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PROCEEDINGS
December 20, 1967 - 10:05 a.m.

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THE PRESIDENT: The Sergeant -at -Arms will clear

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the aisles and close the doors.

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The Convention^ trill please come to order.

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The Invocation this morning will be offered by

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Rabbi Leon Adler, Temple Emanuel of Montgomery County,

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Kensington, Maryland, Delegate Chabot's Rabbi.

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RABBI ADLER: Lord of the Universe, when we are

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tired and do not wish to think, yet we must speak of that

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association of men which we call government, we conjure up

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an image as tired and hopeless as ourselves at that moment

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of government as a ship of state. By so taking ship, we

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hope to avoid the responsibility of thinking of what we

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are doing, but we can do this no more than Jonah when he

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took ship to avoid his responsibility for prophesying.

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We, on a rhetorical ship, and he on his real one,

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are both at sea on a ship of fools, for man in seeking to

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avoid responsibility reaps only the whirlwind and his ship

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sinks like a stone into the depths.

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One more thing aboard we have in common with

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Jonah. When we avoid living up to our responsibilities, we