DUKE UNIVERSITY CHAPEL

The University

Service of Worship

Founders' Day Celebration
commemorating
The First Fifty Years, Milestone on a Long Journey
Sunday Morning, December 8, 1974
Second Sunday in Advent

Eleven O'Clock

THE PREPARATION FOR WORSHIP
    CARILLON PRELUDE

    SERVICE OF COMMEMORATION                 Memorial Chapel, 10:45 o'clock

        Organ Voluntary
            Chorale Prelude on: "Our Father in Heaven" - Georg Bohm (1661-1733)

        Words of Remembrance                        Provost of the University

        Prayers                         Minister to the University Minister to the University

    The Elizabeth Lucina Gotham Memorial Fund has been given by Dr. and Mrs, James H. Semans in loving memory of Elizabeth Gotham to provide flowers, greenery and ornamentation for the "beautification of the Chapel."  Elizabeth Gotham joined the Biddle household when Mrs. Biddle's daughter, Mary, now Mrs, James Semans was eight months old.  She was a vital, integral member of the family caring for and rearing Mrs. Semans and, in turn, the seven members of the next generation, Mrs. Semans children by the late Dr. Josiah Trent and by Dr. James Semans.  Central to her life were Christianity and the natural beauty of growing things in the world around us.   The Advent Wreath and flowers used in the Service of Worship in the Chapel today are the first to be made possible by this special gift of gratitude, joy, and love -- in memory of Elizabeth Gotham.

    I have selected Duke University as one of the principal objects of this trust because I recognize that education, when conducted along sane and practical, as opposed to dogmatic and theoretical lines, is, next to religion, the greatest civilizing influence. I request that this institution secure for its officers, trustees, and faculty, men of such outstanding character, ability, and vision as will insure its attaining and maintaining a place of real leadership in the educational world, and that great care and discrimination be exercised in admitting as students only those whose previous record shows a character, determination, and application evincing a wholesome and real ambition for life.

JAMES B. DUKE
Indenture of Trust
December 11, 1924

THE PRAISE OF GOD
    CHORAL ADORATION - Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)

0 taste and see how gracious the Lord is:
Blest is the man that trusteth in him.

    PROCESSION
        Crucifer
        Chapel Choir
        Bible-bearer
        Student Marshall
        Student Representatives
        Chairman of the Academic Council
        Deans of the College and Schools
        Members of the General Administration
        Alumni Representatives
        Chairman, The Board of Trustees
        Chairman of the Trustees, The Duke Endowment
        Minister to the University
        Preacher
        Vice President of the University
        University Marshal
        Provost

    PROCESSIONAL HYMN NO. 359--"Hail to the Lord's Anointed"
        (Congregation standing. All stanzas.)

THE CONFESSION OF SIN

    CALL TO CON FESSION--(Congregation seated.)

    PRAYER OF CON FESSION--(in unison)

Our Lord, creator of all things and source of all truth, we ask your forgiveness for the sins of the mind: the pride of thinking that we are masters of all creation and history; our slackness or compulsion in our work in this university; our doubts about your power to make all things new. We ask your forgiveness for our lack of a sense of history: for thinking all the world begins and ends with us, for our too easy acceptance of our heritage; for those who will suffer because of our unconcern about the future.
    Help us as we worship you to come to a truer knowledge of ourselves knowing that we cannot hide from you. God be merciful to us for we are sinners.

    PERSONAL CONFESSION

    WORDS OF ASSURANCE

THE WITNESS OF FAITH

    ANTHEM--"Alleluia" - Randall Thompson (b. 1899)

    Alleluia.

    SCRIPTURE LESSONS-Isaiah 11: 1-10
                                    I Thessalonians 5: 1 -11

    GLORIA PATRI--(Congregation standing) Glory be to the Father, and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be; world without end. Amen.

    AFFIRMATION OF FAITH--(in unison)
            We are not alone.
            We live in God's world.
            We believe in God.
                Who has created and is creating.
            Who has come in the true man, Jesus,
                to reconcile and make new.
            Who works in us and others by his Spirit.
        We trust him.
            He calls us to be his church:
                to celebrate his presence,
                to love and serve others,
                to seek justice and resist evil,
                to proclaim Jesus, crucified and risen,
                our judge and our hope.
            In life, in death, in life beyond death.
                God is with us.
            We are not alone.
            Thanks be to God.

    GREETING AND CALL TO PRAYER
        Minister: The Lord be with you!
        People: And with your spirit!
        Minister: Let us pray.

    PASTORAL PRAYER--(Congregation Seated)

    THE LORD'S PRAYER--(in unison)

THE PROCLAMATION OF THE WORD

    SERMON--" So Little Time"

    PRAYER

THE RESPONSE THROUGH DEDICATION

    THE LITANY OF COMMEMORATION

Almighty and eternal God, in whom our fathers trusted, we, their children, on this day of remembrance, offer unto You our Litany of Commemoration:

Hear us, we beseech You, 0 Lord.

For the men and women of this State-Methodists and Quakers. farmers and merchantmen, teachers and administrators--who believed in education and made their belief prevail;

We give You thanks and praise.

For the embodiment of their dreams-private school, academy, college, university-founded in hope, continued with perseverance, growing in outreach, established in assurance;

We give You thanks and Praise.

For educators whose vision was matched by their courage, whose patience was tempered by their indignation, whose idealism was moderated by their awareness of sin;

We give You thanks and praise.

For the Duke family-father, sons and their wives, grandchildren, in continuing generations--who with wonder and surprise, bewilderment and tenacity, laid a good foundation, built it worthy school, and provided for exciting growth beyond their ken in years unseen;

We give You thanks and praise.

For the continuance of good ideas-the union of truth and reverence: the freedom of responsible academic thought and the right of public concern, the joint care of the body and the spirit: the linking of science and humanities, the realization that the old order changes:

We give You thanks and praise.

For the future of our University, established to Your glory and for the relief of the human condition, for the consecration of the discontent of the young; for wisdom in the conservatism of the middle aged; for resiliency in the obstinacy of the old: for understanding, cooperation, and it sense of humor within our community:

Hear us our prayer O Lord.

And to You we shall ascribe, as is most due, all praise and glory, world without end.

Amen.

    HYMN NO. 357--"Of the Father's Love Begotten"
       (Congregation standing. All stanzas.)

    OFFERING
        Anthem-"Behold a Star from Jacob Shining" from Christus
                                                                Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-1847)

Behold a star from Jacob shining,
And a scepter from Israel rising,
To reign in glory over the nations.
Like some bright morning star is he,
The promise of the coming day,
Beyond the night of sorrow.
Break forth, 0 Light!
We, our joyful hearts uplifting
    with thanksgiving,
Hail the brightness of Thy rising.

        Response--The Doxology--(sung to hymn tune No. 19)
            (Congregation Standing)

Praise God from whom all blessings flow:
Praise Him, all creatures here below;
Alleluia, Alleluia!
Praise Him above, ye heavenly host;
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.
Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia,
Allleluia. Amen.

    PRAYER OF DEDICATION

THE PREPARATION FOR OBEDIENT LIFE IN THE WORLD

    RECESSIONAL HYMN NO. 364--" Lo, He Comes with Clouds Descending"
        (All stanzas.)

    BENEDICTION--(Congregation seated)

    CHORAL RESPONSE--" Amen" from Messiah - George Frederic Handel (1685-1759)

    CHIMES ORGAN VOLUNTARY
        Chorale Fugue on: "Our Father in Heaven" - Bohm

    CARILLON POSTLUDE

MINISTRY OF WORSHIP

Presiding Minister: The Reverend Robert T. Young
    Minister to the University

Lector: Dr. Juanita Kreps
    Vice President of the University

Preacher: The Reverend Dr. Harold A. Bosley
    Minister Emeritus, Christ Church United Methodist, New York City

Director of Choir: Mr. J. Benjamin Smith, Jr.
    Director of Chapel Music

Organist: Mr. Fenner Douglass
    University Organist

Words of Remembrance: Dr. Frederic N. Cleaveland
    Provost of the University

ANNOUNCENMENTS

    The preacher delivering the sermon today is the Reverend Dr. Harold A. Bosley. He received the A.B. degree from Nebraska Wesleyan University, the B.D. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Chicago and honorary degrees from seven different universities and colleges. Dr. Bosley was licensed to preach when he was seventeen years old and has served as Methodist preacher for fifty years. Dr. Bosley was Dean of the Duke Divinity School and Preacher to Duke University, 1947-50. Dr. Bosley retired this past year, his last appointment being as Senior Minister of Christ Church United Methodist, in New York City. He is the author of seventeen books, and has contributed frequently to the Christian press.

    This afternoon the 50th Anniversary Chapel Concert Series presents the Duke University Chapel Choir and Orchestra performing Handel's MESSIAH at 4:00 p.m. in Duke Chapel. Tickets available at Page Box Office.

    The preacher scheduled to deliver the sermon next Sunday, December 15, is the Reverend Robert T. Young, Minister to the University.

    The Advent Wreath is an old Christian custom originating with the Lutherans in Germany. The circle of evergreen reminds us of God's eternal, never-ending presence with us. The four candles, one for each week in Advent, remind us of the coming of Jesus Christ, the Light of the World, which we receive anew this Advent season. The four candles are lavender in color, symbolizing the penitence of the season. The fifth one, a white candle, is the Christmas candle which symbolizes light and life coming to us in Jesus Christ. The first and second candle of the Advent Wreath will be lighted during the processional hymn today.

Other Events to Celebrate the Fiftieth Anniversary

    Other events throughout the academic year 1974-1975 have been planned to commemorate the Fiftieth Anniversary of James B. Duke's signing of the indenture, establishing the Duke Endowment which made possible Duke University.

December 11, 1974
4 p.m.        Lecture: "Fifty Years of Duke University and the Duke Endowment" by Professor Paul M. Gross.

April 11, 1975
2 p.m.        Symposium: "Some Aspects of the Report of the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education."
8:15 p.m.    Celebration in Music: Town and Gown

April 12, 1975
9 p.m.        Symposium: "The Roles of the University in a Post-colonial World."
3 p.m.        Fiftieth Anniversary Convocation

HISTORY OF DUKE UNIVERSITY IN OUTLINE

1838-39 Union Institute, formerly a private school, reorganized through the joint efforts of the Methodists and Quakers of Randolph County under the leadership of Brantley York.
1841 Incorporated by Legislature of North Carolina as Union Institute Academy.
1842 Braxton Craven became head of the institution. 1851 Reincorporated as Normal College. Its graduates licensed to teach in the common schools of North Carolina.
1853 Affiliated with the State of North Carolina and authorized to confer degrees.
1856 Affiliated with the North Carolina Conference of the Methodist Church.
1859 Reincorporated as Trinity College.
1882 Death of President Craven. Succeeded by Marquis L. Wood (1883-84).
1884 Julian S. Carr, J. W. Alspaugh, and James A. Gray, members of the Board of Trustees, assumed financial management of institution for two years.
1887 John Franklin Crowell elected President.
1889 Trustees voted to move college to some "prominent center in the State."
1891 Authorized by Legislature to move to Durham. Julian S. Carr gave the site and Washington Duke contributed $85,000 for buildings. Alumni given representation on Board of Trustees.
1892 Trinity College opened at Durham.
1894 John C. Kilgo became President
1895 Became charter member of Southern Association of Secondary Schools and Colleges.
1896 Washington Duke contributed $100,000 to a permanent endowment conditioned on the admission of women, supplementing it by a like amount in 1899 and again in 1900.
1897 Trustees authorized admission of women students.
1903 December 1, Trustees issued pronouncement in support of academic liberty.
1910 William Preston Few became President.
1911 President Few announced completion of movement, initiated by his predecessor, to increase endowment to $1,400,000.00.
1924 Name changed to Duke University to integrate it with a program of humanitarian effort outlined in the indenture of James B. Duke. Trinity College became the undergraduate college for men.
1925-27 East Campus rebuilt. Eleven buildings added. This unit later became The Woman's College.
1930 New plant on West Campus occupied. Duke Hospital and School of Medicine opened July 21.
1932 The University Chapel completed. End of original building program.
1938-39 The Duke University Centennial, celebrating one hundred years of Southern education in the service of the nation.
1940 Death of President Few. 1941 Robert L. Flowers elected President.
1948 A. Hollis Edens elected President. Dr. Flowers named University's first Chancellor.
1949 Development Program instituted to meet postwar capital needs.
1951 Death of Chancellor Flowers.
1952 First phase of Development Program completed. New funds made available for buildings and educational programs.
1958 Death of Vice Chancellor Wannamaker
1960 A. Hollis Edens resigned.
1961 J. Deryl Hart elected President.
1963 Douglas M. Knight succeeded J. Deryl Hart as President and Dr. Hart elected President Emeritus.
1964 Fifth Decade Program, projecting programs requiring gifts and grants totaling $187,000,000 by 1975, approved.
1969 Dr. Knight resigned; the University administered by Barnes Woodhall, Chancellor pro tem, Marcus E. Hobbs, Provost, and Charles B. Huestis, Vice President for Business and Finance.
1970 Terry Sanford became President.
1972 Trinity College of Arts and Sciences established by merger of Trinity College and The Woman's College.
1973 Epoch Campaign announced with it goal of $162,000,000 primarily for endowment and capital facility needs.
1974 Duke University chosen as the site for the Whitehead Medical Research Institute. Dedication of the Mary Duke Biddle Music Building.