:00:09. > :00:14.Earlier today, there was a special service to commemorate a very great
:00:15. > :00:19.man, a hero of our times, Nelson Mandela. When he died, aged 95, back
:00:20. > :00:23.in December, world leaders flocked to South Africa to mourn him. Today,
:00:24. > :00:28.is Britain's turn. Britain, who played such a central role in the
:00:29. > :00:33.fight against apartheid and in keeping Nelson Mandela's name alive
:00:34. > :00:37.that he used to call Britain the second headquarters of the movement.
:00:38. > :00:41.Today, from South Africa, people came here to join people from
:00:42. > :00:43.Britain, politicians and others, for this very special service, to
:00:44. > :01:32.remember a great man. Inside the Abbey the Soweto Gospel
:01:33. > :01:37.Choir already singing here. They came from South Africa yesterday and
:01:38. > :01:43.were rehearsing here colourfully dressed and they'll be singing
:01:44. > :01:48.throughout the service alongside the choir of the of the Abbey itself.
:01:49. > :01:54.This is something of a celebration, rather than a memorial service. A
:01:55. > :02:03.moment to remember, with affection and pride, Nelson Mandela. And from
:02:04. > :02:10.his family, two members in particular. Zanani on right and
:02:11. > :02:15.Zinzi on the left. Only 18 months old when her father was sent to
:02:16. > :02:20.Robben Island. It is she who went to the stadium in Soweto in 1985 to
:02:21. > :02:24.reject the offer the South African Government had made to Nelson
:02:25. > :02:28.Mandela for conditional freedom and read out, "I cannot and will not
:02:29. > :02:36.give any undertaking at a time when I and you, the people, are not
:02:37. > :02:42.free." An important moment and turning point in the struggle with
:02:43. > :02:51.apartheid. And there are many people who have come here for this service.
:02:52. > :02:57.Familiar figure there, Idris Elba. He played Nelson Mandela in the
:02:58. > :03:01.film, The Long Walk To Freedom. Douglas Hurd, the former Foreign
:03:02. > :03:05.Secretary. There are politicians and members of the antiapartheid
:03:06. > :03:14.movement and people invited here by the Dean, for all kinds of reasons.
:03:15. > :03:22.Nelson Mandela, always held Britain in very high regard. It was the
:03:23. > :03:25.constitution and the democracy, the long-established democracy in
:03:26. > :03:30.Britain he liked, as well as what he called the perfect gentleman. He
:03:31. > :03:36.always said he was an Anglophile and came back here several times. This
:03:37. > :03:44.affection dated back to the very earliest days of the struggle
:03:45. > :03:47.against apartheid. His ties with Britain, a called he called the
:03:48. > :03:53.second headquarters of his movement, went back over 50 years, to a visit
:03:54. > :03:57.to London in 1962. He was already a wanted man in South Africa for
:03:58. > :04:01.inciting dissent among black people. He spent ten days in London in
:04:02. > :04:06.April, staying with his South African friend Mary Benson, an
:04:07. > :04:09.antiapartheid campaigner. He met journalists and politicians
:04:10. > :04:13.sympathetic to the cause to rally support and he found time to visit
:04:14. > :04:21.some of the iconic sights of the city he admired. On his return to
:04:22. > :04:25.South Africa, he was arrested and imprisoned, and the sentence meant
:04:26. > :04:30.to see him die and forgotten in jail. But not so, after 27 years in
:04:31. > :04:34.prison, he chose Britain for his return to the world stage. Only two
:04:35. > :04:46.months after his release, he addressed a jubilant crowd in
:04:47. > :04:59.Wembley Stadium. Thank you that you chose to care. The prison walls at
:05:00. > :05:09.Robben Island, the thickness, we heard your voices demanding our
:05:10. > :05:13.freedom. In the spirit of reconciliation that marked his
:05:14. > :05:18.politics, he met Margaret Thatcher at Downing Street. The person would
:05:19. > :05:24.had a few years earlier called the ANC a terrorist organisation. He
:05:25. > :05:30.said she was motherly. Four years later, in 1994, he was sworn in as
:05:31. > :05:36.South Africa's first black President and his first State visit to London
:05:37. > :05:43.made his days on the run seem a very distant past. All the ceremonial
:05:44. > :05:48.stops were pulled out. But today's State visitor was different from the
:05:49. > :05:56.usual run of monarchs and Presidents. Nelson Mandela is a kind
:05:57. > :06:00.of icon. You have yourself provided the leadership and by your
:06:01. > :06:05.willingness to embrace your former captors, have set the course towards
:06:06. > :06:11.national reconciliation and freedom for all the people of South Africa.
:06:12. > :06:18.With Prince Charles he visited Brixton, the heart of Britain black
:06:19. > :06:24.community. He gave a speech from the balcony of South Africa House, a
:06:25. > :06:37.plan that had seen many antiapartheid protests. The
:06:38. > :06:49.antiapartheid movement was broken in the United Kingdom. I would like to
:06:50. > :06:54.take every one of you in my pocket and return with you to South Africa.
:06:55. > :07:00.London returned his affection. In 2007, a statue was unfailed in
:07:01. > :07:05.Parliament Square. Mandela recognised as a statesman, something
:07:06. > :07:12.he couldn't have dreamt of back in the 1960s. When Oliver Tambo and I
:07:13. > :07:21.visited Westminster Abbey and Parliament Square in 1962 we half
:07:22. > :07:28.joked that we hoped that one day a statue of a black person would be
:07:29. > :07:48.erected here. Prime Minister David Cameron
:07:49. > :07:56.arriving coming through the doors into the choir. The actor Richard E
:07:57. > :08:07.Grant, just on the centre there at the back. Joan Armatrading, the
:08:08. > :08:11.singer is here. Politicians studying their orders of service, Betty
:08:12. > :08:23.Boothroyd there, looking through the service that's to come. But now, the
:08:24. > :08:30.Deputy President arrives and he's the son of a minor, born in the
:08:31. > :08:36.township and he was a student activist and soldier in the ANC's
:08:37. > :08:41.military wing and charged under the terrorist Act and served a ten-year
:08:42. > :08:48.sentence in Robben Island with Mandela. Then he rose in the ANC
:08:49. > :08:52.after that. He fought against President Zouma for the leadership
:08:53. > :09:00.and lost. And then took up this job which is going to end when he
:09:01. > :09:14.retires as Vice President. He's leaving for private life. Greeting
:09:15. > :09:25.Desmond Tutu there. Prince Harry comes to the West Door. Again, to be
:09:26. > :09:30.greeted by the Dean. It's raining outside and we were told many times
:09:31. > :09:36.during the ten days of mourning for Nelson Mandela that rain in South
:09:37. > :09:44.Africa is a sign of good fortune. Maybe here we have had too much of
:09:45. > :10:01.it to count as good fortune, but he will be processed up to the choir as
:10:02. > :10:12.the first hymn. Guide Me, O Thou Great Redeemer, starts. HYMN: "Guide
:10:13. > :10:22.Me, O Thou Great Redeemer" By William Williams. # Guide me, O thou
:10:23. > :10:27.great Redeemer. # Pilgrim through this barren land. # I am weak, but
:10:28. > :10:36.thou art mighty. # Hold me with thy powerful hand. # Bread of heaven. #
:10:37. > :10:46.Feed me till I want no more. # Open now the crystal fountain. # Whence
:10:47. > :10:56.the healing stream doth flow. # Let the fiery cloudy pillar. # Lead me
:10:57. > :11:08.all my journey through. # Strong Deliverer. # Be thou still my
:11:09. > :11:17.strength and shield. # When I tread the verge of Jordan. # Bid my
:11:18. > :11:20.anxious fears subside. # Death of death, and hell's Destruction. #
:11:21. > :11:22.Land me safe on Canaan's side. # Songs of praises. # I will ever give
:11:23. > :12:12.to thee". # Songs of Praises
:12:13. > :13:12.# I will ever give to thee... # A service of Thanksgiving for South
:13:13. > :13:18.Africa was held here in Westminster Abbey 20 years ago to celebrate the
:13:19. > :13:22.first democratic elections, which brought black majority rule to South
:13:23. > :13:29.Africa and the return of the country to membership of the Commonwealth.
:13:30. > :13:36.At that time, all who were here and people throughout the world thanked
:13:37. > :13:41.God for the triumph of a spirit of reconciliation and for peaceful
:13:42. > :13:47.transition. It's hard to imagine that any of this would have been
:13:48. > :13:54.possible without the grace and generosity shown by Nelson Mandela.
:13:55. > :13:59.Today, we join together representing the people of South Africa of the
:14:00. > :14:06.United Kingdom and of the Commonwealth to give thanks to
:14:07. > :14:13.almighty God for a truly great man. As we recall the life and work of
:14:14. > :14:19.Nelson Mandela we shall give heart-felt thanks. And we shall pray
:14:20. > :14:22.for the people of South Africa and for peace and justice in God's
:14:23. > :14:42.world. Now an extracts of Nelson Mandela
:14:43. > :14:57.speech will be played. The time for the healing of the
:14:58. > :15:01.wounds has come. The moment to preach The moment to bridge the
:15:02. > :15:05.chasms that divide us has come. The time to build is upon us. We have,
:15:06. > :15:10.at last, achieved our political emancipation. We pledge ourselves to
:15:11. > :15:12.liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty,
:15:13. > :15:21.deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination. We succeeded
:15:22. > :15:28.to take our last steps to freedom in conditions of relative peace. We
:15:29. > :15:34.commit ourselves to the construction of a complete, just and lasting
:15:35. > :15:37.peace. We have triumphed in the effort to implant hope in the
:15:38. > :15:42.breasts of the millions of our people. We enter into a covenant
:15:43. > :15:45.that we shall build the society in which all SouthAfricans, both black
:15:46. > :15:48.and white, will be able to walk tall, without any fear in their
:15:49. > :15:52.hearts, assured of their inalienable right to human dignity - a rainbow
:15:53. > :16:09.nation at peace with itself and the world. .
:16:10. > :18:37.The Soweto Gospel Choir will stand and sing a protest song.
:18:38. > :18:49.A tribute now from the Deputy Prime Minister of South Africa. Nelson
:18:50. > :18:54.Mandela a visionary leader, represented the possibility of a
:18:55. > :19:03.better human society. Not only in South Africa, but in the world at
:19:04. > :19:09.large. His life gave values. Nelson Mandela never claimed glory even
:19:10. > :19:16.when he had achieved great things. He was shaped by the struggle which
:19:17. > :19:21.shunned confrontation, but held values of compassion and solidarity
:19:22. > :19:26.that went beyond simple opposition to apartheid. The struggle sought to
:19:27. > :19:38.advance social comfort and to embrace the value of the natural
:19:39. > :19:41.environment. He the unenviable challenge to make the dream which
:19:42. > :19:49.Nelson Mandela lived to come to pass. We can no longer be
:19:50. > :19:57.indifferent in the world, where children's stomachs are bloated with
:19:58. > :20:08.hunger. We can no longer pretend that racial discrimination is a
:20:09. > :20:15.figure of the imagination. Humanity must strive for free political
:20:16. > :20:19.activity, democracy and a right to differ without the prospect of
:20:20. > :20:25.imprisonment, torture and assassination. The most enduring
:20:26. > :20:33.monument we can build to Mandela's memory is to strive for human
:20:34. > :20:37.solidarity to conquer racism and sexism, to eradicate social
:20:38. > :20:47.inequalities, educate the masses, make health accessible to all, and
:20:48. > :20:51.uphold a Human Rights culture. Posterity will look at the current
:20:52. > :20:57.generation in the light of the Mandela experience. If we fail, it
:20:58. > :21:03.will not make sense to future generations that while Mandela
:21:04. > :21:10.evolved into a rugged moral force that edged humanity, higher on the
:21:11. > :21:16.plain of civilisation, those who followed him, either failed to live
:21:17. > :21:24.up to his philosophy or simply destroyed his dream. Trance figuring
:21:25. > :21:31.the Mandela consciousness means boldly addressing global racial
:21:32. > :21:36.inequalities, while this cannot be the task of one nation, Britain is
:21:37. > :21:41.among the nations better suited to lead this charge. As Nelson Mandela
:21:42. > :21:47.taught us, no one is born hating another person because of the colour
:21:48. > :21:53.of his skin or his background or his religion. People must learn to hate
:21:54. > :21:59.and if they can learn to hate they can be taught to love, for love
:22:00. > :22:09.comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite. Nelson
:22:10. > :22:15.Mandela would have been humbled by this occasion. Perhaps wrist fully
:22:16. > :22:21.recalling with his wonderful smile that British Christian missionaries
:22:22. > :22:26.decreed his first name. Who knows maybe they were privy to the
:22:27. > :22:31.translation of his birth name, looking for trouble! The herd boy
:22:32. > :22:35.turned freedom fighter, the prisoner turned president, never forgot his
:22:36. > :22:41.British connection. Indeed, he revered it. Even during the long
:22:42. > :22:46.decades in the cold cell in Robben Island when the anti-apartheid
:22:47. > :22:51.struggle was bitter, facing ruthless, brutal repression at home
:22:52. > :22:58.and when there was mostly a majority in the House of Commons against him
:22:59. > :23:02.and his African National Congress. Yet tens of thousands of British
:23:03. > :23:10.citizens supported his fight for freedom. The courageous bishops,
:23:11. > :23:21.Ambrose Reefs and David Shepherd who led from the pulpit and the street.
:23:22. > :23:30.Grannies who boycotted South African oranges, trade unionist who gave
:23:31. > :23:36.solidarity, protesters who disrupted sports events and a few stalwart
:23:37. > :23:41.meks of Parliament -- members of Parliament. Nelson Mandela never
:23:42. > :23:48.missed an opportunity to thank them all, but his generosity to form
:23:49. > :23:54.opponents was legendary, he never forgot who was on his side and who
:23:55. > :24:00.he wasn't. Sadly, great causes from slavery abslishtionists to
:24:01. > :24:05.suffragettes to anti-apartheid campaigners are unpopular at the
:24:06. > :24:17.very time they most need support. Only to be glorified even santified
:24:18. > :24:21.once they have triumphed, Nelson Mandela's endearing personality made
:24:22. > :24:30.him perhaps the international icon of our era. With at least to those
:24:31. > :24:37.who had the privilege of knowing him an impish mischievous wit.
:24:38. > :24:44.Apologising for not having attended our wedding, he said, "Perhaps I can
:24:45. > :24:49.come the next time." At Cardiff Castle he kept a long line of VIPs
:24:50. > :24:56.waiting as he spotted a group of primary school children. He stopped.
:24:57. > :25:06.The VIPs sweltered, the children bemused. He proceeded to conduct the
:25:07. > :25:11.delighted youngsters to a Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star. The thing we
:25:12. > :25:16.missed most of all on Robben Island he told me, was the magical innocent
:25:17. > :25:23.sound of children at play. Including, of course, his own. There
:25:24. > :25:36.will never be another like Nelson Mandela. Truly an inspiration to us
:25:37. > :25:43.all and forever more. Now the Soweto Gospel Choir sing again. It is a
:25:44. > :25:44.song written by one of the first African Britain's to be ordained in
:25:45. > :26:01.Britain. -- African bishops to be or tained
:26:02. > :27:22.in Britain. -- ordained in Britain.
:27:23. > :27:31.The Prime Minister now reads from the gospel according to St John.
:27:32. > :27:39.Jesus said the thieve cometh not, but for to steal and to kill and to
:27:40. > :27:46.destroy. I am come that they might have life and that they might have
:27:47. > :27:55.it more abundantly. I am the good shepherd, the good shepherd giveth
:27:56. > :28:03.his life for the sheep. But he that is not the shepherd who has owned
:28:04. > :28:18.the sheep are not, see if the wolf coming and relieve eth the sheep and
:28:19. > :28:24.fleeeth and the wolf catcheth them. The fleeth and care th not for the
:28:25. > :28:33.sheep, I am the good shepherd and know my sheep and am known of mine.
:28:34. > :28:40.As the father knoweth me, even though I know the father and I lay
:28:41. > :28:46.down my life for the sheep and other sheep I have which are not of this
:28:47. > :28:50.fold, them also I must bring and they shall hear my voice and there
:28:51. > :29:20.shall be one fold and one shepherd. # I heard the voice of Jesus say
:29:21. > :29:34.# Come unto me and rest # Lay down, thou weary one, lay down
:29:35. > :29:49.# Thy head upon my breast # I came to Jesus as I was
:29:50. > :30:03.# Weary and worn and sad # I found in him a resting place
:30:04. > :30:35.# And he has made me glad # I heard the voice say
:30:36. > :30:50.# Behold, I freely give # The living water, thirsty one
:30:51. > :31:22.Now, the Archbishop of Cape Town comes to the l lectern.
:31:23. > :31:34.May I first thank the Dean and Chapter of Westminster Abbey and Her
:31:35. > :31:48.Majesty's Government for organising this memorial service? I come from a
:31:49. > :31:58.country which only a few years ago, a little over 20 years, spotted
:31:59. > :32:08.signs reading, "Drive carefully, natives cross here." And we were the
:32:09. > :32:17.natives. People such as Ahmed who spent over two decades on Robben
:32:18. > :32:26.Island relates how they delighted in changing the signs so they read
:32:27. > :32:37.somewhat hair raisingly, "Drive carefully, natives very cross here."
:32:38. > :32:48.LAUGHTER Nelson Mandela and others were
:32:49. > :32:53.appalled by a system spawning such signs that treated black people as
:32:54. > :33:03.if they were scum, so they organised the black community and its allies
:33:04. > :33:13.to resist such a demeaning and dehumanising system, which regarded
:33:14. > :33:23.us as cheaper. Who treated their dogs far better than they treated
:33:24. > :33:29.us. After all, they were ashamed to put up public notices that read,
:33:30. > :33:39."Natives and dogs not allowed." Madiba was appalled by this and he
:33:40. > :33:46.and many of his colleague resisted this vicious system and it was for
:33:47. > :33:57.this noble resistance that he and many others were incarcerated for
:33:58. > :34:04.life. What would have happened had Mandela died in prison? As was the
:34:05. > :34:17.intention and hope of the upholders of apartheid. I suppose most would
:34:18. > :34:22.have regarded him as no better than a terrorist. After all, persons in
:34:23. > :34:34.high positions in Britain and the United States did dismiss him as
:34:35. > :34:44.such. Mercifully, for us, and for God's world Mandela did not die in
:34:45. > :34:55.prison. And this is thanks very, very large to the amaze g -- largely
:34:56. > :35:03.to the amaze g international -- amazing international anti- parred
:35:04. > :35:12.I'd -- apartheid movement, Trevor Huddlestone. I use this great pulpit
:35:13. > :35:27.to say on behalf of our people, thank you, thank you thank you. How
:35:28. > :35:39.I wish we could open our hearts and see the depth of our gratitude.
:35:40. > :35:49.Thank you, you who regular picketed South Africa House. Thank you, you
:35:50. > :35:53.elegant ladies who boycotted South African goods. Thank you, you who
:35:54. > :36:10.followed a long-hair Peter Hain. To African goods. Thank you, you who
:36:11. > :36:22.stop South African sports. Thank you all those incredible young people in
:36:23. > :36:35.other parts of the world. Thank you, thank you, that you changed the
:36:36. > :36:43.moral climate in your country so that the US Congress was able to
:36:44. > :36:49.pass the antiapartheid legislation with the presidential veto override.
:36:50. > :36:57.Against the wishes of a highly popular President Reagan. I visited
:36:58. > :37:07.Number Ten Downing Street and the Oval office in Washington. My pleas
:37:08. > :37:18.for sanctions fell on deaf ears. Without the antiapartheid movement
:37:19. > :37:28.all of you extraordinary human beings, Mandela would so easily have
:37:29. > :37:35.died in prison. Wonderfully, exhilaratingly the entire world
:37:36. > :37:47.glued to its TV sets watched as this man emerge from 27 years of
:37:48. > :38:02.incarceration. And erupted with a collect exhilaration to be matched
:38:03. > :38:06.only by the joy and the victory in 1994 when Nelson Mandela became the
:38:07. > :38:17.first democratically elected President of South Africa. And then,
:38:18. > :38:25.and then, and then the world held its breath fearing that the victory
:38:26. > :38:35.of the AN would see South Africa overwhelmed by the racial bloodbath
:38:36. > :38:44.so many had predicted. It didn't happen. It didn't happen. Instead,
:38:45. > :38:51.the world was mesmerised by the proceedings of the Truth and
:38:52. > :39:03.Reconciliation Commission. Instead of retribution and revenge, which
:39:04. > :39:10.everybody had expected, the world saw black and white South Africans
:39:11. > :39:20.walk ng the path of forgive -- walking the path of forgiving and
:39:21. > :39:28.reconciliation. It was because he who had spent 27 years in jail game
:39:29. > :39:38.out -- came out transformed. Transformed from the angry,
:39:39. > :39:45.militant, young man to the magnanimous lead, who believed --
:39:46. > :39:54.leader, who believed we could change, every single one of us and
:39:55. > :40:01.we had the capacity to be great. Each one of us has the capacity to
:40:02. > :40:12.be magnanimous and to be forgiving, to be generous. We cannot give up on
:40:13. > :40:21.anyone. Nelson Mandela might not have put it quite like that, but
:40:22. > :40:32.basically he was saying, "Not a single one of us is a hopeless case
:40:33. > :40:43.with a first-class ticket to hell." "We all of us, all of us, have the
:40:44. > :41:01.capacity to be saints." The veneration that we saw worldwide at
:41:02. > :41:09.his death is because he made us belief -- believe that all, each one
:41:10. > :41:15.of us, we are made for good, were made for caring, were made for
:41:16. > :41:34.loving, were made for compassion, were made for laughter, for peace.
:41:35. > :41:44.For peace such as is proclaimed. Thank you God, thank you, for this
:41:45. > :41:54.child. Thank you God for Nelson Mandela, who has shown us, each
:41:55. > :42:06.single one of us, what we can be, each one of us. Loving,
:42:07. > :42:35.compassionate, caring, made for goodness.
:42:36. > :42:50.MUSIC: "The Anthem" By Ralph Vaughan Williams.
:42:51. > :43:01.# Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis.
:43:02. > :43:18.# Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, dona nobis pacem #.
:43:19. > :43:46.# Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis.
:43:47. > :45:49.# Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, dona nobis pacem #.
:45:50. > :46:01.The archbishop of Canterbury and York will lead prayers spoken by
:46:02. > :46:06.people chosen to make -up the different races that reflect South
:46:07. > :46:12.Africa. Let us pray to the Lord. We give thanks for Nelson Mandela's
:46:13. > :46:17.exceptional commitment to freedom and forgiveness. And for his
:46:18. > :46:27.determination to turn hatred into love and anger into recognise cold
:46:28. > :46:33.reconciliation. Heavenly Father, your son Jesus Christ taught us that
:46:34. > :46:38.it is only through forgiving others that we can ourselves be forgiven.
:46:39. > :46:45.We praise you for Madiba's clear vision of freedom for all and for
:46:46. > :46:53.his unshakeable commitment to lasting peace. Inspired his example
:46:54. > :47:04.help us work for peace in our homes, for peace in our communities and for
:47:05. > :47:09.peace in the world through Through Jesus Christ the Lord. Let us give
:47:10. > :47:26.thanks for Nelson Mandela humanity and for his qualities of
:47:27. > :48:09.inspiration, fou his humour and his passionate leadership.
:48:10. > :48:20.Amen. We give thanks for Nelson Mandela's vision of the equality of
:48:21. > :48:27.all people before God which nourished his soul and inspired his
:48:28. > :48:32.vision for South Africa. Generous God the diversity of your people and
:48:33. > :48:39.the rich variety of creation declare the wonder of your love. We prays
:48:40. > :48:46.you for Madiba's commitment to a reconciled humanity and to the
:48:47. > :48:50.eradication of the poverty which demeans and enslaves. Enclarj the
:48:51. > :48:58.capacity of our hearts for one another and grant us the courage to
:48:59. > :49:07.work for the unity of all people through Jesus Christ Our Lord. Amen.
:49:08. > :49:12.Let us pray for the Republic of South Africa, for God's blessing
:49:13. > :49:25.upon our leaders and for the unity and flourishing of all her people.
:49:26. > :49:34.Almighty God, bless the Government and peoples of South Africa. Grant
:49:35. > :49:39.wisdom, and integrity to our leaders and peace, prosperity and faith to
:49:40. > :49:44.our citizens and they maybe united in a common life and purpose and
:49:45. > :49:52.strengthen the nations of our Commonwealth in one bond and
:49:53. > :49:59.community to the honour of your holy name through Jesus Christ Our Lord.
:50:00. > :50:08.Amen. Let us pray for those who long for
:50:09. > :50:13.freedom from oppression, fear and hatred and for all whose humanity is
:50:14. > :50:17.trampled by the greed and self interest of others.
:50:18. > :50:23.Hear the choir of our hearts for all whose lives are diminished by
:50:24. > :50:31.injustice, prejudice, or violence. Renew their hope, restore their
:50:32. > :50:40.confidence and hasten the day when your kingdom shall come on earth as
:50:41. > :50:46.it is in heaven through Jesus Christ Our Lord. God bless Africa, god her
:50:47. > :50:52.children, guide her leaders and give her peace for Jesus Christ's sake.
:50:53. > :50:55.Amen. Jesus caught us to call god our father and so each in our own
:50:56. > :51:00.language we have the confidence to pray.
:51:01. > :51:06.Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom
:51:07. > :51:12.come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day
:51:13. > :51:15.our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who
:51:16. > :51:22.trespass against us and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from
:51:23. > :51:24.evil. For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, for ever and
:51:25. > :51:42.ever. Amen. N a young man who is member of the
:51:43. > :51:49.president of the National Union of Students speaks from the Robben
:51:50. > :51:57.Island Bible. This passage is taken from the collective Shakespeare
:51:58. > :52:06.smuggled in 1977 into Robben Island into the guise of a Hindu bible.
:52:07. > :52:12.Prisoners marked their favourite passages and 34 signed their
:52:13. > :52:27.choices, some with the date. These lines were signed NR Mandela. The
:52:28. > :52:36.date 16th December. Renamed under apartheid, the day of the covenant
:52:37. > :52:44.and now called the day of reconciliation. In 1964 I have been
:52:45. > :52:49.detain as ed as a student activist, a week of that time in police cells
:52:50. > :52:56.from which I am pulling myself up from the bars of the cell window, I
:52:57. > :53:04.could just see the island where Mandela and his compatriots were
:53:05. > :53:13.teaching South Africa, indeed all of humanity about fortitude, and
:53:14. > :53:26.forebearance and in due time forgiveness too. These are the
:53:27. > :53:30.linesman man chose -- linesman del la chose Cowards die many times
:53:31. > :53:37.before their deaths. The valiant never taste of death but once. Of
:53:38. > :53:41.all the wonders that I yet have heard, it seems to me most strange
:53:42. > :54:01.that men should fear, seeing that death, a necessary end, will come
:54:02. > :54:07.when it will come. . Go forth into the world in peace. Be of good
:54:08. > :54:17.courage. Hold fast that which is good. Render to no one evil for
:54:18. > :54:26.evil. Strengthen the faint-hearted. Support the weak. Help the
:54:27. > :54:33.afflicted. Honour all people. Love and serve the Lord, rejoicing in the
:54:34. > :54:39.power of the Holy Spirit and the Blessing of God Almighty, the
:54:40. > :54:43.Father, the son and the Holy Spirit be among you and remain with you
:54:44. > :56:58.always. Amen. # God save our gracious Queen. #
:56:59. > :57:09.Long live our noble Queen. # God save our Queen
:57:10. > :57:21.# Send her victorious. # Happy and glorious.
:57:22. > :57:36.# Long to reign over us. # God save The Queen. #
:57:37. > :57:46.So this magnificent service comes to an end. The Dean of Westminster will
:57:47. > :58:04.leave the clergy -- lead the clergy out. We have heard some powerful and
:58:05. > :58:09.moving tributes to Nelson Mandela. The people you see here and I've
:58:10. > :58:15.talked to many of them in the congregation, they are all connected
:58:16. > :58:19.in some way with the story of Nelson Mandela. That story which has been
:58:20. > :58:27.told and retold and will continue for many years to inspire people,
:58:28. > :58:33.the story of a man who spent 27 years in jail and because of his
:58:34. > :58:40.refusal to come out was in effect the rock on which apartheid was
:58:41. > :58:45.broken and which it foundered. Perhaps it is just worth remembering
:58:46. > :58:53.the words of Nelson Mandela in his book The Long Walk To Freedom. We
:58:54. > :59:00.have not taken the final step of our journey, but a longer step on step
:59:01. > :59:05.on a difficult road and to live in a way that respects and enhances the
:59:06. > :59:09.freedom of others. The true test of our devotion to freedom is just
:59:10. > :59:15.beginning.