This sermon was delivered by Samuel Shepard at the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of his ordination to the work of the gospel ministry in Lenox, Massachusetts. The sermon discusses the changing and transitory nature of all earthly things and the importance of finding God in the midst of these changes.

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