Harry B. Partin - "The Time of Beginning" (January 3, 1971)

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Pastor	Shall be preached among the gentiles said,	0:05
	"For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness,	0:12
	hath shined in our hearts	0:17
	to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God	0:19
	in the face of Jesus Christ."	0:23
	Let us worship Him as we sing hymn number 27.	0:28
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	May we give the Heavenly Father an opportunity	3:34
	to cleanse our hearts as we enter into the new year.	3:37
	We now offer up to God our prayer of confession.	3:42
	Almighty God,	3:48
	we confess that we sometimes grow tired of confessing.	3:50
	During the past year,	3:55
	as we have tried to be honest to God, from time to time,	3:58
	we have had to admit that we were,	4:03
	once again, sinners.	4:05
	But Lord, we are in need of your grace	4:09
	because we got tired of the wrong act.	4:11
	We grew weary of confessing our sins,	4:17
	when what we should have grown tired of	4:19
	was the act of sinning and of having a sinful attitude.	4:21
	Help us, therefore, when we are weary to be correctly weary.	4:27
	Also, oh Father, we have been prone to take hold	4:34
	of life's tragedies by the wrong handle,	4:37
	to show our concern too late.	4:40
	We tend to give charity to the poor	4:44
	but do little to cure the causes of poverty.	4:47
	We ring our hands when coal miners are killed,	4:51
	but go on, year after a year,	4:55
	doing little to make the mines safe.	4:57
	We will spend our money to repair the damage	5:02
	of violence in our cities,	5:04
	but we will not spend our money	5:07
	to remove the causes of violence.	5:09
	We sympathetically attend the funeral	5:14
	when an acquaintance is killed in a wreck	5:16
	but allow the causes of wrecks to go uncorrected,	5:19
	even defending the right of drivers to cause wrecks.	5:23
	We decorate the graves of our young men,	5:28
	whose bodies are shipped home from the war,	5:30
	but thou knowest, we do not make peace a priority.	5:33
	We're more prone to help the undertaker bury the dead	5:38
	than to aid the physician in curing the sick.	5:42
	Lord, we confess that this approach	5:46
	is not only stupid but sinful.	5:49
	We pray thee to cure us of our stupidity	5:53
	and to forgive us our sins through Jesus.	5:56
	Amen.	6:02
	We, who are in need of comfort,	6:07
	have been assured by the scriptures,	6:09
	"Though your sins be as scarlet,	6:12
	they shall be as white as snow.	6:14
	Though they be red like crimson,	6:17
	they shall be as wool."	6:20
	Amen.	6:23
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	Our Old Testament lesson comes	10:02
	from the book of Ecclesiastes,	10:04
	verses from Chapter 3.	10:08
	"For everything, there is a season	10:12
	and a time every matter under heaven.	10:14
	A time to be born, a time to die,	10:20
	a time to plant, a time to pluck up what is planted,	10:25
	a time to kill, a time to heal,	10:30
	a time to break down, a time to build up,	10:33
	a time to weep, a time to laugh,	10:37
	a time to mourn, a time to dance,	10:40
	a time to cast away stones,	10:45
	a time to gather stones together,	10:48
	a time to embrace,	10:53
	a time to refrain from embracing,	10:56
	a time to seek, a time to lose,	11:00
	a time to keep and a time to cast away,	11:04
	a time to rend, a time to sew,	11:08
	a time to keep silence, a time to speak,	11:13
	a time to love and a time to hate,	11:18
	a time for war, a time for peace."	11:22
	The New Testament reading is from 2 Corinthians.	11:29
	Verses from Chapter 5.	11:34
	Beginning with 16.	11:40
	"From now on, therefore, we regard no one	11:50
	from a human point of view;	11:53
	even though we once regarded Christ	11:56
	from a human point of view,	11:59
	we regard Him thus no longer.	12:01
	Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation;	12:06
	the old has passed away,	12:11
	behold the new has come.	12:15
	All this is from God,	12:18
	who through Christ reconciled us to Himself,	12:20
	and gave us the ministry of reconciliation.	12:25
	That is, God was in Christ	12:29
	reconciling the world to Himself,	12:32
	not counting their trespasses against them	12:36
	and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.	12:39
	So, we are ambassadors for Christ.	12:45
	God making His appeal through us,	12:50
	we beseech you on behalf of Christ,	12:55
	be reconciled to God.	12:59
	For our sake He made Him to be sin who knew no sin,	13:03
	so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.	13:08
	Working together with Him then,	13:12
	we entreat you not to accept the grace of God in vain,	13:15
	for He says,	13:19
	'At the acceptable time I have listened to you,	13:21
	helped you on the day of salvation.'	13:26
	Behold now is the acceptable time,	13:31
	behold now is the day of salvation".	13:35
	Amen.	13:42
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	Lord be with you.	14:25
	Let us pray.	14:28
	For our prayer of Thanksgiving, let us turn to number 661,	14:31
	in the back portion of our hymnal.	14:36
	Read this prayer together, responsively.	14:41
	Holy, holy, holy	14:51
	is the Lord God Almighty	14:54
	who was, and is, and is to come.	14:56
	(congregation responding faintly)	15:02
	Just and true are Thy ways, oh King of the Ages.	15:07
	(congregation responding faintly)	15:11
	Worthy art Thou, our Lord and God,	15:18
	to receive glory and honor and power,	15:22
	for Thou didst create all things,	15:25
	and by Thy will they existed and were created.	15:26
	(congregation responding faintly)	15:31
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	Blessing, glory, wisdom and thanksgiving,	15:41
	and honor and power, and might,	15:45
	be to our God forever and ever.	15:47
	(congregation responding faintly)	15:51
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	We give thanks to the Lord God Almighty,	16:00
	who art, was,	16:04
	and now has taken Thy great power and begun to reign.	16:06
	Hallelujah for the Lord our God, the Almighty reigns.	16:10
	Let us rejoice and, in so, we give Him the glory.	16:15
	Amen.	16:20
	(congregation responding faintly)	16:21
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	Eternal God,	16:27
	our Heavenly Father,	16:30
	we would worship Thee,	16:34
	praise Thee and give Thee thanks	16:37
	with hospitable hearts,	16:40
	welcoming Thee to our minds and to our lives.	16:43
	Knock, knock on the door,	16:48
	but give us grace and hope.	16:52
	Come to us in stimulating thoughts,	16:56
	clear insights,	17:00
	and illuminate things.	17:02
	In moving gratitude that makes us and keeps us humble,	17:06
	in a kind of penitence that cleanses us,	17:12
	and in a sense of blind vocation that challenges us.	17:17
	Come to us in a fresh vision of Jesus Christ.	17:23
	His grace, His mercy, His call to our conscience,	17:28
	His appeal to our strength.	17:34
	As thus, amid the earthquake, wind, and fire	17:39
	of this noisy world,	17:44
	we wait for Thy still, small voice.	17:46
	Give us sensitive hearts to listen,	17:50
	teachable minds to learn,	17:54
	humble wills to obey.	17:57
	Here today, as we worship together	18:01
	let some revelation of Thy light	18:04
	fall on our particular darkness.	18:08
	Some guidance from Thy wisdom,	18:11
	save us from our own personal will.	18:14
	Some power from Thy infinite resource, strengthen us.	18:19
	Our impunity.	18:23
	We pray Thee, O God, for special help	18:28
	as the old year has gone out	18:32
	and the unknown future,	18:36
	full of dangers and yet full of possibilities,	18:38
	is open before us.	18:42
	Make us great enough for these great days.	18:45
	Make us humble enough for understanding,	18:50
	cooperative members of our one command.	18:54
	Lift us above the petty, the grasp,	18:59
	the import of these momentous times.	19:03
	Thus help us to build	19:08
	the only kind of world that shall save our children	19:11
	from chaos and from catastrophe.	19:14
	O God for all who labor in Church and in state	19:20
	this coming year,	19:25
	save them	19:30
	from a disordered world,	19:34
	from disloyal followers,	19:36
	from anxious hearts.	19:38
	Let no failures so frighten them,	19:42
	no difficulties so dishearten them,	19:46
	or us who stand behind them,	19:48
	they may surrender to discouragement,	19:51
	so that when another year comes	19:56
	and begins as this one is beginning,	19:59
	our eyes may look out upon a better world.	20:04
	Traveling a highway toward genuine brotherhood,	20:08
	in the church,	20:14
	in society,	20:16
	and among the nations of the world.	20:19
	We make this prayer, in spirit of that better prayer	20:23
	which Thy Son has taught all His disciples to pray.	20:27
	Saying, "Our Father, who art in heaven,	20:31
	hallowed be Thy name,	20:36
	Thy kingdom come,	20:38
	Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.	20:40
	Give us this day our daily bread;	20:44
	and forgive us our trespasses	20:47
	as we forgive those who trespass against us.	20:49
	Lead us not into temptation,	20:53
	but deliver us from evil.	20:56
	For Thine is Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever."	20:57
	Amen.	21:03
	May the words of our mouths,	21:36
	and the mediation of our hearts	21:40
	be acceptable in Thy sight	21:43
	O Lord our strength	21:47
	and our redeemer.	21:49
	Amen.	21:52
	We have just crossed	21:58
	the threshold of a new year.	22:01
	We're beginning to write 1971	22:06
	on our letters and checks,	22:11
	so that will take some getting used to.	22:14
	Tomorrow, Monday,	22:20
	may actually begin the New Year for many of us,	22:23
	for we will be returning to work after holidays.	22:29
	At nine o'clock tomorrow morning,	22:36
	classes will begin again	22:40
	in Church.	22:43
	We are aware	22:47
	that, once again,	22:50
	we are at the time of beginning.	22:52
	I would like to talk for a little while	22:58
	this morning about time.	23:02
	It seems to me that we have two	23:08
	very different experiences of time.	23:13
	Or, to put it another way,	23:18
	that we experience	23:22
	at least two different kinds of time.	23:25
	Time is not simply abstract,	23:33
	but is versatile.	23:37
	There is, first of all, that kind of time	23:45
	which we acknowledge by writing 1971.	23:47
	It is linear,	23:53
	chronological,	23:56
	historical time.	23:59
	The time we measure and part	24:02
	from the beginning towards the end.	24:06
	The Jewish calendar begins	24:12
	with the date traditionally	24:16
	given for the creation.	24:18
	The Christian calendar, as you know,	24:21
	begins with the year	24:25
	traditionally given for the birth of Jesus.	24:28
	In this case, a historical event,	24:33
	provides the mark by which time is kept.	24:39
	(indistinct speech)	24:43
	For ages.	24:46
	(indistinct speech)	24:46
	Also, in the case of Muslims,	24:51
	a historical event provides the beginning,	24:54
	for the Islamic calendar begins with the year	24:59
	of Mohammed's Hajj,	25:03
	the migration to Mecca.	25:06
	And so, the Muslims are now	25:12
	in the year 1390.	25:15
	(indistinct speech)	25:18
	That is, thirteen hundred and ninety years	25:20
	after migration to Mecca.	25:24
	This linear, chronological time,	25:28
	is also the kind of time	25:32
	by which we measure our lives	25:34
	on Earth.	25:39
	It is the time of birthdays,	25:43
	one after another.	25:47
	(indistinct speech)	25:51
	Needless to say, this time,	25:54
	the time of our lives.	25:59
	But, I want to say, that there is,	26:06
	in fact, another kind of time,	26:10
	which is also (indistinct),	26:14
	and is also important.	26:18
	By contrast with linear time,	26:23
	this time is cyclical.	26:27
	It recurs.	26:32
	That is, to say it returns again and again.	26:34
	We do have this	26:42
	so-called primitive and archaic religion,	26:45
	(indistinct speech)	26:50
	it is this second kind of time	26:54
	that is difficult,	26:58
	recurring time	27:00
	that is considered the real time,	27:03
	the time that lasts.	27:06
	But I want to suggest	27:10
	that the experience of this kind of time,	27:12
	is not (indistinct) or a primitive religion,	27:17
	(indistinct speech)	27:22
	for we have it all,	27:24
	have it more commonly and (indistinct).	27:27
	Time as man naturally experiences it	27:37
	is cyclical.	27:44
	The moon, for example, with its phases ever repeated,	27:46
	(indistinct)	27:51
	a living, rhythmical time.	27:54
	In similar fashion, the seasons of the year	27:59
	with summer,	28:06
	fall,	28:07
	winter,	28:09
	and spring.	28:11
	The eternal round.	28:15
	Such time	28:21
	is always a time of something.	28:23
	We recently experienced Christmas time,	28:30
	the time of,	28:34
	the coming again of that joyful season	28:37
	with its festive history.	28:40
	It is now winter time.	28:44
	(indistinct speech)	28:49
	The winter solstice (indistinct),	28:54
	and the start of winter.	28:57
	(indistinct speech)	29:01
	(indistinct speech)	29:04
	Spring time,	29:05
	bursting with life as always.	29:09
	When it comes we will know it.	29:13
	Who does not know	29:21
	who can't remember	29:25
	that special quality of time.	29:27
	It is that time the Song of Solomon celebrates,	29:33
	"My beloved speaks and says to me,	29:40
	arise, my love, my fair one, and come away,	29:44
	for, lo, the winter is past,	29:50
	the rain is over and gone;	29:54
	the flowers appear on the earth;	29:57
	the time of the singing of birds is come,	30:01
	and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land."	30:05
	We take for granted the linear,	30:13
	chronological character of time,	30:16
	but we need to remind ourselves that such a view of time	30:19
	has not come easily (mumbles).	30:23
	For, traditionally, men have been born and bred	30:28
	by the cyclical character of time.	30:32
	(indistinct speech)	30:35
	For the emphasis on the linear, chronological	30:39
	character of time is most of all (indistinct)	30:42
	For it seems to have been the heathens,	30:48
	that discovered (indistinct)	30:51
	the values of historical time,	30:54
	and the uniqueness of historical descent.	30:57
	The God (indistinct),	31:03
	(indistinct speech)	31:06
	(indistinct speech)	31:09
	(indistinct speech)	31:12
	The struggle between two views of time,	31:15
	historical time on the one hand,	31:20
	what we may, perhaps, call natural time on the other,	31:24
	this struggle of interest for many centuries.	31:28
	It is reflected in the Old Testament (indistinct).	31:35
	(indistinct speech)	31:40
	That the historical view of time deemed the (indistinct),	31:43
	and the judge of the interpretational	31:49
	(mumbles).	31:52
	Thus, the execution, being unexplored	31:55
	as the central event,	31:59
	that the (mumbles)	32:02
	for many centuries we have celebrated the past.	32:05
	It is a belief,	32:12
	displaying as nothing else of God,	32:15
	God's power,	32:19
	the kind to rise and fold agriculture,	32:24
	(mumbles)	32:28
	natural festival, for the very (indistinct).	32:31
	(indistinct speech)	32:36
	What was natural, became history.	32:41
	What was biblical and recurring was made (indistinct),	32:47
	(mumbles).	32:52
	This historizes any (mumbles).	32:56
	One of the fundamental characteristics	33:02
	of a difficult religion,	33:06
	and, it is a characteristic (indistinct)	33:09
	as the power term, a book,	33:12
	it is a term of this (indistinct) that they understand	33:17
	(indistinct speech)	33:22
	(indistinct) of Christ.	33:28
	At the same time,	33:32
	(indistinct speech)	33:36
	(indistinct speech)	33:39
	Our religious experience,	33:42
	exceeds our theology,	33:45
	and our theology (indistinct),	33:49
	the first, the (indistinct).	33:55
	(indistinct speech)	33:58
	And yet, when Christmas time comes,	34:02
	it is, again, the time of new birth.	34:06
	We may speak as we will on remembering and celebrating	34:12
	that historical event of long ago,	34:17
	and then, in the time of Christ	34:22
	(indistinct speech)	34:28
	hunts us again,	34:32
	a kind of reincarnation,	34:35
	the remembering, but also the (indistinct).	34:42
	(indistinct speech)	34:48
	Another (indistinct)	34:57
	hath begin like (indistinct) point,	35:00
	(indistinct speech)	35:04
	(indistinct speech)	35:08
	(indistinct speech)	35:11
	For then the Lord comes, I come as (indistinct) do,	35:14
	from a particular (indistinct) which has emphasized,	35:21
	above all, a warrior character, of the (indistinct).	35:26
	This, (indistinct).	35:33
	Hear that?	35:39
	That is the whole of what we explored (indistinct)/	35:43
	But, other Christian traditions have emphasized the	35:51
	presence of Christ, celebration for his supper.	35:53
	(indistinct speech)	35:58
	For in (indistinct) away.	36:02
	This latter emphasis on the presence of Christ,	36:09
	for all impossibility for a magical	36:13
	rather than the religious sense, (indistinct)	36:16
	more than historical (indistinct)	36:25
	of our experiences of the lord (indistinct).	36:29
	Pure to our deepest and richest experience,	36:34
	than our (indistinct) will not allow.	36:38
	The true emphasis, the Lord suffers who comes for us.	36:43
	Holy, the past and the present,	36:49
	the present of (indistinct)	36:54
	As I suggested already, difficult religion	36:58
	He emphasized (indistinct) times,	37:02
	in order to establish reality,	37:06
	(indistinct) of linear historical times.	37:09
	The Church did not (indistinct)	37:15
	for the Church developed the concept of the Church year,	37:20
	in which the fruitful events in the light,	37:25
	burst	37:32
	(indistinct speech)	37:34
	These crucial events in the minds of the people,	37:39
	are (indistinct) year after year after year.	37:44
	Think how much poorer we would be (indistinct)	37:51
	if the birth of Jesus,	37:53
	(indistinct speech)	37:55
	resurrected, were not (mumbles).	37:58
	(indistinct speech)	38:04
	(indistinct speech)	38:07
	(indistinct speech)	38:10
	There are other events in the year which are not	38:15
	(indistinct) Christian in origin,	38:19
	or necessary (mumbles).	38:23
	Some of these events are (indistinct),	38:26
	I referred earlier to (indistinct).	38:31
	We find the coming of Christ	38:36
	a remarkable event because	38:40
	(indistinct speech)	38:45
	It is, indeed, no accident that the Church	38:49
	has chosen to celebrate	38:52
	the resurrection of Jesus Christ.	38:54
	In this springtime.	38:58
	(indistinct speech)	39:02
	For in this celebration,	39:05
	there is a conjunction	39:08
	coming together.	39:12
	The natural and the (indistinct),	39:15
	both divine.	39:19
	(indistinct speech)	39:22
	(indistinct speech)	39:25
	But again, by (mumbles).	39:31
	Celebration of the new year,	39:37
	religious or (mumbles),	39:42
	whether in this time or another,	39:45
	a (indistinct).	39:51
	(indistinct speech)	39:53
	(indistinct speech)	39:56
	Feature of the Gregorian calender	39:57
	is that times are located	39:59
	in (mumbles).	40:01
	(indistinct speech)	40:04
	That is, time and date,	40:08
	January 1st.	40:12
	Now, that they did not (indistinct).	40:15
	(indistinct speech)	40:19
	However that may be,	40:24
	I would argue that we, in fact,	40:26
	believe and do bad (indistinct).	40:29
	(indistinct speech)	40:33
	We need it, most of all,	40:40
	I think, because,	40:41
	when you're in historical time,	40:42
	if you (mumbles),	40:44
	and we who live in that time,	40:47
	(indistinct speech)	40:51
	Heard them talk.	40:54
	At the end of an old year,	41:02
	there is all different types of (mumbles).	41:06
	I doubt that we ever (indistinct).	41:13
	(indistinct speech)	41:17
	(indistinct speech)	41:22
	(indistinct speech)	41:26
	For the end of the whole year,	41:32
	and the beginning of the new,	41:35
	signals the possibility	41:37
	of the (indistinct).	41:39
	(indistinct speech)	41:44
	Is the good news,	41:47
	(indistinct speech).	41:49
	And good news	41:53
	(indistinct speech)	41:55
	Of liberated	41:58
	the spirit of the Lord	42:01
	(indistinct speech)	42:03
	For he has anointed me.	42:06
	(indistinct speech)	42:10
	(indistinct speech)	42:14
	In the past and recovering of (indistinct),	42:18
	for Thou has delivered.	42:25
	(indistinct speech)	42:28
	(indistinct speech)	42:32
	(indistinct speech)	42:37
	In our (mumbles).	42:43
	We are still bound,	42:48
	chained ourselves as (mumbles).	42:52
	(indistinct speech)	42:58
	Wrong relationships we have (indistinct).	43:01
	Prejudice (mumbles).	43:06
	Dishonest (mumbles).	43:12
	Habit.	43:16
	Destruction of (mumbles).	43:19
	(indistinct speech)	43:23
	(indistinct speech)	43:27
	(indistinct speech)	43:30
	(indistinct speech)	43:33
	Our problem,	43:37
	it is not whether there is good deeds (mumbles).	43:38
	Our problem, our habit .	43:45
	(indistinct speech)	43:49
	It is almost as if the good news is	43:56
	good (mumbles).	44:00
	(indistinct speech)	44:03
	So, carrying our burden	44:07
	of anxiety and ill from (mumbles).	44:10
	How can we	44:18
	(mumbles)	44:20
	truly and truly fix them?	44:25
	There are times,	44:29
	times and (mumbles),	44:33
	and that said,	44:41
	time is wed.	44:44
	The forgiveness and renewal	44:47
	that God always offered.	44:48
	(indistinct speech)	44:53
	(indistinct speech)	44:56
	It can become	45:03
	our personal (mumbles).	45:07
	Great (mumbles).	45:11
	The whole year and the (indistinct).	45:14
	From grace (mumbles).	45:19
	Giveth the (mumbles)	45:25
	in this time of beginning,	45:31
	it will come for us.	45:35
	(indistinct speech)	45:37
	Except (mumbles).	45:39
	(indistinct speech)	45:42
	(indistinct speech)	45:49
	O God of the past,	45:56
	O God of the future,	45:59
	O God of the hidden,	46:02
	If it rose from the tyranny of time past,	46:08
	(indistinct speech)	46:12
	(indistinct speech)	46:16
	(indistinct speech)	46:19
	Amen.	46:22
	(ethereal organ music begins)	46:25
	(ethereal organ music continues)	46:29
	(ethereal organ music continues)	46:33
	(ethereal organ music continues)	46:37
	(ethereal organ music continues)	46:41
	(ethereal organ music continues)	46:45
	(ethereal organ music continues)	46:49
	(ethereal organ music continues)	46:53
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	(ethereal organ music continues)	47:29
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	(ethereal organ music continues)	47:56
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	(ethereal organ music continues)	48:13
	(ethereal organ music)	48:17
	(faint triumphant organ music)	50:47
	(chorus faintly singing)	51:02
	(chorus faintly singing)	51:06
	(chorus faintly singing)	51:09
	(chorus faintly singing)	51:12
	(chorus faintly singing)	51:16
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	(chorus faintly singing)	52:08
	(chorus faintly singing)	52:11
	(chorus faintly singing)	52:15
	(chorus faintly singing)	52:18
	(triumphant organ music)	52:21
	(chorus faintly singing)	52:26
	(chorus faintly singing)	52:29
	(chorus faintly singing)	52:33
	(chorus faintly singing)	52:36
	(chorus faintly singing)	52:39
	(chorus faintly singing)	52:43
	(chorus faintly singing)	52:46
	(chorus faintly singing)	52:50
	(chorus faintly singing)	53:01
	(chorus faintly singing)	53:04
	(chorus faintly singing)	53:07
	(chorus faintly singing)	53:11
	(chorus faintly singing)	53:14
	(chorus singing)	53:18
	(triumphant organ music)	53:20
	(ethereal organ music)	53:51
	(ethereal organ music continues)	53:56
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	Our Heavenly Father, (mumbles),	55:24
	(indistinct speech)	55:30
	(indistinct speech)	55:32
	(indistinct speech)	55:36
	Dedicated them (mumbles).	55:40
	(indistinct speech)	55:43
	Now, may the grace (mumbles) in Jesus Christ.	55:54
	(ethereal organ music)	56:15
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Man	End one!	1:02:31
	(heavy footsteps)	1:02:38
	(banging noise)	1:02:43
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	(shuffling noise)	1:02:55
	(papers shuffling noise)	1:02:59
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	(tapping noise)	1:03:13
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	(man clearing throat)

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Title:

Harry B. Partin - "The Time of Beginning" (January 3, 1971)

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Date:

January 3, 1971

Speaker:

Partin, Harry B.

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Duke University. Chapel

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