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Oh

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the Lord is in his holy temple. Let
all the earth keep silence before him.

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 Oh!

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From the world famous south rim of the
Grand Canyon of Arizona, the

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national broadcasting company in
cooperation with K. T. A. R. Phoenix and

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the National Park Service presents its
17th annual broadcast of an easter

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sunrise service

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In returning to the shrine of the Ages
for a continuation of our easter

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devotions. He recalled an incident in
biblical history that must have had

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much in common with this moment and
the tensions of our times. The great

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prophet and reformer Elijah, sick of
the way in which its people had

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forsaken God left them for the
sanctuary of a famous mount there while he

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reflected on the tragic ways of his
world, a great and strong wind rent

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the mountains and break in pieces the
box and after the earthquake came a

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fire and after the fire, a still small
voice. It was the voice God in an

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hour of need

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for the inspiration of another
unforgettable Grand Canyon easter sunrise,

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we take you now to grand viewpoint
some 14 miles to the east. This is the

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highest point along the south rim
nearly 7500 ft above sea level. Our

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observer Howard Pyle? Yeah, this is
grand viewpoint and certainly no other

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one word could describe it more
perfectly Coronado who more than 400 years

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ago became the first white man to see
the Grand Canyon. He's believed to

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have made his astounding discovery in
almost this exact spot. The physical

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dimensions of all we can survey from
here include more than 1000 square

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miles of the most colorful and
spectacular country on earth. At this

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particular point, the Grand Canyon of
Arizona is from 15 to 17 miles wide

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And more than five ft deep. For the
first time in several easters, we are

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watching the sunrise from a spot where
a considerable expanse of the

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centuries old Colorado River can be
seen. From here. The thickness of the

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lead pencil would measure the slate
gray with to this powerful stream as

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it roars into a sharp turn. Thousands
of feet below us disappears in the

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gloom of what looks like a bottomless
pit. The easter son has already

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kindled a tremendous fire in the east,
hi along the skyline to the left of

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its blazing beauty to great wall and
the dome of a world famous mountain

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are sharply silhouetted in the
distance nearest to us, but still many a

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mile away ranges the heavily fluted
line of the desert policy on across

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the winding canyon of the tributary
little Colorado River rises the

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perpendicular sweep of the echo cliff.
Still farther on. In fact, more

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than 100 miles away stands the sacred
shrine of the Navajo Navajo mountain.

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These are but the visible highlights
to the east. In between and out of

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sight are the primitive Hogan's in the
isolated haunts of the wandering

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Navajo. The rolling beauty is a
painted desert glen canyon, marble canyon

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, and all of the vast wonderlands of
the upper Colorado Above it all, in

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this thrilling hour of revelation
another Grand Canyon. Easter sunrise is

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slowly glorifying everything within
reach. The lazy glow of a few moments

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ago is now a flaming reminder that the
resurrection promise of Easter

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could have no finer parallel in
reality than the daily drama of the sun Ra.

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Not once has God Son ever failed to
return from the twilight of its last

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setting? Not once has it ever failed
to return to the same old world, your

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world, my world! And this mysterious
world of rock bound titans, temple

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and tumult known as the Grand Canyon
of Arizona. The wind warn weather

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beaten faces of a lot of our old
friends are beginning to put in an

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appearance. Now Yonder is water and
thrown across the flat top massiveness

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of this gigantic pillar of stone. We
can see the warm sunlight running

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westward along the north rim from Cape
Royal and Cape Final. The heroic

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spires of the temples of Zorro Astro
brahma and diva have been lighted to.

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She'll show any point a part of the
sheer south rim wall to our left is

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now hundreds of feet deep in sunshine,
Far below. The striking beauty of

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these soaring summits. The Grand
canyon is still filled with the brooding

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twilight. The east wall would be as
black as midnight, were it not for the

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fact that we are looking at it through
a misty curtain a velvet soft

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sunday. What a contrast there is
between the heavenly magic of the

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sunlight and the earthbound hardness
of the lines across which we are

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watching that sunlight fall with such
an easy grade as the easter sun

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moves on, we pause for a moment to
examine that earthbound hardness in the

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light of known history. It all began
more than a billion, 500 million

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years ago when God in his wisdom
unleashed the forces that gave us the

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earth on which we live. Since then
five geologic eras have passed this way.

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two of them, leaving virtually nothing
by which they might be remembered

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At one time. One of these ancient
tablets of 500 million year old slab Was

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represented in this area by a mountain
range from 18 to 20 ft high. The

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winds and the tides of the ages past
wore it away, and what is left of its

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beveled edge, though still faintly
visible in the north korean war to the

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Grand Canyon can be measured by the
width of your finger. Seven oceans and

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untold numbers of freshwater lakes
have flowed across this ancient plan.

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The rock on which I'm standing, though
thousands of feet above sea level,

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is covered and filled with the
fossilized remains of seashells and other

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forms of marine life against such a
background. The entire life of man is

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nothing yet we think it's everything
how desperately the men and the

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nations of our world need to camp for
a while along the rims of the Grand

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Canyon of Arizona, where the combined
ego of all concerns might be brought

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to its knees before greatness! That is
great man! Here. The pinyon pine in

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the mountain mahogany, lived side by
side in peace Heights and depths

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complement each other. The reds, blues
and grays of widely separated

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centuries harmonized to perfection.
There is life and death, sunshine and

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shadow, and always the still small boy
of God! Oh, oh,

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oh,

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oh,

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oh!

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For our easter morning prayer from the
Shrine of the Ages. We present the

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reverend Kenneth, poor resident
minister at Grand Canyon, reverend pori,

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Our father. We thank thee for thy son,
jesus christ our risen and

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triumphant Lord and savior. We gather
at the Shrine of the Ages, this

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glorious easter Morning to honor and
adore him. Look down in mercy. We

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pray thee on a world torn with strife
and confusion, give us strength and

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courage to follow the way of the
cross, send our light into the hearts of

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those who sit in darkness and
transform them by thy love and power, soften

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the hearts of those who rebel against
the and help them to find the way of

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salvation. We rejoice in the knowledge
that thou art no respecter of race

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or color, and we pray for the day in
which those of every tribe and nation

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shall bend the knee at the I name and
every tongue, confess the Lord all

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this! We pray in the name of our
redeemer who loved us and gave himself

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for us. Oh men

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morning mary

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a man sorrow. Her master was nothing,

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she loved it,

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so much sorrow went oh

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boy

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guilty

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in christ of Lord is reason

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mm Our Grand Canyon minister for this
morning is the reverend tm pile

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pastor of the community church at
buckeye Arizona and father of one of the

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co founders of this Grand Canyon
easter sunrise service series, reverend

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pile

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resurrection is the greatest event of
all time and we can little conceive

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of its mighty effect upon the
character of mankind.

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It is right and fitting that we should
observe this day with the spirit of

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joy and deep consecration. The
inspiration of this sublime experience is a

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divine revelation of the majesty and
glory of life. God has not only given

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us the written promise of the
resurrection in his word, but with each

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succeeding spring we see the reality
of it in each blade of grass and

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fluttering wings. Mhm mhm

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yeah, yeah. Mhmmhm