Vespers Service Program

the INAUGURATION of

The Honorable Paul J. McNulty ’80

Vespers Service Sunday, March 22, 2015 5 p.m. | Harbison Chapel

the INAUGURATION of

The Honorable Paul J. McNulty ’80

Vespers Service Prelude

Dr. Richard A. Konzen College Organist

Introit Call to Worship

*Processional Hymn

Dr. F. Stanley Keehlwetter Dean of the Chapel “O Love of God, How Strong and True” William Knapp

1. O love of God, how strong and true!

Eternal, and yet ever new; Uncomprehended and unbought, Beyond all knowledge and all thought.

2. O love of God, how deep and great!

Far deeper than man’s deepest hate; Self-fed, self-kindled like the light, Changeless, eternal, infinite.

3. O heavenly love, how precious still In days of weariness and ill, In nights of pain and helplessness, To heal, to comfort, and to bless!

4. O wide-embracing, wondrous love!

We read thee in the sky above, We read thee in the earth below, In seas that swell, and streams that flow.

5. We read thee best in Him who came To bear for us the cross of shame; Sent by the Father from on high, Our life to live, our death to die.

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*Congregation Stands

GROVE CITY COLLEGE PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATION Invocation and Lord’s Prayer (forgive us our sins …)

Jesse A. Sansom ’15

Old Testament Lesson Proverbs 1:1-7

Chloe J. Smiley ’15

Anthem

“The Old Hundredth Psalm Tune” Ralph Vaughan Williams

Harbison Chapel Choir

Dr. Katherine E. Mueller, Director

(Congregation sings with the choir on the 1st, 2nd and 5th verses) 1. All people that on earth do dwell, Sing to the Lord with cheerful voice; Him serve with fear, his praise forth tell, Come ye before him, and rejoice.

2. The Lord, ye know, is God indeed, Without our aid he did us make, We are his folk, he doth us feed, And for his sheep he doth us take.

3. Choir only 4. Choir only 5. To Father, Son and Holy Ghost, The God whom heaven and earth adore, From men and from the angel host Be praise and glory evermore. Amen.

New Testament Lesson Matthew 22:34-40 and Romans 12:1-2 Anthem

Harbison Chapel Choir

Matthew J. Leatherow ’15

“Create in Me, O God, A Pure Heart” Johannes Brahms Dr. Mueller, Director

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Prayer of Supplication

*Hymn

Rev. Paul D. Wolfe New Hope Presbyterian Church Fairfax, Va. “O Come, My Soul, Bless Thou the Lord” James Walch

1. O come, my soul, sing praise to God your Maker, and all within me, praise his holy name.

Sing praise to God, forget not all his mercies, his pardoning grace and saving love proclaim.

Refrain: Praise him, you angels, wondrous in might, praise him you servants who in his will delight.

2. Good is the Lord and full of kind compassion, most slow to anger, plenteous in love.

Rich is his grace to all who humbly seek him, boundless and endless as the heavens above. (Refrain) 3. His love is like a father’s to his children, tender and kind to all who fear his name; for well he knows our weakness and our frailty, he knows that we are dust, he knows our frame. (Refrain) 4. We fade and die like flowers that grow in beauty, like tender grass that soon will disappear; but evermore the love of God is changeless, still shown to those who look to him in fear. (Refrain) 5. High in the heavens his throne is fixed forever, his kingdom rules o’er all from pole to pole.

Praise to the Lord through all his wide dominion, forever praise his holy name, my soul. (Refrain) Introduction of Speaker

The Hon. Paul J. McNulty ’80 Ninth President of Grove City College

*Congregation Stands

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GROVE CITY COLLEGE PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATION Sermon “The Christian Mind”

The Rev. Dr. W. Andrew Hoffecker Professor of Church History Emeritus Reformed Theological Seminary Jackson, Miss.

*Hymn

“Great is Thy Faithfulness” William Runyan

1. Great is thy faithfulness, O God my Father, There is no shadow of turning with Thee; Thou changest not, Thy compassions, they fail not; As Thou hast been, Thou forever wilt be.

Refrain: Great is thy faithfulness!

Great is thy faithfulness!

Morning by morning new mercies I see; All I have needed thy hand hath provided – Great is thy faithfulness, Lord unto me!

2. Summer and winter, and springtime and harvest, Sun, moon and stars in their courses above Join with all nature in manifold witness To thy great faithfulness, mercy and love. (Refrain) 3. Pardon for sin and a peace that endureth, Thine own dear presence to cheer and to guide; Strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow, Blessings all mine, with ten thousand beside! (Refrain) *Congregational Response *Benediction

Dr. Keehlwetter

Postlude

Dr. Konzen

*Congregation Stands

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The Chancel flowers are to the glory of God and in honor of the Installation of The Hon. Paul J. McNulty as the ninth President of Grove City College.

They are given by Elizabeth Breene Gilger, Trustee Emeritus.

Grove City College 100 Campus Drive Grove City, Pennsylvania 16127 gcc.edu