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Highlights of the 179th General Assembly, part 1.
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- speakerDear friends. This is the banquet of our Lord,
- speakerprepared for those who love him. Let us therefore
- speakertake the bread of life and the cup of salvation.
- speakerAnd call upon the name of the Lord. Come!
- speakerFor all is ready. Immediately following the communion service that officially begins
- speakereach General Assembly, the commissioners' first order of business is to elect themselves
- speakera moderator. There was an unconfirmed rumor that only three
- speakermen at the Assembly had ever actually seen Big Lick, Tennessee.
- speakerOne of them made the nominating speech. The second made the seconding speech,
- speakerand the third one got elected. [Little, Ganse, speaking] The tabulated results of the first ballot
- speakerare as follows. Number of votes cast eight hundred twenty one.
- speakerNeeded to elect a simple majority. Four hundred thirty two. Dr.
- speakerSmathers [Smathers, Eugene] received four hundred and sixty two. Doctor Hudnut [Hudnut, William H., Jr.] three hundred fifty nine.
- speakerThe moderator of this one hundred seventy-ninth General Assembly is our therefore the Reverend Eugene Smathers. [Applause]
- speaker[Eugene Smathers speaking] Fathers and brethren and friends. This
- speakeris an awesome position to which your call me, as those
- speakerwho stood here before can testify. But is specially
- speakerso for one who never even in the faintest imagination
- speakerhad any idea that he might ever stand here.
