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[ Music ] ♪ I may not be the best of anything ♪ ♪ Nor have the best of anything ♪ ♪ Sometimes I feel that I'm the least of all ♪

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♪ But I know someone who has everything ♪ ♪ And I'm all blah blah ♪ ♪ That someone my everything ♪ ♪ And I'm happy just to know that I'm his child ♪

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Come on now. - Yeah brother. ♪ His name is Jesus ♪ ♪ Begotten Son of God ♪

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♪ Lily of the valley ♪ ♪ Bright and morning star ♪ ♪ His name is Jesus ♪ ♪ He's my everything ♪

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♪ And I am happy just to know ♪ ♪ That I'm his child ♪ ♪ I may not be the best at anything ♪ ♪ Nor have the best of anything ♪

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♪ Sometimes I think that I'm the least of all ♪ ♪ I know someone who has everything ♪ ♪ That someone's my everything ♪ And I'm happy just to know that I'm his child.

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His name is Jesus, begotten Son of God, lily of the valley, bright and morning star. His name is Jesus, and he's my everything. And I am happy just to know that I'm his child.

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His name is Jesus, begotten Son of God, The lily of the valley, bright and morning star. His name is Jesus, and he's my everything. ♪ Everything ♪

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♪ And I am happy just to know ♪ ♪ That I'm his child ♪ ♪ His name is Jesus ♪ ♪ And he's the son of God ♪

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♪ The lily of the valley ♪ ♪ The bright and morning star ♪ His name is Jesus and He's my everything. And I am happy just to know.

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It makes me happy just to know. I'm very happy just to know. And I am happy just to know. It makes me happy just to know.

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I'm very happy just to know that I'm his child. All right! [APPLAUSE] Good, brother.

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Thank you. That is all right. Great is thy faithfulness, O God my Father. There is no shadow of turning with thee.

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♪ Thou changes not ♪ ♪ Thy compassions ♪ ♪ They fail not ♪ ♪ As thou hast been ♪

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♪ Thou forever ♪ ♪ Forever ♪ ♪ Will ♪ ♪ Be ♪

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♪ Pardon ♪ ♪ For sin ♪ ♪ And a peace ♪ ♪ That endures ♪

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♪ Thine own ♪ ♪ With presents to cheer and to guide ♪ ♪ Strength for today ♪ ♪ And bright hope for tomorrow ♪

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♪ Blessings all mine ♪ ♪ With ten thousand beside ♪ ♪ Great is thy faithfulness ♪ ♪ Great is thy faithfulness ♪

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♪ Morning by morning ♪ ♪ New mercies I see ♪ ♪ All I have need of ♪ have needed, thy hand hath provided.

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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 mercies I see ♪ ♪ All ♪ ♪ I have needed ♪

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♪ Thy hand hath provided ♪ - Yes, sir! ♪ Great is thy faithfulness ♪ ♪ Great is thy faithfulness ♪

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♪ Great is thy faithfulness ♪ ♪ Great is thy faithfulness ♪ ♪ Lord, I am teeming with thee ♪ to me.

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Yes, sir. [applause] Yes, sir. Good, brother.

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[applause] To our illustrious president, Dr. M.L. Price, and to Dr. Rowe, first vice president, I'm very honored tonight to have a field at home

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would appreciate their own son. And I want to thank you tonight. Will you hear my friend, your friend, Dr. M.L. Scott, the pastor of the St. John Missionary Baptist Church of Dallas, Texas. Let's say amen.

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Amen. Now with respect to all of the positive things that Dr. Wright said, And Dr. Price has and is, has been and is, a real force in the life of our time. You might little note or long remember what I said, but we shall never forget what Dr.

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Price has done here. That's right. I make a salute to you tonight, Dr. Price. [applause]

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Dr. Rowe, it's good to have you here. He is a vital force and figure. And I'm glad that he and I came from the same neck of the woods. Beautiful.

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Daniel's gotten out of a lot of lines, Dean. [Laughter] That's right. And so I pay my respects to all of the officers, Dr. Branch, all of you.

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I'm just happy to be here. We are being hosted by a classic young man in Pastor LaRue. He is a many splendid preacher. I watched him on television, and I was so glad that we don't have to apologize for his

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kind of presentation. I did it in such a remarkable way. And to see the members of Toliver's Chapel here is just a joy inexpressible. So many people out there have done so much for me, and I can't start calling names and

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don't feel bad just. I just see Willie Anderson over there and I have to mention her. She's like a mother to me. Sister Adams, another mother, and then Sister Jackson, who brought me to Christ. She's over there.

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[Audience] All right, then, so I just want to thank you. I'm not a prodigal son, but I am in a state of ecstasy and excitement each time I come home.

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[laughter] And to be invited by the General Baptist Convention of Texas, is something like killing the fatty cat and ordering the best robe to be brought. I started out in this convention and I still feel psychologically and emotionally bound

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to it, although my membership in terms of structure is somewhere else. So I'm thankful that you let me come, Dr. Price, and brought me for this moment to Waco. I wish I had a rich and robust talk that I could sort of pay you back for what you've done by just inviting me. Thank you. Thank you again. Now I know that at a banquet, the

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My expectation is that there would be more lauder than logic. the banquet speaker ought to be able to lip amusing anecdotes and not be analytical or philosophical. I understand that. the banquet speaker, traditionally, ought to do more comedy than conceptualization.

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But I'm afraid that our century is neroish. We're fiddling and funning while our Rome is burning. And so I have not come with the dominance of the comedy. I have a burden on my heart that I want to briefly unload.

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I don't intend to preach. I didn't even wear my suspenders. I want to talk about another

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Trinity, another Trinity. I don't want to talk about the Trinity, God the Father,

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Son, and the Holy Ghost. Nor do I want to talk about the church,

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or rather the church, the home, and the school. Nah. Reading, writing, and arithmetic.

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Nah, do I want to talk about the world, the flesh, and the devil. All of these are crucial trinities.

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There is a threesome-ness about the human drum.

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But I want to talk about another trinity. I want to talk about ethnicity, education, and ecclesiasticism. Now I used to have, when I pastored in California, I had a chairman of the deacon board who, whenever I would throw out some elephant words like that, he would say, "Now make it plain."

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[LAUGHTER] And I would make use of, and I do it tonight, what may be called big words for brevity, portability, and condensation.

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That's why I use them. They're brief and you can walk away with them. So I want to talk about ethnicity, education, and ecclesiasticism.

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Now, I am not by any means a racist. history, nor Holy Writ, nor the whole realm of nature, will back racism. whole cosmic drama confirms that we all have one father. That out of one blood, God made us all like that.

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And so in an ultimate sense, the church's appeal must always be integrative, ecumenical, universal. I'm not a racist. There's no rationale for racism and the realities that tailor our lives. But on the other hand, there is justification for ethnicity,

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for race consciousness. Yes, sir. It's all for the racial concern. There are times when a given people must put in the background those realities,

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comprehended in the phrase family of man, and come to terms with the limited and restricted areas of their own racial experience. Talk, brother. Talk, Chuck. There are times when particularity is a potent factor in destiny.

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There are times when a race of people must pull off and huddle so that they can get their signals together. >> Talk, sir. >> Right, brother.

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There are moments when the best help and hope that a people have is help from themselves. Yes sir. That's right too. Help from themselves.

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There are times when self-awareness is the most sensible response. There are times when the best way to enlarge the hole is to expand some of the parts. There are times when the best way to improve the lump is to make an improvement in the lever. Talk, sir.

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Fix it, sir. There are times when a people must take a critical look at their history, their fate, and their instant predicament. Talk, sir.

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That's not racism, that is a temporary interim strategy for betterment. And that time is upon us. And if you don't have any Negro self-awareness, or black self-awareness,

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you are out of step. I know you work with white people, and maybe some of you sleep with them, I don't know. But we must not forget that we are a peculiar people in this country and in this century. And so ethnic consciousness is ethical. Nothing wrong about that. It's

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the right thing to do, to reflect on ourselves. I like to think about this because the Bible, which contains prefigurations and paradigms of the human pilgrimage, is There's a book in a penultimate sense not about all people, but about a particular people, the Bible itself.

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In an ultimate sense, it takes in all people, but in a penultimate sense, it takes in a people, the Hebrew people. It is in a narrow sense a story of the Jews. Jesus was, in spite of his ubiquitousness, in spite of his global sense of life, in spite

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of his universality, Jesus was a particularist. - Talk, sir. - In spite of the fact that he belonged to the world, there were moments and periods

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when he was strictly sensitive to jury. - Yes, sir. - Yes, sir. - That's right.

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- Yes, sir. He said to the first missionary group, "Go not but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel." And he made a strange statement to that Syrophoenician woman.

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"It's not right to give the children's meat to dogs. That sounds like racism, but what it really is, it is authentic ethnicity. And we black people in America have got to take a good look at us. [BLANK_AUDIO]