Wilson O. Weldon - "Dangerous Legacies" (December 9, 1979)

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Speaker One	Founder's Day Service,	0:04
	Sunday, December 9th, Duke Chapel.	0:06
	(classical organ music)	0:12
	(organ begins second hymn)	2:18
	(brighter organ music)	2:19
	(organ music ends)	4:15
	(organist beings third hymn)	4:33
	(classical organ music)	4:35
	(organist begins fourth hymn)	6:28
	(classical organ music)	6:31
Second Speaker	(pages ruffling)	10:29
	Once again, we come together,	10:36
	for what is really a birthday party.	10:39
	The birthday of a great University,	10:42
	but a University which had its origins	10:46
	even before the date which we celebrate as its founding.	10:49
	It's a moving experience	10:55
	to read about the early days of Duke University.	10:57
	To be struck with the degrees	11:01
	to which the earliest founders	11:03
	were imbued with hopes for humankind	11:07
	and ideals for learning	11:10
	and faith and harmony among all of us.	11:11
	Up on the third floor of Perkins Library,	11:15
	Maddie Russell and Bill King as guides,	11:19
	through rooms set aside for manuscripts and archives,	11:21
	we can trace the Duke story	11:26
	as told by the people who,	11:29
	at different times in our history,	11:32
	were founders.	11:34
	The first glimmering of that story,	11:37
	as you know,	11:39
	came in 1838 during a gathering	11:40
	in a log structure known as Brown's Schoolhouse	11:43
	located in Randolph County,	11:46
	almost at the geographical center of North Carolina.	11:50
	In that setting, which would have to be regarded	11:55
	as humble when compared to the edifice	11:58
	of which I speak,	12:01
	a band of caring fathers met	12:03
	and founded Union Institute,	12:07
	a place where their children	12:09
	could receive better instruction	12:11
	and training for the future.	12:12
	The story continues,	12:15
	a familiar one to most of us,	12:17
	and the light it shed	12:20
	shines even brighter and more broadly.	12:21
	The Union Institute became Normal College,	12:25
	which became Trinity College.	12:28
	Then Trinity was moved to a new site in Durham,	12:30
	and ultimately, 55 years ago this December	12:34
	with the signing of the Duke Indenture,	12:37
	the Institution became the University	12:41
	which we serve and love.	12:44
	The glimmer of Brown Schoolhouse	12:47
	had been destined to glow into the glory	12:49
	which is now Duke University.	12:53
	Washington Duke, James Buchanan Duke, Benjamin N. Duke	12:57
	and others of their generation	13:03
	and the generations which have followed them	13:05
	are the founders which we honor today.	13:09
	But, in a very real degree,	13:12
	we honor not only those who were before them,	13:15
	but those who have come since then.	13:18
	For during the span of 55 years	13:22
	since that other December day,	13:24
	great and wonderful things	13:27
	have been wrought on the campuses of this University	13:29
	by the men and women of Duke.	13:32
	And all because Duke University	13:35
	down through the years	13:37
	has continued to have its founders and pioneers	13:39
	believing in the greatness of Duke,	13:43
	and its potential for continuing greatness and service.	13:46
	The University is a human institution,	13:51
	but like a government,	13:56
	or like an empire,	13:58
	it cannot remain static.	14:00
	It can either, periodically,	14:04
	have a rebirth, a revival, a renewal, a rededication,	14:07
	or it can decline and die.	14:14
	Unlike human beings, death to a university,	14:17
	as to an nation and to an empire,	14:23
	does not mean interment.	14:25
	Many are dead before it is realized.	14:28
	But, if they are dead,	14:32
	they no longer have that spirit,	14:34
	the spirit that marks a thriving Institution.	14:37
	An Institution which takes challenges	14:42
	in its stride and moves on to a greatness	14:45
	that the early pioneers would not	14:49
	have dreamed to be possible.	14:51
	We are fortunate	14:54
	that the dedication, the leadership, the vision	14:57
	of the founders of this Institution	15:00
	give us an opportunity,	15:03
	today and in the years to come,	15:05
	to rededicate ourself to the renewal of spirit	15:08
	that ultimately means greatness.	15:13
	The story of this University is still in its writing.	15:16
	We know from the records	15:21
	that the early protagonists in this story	15:22
	were men and women of hope	15:24
	and faith and idealism.	15:25
	And even though, "the times they are a'changing"	15:28
	as Bob Dylan sings, and the pendulum swings	15:31
	certain verities remain.	15:35
	The traits of character revealed in the lives	15:38
	of those in the early chapters	15:41
	of Duke's history	15:42
	shine through no less brightly	15:44
	in the deeds of those who take part in the story today.	15:46
	It is you who are making sure that the story can go on.	15:51
	A story with a theme of service nobility of purpose.	15:54
	This is a day of salutation.	15:58
	To express appreciation	16:01
	for those who founded us,	16:03
	those who nurtured us.	16:05
	A time of honor for those who continue	16:07
	to support the University of which we are so proud.	16:10
	It is the beginning of a long and promising era of glory.	16:15
	With thanks-giving, let us unite our hearts in prayer.	16:26
	Let us pray.	16:31
	O' Lord our God,	16:33
	creator, redeemer, sustainer,	16:35
	we your children pause to reflect,	16:38
	and to remember,	16:40
	with thanks-giving,	16:42
	with some regret,	16:44
	with great hope.	16:46
	With gratitude, O' God,	16:48
	we remember those whose ideas and gifts	16:50
	made this University possible.	16:53
	We are grateful	16:55
	for the Duke family,	16:56
	past and present,	16:59
	and for their decisions to invest	17:02
	in the mental as well as the physical,	17:04
	and the spirit as well as the body.	17:06
	And, thus make a place for	17:10
	honest pursuit of truth and knowledge.	17:11
	Without their vision,	17:15
	their concern,	17:16
	their gifts,	17:17
	their love,	17:18
	this University would not be.	17:20
	In all its beauty,	17:24
	this majestic chapel,	17:26
	the grandeur of buildings and ground and gardens	17:28
	the spacious forest sand wandering trails.	17:32
	In all its beauty,	17:35
	this University provides a challenge and an opportunity	17:36
	to those who seek to understand more clearly,	17:40
	to feel more sensitively,	17:43
	and to serve more helpfully.	17:46
	And, so O' God, we give thanks	17:49
	for those persons who have loved and served this place,	17:52
	for janitors and maids and gardeners and painters,	17:55
	students and presidents and secretaries,	17:59
	ministers, professors and writers and librarians,	18:02
	researchers and musicians	18:06
	for those who have been and are	18:09
	the custodians of mind and body and spirit	18:11
	in this holy place;	18:15
	where we have failed to meet our true objectives,	18:18
	or been unable to fulfill the visions	18:22
	of those who have gone before us,	18:24
	or have not prepared well for those who follow,	18:26
	merciful Lord, forgive us.	18:29
	With hope we face the future,	18:33
	standing on tiptoes and pressing forward	18:36
	with fervent trust and genuine concern,	18:38
	we place the future of this University, O' God,	18:42
	in your provenance,	18:45
	and in the hands of your servants.	18:47
	May we seek that knowledge which frees us.	18:49
	May we be free to serve joyfully the needs of others.	18:53
	And, in all this, may we and those who follow	18:58
	commit ourselves to serve you O' God	19:01
	and to love one and other	19:05
	with heart and mind and soul and strength.	19:07
	Through Jesus Christ our lord,	19:11
	and in whose name we pray,	19:14
	amen.	19:17
	(classical organ music)	19:23
	(choir singing hymn)	24:14
	(bright organ music)	25:43
	(choir sings accompanied by organ)	26:47
Speaker Two	Jesus tells a story of a young man	31:03
	who took what belonged to him,	31:08
	and went away from home.	31:12
	After awhile, the young man said to himself,	31:15
	"I will arise and go to my father,	31:21
	and say unto him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven	31:24
	and before you. I am no more worthy to be	31:28
	called a child of yours.'"	31:32
	My friends in Christ,	31:36
	with this same awareness,	31:39
	this same self-awareness and honesty,	31:42
	let us with one voice	31:47
	now confess our sins before God	31:50
	and with one and other.	31:54
	Let us pray:	31:56
	O' Lord, creator of all things	31:59
	and source of all truth,	32:02
	we ask your forgiveness	32:05
	for the sins of the mind,	32:07
	the pride of thinking	32:09
	that we are masters of all creation and history,	32:11
	our slackness or compulsion in our work	32:15
	in this University,	32:18
	our doubts about your power to make all things new.	32:20
	We ask your forgiveness	32:24
	for our lack of a sense of history,	32:26
	for thinking all the world	32:30
	begins and ends with us,	32:31
	for our too easy acceptance of our heritage,	32:34
	for those who will suffer	32:37
	because of our unconcern about the future.	32:39
	Help us, as we worship you,	32:44
	to come to a truer knowledge of ourselves,	32:46
	knowing that we cannot hide from you.	32:50
	God, be merciful to us,	32:53
	for we are sinners.	32:55
	Let us continue with our personal confession	32:58
	to almighty God.	33:01
	Hear these words of assurance as Jesus' story continues,	33:32
	"And the father said, 'It is right	33:38
	that we should make merry and be glad,	33:42
	for this child of mine was dead and is alive again.	33:45
	Was lost,	33:50
	and is found.'"	33:51
	My friends, the writer of first John tells us,	33:54
	"Your sins are forgiven, for Christ's sake."	33:57
	Amen.	34:03
	Let us give thanks,	34:07
	for God is good,	34:09
	and God's love is everlasting.	34:11
Crowd	(muffled speaking) Praise be to God.	34:14
Speaker Two	Amen.	34:28
	(organ playing)	34:41
	(choir singing)	34:47
	(singing crescendos then fades away)	36:46
	[Speaker Two] - May I extend a word of welcome to you,	37:09
	to this very special service of worship	37:12
	in Duke Chapel.	37:15
	It is, indeed, the second Sunday	37:17
	of the season of Advent	37:19
	in the church year.	37:20
	It is also the Sunday when we observe Founder's Day	37:22
	as one of the truly significant days	37:25
	in the life of this University community.	37:28
	So, whether you worship here regularly	37:31
	and are here this day,	37:33
	or whether you are here	37:34
	for this very special occasion,	37:35
	may I welcome you	37:37
	and pray that God's spirit will speak to you	37:38
	in a very meaningful way	37:41
	as we worship together	37:42
	on, this, the Lord's day.	37:44
	Yesterday, I received some very sad news	37:47
	I want to share with you.	37:50
	Some of you students particularly	37:52
	will remember Mark Scholl.	37:54
	He died on Thursday evening.	37:58
	He had taken a year's leave of absence this year,	38:01
	having finished his Sophomore year last year,	38:04
	and died in Charlotte on Thursday evening.	38:08
	There was a service for him yesterday in Charlotte.	38:11
	We are now trying to make plans	38:15
	for a service here,	38:18
	in the Chapel,	38:20
	probably Tuesday or Wednesday,	38:21
	and you will take note of that in the Chronicle	38:25
	as an announcement will be made about that.	38:29
	Mark was President of Buchanan Dormitory,	38:33
	a student very highly respected	38:35
	by students and faculty here.	38:38
	It is a loss to us,	38:41
	and to his family,	38:43
	and I'm sure your prayers will be with them at this time.	38:44
	We have had a very special gift made to Duke Chapel.	38:50
	As you leave, if you choose to do so,	38:53
	you may go out the North Transept	38:56
	and notice that a ramp has been constructed there,	38:59
	fitting and appropriate with the architecture of the Chapel	39:02
	and with the rest of the University.	39:05
	This ramp has been given	39:08
	by members of the Duke Family	39:09
	in appreciation for the life and service	39:12
	of Mr.Arthur Nemeier.	39:14
	This is something that has been needed by the Chapel	39:17
	ever since it was constructed.	39:20
	There has been never been a way for handicapper persons, or	39:23
	persons who cannot get around by themselves	39:25
	to get in or out of the Chapel.	39:27
	So I, personally, am delighted	39:30
	that this gift has been made,	39:32
	am pleased to make this announcement to all of you	39:35
	and to the countless others	39:38
	who will benefit by this gift in the years ahead.	39:39
	I guess yesterday afternoon,	39:42
	Jim, Mary, other members of the family who are here,	39:44
	made that gift worthwhile if nothing else;	39:48
	we had 'em all in the "The Night Visitors"	39:51
	the performance of that yesterday afternoon	39:53
	and just as I was coming in	39:55
	there was a young boy,	39:57
	looked like he might have been seven or eight years old,	39:58
	being wheeled over from the hospital, in a wheelchair	40:00
	with his intravenous solutions	40:03
	being wheeled along beside him,	40:06
	and just to be able to wheel that boy,	40:08
	up the ramp and into the Chapel for that service,	40:10
	may indeed have made that gift worthwhile.	40:12
	But, there will be many more,	40:15
	many many more, like him.	40:17
	So we are grateful.	40:19
	Tonight at seven o'clock,	40:22
	the Founders Day concert will be given by	40:23
	Mr. Robert Parkins, Chapel organist.	40:25
	The program for this concert	40:28
	is in your bulletin for today.	40:30
	You are invited to come	40:32
	and share in this very special concert.	40:33
	Last year, we had a number of families connected with Duke	40:37
	to serve as host families	40:40
	for entering students in January.	40:43
	We need twenty-five families,	40:45
	and if you are single and have an apartment or a home	40:47
	or if you have family,	40:51
	you can serve as a host family	40:53
	for one of our entering students.	40:55
	We'd like to have twenty-five such families	40:57
	sign up this morning	40:59
	to serve as host families to invite	41:01
	an entering student to your home	41:03
	or to your apartment for a meal,	41:05
	or just a visit,	41:07
	or just to be made at home.	41:09
	So, if you will, following the service	41:10
	sign-up and share in that program with us.	41:13
	The sign-up sheet is at the hostess desk.	41:16
	Our preacher for today is a man dear	41:21
	to the hearts of many of us,	41:24
	one who is indeed coming back home	41:25
	for this special occasion.	41:28
	But he comes back home to Duke University quite regularly.	41:30
	The Reverend Dr. Wilson O. Weldon	41:34
	is a trustee of Duke University.	41:36
	He is a graduate of the University of South Carolina	41:38
	and of Duke Divinity School,	41:42
	a lover of the church,	41:44
	and of this University.	41:46
	A devoted and faithful servant	41:48
	of the Church and of this University.	41:50
	He is widely and well-known as an author,	41:53
	as an administrator,	41:57
	as a pastor,	42:00
	and as a preacher.	42:01
	He served for eight years as editor of The Upper Room	42:03
	the internationally known devotional magazine.	42:07
	He now serves as superintendent	42:10
	of the Charlotte District of the United Methodist Church	42:12
	and the Western North Carolina Conference.	42:14
	He continues to serve as a trustee of this University.	42:17
	Dr. Weldon, we welcome you on this special occasion,	42:20
	and we will hear gladly and receptively the word of God	42:24
	as you bring it to us today.	42:28
	Let us continue now with our worship of almighty God.	42:31
Reverend Weldon	Let us pray.	42:43
	Prepare our hearts, O' Lord,	42:47
	to accept your word.	42:50
	Silence in us any voice but your own, that hearing	42:52
	we may also obey your will.	42:57
	Through Jesus Christ our lord,	43:01
	amen.	43:04
	The Epistle lesson is from the fourth chapter	43:09
	of First Timothy verses 12 through 16.	43:11
	"Let no one despise your youth,	43:19
	but set the believers an example in speech and conduct,	43:23
	in love, in faith, in purity.	43:28
	Til I come, attend to the public reading of scripture,	43:33
	to preaching, to teaching.	43:38
	And do not neglect the gift your have	43:43
	which was given you by prophetic utterance	43:45
	when the Council of Elders laid their hands upon you.	43:48
	Practice these duties.	43:54
	Devote yourself to them	43:57
	so that all may see your progress.	43:59
	Take heed to yourself and to your teaching.	44:04
	Hold to that,	44:09
	for by so doing you will save both yourself	44:11
	and your hearers."	44:16
	Here ends the reading from the epistle.	44:19
	Amen.	44:23
	Will the congregation please stand	44:25
	for the reading of the Gospel lesson?	44:27
	The Gospel lesson is from the first chapter of Luke	44:37
	verses 26 through 35.	44:41
	"In the sixth month the angel Gabriel	44:48
	was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth;	44:51
	to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph	44:56
	of the house of David.	44:59
	And the virgin's name was Mary.	45:01
	And he came to her and said,	45:05
	'Hail O' favored one. The Lord is with you.'	45:08
	But she was greatly troubled at the saying,	45:13
	and considered in her mind	45:16
	what sort of greeting this might be.	45:18
	And the angel said to her,	45:21
	'Do not be afraid, Mary,	45:23
	for you have found favor with God.	45:26
	And behold, you will conceive in your womb	45:29
	and bear a son.	45:33
	And you shall call his name Jesus.	45:35
	He will be great,	45:39
	and will be called the Son of the Most High.	45:40
	He will reign over the house of Jacob forever,	45:44
	and of his kingdom,	45:48
	there will be no end.'	45:50
	And Mary said to the angel,	45:53
	'How shall this be, since I have no husband?'	45:56
	And the angel said to her, "The Holy Spirit will	46:00
	come upon you, and the Power of the Most High	46:04
	will overshadow you,	46:06
	therefore, the child to be born with be called holy,	46:08
	the son of God.	46:12
	And behold your kinswoman Elizabeth	46:14
	in her old age has also conceived a son.	46:16
	And this is the sixth month with her,	46:20
	who was called barren.'"	46:23
	Here ends the reading from the Gospel.	46:27
	All praise and glory be to God.	46:30
	Amen.	46:33
	(organ music plays)	46:34
	(choir sings)	46:42
-	[Reverend Dr. Weldon] Tis Founders Day	47:50
	of our University,	47:53
	and the premise is	47:56
	to be is to be in danger.	47:59
	We may equate the existential	48:03
	with that which is risky	48:07
	and dangerous.	48:10
	The Psalmists said it long ago:	48:12
	"My life is ever in danger."	48:15
	Robert Louis Stevenson spent his latter days	48:22
	on the Somalian Islands of the South Pacific.	48:25
	One day, he received a letter from a missionary	48:30
	asking for the privilege of coming to visit him	48:35
	as a man in danger of dying.	48:41
	With his usual gaiety, this wonderful story writer,	48:45
	responded as follows:	48:52
	"I will be glad to have you visit me,	48:55
	but I would prefer that you visit me,	48:58
	as a man in danger of living."	49:03
	And then he went on:	49:07
	"I am a very sick man,	49:09
	and the chances of life are very few,	49:12
	but supposing I get better,	49:17
	I shall need someone to give me council and guidance,	49:20
	for it is harder to live	49:27
	than it is to die.	49:30
	Any fool can die.	49:32
	As a matter of fact, all do.	49:35
	But it takes a very heroic wisdom	49:39
	to face the dangers of living,	49:43
	to accept a gift,	49:48
	to receive a legacy,	49:51
	is fraught with danger.	49:54
	Whether it is a kiss,	49:56
	whether it is a book,	49:59
	or whether it is a sum of money.	50:01
	There is a danger that we may misuse it,	50:04
	or we may lose it.	50:08
	Why did Paul in his first letter to his friend Timothy	50:11
	give this council:	50:15
	"Do not neglect your spiritual endowments,"	50:17
	if he had not seen this lurking danger?	50:22
	For us as individuals this morning,	50:29
	for Duke as a university,	50:32
	the word of Paul come across the ages,	50:35
	"Take care of your endowments,	50:39
	your inherited and acquired gifts,	50:43
	your talents and your abilities"	50:47
	for perhaps these three lines	50:51
	can speak meaningfully to us.	50:53
	"'Tis man's worst deed to let the things that have been	50:57
	run to waste,	51:01
	and in the unmeaning present,	51:04
	sink the past."	51:06
	Yes, Charles Lamb, you are right.	51:09
	"The danger of letting the things that have been	51:12
	run to waste,	51:15
	and in the unmeaning present,	51:17
	sink the past.	51:20
	There are only two lasting legacies,	51:23
	in my opinion,	51:26
	which one generation can bequeath to another.	51:28
	And one of these is roots.	51:32
	This word has been made especially meaningful	51:35
	in recent times by that monumental book	51:38
	by Alex Haley titled, "Roots."	51:42
	The word has gained new meaning for meany of us.	51:46
	It has revived and refurbished the need	51:50
	to look backwards now and then	51:55
	to ascertain some of the strong facets	51:58
	of our religious, educational and national life.	52:00
	And when I say I this,	52:05
	I do not plead for the experience	52:06
	of wallowing in nostalgia,	52:09
	but rather to remember our roots	52:13
	for a very special purpose.	52:17
	Take Judaism, for instance.	52:19
	Even a cursory glance	52:22
	of page after page of the Old Testament	52:24
	describes how these people	52:27
	were able to face persecution and privations	52:30
	largely because they were able to remember	52:34
	that which had gone before,	52:39
	and recalled words of prophet after prophet saying,	52:42
	"Renew your lives!	52:47
	Cast out your evil practices.	52:49
	Rebuild those structures that you have	52:52
	upon the lessons which have been bequeathed to you."	52:57
	The Christian tradition is similar.	53:02
	In each century of the Christian Era,	53:05
	the lay and the clergy leaders have urged disciples	53:08
	to remember, remember Jesus Christ	53:13
	his birth, his life, his death, his resurrection.	53:18
	And in each of these ages,	53:23
	always there was at least one person ready to say,	53:25
	"You may change the adornments,	53:30
	but keep the essentials."	53:34
	In this current hour,	53:36
	of international crisis,	53:38
	we see what a distorted sect of Islam	53:40
	has failed to do.	53:45
	They have remembered,	53:47
	but they have not adjusted faith in God	53:49
	to the revelations of ethical living	53:53
	in keeping with a crowded humanity.	53:57
	So whether it comes from belief	54:01
	in Abraham, or Muhammad, or Jesus	54:04
	words come to us, let us remember our roots.	54:09
	Take note, if you will,	54:16
	of a few roots of Duke University.	54:18
	Those Quakers and Methodists	54:23
	living in rural Randolph county	54:25
	in the years immediately before the war between the states.	54:28
	Who came to be possessed of a sense of need	54:33
	of a better education for their children.	54:37
	Laity and clergy who dedicated themselves	54:41
	and their meager possessions	54:45
	in the cause of private education	54:48
	which would not be shackled	54:51
	by the possible whims of state politicians,	54:53
	teachers, and presidents like Croyle	54:58
	and Craven and Basset and Pew	55:02
	who deeply believed that human values	55:06
	should be the motivating factors in noble living.	55:10
	Then gifts of dollars,	55:16
	few in the beginning years,	55:18
	but many in later years.	55:20
	Dollars which came from industry,	55:23
	from the concept that there is dignity in honest labor.	55:27
	Washington Duke, the father of James Buchanan	55:33
	and Benjamin Duke is reported	55:36
	to have said one day to a friend,	55:38
	"There are three things I simply cannot understand."	55:42
	And when asked what they were he replied,	55:47
	"Electricity, the Holy Spirit, and my son Buck."	55:51
	Let it be clearly noted,	55:58
	that these Duke sons	56:01
	of a family that believed in the importance	56:05
	of labor and of work.	56:11
	Now, in those days, there were those who bitterly criticized	56:15
	the Dukes for there business acumen	56:19
	as well as for their benevolences.	56:22
	You go back and read some of the accounts	56:25
	in the newspapers of North Carolina	56:27
	as well as New York City,	56:30
	and this is quite evident.	56:32
	But isn't it true that the root from which greatness stems	56:34
	is to be found here,	56:40
	in the angelicy usually produced are packs	56:42
	and even persecution.	56:46
	But here there is a rootage	56:48
	that has been implanted in the University's leaders	56:51
	in each generation.	56:54
	Let the whims of cynicism blow.	56:56
	Let the acids of doubt eat away.	56:59
	Let the blistering heat of scorn bring their burns.	57:03
	But our Duke predecessors have carried on,	57:08
	and like the Psalmists,	57:12
	they could say and they can say today,	57:14
	"My enemies surround me like bees at the honey,	57:17
	but in the Lord's name,	57:23
	I will drive them away."	57:26
	It's a story out of World War One days,	57:29
	when that famous British army chaplain	57:34
	Studdert Kennedy said in a sermon	57:36
	that if the choice had to be made	57:39
	that God would come ahead of the British Empire.	57:42
	Well, some Downing Street politicians heard of this remark,	57:46
	and they challenged him,	57:51
	saying that the chaplain was disloyal to the King.	57:52
	Studdert Kennedy's incisive reply was,	57:58
	"I've been accused of being disloyal to my King.	58:03
	I don't know about that.	58:07
	But one thing I do know is that I'm loyal to Jesus Christ,	58:10
	and if that isn't the same thing as being loyal to the King,	58:16
	that is something for King to worry about,	58:20
	and not Studdert Kennedy, in deed and in truth."	58:23
	We need to remember that our rootage	58:28
	includes the kind of determination	58:34
	to keep on keeping on	58:38
	in seeking a goal.	58:41
	When I asked the reasons	58:45
	for establishing the Duke Endowment,	58:46
	J.B. Duke answered,	58:49
	"It is to make men and women."	58:52
	Now this was a plain, if not overly simplistic reply.	58:57
	But, lest it's simplicity becloud its grandeur,	59:01
	note the wide range of bequests	59:06
	represented in the Endowment.	59:08
	The needs of orphan children,	59:11
	the sick, the need for hospitals,	59:14
	for poor and retired ministers,	59:18
	for struggling rural churches,	59:21
	for youth in in Baptist Furmon,	59:24
	in Presbyterian Davidson,	59:28
	in Johnson C. Smith at that time,	59:31
	primarily for Blacks,	59:34
	and Methodist Trinity College.	59:37
	These roots, clearly Christian,	59:40
	strongly Ecumenical, and lucidly educational	59:44
	come to each one of us	59:50
	on this day in December	59:52
	as valued legacies from another day.	59:54
	Dr. Tom Stockton tells a story	59:59
	about the late Groucho Marx.	1:00:04
	Said that one day	1:00:07
	one day he	1:00:10
	was attending a luncheon,	1:00:12
	a banquet meeting of the Friar's Club,	1:00:16
	a club made up of actors and show people.	1:00:18
	And the speaker on this occasion	1:00:23
	chose as his theme, "The Show Must Go On."	1:00:25
	And like many public speakers,	1:00:31
	he kept repeating it:	1:00:33
	the show must go on,	1:00:35
	the show must go on.	1:00:37
	When suddenly Groucho Marx arose,	1:00:40
	and looking at the speaker said,	1:00:43
	"Why?"	1:00:45
	The speaker had no answer.	1:00:48
	When it was all over...	1:00:51
	Well, there was a postscript.	1:00:54
	The Board of Directors met	1:00:56
	and decided that they would	1:00:57
	have to kick Groucho Marx out of membership.	1:00:59
	He wrote them a letter	1:01:03
	and said that he didn't want to belong	1:01:06
	to that group anyway.	1:01:07
	He didn't want to be a member of a club	1:01:09
	which was so low-down in the first place	1:01:11
	as to ask him to be a member.	1:01:14
	Why?	1:01:18
	That's the question that we ask this morning.	1:01:19
	Why have roots?	1:01:24
	And the answer comes in what an old lay preacher said	1:01:28
	in a hot Kentucky church one Sunday afternoon	1:01:31
	when suddenly called upon to pray.	1:01:36
	He jumped to his feet and said,	1:01:40
	"O' God, I don't know very much	1:01:43
	about what is being said,	1:01:45
	but please dear God,	1:01:48
	give us rootage for fruitage	1:01:50
	and unction for function. Amen!"	1:01:53
	Not bad.	1:01:58
	The answer to the question, "why have roots?	1:02:00
	Is the answer for the purpose of bearing fruits.	1:02:05
	On our South Carolina farm when I was growing up,	1:02:10
	there were two large fig trees.	1:02:15
	One year I was amazed and disappointed	1:02:19
	when I discovered that one of these trees	1:02:24
	had only fig leaves but no figs.	1:02:28
	It's a dangerous thing	1:02:33
	to have the gift and the ability	1:02:36
	to produce fruits	1:02:39
	and fail.	1:02:43
	So I suggest quickly, two answers to this question.	1:02:45
	In reference to the roots of Duke University.	1:02:51
	And my first answer is to	1:02:56
	give you a Trinity of affirmations.	1:02:58
	That grand living is not to be found in possessions,	1:03:04
	but in being possessed.	1:03:09
	Not in gaining prestige,	1:03:12
	but in having a purpose for betterment.	1:03:14
	Not in proficiencies as much	1:03:19
	as in meaningful person-to-person relationships,	1:03:23
	as Martin Bugle phrased it,	1:03:27
	"Real life is in meeting."	1:03:30
	And my second answer is in terms of an illustration.	1:03:35
	It comes from a Duke family.	1:03:40
	A family from which two daughters and one son	1:03:45
	came to this campus and graduated.	1:03:53
	The oldest daughter, in those stormy days	1:03:57
	of the early sixties,	1:04:02
	in the days of rebellion	1:04:06
	and racial desegregation,	1:04:09
	came in the February before her anticipated graduation,	1:04:14
	to believe that she had to	1:04:20
	give a witness of conscience.	1:04:22
	That it is absolutely wrong,	1:04:26
	absolutely evil,	1:04:30
	to deny persons of one race	1:04:33
	the right to eat in a restaurant of their choice.	1:04:35
	So one night, along with some other students,	1:04:39
	she was arrested in Chapel Hill,	1:04:43
	and lodged in the Hillsboro Jail.	1:04:46
	With the resulting disgrace upon a police system	1:04:51
	that would not even allow her to telephone Giles House	1:04:54
	on the East Campus and report where she was.	1:04:58
	From home,	1:05:04
	from church,	1:05:06
	and from this very chapel,	1:05:08
	came roots that produced	1:05:12
	that kind of fruit.	1:05:15
	A son of this Duke family,	1:05:18
	chose to express himself in athletics,	1:05:20
	running on cross country indoor and outdoor track	1:05:24
	for four years.	1:05:27
	And, upon graduation, responding to the call	1:05:29
	of his country to service in Vietnam,	1:05:33
	but following that experience,	1:05:37
	came to have such a scorn of war,	1:05:38
	and the evil of that system,	1:05:42
	the he has continued to give a witness against it.	1:05:44
	Choosing to practice law in a small North Carolina town	1:05:50
	where he might relate person-to-person to his clients	1:05:56
	in lieu of a large, lucrative city practice.	1:06:02
	Roots and fruits.	1:06:07
	The youngest daughter graduated from Duke University	1:06:10
	with Phi Beta Kappa,	1:06:13
	later to be given an instructorship	1:06:15
	in a large Eastern University sight unseen	1:06:17
	without an interview based upon her Duke transcript.	1:06:21
	Now married to another Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Duke	1:06:26
	who has three degrees in medicine from Johns Hopkins,	1:06:29
	and who together are planning to invest upcoming years	1:06:33
	in service to the impoverished and needy Indians	1:06:37
	on the Alto Plano of Bolivia.	1:06:43
	Did I not say a few moments ago	1:06:48
	that there are two lasting legacies	1:06:51
	from one generation to another?	1:06:54
	What's the other one?	1:06:56
	It is wings.	1:06:59
	The wings of an airplane along	1:07:02
	with the power of a jet motor	1:07:04
	are daring and dangerous things.	1:07:08
	The wings of a bird are powerful,	1:07:14
	designed to carry the bird away	1:07:19
	from possible danger here	1:07:22
	to a higher level	1:07:24
	on a branch that swings sits the bird that sings	1:07:27
	knowing that it has wings.	1:07:30
	And in these moments, let me hurriedly say,	1:07:34
	will our Duke University dare to use her wings?	1:07:39
	The wings of committing our talents and our legacies anew	1:07:48
	to the cause of academic freedom.	1:07:55
	To believe that we need to go above and beyond	1:08:01
	that old adage	1:08:06
	that college is to provide sex for students,	1:08:08
	football for alumnae,	1:08:12
	and parking spaces for faculty.	1:08:14
	Dare we rise on the wings of believing	1:08:18
	that all Endowments should produce the climate	1:08:24
	of free speech,	1:08:28
	whether it is among the students,	1:08:30
	the faculty, or the administration.	1:08:32
	Of an academic freedom which seeks truth	1:08:36
	wherever and whenever it is to be found.	1:08:40
	And this will mean research	1:08:43
	not as an end in itself,	1:08:46
	but always dedicated to the noble purpose	1:08:48
	of human betterment.	1:08:52
	Will you dare to rise on the wings	1:08:56
	of wanting to go beyond knowledge,	1:09:01
	as important as it is?	1:09:03
	Beyond the knowledge and the ability to answer	1:09:06
	what part of three is two thirds of two.	1:09:10
	And to commit ourself anew to the importance	1:09:14
	of chronicling outstanding events in our lives,	1:09:19
	and in the life of the University,	1:09:24
	and in the world.	1:09:25
	But also, to make those small events	1:09:27
	both interesting and helpful.	1:09:33
	And may I dare to suggest	1:09:38
	that Duke can rise on the wings	1:09:40
	of confronting a contemporary society that,	1:09:44
	for many of us in this academic community	1:09:48
	as well as on Madison Avenue or Tryon Street Charlotte	1:09:52
	are in the grips of affluent living.	1:09:56
	To affirm again what the Nazarene said,	1:10:00
	"You shall not live by bread alone."	1:10:04
	And on these wings,	1:10:09
	commit ourselves to helping meet human need.	1:10:11
	For we've ever satisfied human greed.	1:10:16
	Then I will say in this final word:	1:10:21
	do we dare	1:10:27
	to ask each individual	1:10:30
	student and professor	1:10:32
	and alumnus alike	1:10:36
	to affirm the great belief	1:10:38
	that I am important.	1:10:45
	Not arrogant egotism,	1:10:47
	but an accent upon the fact that God has given to me,	1:10:51
	in a very distinctive and unique manner,	1:10:58
	that which is a part of me.	1:11:01
	I have received some from parents.	1:11:04
	I have received some from friends whom I love.	1:11:07
	I have received some from the heritage of great literature.	1:11:11
	And all of it I am called upon to put together	1:11:16
	with unique dignity and meaning,	1:11:21
	that nobody else can put together.	1:11:23
	And I shall remember a University	1:11:27
	that did not call me first of all	1:11:30
	to be a normal person	1:11:34
	or to be a successful person.	1:11:36
	That did not ask its basketball team	1:11:40
	to be a normal team	1:11:44
	or just as good as Carolina.	1:11:46
	A University that does not ask one of its faculty,	1:11:50
	"Are you as brilliant as your counterpart at Harvard?"	1:11:55
	But rather to ask the question:	1:12:00
	am I matching effort with ability.	1:12:04
	A few years ago,	1:12:12
	in the days of the turbulent early sixties,	1:12:15
	on a certain campus,	1:12:21
	there was a young professor	1:12:22
	just beginning his college tenure as an instructor.	1:12:25
	Throughout that semester,	1:12:32
	the students had not been very respectful to him.	1:12:33
	When he came in to begin his lecture,	1:12:36
	they continued talking,	1:12:38
	scraping their feet on the floor,	1:12:40
	and in the mood of that day,	1:12:44
	he largely accepted it	1:12:47
	and went on.	1:12:49
	The day of examination came,	1:12:51
	and as he walked into the classroom,	1:12:55
	there was a distinctively different mood,	1:12:57
	real silence.	1:13:00
	And the young professor went to the board,	1:13:03
	and before he wrote he said,	1:13:06
	"There are two assignments for your examination,	1:13:09
	and only two.	1:13:12
	First one is to indicate which of the	1:13:15
	Masterpieces of Literature that you've	1:13:21
	been assigned to read this semester	1:13:24
	that you found least interesting."	1:13:27
	And then, with a slight pause, he said,	1:13:32
	"The second question is,	1:13:33
	indicate the deficiency in you	1:13:36
	which caused you to find that masterpiece so uninteresting."	1:13:40
	It is something of that kind of challenge	1:13:48
	that we can see and experience	1:13:54
	on the wings of daring!	1:13:57
	To look deep within our lives,	1:14:01
	deep within the affairs of dear old Duke,	1:14:05
	and say, "Thank God for roots and for wings."	1:14:10
	It's mighty dangerous business to have these two legacies,	1:14:18
	but to let our roots produce fruits,	1:14:27
	and our wings lift us to higher levels,	1:14:29
	is a darn good way for an individual	1:14:33
	and for a University to live	1:14:36
	In the name of the Heavenly Father, the Son,	1:14:39
	and the Holy Spirit we pray.	1:14:41
	Amen.	1:14:43
Speaker Two:	Let us join together now,	1:14:58
	and offer to God these prayers,	1:15:00
	our litany of commemoration.	1:15:02
	Let us pray.	1:15:06
	Almighty and eternal God,	1:15:09
	in whom our parents trusted,	1:15:12
	we, their children, on this day of remembrance,	1:15:14
	offer unto you our litany of commemoration.	1:15:18
Audience	(muffled speaking in response	1:15:23
Speaker Two	For the Duke family,	1:15:25
	father, daughter, sons and their wives,	1:15:27
	grandchildren in continuing generations,	1:15:32
	who with wonder and surprise,	1:15:36
	bewilderment and tenacity,	1:15:38
	laid a good foundation.	1:15:41
	Built a worthy school.	1:15:43
	And provided for exciting growth	1:15:45
	beyond their ken in years unseen.	1:15:47
Audience	(muffled speaking in response)	1:15:51
Speaker Two	For the men and women of this state,	1:15:54
	Methodists and Quakers,	1:15:57
	farmers and merchants,	1:15:58
	teachers and administrators,	1:16:00
	who believed in education,	1:16:01
	and made their belief prevail.	1:16:03
Audience	(muffled speaking in response)	1:16:06
Speaker Two	: For the embodiment of their dreams:	1:16:10
	private school, academy, college, university,	1:16:12
	founded in hope,	1:16:16
	continued with perserverence,	1:16:17
	growing in outreach,	1:16:19
	established in assurance.	1:16:21
Audience	(muffled speaking in response)	1:16:24
Speaker Two	For educators whose vision	1:16:26
	was matched by their courage.	1:16:28
	Whose patience was tempered by their indignation.	1:16:30
	Whose idealism was moderated by their awareness of sin.	1:16:33
Audience	(muffled speaking in response)	1:16:39
Speaker Two	For the continuance of good ideas,	1:16:41
	the union of truth and reverence,	1:16:43
	the freedom of responsible academic thought,	1:16:46
	and the right of public concern,	1:16:49
	the joint care of the body and the spirit,	1:16:51
	the linking of Science and Humanities,	1:16:54
	the realization that the old order changes.	1:16:57
Audience	(muffled speaking in response)	1:17:01
Speaker Two	For the future of our University,	1:17:04
	established to your glory,	1:17:07
	and for the relief of the human condition,	1:17:11
	for the consecration of the discontent of the young,	1:17:14
	for wisdom in the conservatism of the middle aged	1:17:18
	for resiliency in the obstinacy of the old,	1:17:22
	for understanding,	1:17:26
	cooperation, and a sense of humor within our community.	1:17:28
	[Audience] (muffled speaking in response)	1:17:33
Speaker Two	And to you we shall ascribe,	1:17:36
	as is most due,	1:17:38
	all praise and glory.	1:17:40
	World without end.	1:17:42
	Amen.	1:17:44
	(triumphal organ music)	1:17:46
	(choir sings accompanied by organ)	1:18:08
Speaker Two	Let us affirm what we believe.	1:19:41
-	[Speaker Two And Audience] We believe in God	1:19:44
	who has created and is creating.	1:19:46
	Who has come in the truly human Jesus	1:19:49
	to reconcile and make new.	1:19:51
	Who works in us and others by the spirit.	1:19:55
	We trust God, who calls us to be the Church.	1:19:58
	To celebrate life and its fullness.	1:20:03
	To love and serve others.	1:20:05
	To seek justice and resist evil.	1:20:08
	To proclaim Jesus crucified and risen.	1:20:12
	Our judge and our hope,	1:20:15
	in life, in death,	1:20:18
	in life beyond death,	1:20:20
	God is with us.	1:20:22
	We are not alone.	1:20:24
	Thanks be to God.	1:20:26
Speaker Two	Be seated.	1:20:28
	(paper rustles)	1:20:31
-	The lord be with you	1:20:38
Audience	(muffled speaking in response)	1:20:39
Speaker Two	Let us pray	1:20:41
	O' God ever present, ever merciful	1:20:44
	ever ready to hear and receive us.	1:20:47
	O' most blessed and gracious and loving God.	1:20:51
	In this moment, we give you thanks	1:20:55
	for this holy season of Advent.	1:20:57
	For the gift of your son,	1:21:00
	our Lord and Savior, even Jesus the Christ.	1:21:02
	Indeed, O' God we give you thanks	1:21:06
	for the promise of deliverance	1:21:09
	given to all who remain faithful	1:21:11
	to your covenant of love and peace.	1:21:13
	O' God hear us now as we offer this prayer.	1:21:17
	As this semester of learning comes to a close,	1:21:22
	in this University, we offer these words of intercession	1:21:25
	for those teaching and those being taught,	1:21:30
	for all those who continue their learning,	1:21:34
	professor and student,	1:21:37
	for students who have been confronted	1:21:40
	in new and demanding ways,	1:21:42
	those who have struggled,	1:21:45
	those who at times have felt all alone,	1:21:47
	those who have reached out,	1:21:50
	and those who have let others reach out to them,	1:21:53
	we pray O' God for those who are testing	1:21:57
	and those who are being tested.	1:22:02
	May the faculty be fair in their testing	1:22:05
	and in their grading.	1:22:08
	May they find ways to allow students	1:22:11
	to express their grasp of truth and knowledge.	1:22:13
	May they be open, honest, and responsible	1:22:18
	in their questions, exams, and grades.	1:22:21
	May those students be honest in their responses.	1:22:27
	May their papers and tests and answers and solutions	1:22:31
	reveal their own understanding of ideas and concepts.	1:22:35
	And O' God, may they be at ease so that mind and body	1:22:42
	will function at best.	1:22:45
	May this time immediately ahead	1:22:48
	be a time of continued growth for us all, we pray.	1:22:51
	And now, Lord, on this very special Founders Day,	1:22:56
	on this very special Advent day,	1:23:00
	make us mindful of your gifts	1:23:03
	of love and grace to use, friends and family.	1:23:05
	Great minds dedicated to noble tasks,	1:23:09
	the cure of bodies and the enlightenment of minds.	1:23:13
	This University, even with its problems,	1:23:18
	and uncertainties, and frustrations,	1:23:22
	still a place of support and hope and freshness	1:23:25
	and life and vitality to all of us	1:23:30
	and indeed to the world around,	1:23:33
	especially on this day, O' God.	1:23:37
	Make us mindful of the gift of your blessed son,	1:23:40
	our Savior, even Jesus the Christ.	1:23:43
	And now O' Lord we ask that you	1:23:47
	would increase our commitments.	1:23:49
	Our commitment to learn,	1:23:52
	to love, and to serve.	1:23:53
	Through Jesus Christ who is our living, loving Lord,	1:23:57
	who taught us indeed to pray as we pray together:	1:24:01
-	[Speaker Two And Audience Together] Our Father	1:24:05
	who art in Heaven	1:24:06
	hallowed be thy name.	1:24:08
	Thy kingdom come	1:24:10
	thy will be done	1:24:11
	on Earth as it is in Heaven.	1:24:14
	Give us this day	1:24:17
	our daily bread,	1:24:18
	and forgive us our trespasses	1:24:20
	as we forgive those who trespass against us.	1:24:22
	Lead us not into temptation,	1:24:25
	but deliver us from evil.	1:24:28
	For thine is the kingdom,	1:24:30
	the power,	1:24:32
	and the glory forever.	1:24:33
	Amen.	1:24:35
Speaker Two	May I say just a word	1:24:38
	about the offering today?	1:24:40
	In your bulletin this morning,	1:24:42
	there was a leaflet entitled,	1:24:43
	"The United Negro College Fund - Facts You Should Know."	1:24:45
	There is a drive going on just now	1:24:51
	among all persons who would be supportive	1:24:54
	and caring in response to the needs	1:24:58
	of the United Negro College Fund.	1:25:00
	There is a drive going on to raise as much as possible	1:25:03
	to give support to this Fund,	1:25:07
	and to the 41 predominantly negro colleges	1:25:09
	represented by it.	1:25:13
	In the Chapel here on four Sundays a year,	1:25:15
	we set aside the offering	1:25:18
	for some very special designated purposes.	1:25:19
	Today is one of those Sundays.	1:25:22
	Every penny which is given today	1:25:25
	will go from Duke University and from Duke Chapel	1:25:28
	to the United Negro College Fund.	1:25:32
	Maybe you came not planning to give anything today,	1:25:36
	or maybe just a little.	1:25:39
	I invite you to give very much this morning,	1:25:42
	knowing that every bit of it will go to help	1:25:47
	in ministering to the needs of others	1:25:49
	through the United Negro College Fund.	1:25:52
	Let us worship God now	1:25:55
	by the giving of our gifts	1:25:57
	for this very special purpose.	1:25:59
	(contemplative organ music)	1:26:13
	(choir singing)	1:26:16

	♪ Hallelujah ♪	0:03
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	0:06
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	0:08
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	0:11
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	0:15
	♪ Hallelujah ♪	0:19
	♪ Amen ♪	0:27
-	O Lord our God,	0:38
	as we give and dedicate these gifts,	0:40
	we give and dedicate ourselves	0:42
	to search for truth,	0:45
	that truth which liberates the mind	0:47
	and frees the spirit,	0:49
	to seek the way,	0:51
	that way of justice and charity	0:53
	for one and all.	0:55
	To find the life,	0:57
	that life which enriches and sustains.	0:59
	And to Christ who is the way, the truth and the life,	1:03
	we give praise and honor,	1:08
	world without end, amen.	1:10
	(organ music)	1:15
	♪ Sing praise to God who reigns above ♪	1:58
	♪ The God of all creation ♪	2:03
	♪ The God of power, the God of love ♪	2:09
	♪ The God of our salvation ♪	2:15
	♪ With healing balm my soul is filled ♪	2:22
	♪ And every faithless murmur stilled ♪	2:28
	♪ To God all praise and glory ♪	2:34
	♪ The Lord is never far away ♪	2:42
	♪ But through all grief distressing ♪	2:48
	♪ An ever present help and stay ♪	2:54
	♪ Our peace and joy and blessing ♪	3:00
	♪ As with a mother's tender hand ♪	3:07
	♪ God gently leads the chosen band ♪	3:13
	♪ To God all praise and glory ♪	3:19
	♪ The Lord is never far away ♪	3:28
	♪ But through all grief distressing ♪	3:34
	♪ An ever present help and stay ♪	3:41
	♪ Our peace and joy and blessing ♪	3:47
	♪ As with a mother's tender hand ♪	3:53
	♪ God gently leads the chosen band ♪	4:00
	♪ To God all praise and glory ♪	4:06
	♪ Let all who name Christ's holy name ♪	4:15
	♪ Give God all praise and glory ♪	4:21
	♪ Let all who own His power proclaim ♪	4:28
	♪ Aloud the wondrous story ♪	4:34
	♪ Each false idol from its throne ♪	4:40
	♪ For Christ is Lord, and Christ alone ♪	4:46
	♪ To God all praise and glory ♪	4:53
	♪ Amen ♪	5:04
-	Now without bowing heads or closing eyes,	5:13
	may I, as one Christian to another,	5:15
	offer you this blessing from our Lord Jesus Christ.	5:17
	The grace of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ,	5:21
	the love of God,	5:26
	the communion and fellowship of the Holy Spirit,	5:28
	be with you	5:31
	and with those whom you love	5:33
	this day and forever.	5:35
	♪ Amen ♪	5:40
	♪ Amen ♪	5:45
	♪ Amen ♪	5:51
	♪ Amen ♪	5:59
	♪ Amen ♪	6:05
	♪ Amen ♪	6:15
	♪ Amen ♪	6:27
	(organ music)	6:44

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Title:

Wilson O. Weldon - "Dangerous Legacies" (December 9, 1979)

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Sermon start time: 47:50. Sermon end time: 01:14:45.
There are two primary lasting legacies for any individual or institution: roots and wings. We must look back to the roots of our heritage as a university and as Christians so that we might bear fruit for the present and future. We must also dare to soar on the wings of our gifts and our abilities to go above and beyond. (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)
Key quotation: “The answer to the question, ‘Why have roots?’ is the answer: for the purpose of bearing fruits.”

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Date:

December 9, 1979

Speaker:

Weldon, Wilson O.

Biblical Book:

1 Timothy

Chapter and Verse:

1 Timothy 4:12-16

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Duke University. Chapel

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