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[ Music ] Pass me not, O gentle Savior, hear my humble cry. ♪ While others ♪ ♪ Are going ♪

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♪ Do not ♪ ♪ Do not ♪ ♪ Do not pass me by ♪ ♪ Bless me not ♪

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♪ Bless me not ♪ ♪ O gentle Savior ♪ ♪ Hear my humble cry ♪ ♪ Our brothers ♪

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♪ That calling ♪ ♪ Do not ♪ ♪ Do not ♪ ♪ Do not pass me by ♪

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♪ O my Savior ♪ ♪ Savior ♪ Oh my Savior, why don't you hear my humble cry? While others that call me do not, do not, do not pass me by.

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Testament scriptures taken from Psalm 23. "Lord is my shepherd I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures. He leadeth me beside still waters.

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He restoreth my soul. He leadeth me in the path of righteousness for his namesake. Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me.

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Thou rod and thy staff, they comfort me. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies. Thou anointest my head with oil.

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My cup runneth over. Surely, goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

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I pray that you find comfort in God's word. The Old, the New Testament scripture is St. John's 14th chapter, first through the sixth verse. "Let not your heart be troubled, nor let it be afraid.

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Trust in God. Trust also in me. In my father's house there are many mansions. If it were not so, I wouldn't have told you.

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I'll go and prepare a place for you, for where I am, there ye may be also. You know the way to the place where I am going? Thomas said to him, Lord, we know not where you are going, so how can we know the way? Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life.

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No one comes to the Father except through me." To Carolyn and the Golden Family, I'd like to, I'm sure at this time you're receiving lots of words of encouragement, lots of actions and deeds

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of thoughtfulness and kindness. As the days come and go, you'll find yourself wanting strength. I can assure you that the strength that you need is in Christ Jesus and in his word.

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I hope that these brief words have brought you some strength and comfort. God be with you and God bless each of you as you go through this period of separation from your loved ones. God bless you.

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Let us pray. God, we gather according to thy grace. And it's for your grace, for your love, for your mercy. Oh Lord, we're so grateful.

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We thank you for the gift of life and for the relationships that we develop in this life. Especially do we thank you dear Lord for the life of your servant, Brother Harry Golden, we thank you for the lives

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that he touched, and family, and friends, and the students that he so lovingly taught. Lord, we come at this hour realizing that everything is in your hands.

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Lord, we know that you're still good. And we just come humbly before you asking for that secret joy that only you can give at this time. We ask that you may continue to bless this family,

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especially Patricia, Kathleen, and this loving and faithful wife who's given so much of herself. Lord, we thank you for the strength that you give us in the time of weakness. We thank you for being our light in the time of darkness.

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We thank you for being our peace in the time of storm. Lord, let this be a celebration today, realizing that one day we shall all gather in that great family reunion, gathered around your throne,

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beholding the beauty of your face, singing "How We Got Over," and realizing that it was you all the time. In the name of Jesus, we pray.

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♪ Soon ♪ ♪ I'm going up beyond the ♪ ♪ I'm going up beyond the ♪ I'm going up yonder, I'm going up yonder to be with my Lord.

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I'm going up yonder, I'm going up yonder, I'm going up yonder, ♪ I'm going up beyond ♪ ♪ To be with my Lord ♪ ♪ I can't take the pain ♪

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♪ Where I'm going ♪ ♪ Where I'm going soon ♪ ♪ I'm going up beyond the ♪ ♪ I'm going up beyond the ♪

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♪ I'm going up beyond the ♪ ♪ I'm going up beyond the ♪ ♪ I'm going up beyond the ♪ ♪ To be with my Lord ♪

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♪ To be with my Lord ♪ ♪ With my Lord ♪ - Resolution on the home going of Brother Harry James Golden. Through this world of toils and snares, if I falter, Lord, who cares?

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Who with me my burden shares? None but Thee, dear Lord, none but Thee. It is once more that God, our Heavenly Father, has removed from our midst a brother beloved, Brother Harry James Golden.

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creating a significant void in the Ebenezer membership and the Golden family. The life of Brother Golden is and was a testament of what faith in God can do. The endurance, perseverance, and determination exhibited by Brother Golden, particularly in his medical struggles, is a glowing example of the goodness, grace, and mercy of God.

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We the pastor and members of the Ebenezer Baptist Church share with the Golden family and the loss of our Christian brother and friend. His quiet demeanor, his willingness to serve, and his subtle presence or characteristics all could emulate.

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Today we pause to give thanks to God for the life and service rendered here at Ebenezer Baptist Church. Elder Harry Golden came to Ebenezer in 1979 from his home church in Shreveport, Louisiana. His involvement found him in attendance in the Sunday School Department, Men's Bible

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Class No. 2, Discipleship Training Group 5, as well as the Brotherhood. He was active in the annual Men's Day observances, and most often you could find him seated in the center aisle with his dear wife Carolyn and daughters Kathleen and Leticia. His attendance and involvement became impaired with his illness, but even still he stayed

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in communion and fellowship with the Ebenezer family through the Ebenezer Flower Committee and the various mission auxiliaries. Whereas, we recognize a valuable treasure has been lost from our physical midst, we bow in acceptance to the will and all-knowing and wise will of God our Savior.

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And whereas, Brother Harry J. Golden touched so many lives for good with the Christian attributes he possessed, his technological and scientific skills. "Whereas God saw you. God saw you getting tired, Harry, and a cure was not to be. So he put his arms around you and whispered, 'Harry, come with me.' A golden heart stopped

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beating, hardworking hands at rest. God broke our hearts to prove to us he only takes the the best. Therefore be it resolved that the grace, mercy, and blessing of God may continue to abide and be with the Golden Family. Resolved further that we may all be continually reminded of the love of God, knowing that His love is sufficient. Resolved finally that a copy

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of this resolution be given to the family and a copy placed in the records of Ebenezer Third Baptist Church this ninth day of September 2000 AD. Dr. Marvin C. Griffin, Pastor, Robert M. Morgan, Chairman of Deacons, R. V. C. Austin Murphy, Chair, Condolence Committee, Deacon Terry E. Steele, Church Clerk.

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Good afternoon. Everybody needs to have a person like Harry Golden in their lives. We the members of Kappa Alpha Psi probably knew him a little more different than others, But Harry was a brother to just more than us.

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Harry was a brother to mankind. Harry came here, I guess we got to know him, the members of the fraternity, we got to know him around '79, maybe earlier. Quiet, unassuming, laid-back brother.

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Most Capos like to think we're athletes and we want to compete on the athletic field. Harry brought something different to the table. Harry was an athlete cerebrally, very intelligent, very bright, sat back and observed the situation and waited until most people had exhausted their passionate pleas for issues and then

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And Harry would offer one of those suggestions that you reach when you have that scientific mind where you analyze things. And we learned that you don't see much on the surface maybe, but this brother, the waters run deep.

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Kappa Alpha Psi alumni chapter grew greatly after Harry came. I was a pole marker. I had the honor of being poll marker of the chapter and Harry was the keeper of records.

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And when Harry kept records, they were right. He made every meeting. He kept us on the ball. You have to be in a fraternity or sorority

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to know what we're talking about in that regard. Sometimes we have a chance, opportunity to stray away. I remember the picnics. Some of the brothers over there can remember this.

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It was Harry who, some of us were maybe too busy to do some things, but Harry would take care of the picnic. He'd make sure all the hot dogs that we need, all the hamburger buns. And when you tried to say, "Well, Harry, maybe you need some help," he'd say, "No, let me

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do this myself." And he would accept some support, but Harry enjoyed that. And when we moved out from Zilker Park and went out to what's called the Jimmy Schnell Park. Harry was there. Harry stayed an active member of the fraternity until

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his health decided or dictated otherwise. Harry was a good brother. Baby, you're gonna miss Harry. I'd like for the brothers of the diamond to stand. All the brothers of the Calvary Alpha Psi, would you please stand as I make this plea. Brother Britton, will you stand, Brother Britton, in the back. These are the

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members of the other family. Look at us. We are here. Harry is still here too. What Harry imparted to us is still within us. We want to carry that on. So we ask that you use us, not just the day when the moment now may be a sad moment. We want Carolyn to look upon the fraternity. We know we didn't come all the time. Harry

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was a very independent person, had a lot of pride, and liked to do things himself. And some of us know that when we went to visit, Harry still felt he could do some things on his own, and he wanted to come do them, and I'm sure he did them until the end. But he is still in us a certain amount of pride and a certain amount of wanting

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to do for ourselves, and we are pleased with that. We want you to know that we sympathize with you at this moment but we thank God that God sent Harry our way our fraternity and not just in Austin but all over the world is a lot better because of Harry Gold and we appreciate him and we want you family members to

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know that we loved him maybe not as much as you did but we loved him as much as we could because he was our brother. Thank God for Harry Gold. Thank you. Friendship is a strange thing. We find ourselves telling each other the deepest details of our lives.

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But what is a friend? Webster describes friend as a confidant, a person who one knows well and is fond of. A friend is an ally, a supporter, or a sympathizer. And yes, a friend is also a good Christian.

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A friend is one that you can find to cry on his or her shoulder. A friend will provide you with an ear to listen. And a friend also has a heart. A friend is all of these things and even more.

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And that's what Harry was to me. In 1979, when the Goldens and the Hopkins met, we were privileged to have Harry and Carolyn as our friends. Friend, a word so small, yet so large in feelings,

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and a word filled with emotions. Harry and another friend, Marvin Adams, and I often have the opportunity to spend some good quality time together.

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We often conversed about politics, the community, education, and family. Most of the time, we were discussing families. Pear was very proud of his family, his wife Carolyn,

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and his two daughters, Patricia and Kathleen. His love for them flourished each day. When he was grappling with his illness, and at times when I had the opportunity to talk to him,

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he had reached his lowest point in life. But the only thing you had to mention was Carolyn, Latricia, and Kathleen, and he would flourish again. Harry and Carolyn took their marriage vows very serious.

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I remember one conversation I had with Harry, and we talked about this particular game, and I guess all of us played it at one particular time, if you're in psychology at some time, 101, you also play that.

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You had a friend that would stand behind you and you would close your eyes trusting in that particular friend and you would fall backwards freely. Now all of us could not do that without looking around.

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Harry felt he could at any time close his eyes and fall freely backwards, knowing that Carolyn would be there to catch him. And Harry and Carolyn would have done the same thing for Harry.

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He loved his daughters extremely well, very much. He was so proud of their accomplishments in school. Harry once stated that he wanted to see his girls complete high school, and he did.

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He was so proud of Latricia when she went off to Hampton University. And one of the things he said was that my baby was going to cure diabetes.

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He was proud of Kathleen. He told me that he had the opportunity to hear Kathleen sing at one time. And he was so pleased.

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Harry's my friend. I will miss him greatly. I will miss those conversations that we had that no one else had the opportunity to share with him.

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I never witnessed this man ever getting angry. I never witnessed this man having a difficult time with anyone. Harry was always a mild-mannered individual. I'll miss you, my friend, and farewell.

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[ Silence ] >> Dear Harry, we're here today to say goodbye to your flesh and body, Knowing your spirit will be with us forever. You're looking well.

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Many of your family. And friends are here with me. Callum, Ma, Latricia, Kathleen. Friends and family.

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Here in Austin. From Keithville from Bethany, from Virginia. We're sad that you have left us, but we are also happy for you.

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We know you are now living with angels, an angel among angels. You are our angel who will visit and guide us and comfort us forever. My dear brother Harry was a great man.

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That most of you know. But to me, he was more. He was a loving brother, a role model, a mentor, and the best of friends.

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And there was times when he was also my father. When you look at me, I hope you see a lot of Harry, because I idolized him. If he did it, I wanted to do it.

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Did you know that Harry and I once made electricity with cabbage juice, some wire, and a piece of metal? Brass, I think. We built a rocket out of tin cans and kerosene,

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had fins, fans, and it even lift off a little bit. Harry will be with us as our angel. He is with us also because he touched our lives. He will also be with us in Kathleen, in Latricia,

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and in Carolyn. And you will see the image of him in his nieces and his nephews. Harry is now with God, but he's with us in so many ways. Bye for now, dear brother. (footsteps)

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I have fought a good fight. I have finished my course. I have kept the faith. Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness which the Lord, the righteous

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judge, shall give me at that day, and not to me only, but unto all them that love his appearing." The second letter to Timothy, the fourth chapter in the sixth through the eighth verses. A good fight.

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Good fight. As Paul comes to the end of his journey, he looks back over the road he has traveled.

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He evaluates his life. And he sums up his life in terms of metaphors. He considers his life a sacrificial offering that is made to God.

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He's placed it all on the altar of sacrifice to be consumed for the glory of God. He considers his life as a fight. He's a soldier of the cross.

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And he thinks of his life as a race that is run. He considers himself a pilgrim of the upward way. And as such, he is responsible for keeping the faith. Finally, he considers the heavenly reward for those who are victorious in the struggle.

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It seems to me that these metaphors aptly describe the life of Paul, but they may also be applied to our beloved brother, Harry James Golden. All of the metaphors used by Paul suggest life is a struggle. Sacrifice denotes struggle.

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A good fight denotes struggle. Running a race denotes struggle. Keeping the faith denotes struggle. the reward of a crown has to do with struggle. So let us give attention to all

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of these metaphors, but let me lift up the one that has to do with a good fight a little more, because this particular remark has to do with a a fulfilled life. Life is a struggle from beginning to end.

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We are born in struggle. We engage in struggle all the days of our lives. And Brother Harry James Golden participated diligently in life's struggle from start to finish.

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He lived courageously and victoriously. Now that is what is expected of a gallant warrior from the womb to the tomb. Ralph Abernathy said that his father told him,

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"Son, if you ever see a good fight, get in it." Well, Brother Golden was in the midst of a good fight. He was successful. He earned a PhD degree. And I don't have to emphasize that they don't give that degree away.

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It's a terminal degree. And only the true in heart, only those who really are prepared to pay the price, get it. and he received it and he not only received a PhD, sometimes people try to find an easy course

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to get the doctorate, but he has it in chemistry. And if you ask me, when I was in school, we tried to run away from chemistry. It was considered one of the more difficult courses

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and only those who were really prepared for struggle were to engage in it. Now he received numerous honors. He achieved praiseworthy accomplishments.

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Yet he was very modest about it all. I was here for some time before I discovered he had a PhD. He was just out there like everybody else. And being just as humble.

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And I finally got into a long conversation with him And I discovered, to my surprise, that here was this man with a PhD who was carrying on and acting in such a humble way.

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And most of us like to wear those things out, you know, where we can see it. Everybody can know it, but that was not the case with him. He was a very humble Christian.

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You listen to the resolution talking about his participation in the church activities and in the teaching in the training ministries of our church as well as in the brotherhood. His participation there was one of love, loving-hearted service, glad and free.

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And you notice as you look at his life as in the obituary that he was one of the lone instructors are professors. Now don't take that lightly. Those, when I was at Texas Southern, we had a lone professor. Outstanding industries would send some of their best people to work on the faculty for a year. They didn't send just anybody because not only was he on trial, so to

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to speak, but also that industry. So Brother Golden was a lone, on loan here at Houston Tillerson. He was outstanding in many patents as you noticed there. He was not only a brilliant man, but a very humble man who gave his life in meaningful

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service in the family, in his fraternity, in the community, and particularly in the church. So we thank God for him. So as we look at his life, we can evaluate it just as Paul evaluated his, and he could truly say in the language of Paul, "I'm ready!" He did so much, that's 56 years, not many years in terms of the number of years, but

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years that were filled with significant ministry. And we praise God that he came among us, that he served, and Paul says that he was looking forward to receiving a crown. When you serve well, there's a reward.

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And when you serve God, there is a great reward. No one can take it away from you because God himself gives it to you. So he said henceforth that is stored up for me. There is a crown of righteousness which I shall receive from the righteous judge.

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So I say in the language of the poet, "Servant of God, well done. Rest from thy loved employ. The battle fought, the victory won. Enter the master's joy.

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The pains of death are past. and sorrow cease and life's long warfare closed at last his soul is found in peace. Soldier of Christ well done praise be thy new employee and while the eternal ages run rest in thy Savior's joy amen.

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(gentle piano music) [ Music ] There is a faithful place for my God. There is no chapter where it would be.

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♪ I'll take it now ♪ ♪ Like old-fashioned ♪ ♪ Faithful love ♪ ♪ And love has strength ♪

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♪ Of forever ♪ ♪ With me ♪ ♪ Faith is my faithfulness ♪ ♪ Great is the face of the Lord ♪

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♪ Glory, glory, glory ♪ ♪ To the saints I sing ♪ ♪ Oh, I am healed ♪ ♪ I am at the cross ♪

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♪ Great is thy faithfulness ♪ ♪ Lord unto me ♪ ♪ Great is thy faithfulness ♪ ♪ Great is thy faithfulness ♪

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♪ Morning by morning new ♪ ♪ Till mercy's my sting ♪ ♪ All I am need ♪ ♪ In thy hand I'm fond ♪

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If you want to go see my friend, I'll be one second. [ Music ] [INAUDIBLE] [inaudible]

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[INAUDIBLE] [ Inaudible ] >> How long has she been? Because she talked about living on the ridge.

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>> She's been there almost as long as I have. >> Oh, has she? >> Uh-huh. >> Well, she moved in in '65.

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She might have moved -- we moved in in '65. >> Well, I thought -- she was talking about the fact that she lived along Higher Ridge or something like that before. And she was talking about it was a pretty bad place.

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So I took it to mean that she hadn't been where she -- No, she's been over there. I don't know if we moved first or they moved first, because they opened up that addition.

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They opened up that addition like-- Oh, they did? No, no, no. The man that opened it up opened it up

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about the latter part of-- near the latter part of '64. And we moved in in '65, because I know they started our house in like December of '64.

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And they didn't have it completed until about May of '65. And they completed about two weeks before school was out. Well, they knew when you all moved out?

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Yeah. Oh. Yeah, we had our house built. Oh.

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[INAUDIBLE] Lot built our house. Uh-huh. Lot.

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Lot built. Uh-huh. Yeah. It's a little deep, Gloria, but I can't go.

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I guess you need it. She didn't come back this way. [BLANK_AUDIO]