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Chalice Lighting

We kindle this flame as a symbol of our joining together. May the light of understanding illuminate our lives and may the warmth that comes from the sharing of our lives bring us peace. Slide2
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1- It sounds along the ages, soul answering to soul;

it kindles on the pages of every Bible scroll;

the psalmist heard and sang it,

from martyr lips it broke,and prophet tongues out-rang ittill sleeping nations woke.

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It Sounds Along the Ages

Words

by: William Channing Gannett

Music by: Melody of the Bohemian BrethrenSlide4

2- From Sinai’s cliffs it echoed, it breathed from

Buddha’s tree, it charmed in Athens’ market,

it hallowed Galilee; the hammer stroke of Luther,

the Pilgrims’ seaside prayer, the oracles of Concord one holy word declare.Slide5

3- It calls and lo, new justice!

It speaks and lo, new truth!

In ever nobler stature and unexhausted youth.

Forever on resounding,and knowing nought of time,our laws but catch the music of its eternal chime.Slide6
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118 – This Little Light of Mine

Words & Music: African American spiritual

Harmony by Horace Clarence Boyer

1 – This little light of mine, I’m

gonna

let it shine.

This little light of mine, I’m

gonna

let it shine.

This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine.Let it shine, let it shine, let it shineSlide8

2 –

Ev-’rywhere

I go, I’m

gonna let it shine.

Ev-’rywhere

I go, I’m

gonna

let it shine.

Ev-’rywhere

I go, I’m gonna let it shine.Let it shine, let it shine, let it shine.Slide9
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Never does hatred cease by hating in return;

Only through love can hatred come to an end.

Victory breeds hatred;

The conquered dwell in sorrow and resentment.

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Love Versus Hate

By

DhammapadaSlide11

They who give up all thought of victory or defeat,

May be calm and live happily at peace.

Let us overcome violence by gentleness; Let us overcome evil by good;

Let us overcome the miserly by liberality;

Let us overcome the liar by truth.Slide12
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May nothing evil cross this door,

and may ill fortune never pry

about these windows; maythe roar and rain go by.

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May Nothing Evil Cross This Door

Words

by: Louis Untermeyer

Music by: Robert N. QuaileSlide14

2- By faith made strong, the rafters will

withstand the battering of the storm.

This hearth, though all the world

grow chill, will keep you warm.Slide15
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Hail the glorious golden city,

pictured by

the seers of old: everlasting light shines o’er it, wondrous things of it are told.Wise and righteous men and women dwellwithin its gleaming wall; wrong is banished

from its borders,

justice reigns supreme o’er all.

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Hail the Glorious Golden City

Words by: Felix AdlerMusic by: Rowland Hugh PrichardSlide17

2 – We are builders of that city.

All our joys and all our groans help

to rear its shining ramparts;

all our lives are building stones.Whether humble or exalted, all are called to task divine; all must aid aliketo carry forward one sublime design.Slide18

3 – And the work that we have

builded

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oft with bleeding hands and tears, oft in error, oft in anguish, will not perish with our years:

it will live and shine transfigured in

the final reign of right: it will pass into

the splendors of the city of the light.Slide19
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Chalice Extinguishing

This flame has burned as a symbol of our joining together. Soon its warmth and its light will be a memory. And the light of understanding and the warmth of sharing will go with us from this place.

So be it.Slide21