Robert T. Young - "A Letter to My Son" (October 21, 1973)
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- | If we say we have no sin, | 4:22 |
we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. | 4:26 | |
Therefore, let us offer unto God, | 4:35 | |
our unison prayer of confession and for pardon, | 4:39 | |
let us pray. | 4:45 | |
Most merciful father, | 4:48 | |
we come before you to confess that we have not been worthy | 4:51 | |
to be called your children. | 4:56 | |
We have not understand your commandments | 4:59 | |
nor have we fulfilled them. | 5:02 | |
We have treated human laws as divine laws. | 5:05 | |
We have sacrifice persons for principles. | 5:10 | |
We have love assenters and have despised dissenters. | 5:14 | |
We have been quick to condemn and slow to forgive. | 5:21 | |
Dear Lord forgive us our rash judgment | 5:26 | |
and teach us your mercy. | 5:31 | |
Grant us the understanding to remove logs from our own eyes | 5:34 | |
so that we made better see the love within your laws | 5:40 | |
in Jesus name. | 5:45 | |
Amen. | 5:47 | |
And in quietness that as offered unto God | 5:49 | |
any personal confession. | 5:53 | |
Hear the good news, | 6:06 | |
this statement is completely reliable | 6:09 | |
and should be universally accepted, | 6:13 | |
Christ Jesus entered the world to a rescue sinners. | 6:17 | |
So let it be. | 6:25 | |
And let us offer unto God, | 6:29 | |
the prayer which Jesus taught his disciples saying together, | 6:31 | |
our father in heaven. | 6:36 | |
Holy be your name, your kingdom come | 6:39 | |
your will be done on earth as in heaven, | 6:45 | |
give us today the bread we need. | 6:49 | |
Forgive us our sins | 6:53 | |
as we forgive those who sin against us, | 6:56 | |
save us in the time of trial and deliver us from evil | 7:00 | |
for the kingdom, the power | 7:06 | |
and the glory are yours now and forever. | 7:09 | |
Amen. | 7:14 | |
(organ music) | 7:19 | |
(choir vocalizing) | 8:11 | |
- | The first of this morning's lessons | 11:54 |
is from the book of Micah, the sixth chapter. | 11:57 | |
"With what shall I come before the Lord | 12:03 | |
and bow myself before God on high, | 12:07 | |
shall I come before him with burnt offerings, | 12:11 | |
with calves a year old. | 12:15 | |
Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rivers of oil? | 12:19 | |
Shall I give my first born for my transgressions, | 12:25 | |
the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul. | 12:29 | |
He has showed you, oh man, what is good. | 12:35 | |
And what does the Lord require of you? | 12:40 | |
But to do justice and to love kindness and to walk humbly | 12:44 | |
with your God." | 12:50 | |
The second of today's lessons comes from the Gospel of Luke, | 12:59 | |
the 18th chapter. | 13:04 | |
"He also told this parable | 13:08 | |
to some who trusted in themselves, | 13:11 | |
that they were righteous and despised others. | 13:14 | |
Two men went up into the temple to pray, | 13:19 | |
one Pharisee and the other a tax collector. | 13:23 | |
The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, | 13:29 | |
'God, I thank thee that I am not like other men, | 13:34 | |
extortioners, unjust, adulterers, | 13:39 | |
or even like this tax collector. | 13:45 | |
I fast twice a week. | 13:49 | |
I give ties of all that I get.' | 13:52 | |
But the tax collector standing far off | 13:56 | |
would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, | 14:00 | |
but beat his breast saying, | 14:04 | |
'God, be merciful to me, a sinner.' | 14:07 | |
I tell you this man went down to his house justified | 14:12 | |
rather than the other, | 14:17 | |
for everyone who humbles himself will be exalted." | 14:19 | |
(organ music) | 14:26 | |
(choir vocalizing) | 14:35 | |
- | Let us (indistinct) faith in unison. | 15:06 |
"We believe in God, who has created and is creating, | 15:11 | |
who has come in the true man, Jesus, | 15:16 | |
to reconcile and make new. | 15:20 | |
Who works in us and others by his spirit. | 15:23 | |
We trust him. | 15:28 | |
He calls us to be in his church to celebrate his presence, | 15:30 | |
to love and serve others, to seek justice and resist evil, | 15:35 | |
to proclaim Jesus crucified and risen. | 15:42 | |
Our judge and our hope, | 15:46 | |
in life in death, in life beyond death, | 15:49 | |
God is with us. | 15:54 | |
We are not alone. | 15:56 | |
Thanks be to God." | 15:59 | |
The Lord be with you. | 16:01 | |
- | And also with you. | 16:04 |
- | Let us pray. | 16:05 |
Let us offer first a prayer of Thanksgiving. | 16:15 | |
Blessed and eternal God, | 16:20 | |
from whom we come by whom we are sustained | 16:24 | |
and to whom we shall return. | 16:29 | |
We thank thee for the good things bequeath to us | 16:32 | |
by the journeying generations, | 16:37 | |
others labored and we have entered into the profits | 16:40 | |
of their labor. | 16:45 | |
Churches we did not build, | 16:48 | |
our centers for our worship and inspiration. | 16:51 | |
Liberties we did not earn are our birthright. | 16:56 | |
Truths we did not discover are lamp to our feet | 17:02 | |
and a light upon our path. | 17:08 | |
And at this Palms weekend, | 17:12 | |
we remember most of us in gratitude, our own home. | 17:15 | |
As we have freely received so may we freely serve, | 17:23 | |
make us wise in the arts of stewardship. | 17:28 | |
Grant that we may so live and work | 17:33 | |
that those who come after us, | 17:35 | |
shall rejoice that we passed this way. | 17:38 | |
Let us off with a prayer of intercession | 17:45 | |
for the world in trouble. | 17:48 | |
Oh God, the father, who has made of one blood | 17:53 | |
all the nations of the earth, | 17:57 | |
we pray that spring and courage abundance be given | 18:01 | |
to all who work for the world of reason and understanding. | 18:04 | |
We pray that the good which lies in man's heart | 18:11 | |
may day by day be magnified. | 18:15 | |
We pray that men will come to see more clearly | 18:20 | |
not that which divides them, but that which unites them. | 18:24 | |
We pray that each hour may bring us closer | 18:31 | |
to a final victory, not of a nation over a nation, | 18:33 | |
but of man over his own evils and weakness. | 18:40 | |
And let us offer a prayer of supplication for firmness. | 18:48 | |
Oh God, who has given us the grace | 18:55 | |
to parry the sword of thy kingdom of peace. | 18:57 | |
Who has made us and messengers of peace | 19:02 | |
in a world of strife, | 19:05 | |
and messengers of strife in a world of false peace. | 19:08 | |
Make strong our hand, make clear our a voice. | 19:15 | |
Give us humility with firmness, and insight with passion | 19:21 | |
that we may fight not to conquer, but to redeem. | 19:28 | |
Oh God, who has given us the grace to be agents of love | 19:35 | |
in its work of healing and judgment. | 19:39 | |
Who has commissioned us to proclaim forgiveness | 19:43 | |
and condemnation, | 19:47 | |
deliverance to the captive and captivity to the proud. | 19:49 | |
Give us the patience of those who understand | 19:57 | |
and the impatience of those who love. | 20:02 | |
That might of thy gentleness may work through us | 20:06 | |
and the mercy of thy wrath may speak through us, | 20:11 | |
in the name of him who calls us to thy kingdom of peace | 20:17 | |
and love and truth. | 20:23 | |
Amen. | 20:27 | |
Preacher of this morning is the Reverend Robert T. Young, | 20:30 | |
the minister to the university. | 20:34 | |
And he has asked me to tell you | 20:37 | |
that his sermon copies of this morning sermon | 20:41 | |
are ready already, and you may receive them on the way out. | 20:46 | |
The hymn is 212. | 20:52 | |
(organ music) | 20:57 | |
(choir vocalizing) | 21:44 | |
- | There is a balm in Gilead to make the wounded whole. | 24:32 |
There is a balm in Gilead to heal the sin sick soul. | 24:44 | |
Sometimes I feel discouraged and think my works in vain, | 24:51 | |
then the holy spirit revives my soul again. | 25:01 | |
If you can't preach like Peter, you can't pray like Paul, | 25:09 | |
just tell the love of Jesus. | 25:16 | |
Say He died for all. | 25:22 | |
There is a balm in Gilead to make the wounded whole. | 25:27 | |
There is a balm in Gilead to heal the sin sick soul. | 25:37 | |
We do not talk very much about the balm in Gilead today, | 25:46 | |
we hear a great deal of balms, | 25:54 | |
but we speak very little of balm. | 25:57 | |
We hear much about many strange and foreign places today, | 26:03 | |
but we know not of Gilead. | 26:07 | |
Balm in biblical times was an anointment Asiah, | 26:14 | |
a medicinal gum prized highly for its healing properties. | 26:19 | |
Gilead was a little country in old Testament times, | 26:25 | |
Northeast of Judah on the Eastern banks of the Jordan river. | 26:29 | |
Gilead was the place where Jacob and Esau were reconciled. | 26:35 | |
The land where David took refuge. | 26:40 | |
The home of Elijah, the prophet, | 26:43 | |
whose name means "Jehovah is my God." | 26:45 | |
Now perhaps you can sense the relationship of this song | 26:52 | |
to this sermon. | 26:58 | |
There is a balm we need today. | 27:01 | |
There is anointment Asiah, | 27:07 | |
a medicinal gum of healing we need right now. | 27:11 | |
We can trace its origins back to a tiny country | 27:18 | |
where hated brothers were reconcile. | 27:21 | |
Where a fallen king found strength | 27:25 | |
and where lived a great prophet, | 27:28 | |
one so great tradition tells us | 27:30 | |
that he neither died nor was buried, | 27:32 | |
but was translated from earth to heaven. | 27:34 | |
In short, there is a healing we need | 27:37 | |
to heal our sin sick soul, to make the wounded whole. | 27:40 | |
And this healing comes from God. | 27:48 | |
The forgiving God of grace, the giver of life, | 27:51 | |
the lover of us all. | 27:57 | |
Healing needs to come to many parts of our land, | 28:02 | |
many of which I was unaware | 28:06 | |
at the time of writing this sermon. | 28:10 | |
I want to let God's word speak to one dimension | 28:14 | |
of our brokenness as a nation, namely, | 28:17 | |
"What are we to do with the 70,000 or so young men | 28:22 | |
who fled this country rather than fight in the Vietnam War?" | 28:27 | |
I am the father of two sons, | 28:35 | |
they are now 10 and seven years old. | 28:39 | |
Neither of them had to face or to make decisions | 28:43 | |
about serving in the armed services during the Vietnam War. | 28:46 | |
During the past several months, | 28:51 | |
I have thought often of the fathers and mothers of the sons | 28:52 | |
who fled and I have thought of the 70,000 young man. | 28:57 | |
So today I want to share with you a letter, | 29:03 | |
a letter I think I would write to my son | 29:06 | |
if he were one of those now hiding in Canada | 29:09 | |
or in one of the Scandinavian countries, | 29:13 | |
listen please, "My dear son, | 29:16 | |
your mother and I think of you constantly, | 29:22 | |
your brother and sisters talk of you often. | 29:27 | |
We all hope you're safe and in good health, | 29:31 | |
I don't know what you're doing to have money to live on, | 29:34 | |
but with all of your energy and your ingenious ways, | 29:38 | |
I'm sure you have a good and profitable job. | 29:41 | |
You've been gone a long time. | 29:46 | |
Three and a half years seems forever | 29:49 | |
and much has happened to us back home. | 29:55 | |
The war is over, the soldiers are home. | 29:58 | |
We're told that all of the prisoners of war | 30:02 | |
have been returned. | 30:04 | |
We've stopped bombing Cambodia and Laos and North Vietnam. | 30:05 | |
Why did we ever in the first place? | 30:09 | |
It cost us in measurable ways, | 30:14 | |
and in ways we'll never know. | 30:18 | |
46,000 US soldiers killed, 11,000 non-combat persons killed, | 30:20 | |
still missing more than 1300, more than $135 billion spent. | 30:27 | |
Scores of thousands wounded and maimed for life | 30:35 | |
but it's over. | 30:38 | |
We hope and we pray. | 30:40 | |
Oh, but the war cost us in other ways, my son. | 30:45 | |
Your fellow Americans were probably more divided | 30:50 | |
over the morality of this war than we've ever been | 30:52 | |
since the war between the states. | 30:55 | |
This division led to mass demonstrations | 30:59 | |
and protests and riots. | 31:01 | |
And in Kent State and Jackson State universities, | 31:04 | |
fives young students just about your age were killed. | 31:07 | |
We still don't know what happened there or why, why? | 31:12 | |
Alienation and division still run deep among us. | 31:18 | |
There is much resentment and miss trust present with us. | 31:23 | |
Among today's youth, | 31:30 | |
there is a somber sober quietness and passivity, | 31:31 | |
the kind of morbid solemnity | 31:37 | |
that is startling and frightening. | 31:39 | |
We're all almost numb from the shell shock | 31:44 | |
and the trauma we've endured. | 31:47 | |
We still don't know what's happened or happening, | 31:50 | |
or why, why? | 31:54 | |
Speaking of not knowing, | 31:59 | |
I guess I've never known why you decided | 32:00 | |
to leave your native land and family and friends | 32:02 | |
rather than be drafted. | 32:05 | |
Was it because you took as literally true and serious, | 32:07 | |
the sixth commandment, which says 'Thou shalt not kill.' | 32:11 | |
Was it because you were scared or frightened | 32:16 | |
or didn't want to go to war? | 32:20 | |
I guess 18 is a pretty young age to be asked to do that. | 32:22 | |
Was it because you heard Jesus say, | 32:27 | |
'You have heard, it was said of old, you shall not kill. | 32:29 | |
And whoever kills shall be liable to judgment. | 32:32 | |
But I say to you that everyone who is angry | 32:35 | |
shall be liable to judgment.' | 32:39 | |
Or did you remember the words of Jesus | 32:41 | |
in the Sermon on the Mount, when he said, | 32:43 | |
'You have heard, it was said, | 32:45 | |
you shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy. | 32:47 | |
But I say to you love your enemies | 32:49 | |
and pray for those who persecute you.' | 32:53 | |
Was it because you remembered your mother reading to you | 32:57 | |
from Jesus' teachings. | 33:00 | |
'You have heard that it was sad and eye for an eye | 33:02 | |
and a tooth for a tooth. | 33:05 | |
But I say to you do not resist one who is evil, | 33:06 | |
but if anyone strikes you on one cheek, | 33:09 | |
turn to him the other also.' | 33:12 | |
Or did you take seriously Peter's words to the early church | 33:16 | |
in the book of Acts when he said, | 33:19 | |
'We must obey God rather than man.' | 33:21 | |
And did you really feel | 33:24 | |
that this is what God wanted you to do? | 33:27 | |
Was it because you really are a coward at heart? | 33:32 | |
Or was it because you really felt you had become a man | 33:40 | |
and that responsible manhood required you to leave? | 33:43 | |
I can hear you saying with (indistinct), | 33:47 | |
'I should like to be able to love my country | 33:50 | |
and still love justice.' | 33:54 | |
We still don't know what happened or why, why? | 33:59 | |
Why? | 34:07 | |
Because this was a costly thing for you to do my son, | 34:08 | |
costly you ask, costly, yes, | 34:13 | |
it cost you and it cost us. | 34:17 | |
You paid the price of giving up your family | 34:20 | |
and many friends at home, | 34:23 | |
with all the comforts of our house and car and money | 34:25 | |
and good clothes and food and color TV, and all the rest. | 34:28 | |
Costly because you gave up your education at the university. | 34:35 | |
Now, three and a half years have gone, | 34:39 | |
and your studies have had to be postpone, | 34:42 | |
maybe gone forever. | 34:46 | |
Costly because your family has missed you, | 34:50 | |
we've settled in of course, to our routine, without you. | 34:53 | |
But we've paid quite a price of loneliness and worry | 34:58 | |
and concern many a day and many nights. | 35:02 | |
Our country has paid dearly for your leaving | 35:07 | |
and the leaving of all of you who fled. | 35:10 | |
What gifts of intelligence and creativity and ingenuity | 35:13 | |
and leadership and commitment, | 35:19 | |
all of you took with you when you fled, we need those gifts | 35:21 | |
and we'll pay dearly | 35:29 | |
until we have the benefit of them again, | 35:31 | |
back home, back here, where you really belong. | 35:35 | |
We still don't know how dear the cost has been | 35:41 | |
or why, why? | 35:46 | |
But now I really want to know what the future holds for you | 35:51 | |
and for us, what are your alternatives? | 35:55 | |
What are your options? | 36:00 | |
It seems to me, my son, you have several, | 36:03 | |
you can remain where you are and seek citizenship | 36:05 | |
and a new life there. | 36:08 | |
You can come back home incognito, | 36:10 | |
assume another name and begin a new and different life, | 36:14 | |
unknown to us and unknown to others. | 36:17 | |
You can come back now and with the laws as they are now, | 36:21 | |
give yourself to the proper legal authorities, | 36:24 | |
face trial, and the results of it. | 36:27 | |
Or you can remain where you are | 36:31 | |
and hope that the Congress and the President | 36:33 | |
will make it possible for you to return, | 36:35 | |
not as a criminal, but as a responsible citizen. | 36:37 | |
I can recall some of our president's words | 36:44 | |
and they seem highly appropriate to me. | 36:46 | |
He has spoken often that he wants | 36:49 | |
to bring us together again. | 36:51 | |
And it seems to me that he may be the one who can bring you | 36:55 | |
and us together again. | 36:58 | |
Just this week and nominating a new Vice President, | 37:02 | |
you know, of course | 37:05 | |
that his first Vice President had to resign | 37:06 | |
because of criminal acts against the government. | 37:09 | |
He said, 'Let us forget the obsessions of the past, | 37:12 | |
we launch a new beginning.' | 37:15 | |
Perhaps he too can forget the obsessions of the past | 37:20 | |
with regard to you and the others who have fled | 37:25 | |
and give you a new beginning. | 37:28 | |
In light of known acts of a questionable nature | 37:32 | |
and indeed many and illegal nature | 37:36 | |
on the part of top administrative leaders | 37:39 | |
over the past month. | 37:41 | |
I am convinced that there are many of them who need | 37:44 | |
forgiveness and pardon, | 37:46 | |
just as you and your friends over there needed. | 37:51 | |
We worked long and hard, | 37:58 | |
many people did to get our prisoners of war returned home | 38:01 | |
and rightly so, | 38:05 | |
all the work and worry and effort were worth it | 38:07 | |
to get them home. | 38:10 | |
But I wonder, what the President | 38:15 | |
and others of us would be doing, | 38:19 | |
if we had 70,000 more still imprisoned abroad. | 38:21 | |
And the irony and the pain of this | 38:27 | |
is that we do have 70,000 of you abroad, | 38:29 | |
imprisoned, not by our enemies, but by own laws. | 38:32 | |
Confined in ways where we could give you release. | 38:37 | |
I'm sure all of you long for home, wherever home is, | 38:43 | |
I can hear you say, 'As neat you did years ago, | 38:48 | |
where is my home?' | 38:51 | |
Well, I'm almost through my son, but before I close, though, | 38:55 | |
I suppose you want to know what we are doing here at home | 39:05 | |
or what we're going to do to help you come home again. | 39:10 | |
We're going to try to be responsible citizens | 39:16 | |
with Christian convictions | 39:18 | |
and with the Christian concern for justice. | 39:20 | |
And saying this, I remember that it was Thomas Jefferson, | 39:23 | |
who once said, | 39:25 | |
'I tremble for my country when I know that God is just. | 39:26 | |
And this morning, my friends, I tremble for my country. | 39:34 | |
When I know in my heart, that God is just, but I have hope.' | 39:36 | |
We're going to try to be persons of integrity and stand firm | 39:45 | |
and tall for right being done. | 39:49 | |
Again, I recall some words of Mahatma Gandhi. | 39:53 | |
'Peace is the mark of a civilized man, | 39:56 | |
war, the mark of barbarians.' | 39:59 | |
Our President has talked of peace with honor. | 40:03 | |
I want the peace and the honor to extend to you | 40:06 | |
and others like you, who for consciences sake | 40:08 | |
chose to leave. | 40:12 | |
We're going to try to forgive, to pardon, to restore. | 40:17 | |
We have forgiven our enemies for damages | 40:22 | |
they have done to us. | 40:25 | |
We have forgiven the South Vietnamese | 40:27 | |
for getting us involved, | 40:28 | |
now let us forgive those of you | 40:30 | |
who long before the rest of us would admit it, | 40:33 | |
saw the folly and the futility of the fighting. | 40:36 | |
Our country finally came to see that this war was wrong, | 40:40 | |
you simply knew that long before we did. | 40:44 | |
It's like Bishop Armstrong wrote, | 40:49 | |
'We're all involved.' | 40:53 | |
If we're not all guilty, we are at least responsible. | 40:55 | |
The time has come for us to accept | 40:59 | |
the full share of our responsibility | 41:02 | |
and in the name of God to change directions | 41:04 | |
and God help us, we need to change directions. | 41:09 | |
We're going to work and to witness, | 41:15 | |
work and witness for legislation to be passed in Congress | 41:19 | |
that would grant amnesty to you | 41:22 | |
and your 70,000 fellow Americans. | 41:24 | |
The power does lie in the hands of Congress | 41:27 | |
and the President. | 41:29 | |
And we're going to try to influence these to act, | 41:31 | |
to act in accord with bills proposed already by Senator Taft | 41:34 | |
and Representative Koch, and by other members of Congress. | 41:38 | |
There is hope, and we will work and witness in that hope. | 41:43 | |
What are we going to do? | 41:49 | |
We're going to keep the faith. | 41:53 | |
The faith that says, 'God is the ruler.' | 41:56 | |
Yet, that says, 'John Masefield did so beautifully | 42:01 | |
something above the wreck is steady still.' | 42:07 | |
The faith that says, 'What does the Lord require of you, | 42:14 | |
but to do justice, to love mercy, | 42:17 | |
and to walk humbly with your God.' | 42:19 | |
The faith that says, | 42:23 | |
'Everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, | 42:24 | |
but he who humbles himself will be exalted.' | 42:27 | |
The faith that says, 'For if you forgive men, their sins, | 42:31 | |
your heavenly father will forgive you. | 42:35 | |
But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, | 42:39 | |
neither will your father forgive your trespasses.' | 42:43 | |
What I really feel son, is that we all need forgiveness, | 42:50 | |
even our President. | 42:59 | |
And if our President needs and or wants forgiveness, | 43:03 | |
then I hope and pray, he will lead the way | 43:08 | |
by forgiving pardoning and restoring you | 43:13 | |
and others like you. | 43:19 | |
Then I believe the grace of God will abound | 43:22 | |
and restore us all. | 43:28 | |
Well, my son take care of yourself, | 43:33 | |
your mother and I send our love and our best to you. | 43:40 | |
Peace and joy to you always (indistinct)." | 43:45 | |
There is a balm in Gilead to heal the sin sick soul. | 43:54 | |
There is a balm in Gilead to make the wounded whole. | 44:04 | |
Let us pray. | 44:15 | |
Oh God, help us always to know what you are doing | 44:22 | |
and wanting so that we may be doing the same thing | 44:31 | |
through Jesus Christ, our Lord. | 44:41 | |
Amen. | 44:46 | |
- | Let us unite our hearts together in prayer. | 44:58 |
Oh God, our creator, | 45:04 | |
the source of our inner peace and tranquility, | 45:07 | |
help us to be aware of the prejudice and coldness | 45:12 | |
that so often cripples our hearts. | 45:16 | |
It is good to know that you are a forgiving God, | 45:19 | |
and that when we turn to you, we are accepted. | 45:23 | |
Give our eyes new vision, to see your way, | 45:28 | |
give our feet new direction, to travel your path | 45:33 | |
and give our hearts new understanding, | 45:38 | |
to know that you are always with us. | 45:41 | |
Amen. | 45:44 | |
(organ music) | 45:46 | |
(choir vocalizing) | 46:41 | |
(organ music) | 48:47 | |
(choir vocalizing) | 50:28 | |
(organ music) | 54:13 | |
(choir vocalizing) | 54:26 | |
- | All things come of thy God, | 55:27 |
all silver and all gold and of thy known do we give thee, | 55:30 | |
as the symbol of ourselves, in the name and for the sake | 55:36 | |
of Jesus Christ, our Lord. | 55:43 | |
Amen. | 55:47 | |
(organ music) | 55:49 | |
(choir vocalizing) | 56:37 | |
Go out into the world in peace. | 1:00:15 | |
Be brave. | 1:00:19 | |
Keep hold of what is good. | 1:00:21 | |
Never pay back wrong with her wrong, | 1:00:25 | |
encourage the faint-hearted. | 1:00:29 | |
(indistinct) | 1:00:35 | |
And may the Lord peace, give you peace at all times | 1:00:49 | |
wherever you may be. | 1:00:56 | |
(choir vocalizing) | 1:01:10 | |
(bell ringing) | 1:02:42 | |
(organ music) | 1:02:57 | |
(people murmuring) | 1:06:17 |
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