James T. Cleland - "He Is Not Here, but Is Risen" Easter Service (March 26, 1967)

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	(calm organ music)	0:03
	♪ Jesus Christ today is risen today ♪	0:53
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	0:58
	♪ Our triumphant holy day ♪	1:03
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	1:08
	♪ Who did once upon the cross ♪	1:13
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	1:18
	♪ Suffer to redeem our loss ♪	1:24
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	1:29
	♪ Hymns of praise then let us sing ♪	1:36
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	1:41
	♪ Unto Christ our heavenly king ♪	1:47
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	1:52
	♪ Who endured the cross and grave ♪	1:57
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	2:03
	♪ Sinners to redeem and save ♪	2:08
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	2:13
	♪ But the pains that he endured ♪	2:21
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	2:26
	♪ Our salvation have procured ♪	2:31
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	2:37
	♪ Now above the sky he's King ♪	2:42
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	2:47
	♪ Where the angels ever sing ♪	2:53
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	2:58
	♪ Jesus Christ is risen today ♪	3:05
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	3:10
	♪ Our triumphant holy day ♪	3:15
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	3:21
	♪ Who did once upon the cross ♪	3:26
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	3:32
	♪ Suffer to redeem our loss ♪	3:37
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	3:42
	♪ Amen ♪	3:49
-	Christ is risen.	3:57
-	He is risen indeed.
-	Let us pray.	4:02
	God of our fathers, known of old,	4:11
	we offer unto thee the adoration of our hearts	4:15
	and the love of our whole being.	4:19
	We praise thee, we bless thee, we glorify thee,	4:22
	we give thanks to thee for thy great glory.	4:28
	Praise be to thee for the gift of thy son, Jesus Christ,	4:32
	the risen Redeemer.	4:36
	For the loveliness of his childhood we bless thee,	4:39
	for the beauty of his home we adore thee,	4:44
	for the integrity of his youth we give thee glory,	4:48
	for the greatness of his teaching, the grandeur of his life,	4:53
	the courage of his cross,	4:58
	for his glorious victory over death	5:01
	and his undying influence, we do give thee adoration.	5:05
	Oh God who art rich in mercy toward all	5:13
	who having missed the way,	5:18
	still turn and once more seek thy face,	5:21
	we bow in contrite prayer to confess our guilt.	5:26
	We are guilty because we failed to do the right	5:31
	as well as we knew to do it	5:34
	and because we failed to avoid evil	5:36
	as well as we knew how to avoid it.	5:39
	In thy presence our Father, our customary disguises	5:43
	and our comfortable pretenses do not avail.	5:47
	And under the searching light of thy holiness	5:52
	we know ourselves for what we are,	5:54
	imperfect and wayward creatures	5:57
	who often seek their own wills	6:00
	in spite of our noble aspirations and our high resolutions.	6:03
	We confess that the sin of the disbelieving world	6:09
	is often very much our own sin,	6:12
	and that at the greed which shocks us	6:16
	when we see it in others, hides in our own hearts.	6:18
	None of us loves justice and mercy enough.	6:23
	May we receive the grace of humility here in thy presence,	6:28
	so that we may cease to defeat thy will for the world	6:34
	by our selfish wills.	6:38
	In all of these ways we have acknowledged	6:43
	and in many other ways we have failed	6:47
	to witness to the power of Christ's resurrection	6:49
	and to His redeeming grace.	6:52
	So we pray that the vision of what we honestly might be	6:55
	would convict us of what we are,	7:00
	so that thy mercy may redeem us of our sin	7:02
	through Jesus Christ our Lord.	7:06
	Almighty Father, we offer our prayers	7:10
	for the institutions which support and bless thy children,	7:14
	which bear witness to Easter and to the living Christ.	7:19
	For all those institutions	7:27
	without which this would be a sorry world,	7:29
	we intercede for the church, for the university	7:33
	the school, the state, the nation.	7:37
	We pray for the United Nations.	7:41
	Grant unto thy people such a devotion to law and to order	7:45
	that all these institutions shall be strengthened.	7:51
	Give thy people the good judgment	7:55
	to support every worthwhile institution,	7:57
	to strengthen the good in them	8:00
	and to root out the bad in them, that peace will be realized	8:02
	and lasting progress made possible.	8:07
	This morning, oh God, we especially pray	8:12
	for the victims of strife and warfare,	8:14
	in those areas of the world where order has broken down	8:17
	and where violence has taken command.	8:20
	May peace speedily come and with it	8:24
	may justice be discerned and followed.	8:28
	We pray for President Johnson, that he may be shown a way	8:32
	to bring peace to our world, brotherhood to our own nation.	8:37
	We pray for our loved ones who are at home,	8:44
	for those who are far away	8:47
	and particularly for those who are in Vietnam.	8:50
	Oh Lord, we pray for those who have been crippled	8:55
	or scarred by some unexpected tragedy in their lives,	8:57
	who now find themselves facing a future	9:02
	with problems which are new and frightening, strange.	9:04
	Sustain them with the good news that Easter is for them,	9:10
	that the Great Physician came to this world	9:17
	for the benefit of the sick and the sinful.	9:19
	So do thou give them patience to await the final victory,	9:23
	light to see the next step	9:28
	and eyes to see thy healing work in every side.	9:32
	And now God, we pray for ourselves.	9:38
	Grant that we may not live out our days	9:41
	in monotonous conformity	9:43
	as though Christ had not been raised from the dead,	9:45
	simply doing the minimum good,	9:49
	saying the tried and average words	9:51
	and behaving as the crowd behaves.	9:54
	Give us wisdom to know thy will for our lives	9:58
	and courage and decisiveness to live by that will.	10:01
	And in whatever circumstances that may place us,	10:04
	accompany us with a vivid sense of thy presence.	10:08
	Help us to believe in the possibilities	10:14
	of good in our fellow men	10:15
	without being blind to the realities of evil.	10:17
	Make us willing to risk a great deal	10:21
	to call out the best in others	10:23
	and strengthen those of our number who serve thee	10:27
	in unlikely places and in unpopular causes.	10:29
	Nourish with thy love those who must do their work	10:34
	and live their lives in obscurity, without honor and praise.	10:37
	Heal and comfort those who must do their work	10:44
	and live their lives in the constant glare	10:47
	of publicity and criticism.	10:50
	It seems that all of us need thy grace, oh God,	10:55
	in our own particular ways.	10:58
	May we find it mediated to our needs.	11:01
	We make our prayer in the name of that risen Christ,	11:07
	who has taught his disciples when they pray to say,	11:11
	Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name,	11:15
	thy kingdom come,	11:19
	thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.	11:21
	Give us this day, our daily bread	11:25
	and forgive us our trespasses,	11:28
	as we forgive those who trespass against us.	11:30
	And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.	11:34
	For thine is the kingdom and the power	11:39
	and the glory forever.	11:42
	Amen.	11:44
	(calm organ music)	11:46
	♪ I know that my Redeemer liveth ♪	13:14
	♪ And that he shall stand ♪	13:35
	♪ And the latter day ♪	13:45
	♪ Upon the earth ♪	13:56
	(calm organ music)	14:04
	♪ I know that my Redeemer liveth ♪	14:13
	♪ And that he shall stand ♪	14:25
	♪ At the latter day ♪	14:35
	♪ Upon the earth ♪	14:41
	♪ Upon the earth ♪	14:46
	♪ I know ♪	14:54
	♪ That my Redeemer liveth ♪	14:59
	♪ And that he shall stand ♪	15:05
	♪ At the latter day ♪	15:12
	♪ Upon the earth ♪	15:19
	♪ Upon the earth ♪	15:24
	♪ Upon the earth ♪	15:30
	(calm organ music)	15:37
	♪ For now in Christ risen ♪	15:57
	♪ For now in Christ risen ♪	16:01
	♪ From the dead ♪	16:08
	♪ For now is Christ risen ♪	16:19
	♪ For them that seeth ♪	16:28
	(calm organ music)	16:36
-	Let us hear the good news of Easter	17:20
	as it is recorded for us	17:23
	in the gospel according to Luke 24:1-35.	17:25
	"But on the first day of the week at early dawn,	17:37
	the women went to the tomb,	17:41
	taking the spices which they had prepared."	17:43
	"And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb,	17:47
	but when they went in, they did not find the body."	17:52
	"While they were perplexed about this,	17:58
	behold two men stood by them in dazzling apparel."	18:02
	"And as they were frightened and bowed their faces	18:07
	to the ground, the men said to them,	18:10
	'Why do you seek the living among the dead?'"	18:14
	"'He is not here, but he risen'."	18:20
	"'Remember how he told you while he was still in Galilee	18:25
	that the son of man must be delivered	18:29
	into the hands of sinful men and be crucified	18:31
	and on the third day rise?'"	18:36
	"And they remembered his words and returning from the tomb	18:41
	they told all this to the 11 and to all the rest."	18:45
	"Now it was Mary Magdalene and Joanna	18:50
	and Mary the mother of James and the other women with them	18:54
	who told this to the apostles,	18:57
	but these words seemed to them an idle tale	19:01
	and they did not believe them."	19:06
	"That very day, two of them were going	19:10
	to a village named Emmaus about seven miles from Jerusalem	19:13
	and talking with each other about all these things	19:18
	that had happened."	19:21
	"While they were talking and discussing together,	19:23
	Jesus himself drew near and went with them,	19:27
	but their eyes were kept from recognizing him."	19:31
	"And he said to them, 'What is this conversation	19:36
	which you are holding with each other as you walk?'"	19:40
	"And they stood still, looking sad."	19:45
	"Then one of them named Cleophas answered him,	19:50
	'Are you the only visitor to Jerusalem who does not know	19:55
	the things that have happened there in these days?'"	20:00
	"And he said to them, 'What things?'"	20:05
	"And they said to him concerning Jesus of Nazareth	20:10
	who was a prophet mighty indeed and were before God	20:14
	and all the people,	20:18
	and how our chief priests and rulers delivered him up	20:20
	to be condemned to death and crucified him,	20:22
	but we had hoped that he was the one to redeem Israel."	20:28
	"Yes, and besides all this it is now the third day	20:35
	since this happened,	20:38
	moreover some women of our company amazed us."	20:40
	"They were at the tomb early in the morning	20:44
	and did not find his body,	20:46
	and they came back saying that they had even seen	20:50
	a vision of angels who said that he was alive."	20:52
	"Some of those who were with us went to the tomb	20:58
	and found it just as the women had said,	21:02
	but him they did not see."	21:05
	"And he said to them, 'Oh, foolish men and slow of heart	21:10
	to believe all that the prophets have spoken.'"	21:16
	"'Was it not necessary that the Christ	21:19
	should suffer these things and enter into his glory?'"	21:22
	"And beginning with Moses and all the prophets,	21:26
	he interpreted to them in all the scriptures	21:30
	the things concerning himself."	21:33
	"So they drew near to the village to which they were going."	21:36
	"He appeared to be going further but they constrained him	21:41
	saying, 'Stay with us, for it is toward evening	21:46
	and the day is now far spent.'"	21:51
	"So he went in to stay with them."	21:54
	"When he was at table with them,	21:58
	he took the bread and blessed and broke it	22:01
	and gave it to them."	22:08
	"And their eyes were opened and they recognized him	22:10
	and he vanished out of their sight."	22:15
	"They said to each other, did not our hearts burn within us	22:18
	while he talked to us on the road,	22:23
	while he opened to us the scriptures?"	22:26
	"And they rose the same out and returned to Jerusalem."	22:28
	"And they found the 11 gathered together	22:32
	and those who were with them who said,	22:34
	'The Lord has risen indeed and has appeared to Simon.'"	22:36
	"Then they told what had happened on the road	22:43
	and how he was known to them in the breaking of bread."	22:48
	Amen.	22:54
	And may God bless unto us the reading of his holy word.	22:56
-	The Lord be with you.	23:12
-	And also with you.	23:14
-	Let us pray.	23:16
	Our Father, for the gift of thy son to mankind.	23:18
-	Accept all thanks and praise.	23:23
-	For the example of his life	23:26
	and for his death upon the cross.	23:27
-	We give thee thanks, oh Lord.	23:30
-	For the gospel of the resurrection	23:33
	and the hope of new life which it brings.	23:35
-	We give thee thanks, oh Lord.	23:39
-	For the gift of thy Holy Spirit.	23:41
-	We give thee thanks, oh Lord.	23:44
-	For every impulse to follow the way of the cross.	23:47
-	We give thee thanks, oh Lord.	23:50
-	Come into our lives and help us to triumph over all sin.	23:53
-	Help us to follow Christ and the power of his resurrection	23:58
	that we may walk with him through our life	24:03
	(indistinct chattering)	24:07
	Amen.	24:10
	(calm organ music)	24:13
	(calm organ music continues)	25:05
	(operatic singing)	25:08
	(operatic singing)	26:03
	(operatic singing)	27:01
	(playful organ music)	27:27
	(operatic singing)	27:46
	(playful organ music)	28:46
	(operatic singing)	29:06
	(playful organ music)	30:13
	(operatic singing)	30:33
	(operatic singing)	31:26
	(playful organ music)	31:37
	(majestic organ music)	31:59
	♪ Praise God from whom all blessing flow ♪	32:25
	♪ Praise him all creatures here below ♪	32:32
	♪ Praise him above ye heavenly hosts ♪	32:38
	♪ Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost ♪	32:45
	♪ Amen ♪	32:54
-	Almighty God, our heavenly Father	33:01
	who has spared not thine only son	33:04
	but delivered him up for us all,	33:08
	and by thy power has raised him from the dead.	33:10
	Help us we beseech thee, with all our gifts	33:14
	to yield ourselves unto thee.	33:17
	That with body, soul and spirit, we may truly serve thee	33:20
	and in thy service find our deepest joy	33:24
	through Jesus Christ, our Lord.	33:27
	Amen.	33:30
	(majestic organ music)	33:31
	♪ Joyful joyful we adore thee ♪	34:09
	♪ Lord of glory Lord of love ♪	34:13
	♪ Hearts unfold like flowers before thee ♪	34:18
	♪ Opening to the sun above ♪	34:23
	♪ Melt the clouds of sin and darkness ♪	34:28
	♪ Drive the dark of doubt away ♪	34:33
	♪ Giver of immortal gladness ♪	34:38
	♪ Fill us with your light of day ♪	34:43
	♪ All thy works with joy surround thee ♪	34:51
	♪ Earth and heaven reflect thy rays ♪	34:55
	♪ Star and angels sing around thee ♪	35:01
	♪ Center of unbroken praise ♪	35:06
	♪ Field and forest, vale and mountain ♪	35:11
	♪ Flowery meadow, flashing sea ♪	35:16
	♪ Chanting bird and flowing mountain ♪	35:21
	♪ Call us to rejoice in thee ♪	35:26
	♪ Thou art giving and forgiving ♪	35:34
	♪ Ever blessing, ever blessed ♪	35:38
	♪ Wellspring of the joy of living ♪	35:43
	♪ Ocean depth of happy rest ♪	35:48
	♪ Thou our Father, Christ our brother ♪	35:53
	♪ All who live in love are thine ♪	35:58
	♪ Teach us how to love each other ♪	36:03
	♪ Lift us to the joy divine ♪	36:08
	♪ Joyful, joyful we adore thee ♪	36:15
	♪ Lord of glory, Lord of love ♪	36:20
	♪ Hearts unfold like flowers before thee ♪	36:25
	♪ Opening to the sun above ♪	36:30
	♪ Melt the clouds of sin and darkness ♪	36:35
	♪ Drive the dark of doubt away ♪	36:40
	♪ Giver of immortal gladness ♪	36:45
	♪ Fill us with your light of day ♪	36:50
	♪ Amen ♪	36:56
-	Let us pray.	37:13
	Let the words of my mouth and the meditations of our hearts	37:16
	be acceptable in thy sight,	37:21
	oh Lord our strength and our Redeemer.	37:26
	Amen.	37:31
	If anyone were to ask us	37:39
	why we worship in church on Easter morning,	37:43
	it would be hard for us to find a more cogent reason	37:48
	than the word spoken by two men in dazzling apparel	37:53
	to some frightened women at the tomb of Jesus,	38:00
	on the first Easter morning.	38:05
	"He is not here,	38:08
	but is risen."	38:12
	Belief in the fundamental idea contained in these words	38:16
	is the primary reason for the existence	38:22
	of the Christian Church.	38:27
	Easter is the cornerstone of our faith.	38:30
	It's message is that Jesus Christ was not holden of death,	38:37
	that the cross was not the sad end of a heroic failure.	38:44
	He is not in the tomb, dead.	38:52
	He is risen.	38:57
	Jesus Christ is alive.	39:00
	Now let us turn back to that first Easter morning	39:06
	and reflect upon the thoughts of the leading characters	39:10
	in the drama of Holy Week.	39:14
	Some men must have been satisfied.	39:18
	The Sadducees and the high priest had outmaneuvered	39:23
	and had done away with the Galilean prophet	39:29
	who was such an ecclesiastical nuisance.	39:33
	Their supremacy was confirmed.	39:37
	And yet in 40 years it was shattered,	39:42
	never to be revived,	39:50
	not even in the present political state of Israel.	39:52
	Pilate the governor could reflect on a job done,	40:01
	well done.	40:07
	The	40:10
	(speaking in foreign language)
	the Roman peace had been kept.	40:12
	The hazardous day of the Passover had passed without a riot.	40:17
	Mission accomplished.	40:23
	Now he could go back to Caesarea on the Mediterranean shore,	40:27
	a pleasanter city than Jerusalem for a Roman.	40:34
	Anatole France, in his short story "The Procurator Of Judea"	40:40
	pictures Pontius Pilate in his retirement.	40:46
	Someone asks him if he remembers Jesus of Nazareth.	40:50
	And the last words of the short story are,	40:59
	"Jesus of Nazareth?"	41:03
	"No, I don't remember the name."	41:08
	And today Pilate is remembered primarily	41:16
	if not only, because of Jesus.	41:20
	The Pharisees, at least some of them	41:26
	must have questioned the whole procedure	41:28
	on what came to be known as Monday, Thursday	41:32
	and Good Friday.	41:35
	Jesus was a law breaker, true.	41:38
	He was often hostile to them,	41:43
	he certainly was,	41:46
	and yet certain Pharisees were among his friends.	41:49
	They had warned him that Herod Antipas was asking for him	41:54
	and Jesus had left Galilee for the safer region	41:59
	of Tyre and Sidon.	42:03
	He had supported them against the Sadducees	42:06
	on the matter of belief in the continuance	42:09
	of personal life after death.	42:12
	And never forget this about the Pharisees.	42:16
	Two of their number, Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus	42:19
	had helped to bury Jesus.	42:25
	A brave thing to do.	42:29
	Yes, the Pharisees must have been split among themselves.	42:33
	There was another group on which that first Easter dawned,	42:39
	the apostles and the other disciples.	42:43
	They were a sheep without a shepherd.	42:47
	Their master had failed.	42:52
	The two on the way to Emmaus in our scripture lesson	42:55
	put into words their disillusionment.	42:59
	"But we had hoped that he was the one to redeem Israel."	43:02
	Words of shattered expectation, of sad disenchantment.	43:16
	He saved others, himself he could not save.	43:22
	The daydream had become a nightmare.	43:26
	The curtain had dropped on a most unsatisfactory drama.	43:30
	(speaking foreign language)	43:37
	And then there broke in Jerusalem,	43:40
	the good news of the resurrection.	43:43
	He is not here,	43:46
	but is risen.	43:49
	What happened exactly?	43:51
	We don't know.	43:54
	The gospel accounts are both confused and contradictory,	43:57
	but one thing is clear.	44:04
	It was firmly,	44:07
	confidently, joyfully, almost surprisingly believed	44:10
	that Jesus was not holden of death.	44:17
	That he was alive again,	44:21
	that he had returned from the grave to his own folk.	44:23
	And that was found satisfactory, adequate.	44:28
	Church and state had not conquered him.	44:34
	Death could not stop him.	44:39
	That is why on Easter morning, we were right	44:43
	to use the	44:46
	(speaking foreign language)
	Christ is risen, with the response,	44:50
	(speaking foreign language)	44:54
	He is risen indeed.	44:57
	Now the witness to that fact,	45:01
	to that faith is the fact of the church.	45:05
	However much we may wrangle	45:09
	over the details of the resurrection,	45:11
	to whom he first appeared, where he first appeared,	45:14
	what kind of a body he had, physical or spiritual,	45:19
	the fact of the church is the witness	45:25
	to the confidence that Jesus was not the prisoner of death.	45:29
	The confidence went a step further	45:36
	after the experience known as the Ascension.	45:39
	It was believed that he would return again	45:43
	to dwell with his people.	45:48
	Some believed that this would happen spectacularly	45:51
	at the imminent end of the world.	45:55
	We can read about that in Thessalonians 1 and 2.	45:58
	Others believe that he did return	46:04
	to the individual Christian and to the corporate community	46:08
	of believers in the Holy Spirit.	46:12
	We can read of that in the fourth gospel.	46:16
	The stress in the New Testament is on the living Christ,	46:20
	not on the dead Jesus.	46:26
	The church is established on Easter, not on Good Friday.	46:30
	That is why we worship on the first day of the week,	46:36
	the weekly celebration of the resurrection.	46:41
	That is why Sunday is properly known as the Lord's day.	46:47
	The Lord being Jesus,	46:54
	who was dead and is alive forever more.	46:58
	The great truth of Easter is not the empty tomb	47:04
	or the reanimation of the corpse of the man, Jesus.	47:10
	The great truth is the eternal life of the divine spirit	47:16
	known in and through Jesus,	47:22
	dwelling in the hearts and minds and wills	47:26
	of those who love him.	47:31
	Paul knew that.	47:33
	"I live, not I, Christ liveth in me."	47:35
	For Easter is not an event which happened but once,	47:45
	it is a recurring miracle of the spirit of Jesus	47:51
	escaping from every tomb in which men would bury him	47:55
	to live again in the personal and group lives	48:01
	of grateful, surprised followers.	48:06
	Listen to these words, which Earnest Raymond	48:10
	put into the mouth of Padre Ruderbeck	48:14
	in the novel "Wonder Light".	48:17
	"Christ always comes after a great denial and rejection."	48:21
	"They tried to crucify and bury him once	48:28
	but instead he over spread the world."	48:32
	"Then his own people tried to bury him	48:36
	under medieval formalism and superstition,	48:39
	and he emerged naked in the reformation."	48:44
	450 years ago, this year.	48:50
	In the 18th century, wasn't it?	48:55
	They tried to bury him in a tomb called no enthusiasm	48:57
	and he broke away in the evangelical revival.	49:03
	And out of the hard rock of Calvinism,	49:08
	he rose again in the Catholic revival.	49:11
	For its men's minds that he uses	49:15
	and with a host of men's minds that he comes again.	49:19
	Easters a funny story,	49:25
	but it fits.	49:29
	Paul would say I'm into that.	49:43
	So would Pope John the 23rd.	49:47
	So do we,	49:51
	or we wouldn't be here this morning.	49:54
	This note of Easter hope we share today.	49:58
	We are living in a bad Friday world.	50:04
	Men, women and children are being killed.	50:11
	Ideas which we sincerely believe to be true, lovely	50:16
	and of good report are being mocked, scourged, crucified.	50:22
	We hear again, the clamant voices, "Away with him",	50:30
	"Crucify him", "Not this man, but Barabbas".	50:35
	"We have no king but Cesar".	50:43
	And we,	50:49
	we trusted that it had been he	50:52
	who would have redeemed Israel	50:57
	and through Israel, the world.	51:01
	But Easter says, wait,	51:07
	Give God time.	51:11
	And history says, it seems as if he is risen.	51:16
	Comes in the wake of crucify him.	51:23
	That means that we really live in a good Friday world	51:27
	rather than in a bad Friday world.	51:34
	We live through that Friday	51:40
	in the confidence of Easter Sunday.	51:43
	We are not men and women without hope.	51:49
	It is more than hope.	51:54
	It is faith.	51:59
	The Christian faith, our faith.	52:01
	He is not here,	52:08
	but is risen.	52:11
	Easter's a funny story,	52:14
	but it fits.	52:19
	It fits.	52:22
	Amen.	52:26
	Let us pray.	52:28
	Praise be to thee oh Father Almighty	52:30
	who didst raise up thy son from the dead and give him glory	52:33
	that our faith and hope might be in thee.	52:38
	Praise be to thee oh Lord Jesus Christ,	52:43
	the resurrection and the life, who has on this day	52:46
	by thy glorious resurrection didst bring life	52:50
	and immortality to light.	52:54
	Praise be to thee oh Holy Spirit of God	52:58
	who does shed abroad the love of Christ in our hearts	53:03
	and makest us to rejoice in the hope of glory.	53:07
	All praise and thanks,	53:12
	dominion and power be unto thee, oh holy and blessed Trinity	53:14
	now and forever more.	53:21
	Amen.	53:24
	(calm organ music)	53:27
	(crowd singing indistinctly)	53:47
	♪ Amen ♪	54:47
-	May the blessing of God come upon your abundantly.	54:56
	May it keep you strong and tranquil	55:02
	in the truth of the Easter promise	55:06
	through Jesus Christ, our Lord.	55:10
	Amen.	55:15
	(church bells rolling)	55:17
	(upbeat organ music)	55:26

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Title:

James T. Cleland - "He Is Not Here, but Is Risen" Easter Service (March 26, 1967)

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Date:

March 26, 1967

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

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Duke University. Chapel

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