |
it's ever been in, | 3:32 | |
I doubt that that's true, | 3:35 | |
because after all there are some very encouraging verses | 3:37 | |
to this present day turmoil | 3:41 | |
and one is the world's love for freedom. | 3:43 | |
It's breaking the old fetters now, | 3:47 | |
this of course can be God's gift. | 3:49 | |
If the son of man shall make you free, | 3:52 | |
you shall be free indeed. | 3:54 | |
And this ought to be the outgrowth of any adequate religion. | 3:57 | |
The American revolution was called | 4:02 | |
the Presbyterian Baptist three better than why, | 4:04 | |
because when these churchmen bowed their knee | 4:07 | |
to Jesus Christ, they would bother need to know Tyra. | 4:09 | |
And when they fashioned to him, | 4:13 | |
this was the secret of their Liberty, our fathers, | 4:14 | |
God to the author of Liberty and whatever God goes, | 4:17 | |
their Liberty must follow. | 4:22 | |
And this is true around the world. | 4:26 | |
Few months ago, I stood in Thailand | 4:29 | |
and I watched the students there with banners, | 4:32 | |
getting ready for a procession. | 4:34 | |
they were spread out on the ground, | 4:35 | |
They didn't know what model to splash, | 4:37 | |
but they were marching against something. | 4:39 | |
The band leader asked what theme songs shall I play? | 4:42 | |
They weren't quite sure, | 4:45 | |
but they would soon find out. | 4:46 | |
They fell, marching against something. | 4:49 | |
I stood on the hill in South Korea about a month later, | 4:53 | |
and ahead of the sound of tooting horns, | 4:57 | |
playing bands and shouting crowds, | 4:59 | |
a man said to me, | 5:03 | |
there you are looking upon the 1510th official demonstration | 5:04 | |
in Korea, since April 15th, the date of the revolution. | 5:10 | |
They were marching against something, | 5:15 | |
I couldn't gather exactly | 5:16 | |
what those young people were marching for, | 5:18 | |
Not yet, but they thought they'd find something. | 5:21 | |
In Japan the same thing. | 5:24 | |
I was less concerned about some of the demonstrations, | 5:27 | |
when I knew there reason, | 5:30 | |
some of them were marching against war. | 5:32 | |
They wanted no more of a burnt flesh | 5:34 | |
of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. | 5:37 | |
Others were marching against oppression. | 5:41 | |
The federal fetters had fallen now, | 5:44 | |
the best deal sort of slavery that attended their classes. | 5:47 | |
Wonder if a father allowed his daughter | 5:53 | |
to wear a more costly garment than belong to her class, | 5:55 | |
that the wedding are served, | 5:58 | |
one more course of pitbulls, then attached itself | 6:00 | |
to their place in society, his head went off, | 6:05 | |
and if there was any displeasure shown physically | 6:09 | |
during the beheading, these members | 6:12 | |
had met the sword as well. | 6:14 | |
Now wore an arm stick, arms does make Arthur and freedom. | 6:17 | |
And some Japanese parents said to me, you know, | 6:22 | |
we can't understand our young people, | 6:24 | |
revolting against everything in this mad freedom. | 6:27 | |
I said, what are they marching for? | 6:31 | |
They weren't so sure, there was a vacuum. | 6:32 | |
If you saw that TV program sometime ago, | 6:38 | |
the new Japan, if you did, | 6:41 | |
you'll recall how the American Master of Ceremonies | 6:43 | |
was questioning one of Japan's leading citizens. | 6:48 | |
He said, once would you have died for your emperor? | 6:51 | |
Yes sir. | 6:53 | |
Would you die for him now? | 6:54 | |
No, sir. | 6:56 | |
Why not? | 6:57 | |
Because you American showed me my emperor was not gutsy. | 6:58 | |
We had been mistaken. | 7:02 | |
Who would you die for now? | 7:04 | |
Nobody, you took away our emperor | 7:05 | |
and you gave us nobody in his place. | 7:08 | |
And now we walk frustrated, afraid of vacuum. | 7:11 | |
That's not good America, to leave them with a vacuum, Is it? | 7:19 | |
You see this as true, isn't it? | 7:26 | |
The moment desertion attaches itself to any course, | 7:29 | |
you must follow it by dedication to another course. | 7:33 | |
And any nation that's lost it's course, good or bad, | 7:37 | |
must have immediately dedicated itself | 7:40 | |
to another and swiftly. | 7:42 | |
You can't trust your car to coast long | 7:44 | |
without a driver it'll wreck itself. | 7:47 | |
And when a train has once lost its guiding tracks, | 7:50 | |
there will be death and catastrophe all around. | 7:54 | |
If you do not lead it immediately to new rails | 7:58 | |
and the world has lost its rail. | 8:02 | |
Now, what have you got the part into this vacuum? | 8:06 | |
Now there are movements in the world | 8:11 | |
that think they have something. | 8:13 | |
Dr. Van Dusen describes the youth | 8:15 | |
of other movements in this way. | 8:17 | |
They do not invite participation, they demand allegiance. | 8:19 | |
They do not persuade to hypotheses, they declare finality. | 8:24 | |
They do not encourage discussion, they silence criticism. | 8:27 | |
That's too bad of course. | 8:30 | |
they do not promise satisfaction, they demand sacrifice. | 8:33 | |
They do not pamper men, they conscript their very souls. | 8:37 | |
They do not magnify the individual, they require his all | 8:41 | |
in service to the whole | 8:44 | |
and from such complete self-giving they propose | 8:46 | |
to build a new world and they will, | 8:49 | |
unless you can match their pattern with a passion | 8:53 | |
and a program equal to theirs' the question is, can you? | 8:57 | |
Our great Egyptian leaders, at some time ago, | 9:04 | |
you go back and tell Alan Dallas | 9:08 | |
that you'll never conquer communism or any other movement | 9:11 | |
by mere police or military methods. | 9:14 | |
One movement can only conquer another | 9:18 | |
by having a greater idea, | 9:20 | |
and we do not think you Americans have a great idea. | 9:22 | |
Now this is an insulting thing to say, | 9:27 | |
but maybe that's true. | 9:31 | |
I'm on about 20 university campuses a year. | 9:35 | |
And I think now the most embarrassing question | 9:39 | |
you can ask many university seniors, | 9:41 | |
what are you living for? | 9:44 | |
Give me your philosophy of life, what do you believe? | 9:45 | |
And sometimes our flog is so thick you can't cut it | 9:49 | |
when we're beginning to realize now | 9:53 | |
that scholarship now does not consist | 9:55 | |
in what you do not believe, | 9:58 | |
it consists in what you do believe. | 10:00 | |
Problems worked out in the heights and profundities | 10:04 | |
and depths of the human mind and conviction. | 10:07 | |
Mascall picked 30 students. | 10:13 | |
They sent them to a Chinese town | 10:16 | |
of a quarter of a million people. | 10:18 | |
They said, these your laboratory months, when that city | 10:20 | |
and 30 students went out from that university. | 10:25 | |
Agreeing, persuading, deep baiting, lecturing, convincing, | 10:29 | |
then seven months, they had won a quarter | 10:34 | |
of a million people to a course. | 10:38 | |
Could you pick 30 students in duke | 10:40 | |
that get go to a city of a quarter a million people | 10:44 | |
and believe something with such vitality | 10:47 | |
that they'd win them over in seven months? | 10:50 | |
Can you? | 10:54 | |
could your name? | 10:56 | |
Maybe you can. | 10:58 | |
Now this is pathetic, when it goes on and off. | 11:03 | |
I was dining in Bangkok, Thailand with Mrs. Evans | 11:08 | |
and a man was sitting along side me at dinner, | 11:12 | |
a man from USAM United States Jehovahseas Mission. | 11:14 | |
A clean-cut, fine agricultural expert, | 11:19 | |
waiting for the revolution to subside in Lagos, | 11:22 | |
so he could go back to work after his vacation. | 11:25 | |
I said, how are things going in Lagos? | 11:27 | |
He said, not good Dr. Evans. | 11:29 | |
So I said, what's the matter? | 11:31 | |
He said, I never saw such missionaries in my life. | 11:33 | |
They're shipping down from the north, | 11:36 | |
they argue, they debate, they explain, they persuade, | 11:39 | |
They have vowed to invite 10 guests | 11:44 | |
over the dinner every week, | 11:47 | |
and then they drop their chairs after the evening meal | 11:49 | |
and argue for two hours more, pass out leaflets and books, | 11:52 | |
I never saw such a missionaries in my life. | 11:58 | |
They're sweeping the field. | 12:00 | |
Well, they said he was seen to be a Christian and American, | 12:01 | |
Why don't you come on with what you believe? | 12:05 | |
He said Dr. Evans, I don't know what I believe and I'm a PhD | 12:08 | |
and I'm a wash out, sir. | 12:13 | |
And how can I fight their convictions with my vacuum. | 12:16 | |
I said, we can't. | 12:19 | |
He said, I know that the average American is a washout, | 12:21 | |
like I am. | 12:26 | |
Is he? | 12:29 | |
Is that why Dorothy Sayers said the average churchman | 12:32 | |
is about as well equipped now, | 12:36 | |
to stand up to a well human agnostic | 12:40 | |
or a marching communist as a boy with a pea shooter. | 12:43 | |
Is to stand up to a marching army with Canon | 12:48 | |
and convictions of Canon. | 12:51 | |
With what kind of an armament will you go out from duke. | 12:54 | |
Vision for this vacuum, | 12:59 | |
now this has become sort of a panic | 13:02 | |
in the minds of Americans | 13:04 | |
who are really doing some thinking. | 13:06 | |
I mean the absence in America of a dynamic religious thrust | 13:09 | |
of a spiritual conviction. | 13:14 | |
So seven leading Americans and their various departments | 13:15 | |
of life wrote articles. | 13:18 | |
You remember, I think in life magazine | 13:20 | |
and Sarah Knauf wrote this, | 13:21 | |
he said, there's as a vocabulary of confidence as ours | 13:24 | |
is a semantic timidity. | 13:28 | |
There's as a choice of weapons and battlefields, | 13:30 | |
ours is just a passive arrangement. | 13:34 | |
All our purposes will remain mere dreams unless, | 13:37 | |
and until we ranged them behind one great single decision. | 13:40 | |
And unless this great decision is quickly made bullying | 13:45 | |
and acted upon under one leadership freedom loop. | 13:49 | |
Now that sounds fine. | 13:53 | |
We must make for one great decision, | 13:54 | |
What is it? | 13:56 | |
He doesn't say it. | 13:57 | |
Under one great leader who is he? | 13:59 | |
He doesn't say, | 14:00 | |
and the fog is still so thick you can't cut it. | 14:02 | |
You and I on answer? | 14:08 | |
When we put this phrase under God, | 14:12 | |
in our allegiance to the flag,wWhat did we mean? | 14:15 | |
Is this your aim in mind? | 14:21 | |
Pray this prayer thy kingdom come explained | 14:24 | |
in the next verse, thy will be done on earth | 14:26 | |
as it is in heaven, | 14:29 | |
or God referred society, under God, under the laws of God, | 14:30 | |
the purposes of God, the chastisement of God, | 14:37 | |
the companionship of God and the courage of God, | 14:41 | |
is this what we mean? | 14:45 | |
You and I know that all the Liberty we have | 14:47 | |
is a result of that. | 14:49 | |
The freedom we have is a result of free conviction, | 14:53 | |
first of all, that man is made | 14:56 | |
in the image of a personal God. | 14:58 | |
Secondly, you will hurt that man and you anger God. | 15:00 | |
That's his protection. | 15:05 | |
Thirdly, you deny God and you can take great that man, | 15:07 | |
and there's nobody to stop you, | 15:12 | |
he's lost these one defender. | 15:15 | |
Our fathers got to the author of Liberty, | 15:17 | |
kingdom of God in the lives of men of God referred society. | 15:22 | |
Now, suppose you and I don't have this | 15:28 | |
to throw into the vacuum, what else should we offer? | 15:30 | |
While some say, we might offer gun, that's true. | 15:33 | |
But some parts of the world don't want guns. | 15:39 | |
And don't misunderstand me. | 15:41 | |
I don't think we're in a position | 15:43 | |
to be caught with too little and too late again. | 15:44 | |
Jesus said something about sword, put up your sword, | 15:48 | |
they that take the sword will perish by the sword. | 15:50 | |
He said this when Peter took out his sword | 15:53 | |
and used it in revenge and anger. | 15:56 | |
But that was not all Jesus said about swords | 15:59 | |
in the same chapter. | 16:03 | |
When his disciples are ready | 16:05 | |
to go through the banded regions, | 16:06 | |
he said, do you have a sword? | 16:08 | |
They said, no sir. | 16:09 | |
He said, buy, sell some of your clothing and buy one. | 16:10 | |
Then we turned to him to have a sword?. | 16:14 | |
Yes, we have to. | 16:15 | |
He said, that's enough, now go your way. | 16:16 | |
I think Jesus said two things. | 16:18 | |
You have a right to defend yourself in abandoned world, | 16:20 | |
but enough is enough man, | 16:25 | |
if you could change the bandits of Jericho, | 16:27 | |
you've got drop your swords. | 16:30 | |
These are the two tasks. | 16:34 | |
I spend about three months a year now | 16:37 | |
with the military at home and abroad, | 16:39 | |
and I haven't talked to a single militarist | 16:41 | |
who thought the military could do anything else, | 16:43 | |
but just hold the line, | 16:45 | |
while we get at this spiritual task. | 16:47 | |
I said to a jet pilot in Alaska getting out | 16:49 | |
of his 102 jet plane. | 16:52 | |
I said, why does that machine, the power | 16:54 | |
in this junction possible destruction fit | 16:56 | |
into your Christian philosophy of life. | 16:58 | |
He said, Dr. Evans that's your bid for time. | 17:01 | |
And without enough of those, the enemy won't give us time. | 17:04 | |
I said time to do what? | 17:07 | |
He said, time to change the human heart sir. | 17:09 | |
You have no of any other problem left? | 17:12 | |
Now there's a smart airman. | 17:15 | |
All the military can do is to give us time. | 17:20 | |
Time to do what? | 17:23 | |
Remember that out of the heart are the issues of life | 17:25 | |
and use the power of God's regeneration to do the job. | 17:29 | |
Otherwise we'll spend generation after generation | 17:33 | |
punching each another's nose in | 17:36 | |
with these implements of destruction. | 17:38 | |
Guns, only to hold the line for the moment, | 17:40 | |
well, how about gifts then? | 17:46 | |
Well, certainly the world knows our surplus. | 17:49 | |
I found, they knew in Africa, | 17:53 | |
how many millions of grain we dumped | 17:55 | |
on the Oklahoma highways 'Cause we were too fat to eat it. | 17:57 | |
They were going to bed hungry. | 18:01 | |
I think for an age reasonably given | 18:05 | |
as a theistic assignment of God, | 18:08 | |
he who is strong economically must bear the infirmities | 18:12 | |
of the week and not please yourself. | 18:16 | |
Of course, a Moggridge talking to a group | 18:18 | |
of Eastern College students said, | 18:20 | |
of course trouble with you Americans says | 18:23 | |
you wanna be loved. | 18:25 | |
We British don't care whether people love us | 18:26 | |
or not but you do. | 18:28 | |
If you don't wanna give, unless they'll love you for giving, | 18:31 | |
but listen, they'll hate you because you got to give, | 18:34 | |
you must give not to be loved, | 18:38 | |
you must give big because you love. | 18:40 | |
And that's true, That's what God did is I remember, | 18:44 | |
why are we ready yet God's enemies Christ died for us. | 18:49 | |
Not because they're byway might love him, | 18:53 | |
but because he loved us and we needed it, God knows | 18:55 | |
and there are no channels in God's sky, | 18:59 | |
the rain that fell last night soaked the farm land | 19:03 | |
of the pagan who hasn't been in church for 10 years, | 19:06 | |
as well as he ordained elder or deacon, | 19:09 | |
it was at God's orders, faithfully. | 19:12 | |
He sends his rain on the just, to the unjust the like, | 19:15 | |
God has that way of breaking men's hearts with his goodness. | 19:18 | |
God never addresses his care packages just | 19:24 | |
to his friends. | 19:26 | |
Didn't God commended his love toward us | 19:30 | |
in that while we were yet sinners, rebels, enemies, he died, | 19:32 | |
Christ died for us. | 19:36 | |
Gifts, yes, let's make them, | 19:38 | |
but the world wants more than anything else, a goal. | 19:42 | |
This coming back from the near east, | 19:49 | |
the far east and the Congo I'm convinced to this. | 19:51 | |
And what the world wants from you and from me | 19:55 | |
is not just something to live on | 19:58 | |
it's something to live for, | 20:01 | |
something worth dying for | 20:03 | |
and we're not giving it to them, that's the trouble. | 20:05 | |
A man said in the Connecticut broadcast, | 20:09 | |
so much of our foreign policy now means going abroad, | 20:12 | |
offering the world bullets, blank checks and blank minds. | 20:17 | |
The world wants to know what to believe. | 20:23 | |
we got this? | 20:28 | |
Yeah, if not well, those as surely as you're living. | 20:32 | |
Now, this is made up of course of the conduct image, | 20:38 | |
and I'm afraid America is losing it fast around the world. | 20:42 | |
I was addressing the occupation forces in Germany, | 20:47 | |
and I said to General Hollis, | 20:50 | |
General Hollis, what do you want us commissioners | 20:51 | |
to try to do with these men? | 20:53 | |
He said, Dr. Evans motivate them, | 20:55 | |
they don't know why they're here. | 20:57 | |
I said, why do you think they're here? | 20:58 | |
I got a good answer. | 20:59 | |
Now this soldier was not in a Yuma farm of his country | 21:01 | |
to hit the gutter or blow the top. | 21:06 | |
That was sort of an ambassador's role, | 21:09 | |
and why don't you on the uniform of this country? | 21:12 | |
He was an advocate of a spiritual democracy, | 21:15 | |
he had something to sell. | 21:18 | |
And US spared us and he couldn't afford to stub his toe. | 21:21 | |
Not anymore, the world was watching. | 21:25 | |
In Japan, one husband said, | 21:32 | |
well, I saw the way that GI treated women, | 21:36 | |
his respect for them. | 21:39 | |
And now I walk beside my wife, | 21:41 | |
I used to walk in front of her. | 21:43 | |
Nice going GI, good work, fine ambassador. | 21:45 | |
But, when a Japanese father says well, | 21:51 | |
after what that GI did to my daughter, | 21:57 | |
if that's what you call Christian democracy, | 22:02 | |
I think it's stinks, | 22:05 | |
get out of here and never come back again. | 22:06 | |
That fella spoil it all, Why he forgot US spared us. | 22:09 | |
And when you men do your military service abroad, | 22:13 | |
remember that, will you please? | 22:17 | |
You're a part of a conduct image | 22:21 | |
the world can never forget. | 22:24 | |
Do they want it? | 22:27 | |
If any man be in Christ, he's a new creature. | 22:30 | |
Anything new about us? | 22:33 | |
If not, I hope he can stay at home, I hope we can. | 22:35 | |
I've heard that Twain B the greatest historian philosopher | 22:44 | |
said this, the west has lost its leadership in the world, | 22:47 | |
And I don't think | 22:51 | |
that it will ever regain it for two things. | 22:52 | |
First of all, alcoholism, | 22:54 | |
that Mohammed and world has no use | 22:57 | |
for a nation full of drunks. | 22:59 | |
Now let's sit here and take this patiently | 23:01 | |
we might as well, listen, this is a world talking. | 23:03 | |
He said the world knows, | 23:08 | |
you had 5 million men knocked out of industry | 23:09 | |
and business last year by an alcoholism, | 23:12 | |
more than all who were killed in slaying | 23:16 | |
and all the wars you've ever been in | 23:18 | |
because you Americans can conquer your enemies, | 23:20 | |
but you can't conquer yourselves. | 23:22 | |
Now that's plain talk | 23:26 | |
and drinking on the American university, I've jumped up | 23:29 | |
from 17 to 72% until anyone within the scenes | 23:32 | |
is getting scared. | 23:37 | |
When the man who was handling more divorce cases | 23:40 | |
than every any other man in the world said, | 23:42 | |
17 out of every 21 divorces, start on the Tavern. | 23:44 | |
Some smart collegians are beginning to do some thinking. | 23:48 | |
I stopped off to speak to the men of Yale sometime ago, | 23:52 | |
and this is what they were doing. | 23:56 | |
They sent a questionnaire out to the Eastern University, | 23:57 | |
to the seniors asking this question, | 24:01 | |
realizing that the collegian goes for acceptance. | 24:05 | |
He must be accepted, and the worst thing can happen | 24:09 | |
to a collegian is for him to be considered in fraternity, | 24:11 | |
sorority the dormitory on campus, a square, | 24:15 | |
and certainly not an odd ball, | 24:18 | |
where the world's greatest copyists. | 24:21 | |
So they asked this question of the men. | 24:24 | |
What would your opinion be of a girl who says, | 24:30 | |
thank you, I don't care to drink. | 24:33 | |
62% of the men said we'd admire her for it, | 24:36 | |
32% said, we'd be a little bit neutral, | 24:42 | |
we certainly wasn't ready to kill her for it. | 24:45 | |
And only 6% said, we think less of her for it. | 24:47 | |
The seniors of the Western colleges, | 24:53 | |
a women came to the sudden conviction | 24:54 | |
that down deep inside nine and a half | 24:58 | |
out of every 10th men honored this, | 25:06 | |
half of the girls voted, it was still higher than that. | 25:12 | |
Now that's, what's scaring the liquor traffic, | 25:16 | |
it's going to spend millions of dollars trying | 25:18 | |
to brainwash you young grads on the last vasege | 25:20 | |
of tribute you pay to win your self-control. | 25:23 | |
I don't know whether they'll do it or not, | 25:28 | |
but they're going all out, | 25:30 | |
and they were invited some of us over | 25:33 | |
for a world Alliance on alcoholism. | 25:36 | |
He said, India solving this problem, | 25:38 | |
but you Americans are losing. | 25:40 | |
I said, we can't afford to come over. | 25:41 | |
He said, we'll pay your way, you need us now, | 25:44 | |
America, America, going to the school of the Mohammedans | 25:47 | |
because we can conquer our enemies | 25:53 | |
and we can't conquer ourselves. | 25:55 | |
He said, the other thing is race prejudice. | 26:01 | |
He said, you might as well face it for a fist of the world, | 26:04 | |
not white. | 26:06 | |
I have no patience with this prejudice, | 26:11 | |
now God knows it's everywhere. | 26:13 | |
I was down giving the rainy lectures | 26:15 | |
and little rock Arkansas sometime ago, | 26:17 | |
and there was a great crowd of people, | 26:20 | |
you know, it's strange how a few rock makes | 26:22 | |
in the town can give that town a reputation, | 26:25 | |
just like my town of Hollywood. | 26:28 | |
But I met some great pastors and some fine people, | 26:31 | |
and they told me two stories down there. | 26:34 | |
One was of a certain woman of considerable social parts | 26:38 | |
who call up the commandant of a military establishment | 26:42 | |
on the borders of her town. | 26:44 | |
She said, I would like to invite four clean-cut soldiers, | 26:46 | |
up for Sunday dinner tomorrow, | 26:50 | |
one said, I'll hand you over to the Sergeant, | 26:52 | |
the director of special activity. | 26:54 | |
And she said, I like these four men. | 26:56 | |
Well, he said, thank you, but they must be Gentiles, | 26:58 | |
Please, not Jews. | 27:01 | |
He said, all right. I'll remember that. | 27:03 | |
Doorbell rang next day at noon, one o'clock | 27:05 | |
there's the fourth trapping Negro soldier. | 27:10 | |
She said, oh my dear, there must be some mistake. | 27:13 | |
One of the soldiers said, | 27:15 | |
Madam Sergeant Goldberg doesn't make any mistake. | 27:17 | |
(audience laughs) | 27:20 | |
And they told me this other story of how someone moved | 27:28 | |
into a certain section and he said there was two sons, | 27:30 | |
now I couldn't find you a segregated high school, | 27:33 | |
but there are only six neat girls in this one | 27:35 | |
So just be careful, It's the best I could do. | 27:37 | |
Just watch your step, they came home and said, | 27:40 | |
how'd it go boy, I'll fine dad where'd you eat | 27:44 | |
in the cafeteria with MDG, while we sat | 27:46 | |
beside the six neat girls, he said, what? | 27:49 | |
And he said, daddy I think you wanted us | 27:51 | |
to eat with those damn yankees, didn't you? | 27:52 | |
Now isn't that something, | 27:55 | |
(audience mumbles) | 27:56 | |
and thank you for inviting. | 27:58 | |
Why don't we have these problems down in California | 28:00 | |
and Arizona, and New Mexico | 28:03 | |
with a Latin Americans and Mexicans. | 28:06 | |
Do we have this trouble with the Orientals in San Francisco | 28:08 | |
and with a Puerto Ricans in Detroit | 28:13 | |
and with the Jews in New York, | 28:16 | |
dear God, how sick we all are, | 28:17 | |
whether there's prejudice, whatever form it takes. | 28:21 | |
Pray for us. | 28:23 | |
We'll pray for you. Let's all pray. | 28:26 | |
We've got to get rid of this disease, | 28:29 | |
whatever form it takes, | 28:32 | |
and I think it's a theological solution. | 28:33 | |
As many as received him, | 28:37 | |
Christ to them gave he power to become the sons of God all | 28:38 | |
by my father in the great family of God. | 28:42 | |
You know, the dictionary definition for brotherhood? | 28:45 | |
Brotherhood is a relationship that exists between two men | 28:48 | |
who have the same father, | 28:54 | |
that off just settled it, it shouldn't. | 28:58 | |
Our father who art in heaven. | 29:01 | |
The world's watching to see if the kingdom of God | 29:08 | |
will lead the way, will it? | 29:12 | |
This is tomorrow, | 29:18 | |
all right, let's go out then with propositions, definitely. | 29:20 | |
Now the world believes something, do you, do I? | 29:26 | |
Like a freshmen, forum moves the church of God, | 29:34 | |
brothers, we are talking where the saints have trod. | 29:38 | |
We are not decided whether we shall be one indeed | 29:41 | |
or doctrine or a futility in heaven's name, decide. | 29:44 | |
You've got something to say, haven't you? | 29:49 | |
Have a proposition, | 29:52 | |
beat the premises suit of a creed, | 29:55 | |
and you won't do that sleeping in Sunday mornings | 29:58 | |
or dodging the spirituality. | 30:02 | |
You'll go out to the spiritual proposition, | 30:05 | |
do you believe something? | 30:08 | |
For that proposition is useless unless you propagate it. | 30:10 | |
Hydra Guard said what this age lacks is not reflection, | 30:14 | |
it's passion. | 30:18 | |
And it's not enough for your young people | 30:20 | |
to think you've got to act | 30:22 | |
because of proposition of philosophy without projection, | 30:24 | |
life's dead in its grave. | 30:28 | |
You'd better go, somehow. | 30:31 | |
He said, go to China, you can win it | 30:37 | |
in 10 years or somebody else will and then we didn't go, | 30:38 | |
so someone else won them in seven and a half years. | 30:41 | |
And someone said, go to Japan, | 30:45 | |
the guard or said, this is a theological war. | 30:47 | |
They must know the Christian concept of the fatherhood | 30:50 | |
of God who I have no brotherhood of man we didn't go. | 30:53 | |
We went, all right. | 30:56 | |
We didn't go with God, we went with a gun | 30:59 | |
that time, but you always go. | 31:01 | |
Now Africa called, I stood in the Congo sometime ago | 31:06 | |
and an African she said, | 31:09 | |
Dr. Evans, don't you know, this continent is choosing? | 31:10 | |
If you send enough missionaries, professors and teachers, | 31:14 | |
you can have four fifths of all our Africa children, | 31:17 | |
and in five years, we'll be on our way to Christianity, | 31:19 | |
I said, that's great. | 31:22 | |
I said, it isn't great. | 31:26 | |
He said, it isn't great at all. | 31:27 | |
I said, why do you talk like that? | 31:28 | |
He said, you won't come, | 31:29 | |
you're young, people don't care what we think. | 31:30 | |
I said, you're wrong. | 31:33 | |
He said, I'm right. | 31:35 | |
I stood there in the jungle, four years later, | 31:36 | |
he was right and I was wrong. | 31:39 | |
One movement alone that sent 2000 train Africans back | 31:42 | |
from university to the Congo, the church had sent 13. | 31:48 | |
Now you can't win that way. | 31:54 | |
Now let's remember at any given moment in history, | 31:57 | |
history belongs to the talkers. | 32:00 |
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