James T. Cleland - "A Patron Saint for Imperfect Christians" (November 2, 1969)

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	(audience hamming)	0:07
	(piano beats)	1:50
	(congregational singing)	4:11
	(feet padding)	8:20
Speaker 1	From time to time,	8:32
	as the words of our prayer of confession,	8:35
	in the university service of worship,	8:41
	we use portions of the scriptures,	8:46
	or the words of confession that were written	8:52
	by a man who lived many centuries ago.	8:56
	And sometimes the words that have been written	9:02
	by undergraduate students, now at Duke University,	9:06
	there is a great similarity and sameness	9:14
	between the collections of words.	9:19
	This testifies to us,	9:25
	the need which men of all ages have found	9:28
	to unburden themselves,	9:34
	of their guilt by confessing it to Almighty God,	9:37
	and especially in the presence of one another,	9:42
	asking his pardon and receiving his forgiveness.	9:47
	So may we join together now, our hearts and our voices,	9:55
	as we pray a prayer written by John Marks,	9:59
	let us pray.	10:05
	Oh eternal God and most merciful father,	10:08
	we confess and acknowledge here before thy divine majesty	10:13
	that we are miserable sinners,	10:19
	that in us, there is no goodness.	10:23
	But since we are displeased with ourselves,	10:27
	for the sins that we have committed against Thee,	10:31
	and do sincerely repent of the same.	10:35
	We most probably beseech thee for Jesus Christ's sake	10:40
	to show thy mercy on us,	10:46
	to forgive us all our sins,	10:50
	and to increase thy holy spirit in us.	10:53
	Help us to bring forth such fruits as may be agreeable	10:58
	to thy most blessed will.	11:02
	Not because of the worthiness thereof,	11:06
	but for the merits of thy dearly beloved son, Jesus Christ,	11:10
	our only savior.	11:16
	Amen.	11:19
	Several years ago,	11:25
	it was a project of mine,	11:27
	to examine some of the words which we use from scripture,	11:32
	which we have a tendency to use	11:40
	only at certain specialized seasons,	11:43
	to see perhaps if we have been overlooking the meaning	11:48
	of those words by not using them at other times of the year.	11:53
	One which I believe is a great and comforting word.	12:02
	Is a verse which we normally read only at Christmas time.	12:11
	And therefore, perhaps do not really understand.	12:20
	At the time of the birth of Jesus,	12:27
	there was a heavenly announcement,	12:31
	which according to, the Gospels said,	12:34
	"Thou shall call his name, Jesus,"	12:39
	and then the reason was given.	12:45
	"Thou shall shall call his name Jesus,	12:48
	for he shall save his people from their sins,	12:52
	so be it".	13:01
	(soft piano music)	13:07
	(choir singing)	14:05
	(singing continues)	14:41
	(singing fades slowly)	18:36
	(feet padding)	18:57
Speaker 2	The scripture lesson today is from Acts 18,	19:07
	verses 24 to 28.	19:12
	"A certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria,	19:16
	an eloquent man and well-grounded in the scriptures,	19:21
	came to Ephesus.	19:24
	This man had been instructed in the Way of the Lord	19:27
	and with spiritual favor,	19:31
	he preached and taught accurately about the life of Jesus.	19:33
	But all the baptism he knew was that of John.	19:38
	In the synagogue, he was very outspoken at first,	19:43
	where upon Priscilla and Aquila who had been listening,	19:47
	invited him to their home	19:51
	and explained more accurately to him,	19:53
	what the way of God really meant.	19:55
	Then as he had made up his mind to cross over into Greece,	19:59
	the brothers wrote to the disciples in Corinth,	20:02
	begging them to give him a kindly welcome.	20:06
	On his arrival,	20:10
	he proved source of great strength	20:11
	to those who had believed through grace	20:14
	for with great force, he came out ahead	20:18
	in his public discussions with the Jews,	20:20
	making clear from the holy scriptures,	20:22
	that Jesus is the promised savior".	20:25
	And again, from 1 Corinthians three verses one to seven.	20:30
	"Fellow Christians,	20:37
	I could not talk to you as men with spiritual insight,	20:38
	I had to treat you as creatures of flesh and blood,	20:43
	merely baby Christians.	20:46
	I gave you milk to drink, not meat to eat.	20:48
	You were unable to digest meat in those days.	20:53
	And even now, you still have to be fed on milk	20:57
	for you are still of a worldly attitude.	21:01
	For there is among you jealousy and strife.	21:05
	Are you not worldly minded?	21:09
	And do you not behave like the unconverted?	21:12
	For while you are crawling	21:17
	about whether I am greater than Apollos	21:18
	and dividing the church,	21:22
	you showed that lower nature to be still alive,	21:24
	and that you are guided by human standards.	21:28
	Who then is Apollos?	21:32
	What then is Paul?	21:34
	Just servants through whom you came to have faith,	21:37
	each doing the work that God allotted to him.	21:40
	I did the planting,	21:45
	Apollos did the watering,	21:47
	but it was God who kept the plants growing,	21:50
	so that neither the planter, nor the waterer	21:54
	deserves the credit,	21:57
	but only God who gives the growth".	21:59
	(organ playing)	22:06
	(choir singing)	22:18
Speaker 1	You and I now greet each other in the passion	23:01
	that has been practiced by Christians	23:05
	through all the centuries of Christendom.	23:09
	I say first to you,	23:12
	the Lord be with you,	23:15
	(congregation answers)	23:18
	Let us pray.	23:20
	Almighty God, we are thankful that we can greet each other	23:32
	in your name.	23:40
	That we can greet each other as children	23:44
	of one who is our common father.	23:49
	We come to express our thanks also for old friends	23:55
	who have been away,	24:04
	but whose faces we are delighted to see again.	24:07
	To express our thanks,	24:15
	for the stimulating experiences of each new day,	24:19
	for the stimulating resources of a great library at hand,	24:26
	stored with treasures of information and of wisdom,	24:33
	simply waiting for us to go and receive them.	24:39
	For the stimulation of a great faculty,	24:48
	each one of whom knows something	24:52
	that the rest of us do not know.	24:57
	And who would impart this knowledge to us,	25:02
	if we are humble and teachable,	25:07
	willing to learn.	25:11
	Our father, we express our thanks.	25:16
	The (indistinct) of all truths,	25:20
	whether biology of psychology or theology.	25:25
	And we are especially grateful	25:32
	that we are free to learn any and all truth	25:34
	without being afraid that this truth	25:40
	may be irreverent,	25:44
	or ultimately upsetting.	25:47
	We express our thanks for enough of uncertainty	25:53
	about what we may discover	25:58
	or about what may happen tomorrow.	26:01
	So that we can greet each new day with fresh expectation.	26:06
	Lord, we thank thee for enough certainty	26:13
	about thy providential care of the future,	26:17
	so that we can face the future with faith and hope.	26:22
	We offer our prayer of thanks for pioneers	26:29
	who point the way to more Christian relationships,	26:32
	whether in the home,	26:36
	or in the classroom,	26:39
	the office,	26:41
	the market place,	26:43
	or the halls of government.	26:45
	We thank the Supreme leader that while we were yet sinners	26:49
	Christ died for us.	26:53
	And we blessed for the hope of the fire of righteousness	26:57
	and of life everlasting through Jesus Christ, our Lord.	27:02
	And now father, we offer under Thee,	27:11
	our prayers of intercession,	27:14
	where our fellows and our petitions for ourselves,	27:16
	where we all stand in need of thy grace.	27:23
	We intercede for those who were unemployed	27:28
	for those who were underemployed, who have skills to offer,	27:34
	and the willingness would cut off,	27:42
	find opportunity to apply their skills	27:45
	to the needs of society.	27:47
	We intercede for those who are overworked	27:53
	or those who have had more responsibility	27:58
	dumped on their shoulders than can be discharged in a day,	28:01
	but who are expected	28:08
	to fulfill their responsibilities regardless.	28:09
	Give them grace to forgive their tormentors.	28:15
	Give them patience to endure	28:20
	and the strength to do the best they can.	28:24
	Our heavenly father,	28:31
	we pray for those who are pushed aside because they're poor,	28:32
	whose ideas are not listened to	28:39
	because their financial Wade is not impressive.	28:42
	Whose personalities are blind to because	28:47
	they are regarded as inferior on account of their poverty.	28:50
	We intercede for those who are discriminated against	28:59
	because they are wealthy, whose dedicated labor	29:02
	and sacrificial devotion to their fellow man	29:08
	or sell them appreciated	29:13
	because of our blind prejudice against anybody	29:16
	who has more of this world's goods than we have.	29:21
	Grant them grace to forgive.	29:26
	The patients,	29:29
	to continue their dedicated labors	29:30
	and the strength to achieve well.	29:34
	Help us all (indistinct)to be less critical of others.	29:39
	More critical over ourselves, less calm general lives.	29:45
	More inclined to be helpful.	29:52
	Oh God, we offer our prayers for those who were friends,	29:57
	who are students who have died recently, Mike Chaplin,	30:02
	Jimmy Man, (indistinct) owl.	30:08
	Let the holy spirit comfort their parents,	30:14
	their brothers, their sisters, their fellow students,	30:18
	their professors, friends loved ones.	30:25
	Grant to all these may find the kind of divine	30:32
	and human friendship,	30:37
	which shall deliver them from falling victims to bitterness	30:39
	or loneliness or unrelieved, guilt, or anxiety.	30:44
	Maybe we who survive, learn lessons,	30:52
	their deaths should teach us.	30:57
	And then resolve that the good features in their lives	31:01
	shall be heightened in ours.	31:07
	We make this prayer in the name of Jesus Christ,	31:13
	who has taught all of his disciples everywhere	31:19
	when they pray to say, "Our father who art in heaven,	31:23
	hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come,	31:30
	thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.	31:35
	Give us this day,	31:40
	our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive	31:42
	those who trespass against us and lead us,	31:48
	not into temptation,	31:52
	but deliver us from evil for thine is the kingdom	31:54
	and the power and the glory forever.	31:59
	Amen".	32:04
	(man coughs)	32:24
	The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with her soul.	32:31
	Yesterday, November 1st, was the feast of all Hallows	32:40
	on all (indistinct),	32:49
	which probably means less than nothing in the sweet lives	32:53
	of most of us.	32:59
	The day before was Halloween,	33:03
	which is a feast off a different menu.	33:08
	Another talk conducted with scenes of any order,	33:13
	but with God (indistinct)	33:20
	However, since this is a safely season,	33:27
	it seemed good to me that we should think	33:34
	about a (indistinct)	33:36
	If possible, pink from C at this service,	33:39
	what are wanted to say, who fulfilled to the requirements.	33:48
	First, he should be some hard at home	33:57
	in an academic atmosphere.	34:02
	This is a university chapel.	34:06
	Second. He showed appeal to worshipers who are not Orthodox	34:12
	either by intention or by default	34:20
	in the main,	34:28
	most of us are either God fearers	34:29
	or sermon and music taster.	34:34
	Now I think I found, a saved for us.	34:40
	His name is Apollos.	34:45
	We heard about him in the lesson.	34:50
	I commend him as a possible patron saint for the duke chapel	34:55
	for three reasons.	35:03
	First I commend Apollos because he does seem	35:06
	to be something like us.	35:13
	He was surely an intelligent person.	35:18
	Maybe a university man.	35:24
	That is not explicitly asserted	35:29
	but a reasonableness assumption from the state mark left.	35:34
	He was a native of Alexandria	35:41
	and a man of culture.	35:46
	Alexandria was not only a Greek (indistinct) city.	35:53
	It was the seat of a distinguished university,	36:01
	and the home of one of the greatest libraries in the world.	36:07
	It was one of the three centers or Judaism	36:15
	along with Babylon and Jerusalem.	36:21
	There in Alexandria,	36:27
	the old testament had first been translated from Hebrew	36:30
	into Greek.	36:37
	There (indistinct) Judeas	36:40
	about the time of Jesus at (indistinct)	36:44
	to reconcile Greek philosophy and Jewish (indistinct)	36:48
	In that kind of an atmosphere, Apollos was born	36:57
	and surely shares his culture.	37:01
	He's our kind.	37:07
	Moreover, he was not a perfect Christian.	37:13
	For one thing, he did not have all the knowledge	37:20
	about Christianity,	37:24
	but he should have had.	37:26
	Neither have we.	37:29
	But he was willing to know and he did.	37:32
	Aquila and Priscilla a wonderful, new Testament,	37:40
	couple through whom St. Paul was devoted,	37:46
	heard Apollos preach and decided to take him home	37:52
	where the quote expanded to him,	38:02
	the word of God, more accurately and (indistinct).	38:09
	They probably told him about the holy spirit.	38:18
	Since the only baptism he knew,	38:23
	was the baptism of John the Baptist,	38:26
	who'd probably be dividends or religious life	38:32
	to be better acquainted with the holy spirit.	38:39
	Apollos is like some,	38:47
	if not all of in the fact that the peace of God,	38:49
	did not all follow in his week.	38:56
	We can see this from the first letters of Paul	39:02
	to the church at Qaran.	39:07
	The Christian community there had split into for clicks,	39:11
	each with a personal slogan of Paul, of Apollos, of Peter.	39:17
	And then that interesting group just said	39:28
	they were of Christ.	39:31
	The idea of Christianity was ever unified.	39:36
	Catholic, with small "c"	39:45
	is not merely a myth it's a falsehood.	39:49
	However, Paul and Apollos got along well.	39:57
	Peter was Paul's problem.	40:03
	Now it's comforting to know	40:08
	God could work with below Paul academicians.	40:10
	He had better.	40:18
	It was all he has for earthly partners,	40:22
	men and women not unlike Apollos.	40:29
	He was an intelligent person	40:36
	who didn't know everything about Christianity	40:40
	but was willing both to work for Jesus	40:44
	and learn more about him.	40:50
	Luke (indistinct) for Luke wrote down in his travel diary,	40:56
	which was later incorporated into the Acts of the apostles,	41:05
	his opinion of Apollos, a man of culture.	41:12
	Sprong in his knowledge of the scripture.	41:21
	Instructive in the way of the Lord.	41:28
	He preached and taught about Jesus with order and accuracy.	41:35
	Now Paul an epitome, for any Apollos in any century.	41:46
	Second, I commend Apollos to you because of the gospel,	41:59
	he believed.	42:09
	He preached and taught about Jesus,	42:12
	Jesus was central.	42:19
	That's where they up to being in Christianity.	42:23
	(indistinct) free sites.	42:28
	All right. Yes.	42:33
	All right. Yes, Jesus.	42:36
	And yet that doesn't sound quite right. Does it ?	42:42
	God had to be central in any religion.	42:47
	God is the hope, and the hope	42:55
	but this sensible man realized that God must be interpreted,	43:02
	exhibited for ordinary, everyday purposes,	43:10
	for ordinary, everyday people.	43:15
	And for Him, Jesus was the interpreter.	43:19
	More than that, God is not (indistinct),	43:27
	what Jesus said he was.	43:33
	God is in character and in (indistinct) what Jesus was,	43:38
	in character and in (indistinct).	43:47
	God is like Jesus.	43:52
	That is the (indistinct) at the heart of Christianity.	43:56
	Jesus in himself reveal the heart	44:03
	and will of God. He let her see me.	44:08
	See the father.	44:14
	No, Apollos, didn't grasp it all at first,	44:20
	but he grasped it sufficiently	44:25
	to make him excited to tell it to others.	44:27
	And having laid hands on that,	44:31
	he surely grasped something else.	44:33
	As a Christian should live, must live as far as he can.	44:38
	The life that Jesus lived in that, the christian too	44:50
	must review God. How?	44:57
	By living with that practical goodwill,	45:06
	which the new Testament calls law.	45:11
	And that isn't easy.	45:16
	You remember what neighbor called Christian love?	45:22
	"The impossible possibility."	45:28
	Christian love is goodwill and action,	45:35
	constantly being realized,	45:39
	and never being completely realized.	45:41
	That is why a life lived in love	45:46
	is ought the joy and the despair of a Christian.	45:54
	That then is the gospel we preach.	46:03
	Jesus, as the revelation of God's character and purpose	46:06
	which is express, reincarnated by man in active goodwill.	46:15
	This has always been the living gospel with its vertical	46:25
	and it's horizontal dimensions.	46:30
	Vertically it is the revelation of God.	46:33
	Climaxed in Jesus the Christ, continued in the holy spirit,	46:37
	as interpreted by the Jesus of the gospel.	46:45
	Horizontally it is the inner compassion	46:50
	of the believer to live life out the good life on earth,	46:55
	under the awesome inspiration or Goodwill.	47:02
	I was not time to develop or to apply that thought	47:09
	for the present day.	47:13
	We know it in part, we at sip in pot,	47:16
	we even tried to live it in part.	47:25
	That's why most of us are here this morning	47:30
	or this morning (indistinct)for us	47:36
	to examine the third reason,	47:39
	for appreciating Apollos,	47:42
	because it is the exciting part about this Christian Jew.	47:45
	(indistinct) then I commend Apollos	47:56
	because of the heresies, which he avoided.	48:02
	He not only preached and taught about Jesus.	48:10
	He did it with order and accuracy,	48:15
	one of Dr Moffitt's happiest translations.	48:20
	Now either quality by itself at Paul accuracy	48:26
	is actual lead to Heresy.	48:35
	What is heresy?	48:40
	It is not a lie.	48:43
	Per say, it is an overall persists	48:45
	of one aspect of the truth.	48:51
	It is proof with a bias because it contains truth.	48:56
	It is hard to combat.	49:08
	For example in politics, the resergions	49:12
	of isolationism because of Vietnam.	49:17
	For example in religion,	49:24
	some forms of (indistinct) success	49:27
	proof is a sphere, heresy over which in one sector,	49:33
	so that it doesn't run through.	49:43
	Now what heresies did Apollos avoid?	49:48
	That is the heresy caused by order.	49:53
	There are some people in every movement of intense passion,	50:00
	there're always doing something about something.	50:08
	They never seem to tire.	50:14
	One wants to go to bed on their behalf	50:19
	and the kind of vicarious sleep.	50:24
	Their devotion is of the heart and of the will	50:29
	with a minor priest from behind.	50:36
	They are obviously enthusiastic.	50:39
	This is the danger of fundamentalism.	50:45
	In every field, it steals by twin stars,	50:49
	authority and antiquity,	50:57
	and would be tied anyone who crosses	51:02
	its passion of thought.	51:08
	The (indistinct) is so sure that he is right.	51:12
	The true ones committed to the saints is his and only his	51:19
	to broadcast.	51:26
	His, his truth without vengeance.	51:30
	That's all (indistinct)	51:36
	in the struggle fundamentalism in the Bible,	51:37
	jewel with these off the blocks (indistinct).	51:42
	The author of the book of Ruth were the followers of Ezra.	51:47
	Jesus and Paul, with the Sadducees	51:53
	on the matter of the resurrection.	51:58
	(indistinct) diagnosed the disease or fundamentalism.	52:03
	Frantic orthodoxy is a method for obscuring dope,	52:09
	Frantic orthodoxy is a method for obscuring (indistinct).	52:19
	There's not a reason why there's not to do die	52:27
	or worse to kill.	52:36
	The result of the heresy of one aspect to be truth,	52:41
	the relegation of the head	52:47
	to an inferior position to that of the heart and the will.	52:50
	Highest and (indistinct) inaccurate traditional belief	52:57
	picks the place of an enlightened and reasonable fee.	53:03
	There's no need for me to illustrate this today,	53:09
	you know what I mean?	53:13
	Oh, brethren it's well to remember	53:16
	(indistinct) in Christianity.	53:19
	Here we see through a glass darkly.	53:25
	Now I know. In fact, that's a word to the wise there,	53:30
	the overemphasis of all that is a heresy.	53:39
	It's not this type of man that Apollos was.	53:43
	Apollos also avoided the heresy caused by accuracy.	53:47
	There are people in every movement	53:56
	of a (indistinct) meticulosity.	54:00
	They are painful pain sticking icely cold	54:05
	and statistically default,	54:11
	they're very reserved,	54:17
	very tentative, very (indistinct) but wonderful to relieve.	54:19
	They are very (indistinct) about the tentativeness.	54:27
	In our accuracy is the heresy	54:33
	that the scientific method has popularized.	54:38
	The figure the man of science	54:44
	so dominates superficial and even our serious thinking	54:47
	that some of us are at to forget	54:54
	that all other approaches to the understanding of life,	54:57
	through the park, the artist,	55:03
	the philosopher, the prophet, yes, I'm the priests.	55:07
	And we are the losers.	55:15
	We strip illusion of a veal.	55:18
	We vivisect the Nightingale to probe the secret over note.	55:24
	And what happened?	55:34
	The muse in alien ways goes wonder,	55:36
	we vivisect a Nightingale,	55:45
	to probe the secret of an (indistinct).	55:49
	And the muse in alien ways cause wondering.	55:53
	Now that's not wise, for the good life,	55:59
	we need the muse.	56:04
	As well as the laboratory technician one said,	56:07
	" (indistinct) the two objects of land's contemplation	56:13
	were the moral law within and the star heavens without",	56:18
	and you have listened to this 20th century jingle,	56:29
	twinkle twinkle little star.	56:34
	I don't wonder what you are.	56:38
	You will be cooling down the passes,	56:41
	forming into solid passes	56:44
	core there right (indistinct)	56:48
	now has the (indistinct) is the truth about the rules.	56:55
	All the brides who carry roses and her bouquet	57:10
	of a sick friend to whom the bride sends her	57:18
	bouquet of roses of each of them at different times	57:24
	or all of them in harmony.	57:33
	Now this heresy of accuracy, as you well know,	57:38
	in Duke university has come into religion.	57:41
	Modernism is one name on it. It's still with us.	57:48
	The modernist is the spiritual scientist.	57:53
	He mixed post-mortem examinations of the prophets,	57:59
	priests and saints.	58:04
	It's even more that he sometimes kills them	58:07
	for the joy of the autopsy.	58:12
	And then he gets a PhD in religion for writing it up.	58:16
	(laughs)	58:21
	Holy scripture in the hands of some critics	58:25
	is just a playground for intellectual gymnastics.	58:30
	The place that formally blossom like the rose	58:37
	becomes a wilderness.	58:44
	All they know that Isaiah like God	58:47
	is divided into three parts.	58:52
	First, second, and third Isaiah.	58:56
	But they have never grasped the insight of Isaiah 53.	59:00
	"Surely, he has (indistinct) our grieves	59:07
	and pattied our sorrows yet we did this steam him,	59:11
	stricken, smitten of God and afflicted.	59:17
	But he was wounded for our transgressions.	59:23
	He was bruised for our iniquities".	59:29
	They can prove to their satisfaction,	59:36
	and as a matter of fact I believe the answer.	59:40
	That the fourth gospel was written by a disciple	59:44
	of a disciple of the beloved disciple who was not John.	59:51
	I think they're probably right,	1:00:00
	but the insight of John 14,	1:00:03
	"In my father's house	1:00:10
	are many rooms.	1:00:14
	If it were not so, would I have told you	1:00:18
	that I'll go to prepared a place for you?"	1:00:24
	It's one on the head and none of the heart.	1:00:29
	It's cammy and often imputed.	1:00:33
	That's why this couplet is more right than wrong,	1:00:38
	though I hate to admit it.	1:00:43
	Fundamentalism is wrong, but it works.	1:00:46
	Modernism is right, but it doesn't work.	1:00:53
	The (indistinct) of accuracy is a heresy,	1:00:58
	it's not this type of man that Apollos was.	1:01:02
	You know how Apollos avoided both heresies.	1:01:06
	He did it efficiently by linking together the two aspects.	1:01:10
	He welded both qualities	1:01:21
	into one in the service of his faith.	1:01:24
	He taught about Jesus with order and with accuracy.	1:01:29
	Think of it, he had the capacity for linking together	1:01:37
	enthusiasm and truth, (indistinct) and precision.	1:01:43
	The gometry and the geometry of life.	1:01:50
	Macaulay once described the best arbitrary	1:01:56
	in the British parliament as reason	1:01:59
	penetrated and made red hot with passion.	1:02:05
	Reason penetrated and made red hot with passion.	1:02:13
	That's the sign of a living message.	1:02:19
	And that was Apollos'.	1:02:22
	For all due is necessary,	1:02:25
	no movement gets anywhere without enthusiasm.	1:02:27
	And accuracy is necessary no movement wins,	1:02:32
	intelligent people unless knowledge and faith	1:02:36
	brought together.	1:02:40
	This is one reason for a devenaty school,	1:02:42
	to instruct committed men.	1:02:46
	Apollos study deeply	1:02:52
	in order to reveal Jesus enthusiastically.	1:02:54
	And (indistinct) his successors Augustine,	1:02:58
	(indistinct), Luther, (indistinct) Wesley, (indistinct).	1:03:04
	They had good lives and sympathy with loyal hearts	1:03:13
	and driving wheels devoted to the God reveal by	1:03:18
	and in Jesus.	1:03:25
	Such a person is a whole (indistinct) of great price	1:03:28
	in my church.	1:03:32
	I hope in the pulpit or in the pew,	1:03:34
	I'd like to think of Apollos.	1:03:39
	This will pick from sin to (indistinct).	1:03:42
	An intelligent man,	1:03:47
	who was not a perfect Christian,	1:03:49
	but one willing to go on learning and apply.	1:03:53
	I'd like to think of--	1:04:00

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James T. Cleland - "A Patron Saint for Imperfect Christians" (November 2, 1969)

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November 2, 1969

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

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