Mark Depp - "Living in Four Dimensions" (July 23, 1961)

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	(orchestral church music and singing)	0:03
-	All things come of thee, O Lord,	0:27
	and of thine own have we given thee.	0:30
	In Jesus' name.	0:33
	Amen.	0:34
	(faint church music)	0:39
-	Personal word to say how good it is	1:05
	to be back on the campus of this great university	1:07
	and once more in the pulpit of this chapel.	1:09
	Several years ago, Dr. Horne, of Columbia Teachers College,	1:14
	said that an educated man was one who had right relations	1:19
	on four levels or in four directions.	1:22
	Now it's quite possible, I know,	1:27
	that he meant that, the education, in its academic sense,	1:28
	although that's by no means a certainty.	1:33
	Indeed, from what follows,	1:36
	it's quite likely he did not mean it	1:37
	in so limited and a restricted a sense.	1:39
	In any case, education is a relative term.	1:42
	Daniel Boone couldn't spell the word "bear,"	1:46
	but he could deal with one	1:48
	when he met him on a mountain path.	1:49
	And right then, a steady finger on the trigger	1:52
	and a clear eye sighting down the barrel of the gun	1:57
	was more important than an AP degree.	1:59
	A cum laude or any of the rest of the laude family.	2:02
	If I were drowning,	2:06
	I would far rather have a veritable ignoramus	2:07
	come down who could swim!	2:10
	Than a PhD who couldn't.	2:11
	The late Archbishop of Canterbury	2:16
	used to tell about coming down from Oxford for his holiday	2:19
	and trying out some of his new-found information	2:22
	on his mother,	2:25
	who didn't have the benefit of his education formally.	2:26
	And she was interested of course, but not much impressed.	2:29
	And she used to say, as he told it himself,	2:32
	said, oh, William, you know so much more than I do.	2:35
	And she was right. He did.	2:38
	But she said, William, I know so much better than you do.	2:41
	And she was still right, for she did.	2:44
	Knowledge, you know, is not always the equivalent of wisdom.	2:47
	That question, which T. S. Eliot asks	2:52
	in his pageant "The Rock," is still disturbing.	2:55
	Where, he said, is the wisdom	2:59
	that we've lost in knowledge?	3:02
	And the knowledge we've lost in education?	3:04
	Thomas Huxley said that a man was educated	3:10
	when he would do what he ought to do.	3:14
	And by that I suppose he meant	3:17
	a clear recognition of obligation	3:18
	and then some honest effort to respond to it in fidelity.	3:22
	And if he was right about that, and I think he was,	3:27
	then you know as well as I	3:30
	that there are people who never saw the outside,	3:31
	let alone the inside of a college who have it.	3:34
	And there are people with an impressive list of degrees	3:38
	after their names who've never got within sight of it.	3:41
	Educated when he would do what he ought to do.	3:44
	And lest that seem a kind of a lone voice,	3:49
	listen to what John Ruskin said.	3:52
	In the same connection he said,	3:54
	education does not mean	3:56
	teaching people what they do not know.	3:58
	It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.	4:00
	But however Dr. Horne may have meant the use of education,	4:07
	I want to borrow that and in its wider sense,	4:10
	which it permits I think,	4:13
	and take his observations	4:15
	as pegs on which to hang a few thoughts of my own,	4:18
	which I hope may not be without some value to you.	4:21
	The first thing he said was this,	4:25
	that an educated man has right relations with nature.	4:26
	And I don't think he meant by that	4:31
	what we mean usually when we speak of a love of nature	4:33
	or some appreciation of this beautiful world	4:38
	that God has made,	4:40
	although something could be said for that,	4:41
	and indeed a good deal lot to be said for that.	4:44
	The mountains, for example, with their majestic strength.	4:48
	If anything could be everlasting in this world,	4:52
	certainly the mountains would be such.	4:54
	Or the vastness of the sea	4:56
	speaking to some of us of the wideness in God's mercy.	4:59
	Or the heavens which declare so eloquently	5:03
	the glory of God their creator.	5:06
	Something can be said for that.	5:10
	A year or two ago,	5:13
	in one of his columns Dr. Luccock	5:14
	told about the custom of the English	5:18
	in their British "Who's Who" of listing	5:19
	in that brief biography	5:22
	a man's favorite recreation.	5:25
	And that would be interesting it seems to me.	5:27
	At least as interesting as when he was born	5:29
	or where or what school he attended.	5:31
	His favorite recreation.	5:33
	And one novelist and writer of short stories	5:36
	listed his as watching.	5:39
	And when you might be tempted to say,	5:42
	well, what's unusual about that?	5:44
	Don't we all do it?	5:45
	Luccock said, do we?	5:46
	Do we?	5:48
	And he went on to say that it sometimes seems	5:51
	as if we were playing a tremendous game	5:53
	of blind man's bluff,	5:55
	the idea being to see how little of God's world we could see	5:57
	as we went through it.	6:00
	What a very distinguished man	6:04
	once said is a very sobering thought for all of us.	6:07
	He said the thing he feared in the Judgment,	6:09
	when he stood before the throne of God,	6:11
	would be for God to say,	6:14
	Well, what did you think of my world?	6:15
	And he would have no answer.	6:18
	Well, I can't rightly say. I never really thought.	6:19
	I was too busy on the telephone.	6:23
	And Henry Thoreau is old and used to be disgusted with him	6:27
	because he wouldn't read the biography of Thomas Chalmers,	6:30
	then in his heyday as the great Scotch preacher,	6:33
	but he would stand for half an hour down by the pond,	6:36
	listening to the croaking of a bullfrog.	6:39
	And it was Roy Burkhart, I think,	6:43
	who told about a young fellow	6:44
	who just about missed being bid for the college fraternity,	6:46
	on the ground he was peculiar.	6:50
	And the evidence of his peculiarity was this.	6:53
	He liked to go out and take long walks by himself	6:55
	in the fields and woods,	6:59
	when he might've gone to the movies	7:01
	like any sensible person.	7:03
	Or at least turned on the television set.	7:05
	I can't help but tell you at this point	7:09
	what the gifted and brilliant,	7:10
	although unconventional architect,	7:13
	Frank Lloyd Wright said about the television.	7:14
	He said that a good deal of it was just so much chewing gum	7:16
	for the eyeballs.	7:20
	And something could be said for that too.	7:22
	I think that what Professor Horne meant was probably	7:26
	an appreciation of the orderly processes	7:29
	of this natural world,	7:32
	this law-abiding world,	7:34
	for it is that kind of a world, really.	7:35
	When we speak about the confusion	7:38
	and the disorder of the world,	7:39
	we don't mean God's world.	7:41
	We mean man's world.	7:43
	That's where the confusion and the disorder lie.	7:45
	I don't know just when the sun came up this morning.	7:49
	I wasn't waiting for it,	7:51
	but I assume it got here on schedule.	7:52
	And I don't know when it's going down this evening,	7:55
	but it'll make it without any help from me.	7:57
	But I would cheerfully wager	8:00
	if I weren't a Methodist preacher	8:02
	in more or less good standing,	8:03
	I would cheerfully wager all that I have	8:04
	or ever hoped to have	8:07
	that the first event was exactly on schedule	8:08
	and the second will be.	8:11
	And that's something when you think about it.	8:13
	This old globe turning on its axis once in 24 hours	8:16
	and moving at an incredible speed	8:19
	of 60,000 miles an hour around the sun	8:22
	and all of it sweeping through this universe in space.	8:25
	And yet so on schedule that astronomers can and do	8:29
	predict eclipses of the sun and moon to the split minute.	8:33
	Of course, there's a rather a sobering aspect of this,	8:40
	this idea of a law-abiding and orderly world.	8:46
	For when some calamity comes and some disaster,	8:53
	if we once begin to have this idea	8:57
	that we can't beat our breasts and wail,	8:59
	as though it were some bolt out of the blue,	9:03
	utterly unpredictable,	9:05
	we'll have to set to work to ask why?	9:08
	And how it came?	9:11
	And what therefore we can do to prevent its recurrence?	9:12
	Among other things,	9:16
	when we speak about our scientific approach to life,	9:17
	surely we mean this?	9:19
	A respect for this matter of causes and their effects.	9:22
	This kind of a world where certain things	9:27
	move on to consequences	9:29
	which are inevitable and inescapable.	9:30
	I sometimes have the uneasy suspicion	9:34
	and it may be an unworthy suspicion,	9:36
	and if so, may God forgive me,	9:39
	but I have the suspicion that a good deal of our praying	9:40
	roots back in an hope that God would save us	9:44
	from the results of our own deeds.	9:46
	And that I don't think even God will do.	9:49
	I don't know who set the idea going,	9:54
	but so far as I'm concerned, it was Henry Drummond,	9:56
	making a clear distinction	10:00
	between what he called the guilt of sin and the stain of it.	10:01
	The guilt of it, of course, being the alienation,	10:06
	the estrangement that it lifts between us and God,	10:09
	the holy God.	10:12
	And of course, when a man is penitent and confesses his sin	10:14
	and better still forsakes it,	10:17
	that alienation ends and that barrier is removed.	10:19
	The mercy of God deals effectively with its guilt.	10:25
	But the stain of it,	10:28
	the consequences of it,	10:30
	the effects of it,	10:32
	even the eternal mercy of God does not change that.	10:33
	Well, that was the first.	10:40
	Right relations with nature.	10:41
	And the second was	10:44
	that an educated man would have right relations	10:45
	with his fellows.	10:48
	We're not alone in the world,	10:51
	although there is a certain inevitable loneliness	10:52
	about life.	10:55
	It's the price we pay for being an individual I think.	10:56
	I suspect that there's nobody	11:00
	that could come to the age of 30 or 35	11:02
	and maybe a good deal less than that,	11:05
	and not have moments when he thought that no one,	11:07
	not even the one who loved him best and knew him most	11:10
	ever fully understood him.	11:13
	We're not alone.	11:17
	We're a part of the continent.	11:19
	John Donne was right.	11:21
	Each man is involved in mankind.	11:22
	But that's an area	11:27
	in which we're least conspicuously successful.	11:28
	The physical science has far outstripped the social sciences	11:34
	until they have made,	11:37
	from the standpoint of its size,	11:39
	made our world a neighborhood.	11:40
	Whereas the second have not succeeded yet	11:43
	in making it neighborly in spirit.	11:45
	Conspicuous and monumental our failures in this area.	11:49
	Someone has put it rather graphically.	11:53
	He said from the standpoint of technological achievements,	11:55
	we're super men.	11:57
	But from the standpoint of human relations,	11:59
	we're only barbarians in dinner jackets.	12:01
	This whole matter of human relations,	12:06
	how tremendously significant that is.	12:09
	Among the papers left by Scott Fitzgerald,	12:13
	there were some on suggestions for future stories.	12:16
	And one of them was this.	12:19
	A widely-scattered family have inherited a house	12:21
	in which they have to live together.	12:25
	Well, that's not a subject for a short story	12:28
	or even for a full-length book.	12:31
	That is an exact and precise description	12:33
	of the human situation.	12:36
	A widely-scattered family. Yes, we're that.	12:39
	Americans and English and Russians and Chinese.	12:43
	And Jew and Arab and white and black.	12:47
	And communist and non-communist.	12:51
	A widely-scattered family	12:53
	but inheriting a house in which we have to live.	12:55
	For whatever may be the conquest of space,	13:00
	it isn't likely that in your lifetime,	13:02
	this race of ours will have much of a home	13:05
	on any other planet than this.	13:07
	I think that's why the great teacher that day	13:10
	in the long ago, when the lawyer asked him the question,	13:12
	which is the great commandment?	13:15
	He went back like any devout Jew would have gone	13:17
	to the famous Shema of his people and began to recite it.	13:19
	Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one,	13:22
	and thou shalt love the Lord thy God	13:26
	with all thy heart and with all thy mind	13:28
	and with all thy soul	13:30
	and with all thy strength.	13:33
	This is the first, and the second like it.	13:34
	Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.	13:36
	Now these weren't found together in the Old Testament.	13:40
	You understand that they weren't side by side back there.	13:43
	They weren't in the same chapter.	13:46
	They weren't in the same book.	13:47
	But by real spiritual insight and genius,	13:50
	Jesus, our Lord, took those two,	13:53
	which were not together there,	13:55
	and put them where they belong,	13:56
	side by side in some blessed spiritual affinity.	13:58
	Until we say what God has joined together,	14:02
	let no man put asunder.	14:04
	Love for God first. Love for a man second.	14:06
	And he didn't mean by that any special affection or romance.	14:09
	He meant a clear recognition of the fact	14:14
	that for good or ill,	14:16
	we're tied up in the bundle of life together.	14:17
	And that nothing in the long run	14:22
	can be very good for any of us	14:24
	that isn't good for all of us.	14:25
	I like to spend some part of a summer	14:30
	when I can in New England.	14:32
	I was here before.	14:34
	I've had to go up in the summer when I was on vacation.	14:36
	But now having come to my venerable age	14:38
	when the bishop no longer gives me assignments,	14:40
	I'm going up in the fall to enjoy the vivid coloring	14:43
	of New England in September and October.	14:47
	But whenever I'd drive up to New England,	14:49
	I'm always amazed by the highways,	14:51
	the bypasses of the cities,	14:53
	the limited-access highways,	14:55
	the Cloverleaf intersections, and all the rest.	14:58
	And of course, the bridge is the marvelous bridge	15:01
	over the Potomac and the Delaware and the Hudson.	15:04
	But not until about two or three years ago,	15:08
	did I go through the tunnel under the harbor at Baltimore.	15:10
	Before that, you had two choices.	15:14
	You could give it a wide bypass and add to your mileage,	15:16
	or you could fight your way	15:19
	through the traffic of those rather narrow streets	15:21
	in the old city.	15:23
	So I was approaching it from the south-west	15:26
	and the skyline was in the background.	15:27
	In the foreground, the ships riding at anchor there	15:30
	in the upper part of the Chesapeake Bay.	15:33
	And then suddenly, we dipped down into this tunnel	15:34
	and then four or five minutes came out on the other side	15:39
	on the road to Philadelphia.	15:42
	And I found myself amazed and saddened and a little provoked	15:43
	that men who can do that sort of thing	15:49
	should be at the same time so awkward	15:53
	and so bungling and so inept	15:55
	in this whole matter of human relations.	15:58
	This ridding the world, for example,	16:01
	of bitter and degrading poverty,	16:03
	we have the resources to do it.	16:05
	Or putting an end once for all	16:08
	to this monstrous folly of war.	16:10
	I read about a cartoon once which I did not see.	16:15
	But according to the writer, in this cartoon,	16:18
	Gabriel and a fellow angel were sitting on a cloud,	16:21
	contemplating the doings	16:24
	and of course the misdoings of the people on this earth.	16:25
	And both of them were rather disgusted with it.	16:30
	And finally Gabriel reached for his horn	16:32
	and set it to his lips	16:34
	and was about to end the whole thing once for all,	16:35
	when suddenly his fellow angel grabbed him by the arm.	16:38
	He said, hold it, Gabe, hold it!	16:41
	I see they're going to have another summit conference.	16:43
	Well, I can't leave it that far away from you	16:50
	on a Sunday morning in this lovely chapel.	16:52
	That's far too remote.	16:54
	As interested as we are	16:57
	in the outcome of summit conferences,	16:58
	not one of us, I take it,	17:00
	not many of us certainly have any influence on it.	17:01
	Won't be consulted about it.	17:04
	That's something else.	17:07
	But Mary Ellen Chase said,	17:10
	it tells about a woman	17:11
	when she was disturbed by the confusion of the world,	17:13
	would go out into the kitchen	17:15
	and straighten up the cupboard.	17:16
	Now it's a far cry, I grant you,	17:19
	from the disorder of the world	17:21
	and the longing for order in it to the disarray	17:23
	and then the order brought out of a kitchen cupboard.	17:26
	But that's where she took hold of it.	17:29
	That's where she came in.	17:31
	And it's pretty important after all	17:34
	to get on with this business of the kitchen cupboards.	17:36
	But there's something rather ludicrous it seems to me	17:40
	about people who are concerned mightily	17:43
	for a brotherhood among the nations	17:45
	and then hardly on speaking terms	17:47
	with people in the same city and sometimes on the street.	17:48
	And sometimes, God forgive us,	17:53
	on the same campus or in the same church.	17:55
	Brotherhood to the ends of the earth	17:58
	and peace among the nations.	18:00
	Oh yes, all of that and more.	18:01
	But in the meantime, the kitchen cupboard, you see.	18:04
	Your neighborhood. Your community.	18:07
	Your church.	18:10
	I was in St. Louis some time ago	18:13
	at one of our church conclaves.	18:14
	And in the lobby one day,	18:16
	one of the bishops told me a story about a little fellow	18:17
	who came home from school on Monday with his report card.	18:19
	And for reasons of his own,	18:22
	he wasn't anxious to show it to his father.	18:24
	But fathers can be persistent	18:26
	under some circumstances and he was.	18:28
	And finally he handed it over with this explanation.	18:31
	He said, Dad, I failed in my algebra,	18:33
	but I got A-plus in post-war planning.	18:36
	Well, I'm all for the post-war planning,	18:40
	and that was during the war a year or two would conclude.	18:43
	But what about our algebra?	18:45
	What about getting on with that?	18:48
	One of the famous satires of Hogarth	18:52
	was of a poor devil who was flung into prison in England	18:54
	because he couldn't meet a few pounds of debt.	18:58
	And while he was there,	19:00
	he was working on a grand scheme	19:01
	to pay the debt of the British Empire.	19:04
	That's it.	19:06
	He couldn't meet his own obligations, or didn't at least,	19:08
	but he knew how that England	19:11
	could meet the debts of the Empire.	19:13
	Right relations with his fellows.	19:17
	And then he will have, said Professor Horne,	19:19
	right relations with himself.	19:22
	And that isn't as simple as it sounds.	19:25
	Supreme Court Justice Jackson	19:29
	was saying at one of our commencements some while ago	19:31
	that man now had conquered just about all of his enemies	19:33
	except himself.	19:37
	Except himself.	19:39
	And that I suppose is a rather a modern version	19:41
	of an ancient word to the effect	19:44
	that he that ruineth his own spirit	19:45
	is better than he that taketh the city.	19:48
	Moffat Chopins out of Bidid seems to me,	19:51
	he said he who controls himself	19:53
	is more than a conqueror.	19:56
	Indeed, he is a conqueror.	19:57
	It's always seemed to me a bit strange that the subject	20:01
	which concerns man most directly and most intimately	20:05
	has been about the last to engage his study.	20:09
	Anthropology and zoology and biology	20:14
	and sociology and a good many more.	20:18
	And at long long, psychology.	20:21
	Coming really within the memory	20:24
	of some who are listening to me this morning,	20:26
	as recent as that.	20:27
	A friend of mine who taught psychology	20:32
	in a neighboring university not far from here incidentally	20:34
	told me once of the difference	20:38
	between psychotics and neurotics.	20:39
	He said a neurotic builds castles in the air	20:41
	and a psychotic lives in,	20:44
	but a psychiatrist collects rent on them.	20:46
	However that may be,	20:51
	this thing that concerns him most directly	20:53
	was his own inner life	20:55
	and the last really to engage his attention.	20:56
	Strange, isn't it?	21:00
	That only within about the last 300 years,	21:02
	ancient history long since gone and medieval history ended	21:05
	and Europe having made contact with this Western world	21:09
	before Harvey announced	21:13
	the circulation of blood in a man's body.	21:15
	Now I know that it could be maintained	21:19
	and if you were willing to wait for it,	21:21
	I could argue what I think	21:23
	that these other things had to come first.	21:24
	They had to lay the foundation.	21:27
	They did the necessary spade work	21:28
	for the coming of psychology.	21:32
	But still, it's strange.	21:33
	I think one reason for it is the complexity	21:37
	of these lives of ours.	21:40
	What a bundle of contradictions we are.	21:43
	Any one of us.	21:46
	Once when Walt Whitman was accused of being inconsistent,	21:50
	he shrugged it off.	21:53
	He said, very well, then, I contradict myself.	21:54
	I am large and contain multitudes.	21:57
	And it was Robert Louis Stevenson	22:01
	who rather wistfully wished once	22:03
	that he might be twins because he said	22:05
	there was quite enough material for a gentlemen and a rogue.	22:07
	Well, yes.	22:12
	Within the temple of my soul, there is a crowd.	22:13
	There's one of me that's humble. One that's proud.	22:17
	There's one who's broken-hearted for his sins.	22:20
	And one who, unrepentant, sits and grins.	22:23
	There's one who loves his neighbor as himself.	22:27
	And one who cares for naught but fame and pelf.	22:29
	From much corroding care,	22:33
	I would be free if I could once decide which one is me	22:35
	exactly.	22:39
	Sometimes I think we're like a bus	22:41
	that's hurtling down the road.	22:43
	Dozen, 15, 20 passengers aboard	22:45
	and never too sure which one's the wheel.	22:47
	Have you ever thought about	22:53
	the relation of the word integral and integrity?	22:54
	Each speaks of completeness or wholeness.	22:58
	Each is the opposite of brokenness and fragmentation.	23:01
	Until eventually,	23:06
	integral as wholeness becomes integrity as rightness.	23:08
	And long before the present use of the word integration,	23:13
	we sometimes talk rather hopefully	23:16
	about achieving an integrated personality.	23:18
	A man who was successfully dealing with the conflicts	23:22
	and the tensions in his own life,	23:25
	and by so much, finding something of serenity	23:26
	and of steadfastness.	23:30
	And if this is a difficult job, my friends,	23:31
	and believe me it is,	23:34
	it's an extremely important one,	23:35
	this right relations with ourselves.	23:38
	But the fourth thing, said Dr. Horne,	23:42
	the educated man will have right relations with God.	23:45
	In all creation, of only man was it said	23:52
	that he bears the image of his maker.	23:54
	And whether you take the first creation story	23:57
	or the second as recorded for us in Genesis,	24:00
	they say the same thing substantially in this particular.	24:02
	In the one case you read that God made man in his own image.	24:06
	And in the other that having made man,	24:10
	he breathed into me his own breath	24:11
	that man became a living soul.	24:14
	There's a spiritual reality	24:19
	above man and beyond him yet within him,	24:21
	with which he has to reckon.	24:24
	And when he does and comes into right relations with it,	24:26
	he finds a freedom	24:29
	and a joy and a peace	24:31
	to which otherwise he remains strangers.	24:32
	Bishop Kennedy	24:38
	said that he never met a man who was an atheist.	24:39
	He said he had met several who thought they were.	24:42
	But on closer examination,	24:45
	it became evident that they were objecting to	24:47
	wasn't the idea of God	24:49
	but somebody's particular conception of God,	24:51
	which is a very different matter.	24:54
	And he told a story about a convention of these men	24:57
	who were atheist or thought they were,	24:59
	and the tone of it was rather conciliatory.	25:01
	And one of them was impatient about it.	25:03
	He objected to this attitude,	25:06
	and finally in a rather an impassioned speech	25:08
	he appealed for a more belligerent atheism.	25:10
	And he ended by saying, I am a real atheist, thank God.	25:13
	Are we an atheist? Thank God.	25:18
	One of the greatest things ever said about God	25:22
	was said by Jesus, God is spirit.	25:24
	But man, too, is spirit.	25:27
	And spirit with spirit can meet.	25:29
	I don't think that anybody would have put H. G. Wells	25:35
	among the evangelicals in religion.	25:37
	Hardly.	25:39
	But about the outbreak of the First World War,	25:41
	he wrote his "Mr. Britling Sees It Through."	25:43
	And in that book, he says something like this one	25:47
	where he said, religion	25:49
	is the first thing and the last thing.	25:51
	And until a man finds God or until he is found by God,	25:54
	he begins at no beginning and he works to no end.	25:59
	Ah, that's it. Religion the first thing and the last.	26:04
	And until he finds God or is found by God,	26:08
	he begins at no beginning and he works to no end.	26:12
	The truth is that there's about life a divine discontent.	26:18
	There's something about us which soars above the world,	26:23
	as you would expect of those who bear the likeness of God,	26:26
	the infinite God.	26:28
	We're never quite satisfied,	26:31
	whoever we may be or whatever we may have.	26:33
	This divine discontent is to reckon with	26:37
	this something that whispers to us not here,	26:40
	but there.	26:44
	And for that, at our best, I think we devoutly thank God.	26:47
	The deep within ourselves	26:52
	which hears and answers to the deep of the spirit of God,	26:53
	calling from without.	26:57
	Gilbert Chesterton said it in his own fashion.	27:00
	Men are homesick in their homes and strangers under the sun	27:03
	and they lay their head in a foreign land	27:08
	whenever the day is done.	27:11
	Homesick in their homes and strangers under the sun.	27:13
	That's an echo, isn't it?	27:18
	If the New Testament weren't about people	27:19
	who confessed that they were pilgrims	27:21
	and strangers in the earth	27:24
	and who sought a better country,	27:25
	even a heavenly,	27:28
	wherefore God was not ashamed to be called their God.	27:29
	He had prepared for them a city.	27:34
	A few months ago, one of the church periodicals	27:37
	carried a sermon by Dr. George Buttrick.	27:40
	The sermon was entitled, "Man's Exiled Heart."	27:46
	And the scripture background of it	27:50
	was the story of Hadad.	27:52
	It was back in those wild and turbulent years,	27:53
	and David had sent Joab, his captain of war,	27:56
	to subdue Moab.	28:00
	And he did,	28:02
	with fury and relentlessness.	28:04
	And after the custom of the time, neither better nor worse,	28:06
	he was putting to death members of the royal family,	28:08
	but a faithful retainer escaped with the young prince Hadad.	28:11
	They made their way to Egypt,	28:16
	where they were received with every honor.	28:17
	Hadad was given his own palace and servants,	28:20
	and eventually for a wife, a sister of Pharaoh's queen.	28:23
	About everything that a person could desire.	28:28
	Whatever the luxury, whatever the culture of Egypt afforded,	28:30
	they were his.	28:33
	And then one day, the word came blown across the sands	28:35
	or brought in by caravan	28:38
	that David had been gathered to his fathers	28:40
	and Joab was no longer.	28:42
	And then something stirred in Hadad,	28:44
	longing for a land which he could barely remember	28:48
	as a little child and hadn't seen for many years	28:51
	and yet his own country.	28:53
	And the record is that he went to Pharaoh with the request,	28:55
	Let me go	28:58
	that I may go to my own country.	29:01
	And Pharaoh was amazed.	29:03
	Why, he said, what do you lack here?	29:05
	What do you lack amid the luxury here of Egypt	29:07
	that you want to go back to those windswept rocks?	29:10
	And Hadad could only answer nothing.	29:14
	He had no complaint to make about Egypt's treatment.	29:16
	But Egypt wasn't his home.	29:18
	And he could only repeat his request.	29:21
	Nothing. Only, let me go.	29:22
	And that, said Buttrick,	29:26
	is the spiritual history of every man.	29:28
	It's God who is our help in ages past.	29:31
	Our hope for years to come.	29:35
	Our shelter from the stormy blast.	29:38
	And our old eternal home.	29:41
	Let us pray.	29:44
	Speak, we beseech the old spirit of God,	29:49
	some authentic and direct word	29:52
	to each one of us here this morning.	29:54
	The word that we need most to hear,	29:56
	and bring to us the gift that we need most to receive	29:58
	as we wait before thee.	30:03
	The Lord bless you and keep you.	30:06
	The Lord make his face to shine upon you.	30:07
	The Lord lift up his countenance upon you	30:11
	and give you peace.	30:14
	(church music)	30:21
	(churchbell ringing)	31:06
	(churchbell ringing)	31:09
	(churchbell ringing)	31:14
	(bright church organ music)	31:19
	(background singing)	31:53
	(congregation walking and chatting)	32:10
	(walking and chatting)	32:19
	(chatting and murmuring)	32:23
	(chatting)	32:29
	(chatting)	32:35
	(many voices murmuring)	32:42

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Title:

Mark Depp - "Living in Four Dimensions" (July 23, 1961)

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July 23, 1961

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